
Club Meeting Details:
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Sustainable Energy-Dr.Taco Niet
ZOOMMar 05, 2021
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM -
RCoB Board Meeting - March 2021
ZOOM CALLMar 16, 2021
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM -
Pigeon Birth Control-Nadia Xenakis
ZOOMMar 19, 2021
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

We are happy to announce that our To the Heart of the Matter event, in collaboration with the Royal City Rotary Club and Monarch Place, has launched! While COVID has complicated the usual dinner, auction, and raffle event we decided to adapt the raffle and auction to the internet.














On October 8th, Rotary Club of Burnaby President Samantha Kwong presented a cheque for over $5000, while adapting to social distance restrictions. These funds will go towards financing life saving equipment for a planned hospital extension, allowing for additional support for the needs of BC's growing population and dealing with events such as COVID.
While many of us only see glimpses of a hospital's war against COVID and other maladies, we are grateful to BC's nurses, doctor, and other hospital staff for their dedication and stewardship towards the sickest and most vulnerable!







The Burnaby Rotary Club was happy to host a social distance gathering at Burnaby's Fraser Foreshore Park on Friday! It was great to see members, without the risk of zoom fatigue!
Like many Rotary Clubs in BC, we have been adapting to COVID through ongoing efforts such as planning virtual walks, stay-at-home galas, and virtual auctions to raise funds and good will while maintaining provincial health guidelines. For example, the Rotary Club of Lions Gate North Vancouver ran a virtual Canada Day celebration!
Thanks to Dr. Thiha Maung from the Karen Return and Reestablishment Committee (KRRC) who presented to Burnaby Rotary his organizations’ work to return, house, and employ Karen refugees displaced from Myanmar to Thailand.
Dr. Maung, a graduate of Burnaby’s Simon Fraser University, summarized his and the KRRC organization’s history in housing and development as well as a proposal to produce eco-friendly areca leaf plate factories to employ returning Karen population. We were happy to see these efforts to sustainably support vulnerable refugee populations, especially during COVID.
To open the new Rotary year, Teresa Lung presented her classification talk on her geographical journey from China to Canada and her vocational journey from Nursing to a ``temporary’’ job in financial services at CIBC that continued for 33 years!
Teresa works diligently, whether through supporting her bank's small business clients, designing lovely wedding decorations, guiding Rotary Club of Burnaby Fundraisers such as the Heart of the Matter in her role of Director of Community and International Services, or fundraising for her Church at St Mary’s Parish in Vancouver.
For more upcoming talks covering varied vocations and valiant volunteering see the Rotary Burnaby Calendar!To learn more about Teresa and the other Rotary Club of Burnaby Board of Directors click here.


Samantha Kwong, Club President.
As a realtor and person, Sam is dedicated to opening the doors of homes and hearts and continuing the club's local and international projects, such as raising $6000 for COVID-19 PPE for Bali medical staff.

Peter Beynon, Stalwart Secretary.
Engineer of oil platform tech, minutes, bulletins, and club accountability. Beyond managing club business, Peter was our club's champion for the $150,000 Foreshore Park Fitness Circuit project.

Doug Rennie, Admirable Administrator.
A deliverer of good news, good will, and good service, administrative or otherwise. Doug is known for his tireless support for Burnaby Rotary projects and initiatives.
Our thanks to Dr. Eugene Choi for his June 19th presentation to Rotary Burnaby members and guests on leveraging neuroscience to overcome fear, create positive lasting change in the world, and activate the part of your brain that permits these changes. A summary of the talk is below, adapted from notes of our Club's stalwart secretary Peter Beynon:
"There are two main states in the functioning of the brain: the survival state and the executive state.The Survival State is associated with stress, anxiety, anger, impatience, jealous, and selfishness. This state is associated with the amygdala and the ``fight, flight, or freeze'' response that is also impairs your body's ability to fight infection. The Executive state relates to Hope, Joy, Gratitude, compassion, a growth mindset, selflessness, taking ownership, and is associated with activity in the prefrontal cortex. Dr Choi discussed how to transfer your state from survival to executive via exercises, meditations, and deep breathing that activates the parasympathetic nervous system and gets you back to the executive state. He also discussed the benefits of tracking brain state with devices and being mindful of what state you and others are in."
Thanks to all attendees, especially visitors from other clubs in the district, including incoming District Governor Dave Hamilton. We appreciate your interest and support!
For more info on Dr. Choi:
His Business: Destiny Hacks at https://destinyhacks.co/
His Medium Profile, including an article on COVID-19 and Fear: https://medium.com/@EugeneKChoi
We ask Rotary members to continue the fight to end polio and support PolioPlus. Please help by donating at www.endpolio.org/donate.
#endpolio
We recognize the COVID-19 emergency will affect some aspects of polio eradication program. While addressing the new challenges of today, we ask Rotary members to continue the fight to end polio and sustain our commitment. Learn why: endpol.io/rtyc19




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