January 20th started out to be a beautiful day although the weather man had warned against an approaching front. Sure enough the heavens opened and the wind started. It turned cold, very rainy and very windy for the rest of the day into the night. This fortunately gave us time to catch up on things at home such as repairing the broken water line, then laundry and repacking to go to T/C on Monday. We had dinner with our friends Andy and Katy who were down in Nassau for the rained out Michael Jordan Celebrity Tournament at MESA Grill which is a Bobby Flay restaurant. Great stuff!
Monday was still quite windy but no rain. The flight (a 19 seater) was on time and quite full. It was bad weather from the start but about an hour into it it got exciting. I have a set of BOSS sound reducing earphones and other than the music I can here very little and was Bopping and Jiving to my music with my eyes closed. All of a sudden I felt well sharpened nails digging into my arm. When I opened my eyes and took off the earphones, everyone was screaming, praying and holding on for dear life. Quite a sight. Fortunately it didn’t last too long and within 30 minutes we were safely on the ground in Provo.
Walter picked us up and after seeing some of their projects delivered us to the hotel where we had a couple of hours to go to the beach. True to form, being a good Bahamian, the water was way too cold for Carla, but the sun and daiquiri were just perfect.
We had the Provo Club meeting last night, and once again we have another outstanding Club. They are doing many great projects and are going from strength to strength. For those of you that may have some doubts about the e-club and its purpose listen to this.
Monday was still quite windy but no rain. The flight (a 19 seater) was on time and quite full. It was bad weather from the start but about an hour into it it got exciting. I have a set of BOSS sound reducing earphones and other than the music I can here very little and was Bopping and Jiving to my music with my eyes closed. All of a sudden I felt well sharpened nails digging into my arm. When I opened my eyes and took off the earphones, everyone was screaming, praying and holding on for dear life. Quite a sight. Fortunately it didn’t last too long and within 30 minutes we were safely on the ground in Provo.
Walter picked us up and after seeing some of their projects delivered us to the hotel where we had a couple of hours to go to the beach. True to form, being a good Bahamian, the water was way too cold for Carla, but the sun and daiquiri were just perfect.
We had the Provo Club meeting last night, and once again we have another outstanding Club. They are doing many great projects and are going from strength to strength. For those of you that may have some doubts about the e-club and its purpose listen to this.
Roundabout
Bus shelter The Provedenciales Club has done a dictionary project with an e-club. Members of the e-club came down and delivered the books which the Provo Club subsequently distributed. If that is not enough the have arranged with a local Rotarian, Government and a local Individual for the donation of a 3 acre plus piece of land on the water where they are going to do a three part development park projects. They are twinned with their e-club and applying for a matching Grant to do so. The club is based in southwestern USA, but members are from many places and the President is from Japan. For those slow to move to technology or e-anything, the time is coming! They even had a virtual board meeting because most members were out of town and they did it on line.
President Walter and Carla on site of the project.
This is a thought on the type of water feature.They have developed a magnificent Potential Member Information Booklet which I hope they bring copies of to PETS. It’s a great model for us all.
Some additional projects are eye glass projects for young children at school, Bus stops, Neutering animals, Round about developments, beach park and rest areas, playground for the Inquiring Minds Elementary School and many others.
Park on the beach.We had a great dinner with them and were home to rest for Grand Turk today. We left for Grand Turk this morning where President Marc picked us up. This club is in a community of 1800 people and the industry is very limited. They are struggling with membership. We had a great tour of the small Island and saw a couple of the projects.
We then met with the board and the club and discussed the future and some of the primary concerns going forward. Obviously membership is a big one, defined identifiable projects and Public Image. I have set up a plan of activities that will address those areas as well as will try to twin them to see if that help will secure the footing of the club. If anyone wants to help a struggling club, let me know and I will hook you up.
We flew back to Provedenciales this afternoon and are now getting ready to go to dinner with the Provo Club
We flew back to Provedenciales this afternoon and are now getting ready to go to dinner with the Provo Club
ADG Bengt, past ADG Micky and PP Rotarian Stanford Charlton from the Bahamas who had moved back to Caicos and was inducted tonight.
Evening guests enjoying the events.
# 68
Thank you Rotarians in District 7020. Through our 68 visits we have truly begun to understand the diversity of our countries and cultures as well as the diversity of the needs of our people. Every Club has responded in it's own special way to make life a little better for someone, in some way.
Your sharing and hospitality has made the visits the most rewarding time in our life and a special thank you is due to all of you for it.
Keep up the great work, I'll keep on blogging, although it will be tough to keep it as interesting as it has been. We'll be together again in Nassau for the conference in May.
Not much more to say than Thank You!
DG Dick
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