When her family moved to Canada in 2011, Mary Anne Velayo has 20-plus years of entrepreneurial experience working in distribution of consumer goods and pharmaceutical products and has proven track record in the fields of enterprise development, finance, and marketing. She earned her bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Business Management as well as her master’s degree in Education.
As a charter member of the Rotary Club Vancouver Mountainview (RCVM) since 2017, Mary Anne served as Club Administration Chair in 2018, has led major fundraisers and became Club President in 2019-2020. During her term as Club President, RCVM was given Rotary Citation (Gold level) and won D5040 Highest Number of New Members sharing the achievement with another club. She is a Paul Harris Fellow +5 and recently joined the esteemed Paul Harris Society.
Liz Scroggins has been a Rotarian since 2009, club president 2011-2012, international projects chair from 2011-present. She is a proud, third-generation Rotarian as both her father and grandfather were club presidents. Rotary has provided many meaningful opportunities and experiences for both her and her family.
On her second trip to Lesotho, South Africa, she was fortunate to bring her two teenage daughters. They worked on volunteer projects for three weeks and they worked hard! Their time working there together to help others, was life changing.
Liz lives in Whistler with her husband where they enjoy the winters skiing and rest of the year biking, hiking, golfing and enjoying their home. She volunteers on a local farm in Pemberton one half day a week and tend to their backyard vegetable and flower gardens. This provides them with an abundance of fresh food during the summer and fall.
Ron Malmas is B.C.-born, growing up in the Fraser Valley before his life journey living in the Central Cariboo and finally settling in Terrace in 2017. Ron joined Rotary in 2007 with the Rotary Club of Williams Lake Daybreak.
He acted as club president for two terms and was as the chair of the Williams Lake Daybreak Rotary Stampede Parade for three years and started the Williams Lake Starfish program. He was successful twice at raising community funds for Shelter Box relief in Fiji in 2008 and shortly after as club President hosted a Tsunami fund raising dinner after the devastation in Japan.
Ron has two sons, three grandchildren and has been married to his husband Steven for seven years.
Together they moved to Terrace where they work side by side in the funeral industry. After joining the Rotary Club of Terrace Skeena Valley upon arrival to Terrace, Ron has been the Membership chair, Learning and Development chair and the Rotary Club of Skeena Valley Starfish Pack chair.
Discover the wow factor of Rotary at the 2022 District 5040 Conference in Prince George, May 20-22!
We can’t wait to see you all again and welcome you with open arms as we celebrate the Seven Wonders of Rotary.
More than 100 people have already registered for the conference and we appreciate the support.
Congratulations to Dave Connors from Sunshine Coast - Sechelt as the winner of the free registration. Dave was one of 100 Rotarians who took advantage of the early-bird registration and his name was entered into the draw to win a free conference registration.
We'll be sending out more details about the host site and accommodations in the coming weeks. If you haven't already done so, visit CelebrateRotary.ca to register.
You can also watch this video from DG Lorne Calder as he welcomes you to Prince George in 2022.
District Governor Greetings
District 5040 Governor Lorne Calder
Fellow Rotarians:
The Rotary Foundation is Rotary’s greatest partnership. It is only through the generosity of Rotarians around the world that we get to celebrate many of our known and unknown successes.
I have always liked Past Rotary International President’s John Germ’s analogy that the “The HEART of Rotary” is our Foundation! Our efforts to eradicate Polio, provide clean water, provide basic education and literacy, sponsor schools and orphanages, assist mothers and children, provide basic and advanced health care don't go unnoticed
They create jobs for many underdeveloped countries, provide peaceful solutions through our youth exchange, Peace Universities, Group Study Exchanges, Ambassadorial Scholarships, protect our planet and much, much more is only limited by our creative brain power and our ability give generously to The Rotary Foundation.
Last year RI approved more than 2,000 global grants totaling approximately $100 million. This is only possible if we all give to the Rotary Foundation!
Last year our District set a new per capita record of $250.09 finishing 2nd in Zone 28, but this was mostly because of 4 very generous donors who gave $100,000! Last year we had 46.5% of all Rotarians who gave at least $25 US and I believe that the other 53.5% is an opportunity.
I have challenged your President and Foundation Chair to work as a team and to encourage every Rotarian to consider the Rotary Foundation.
In 2019/2020, our Rotary Foundation granted more than $46 million in a variety of initiatives for Pandemic Relief Efforts. Recently we had 194 countries sign on to a Wellness and Healthy Rotary Action group initiative to eradicate Cervical Cancer and this year Rotary has pledged $2.0 million of a $6.0 million large scale project to reduce and eliminate Malaria in Mozambique.
These are remarkable life-saving projects that require us to commit to the Rotary Foundation to follow through on these large-scale commitments.
At the District level we have approved more than $75,000 for local and a few smaller internationally based projects. Eighteen projects have been selected to assist several communities in Coats for Kids, Dementia patients, youth hubs, story walk project/literacy programs, indigenous youth programs, clean water, orphanages, child development equipment and much, much more.
Each of these projects targeting one of Rotary’s seven areas of focus and leading to sustainable project funding into the future. To access the $75,000 in funding, Rotary Clubs are required to raise more than $150,000 increasing the impact of these projects even more. Many of these projects are collaboration efforts with other Rotary Clubs to make these projects a possibility.
We would like to do even more projects but need more donations being made to the Annual Program Fund Share program to do so. The world needs us even more than ever before and we can all make a difference with a donation to the Rotary Foundation.
With this in mind, I would like to challenge every Rotarian to please consider The Rotary Foundation in your charitable giving in 2021/2022.
I would love to see every Rotarian join the Paul Harris Society (PHS) and commit to a $1,000 US donation every year but if this is not affordable then what about $500 and with the District matching this donation with Foundation points achieve the next level of your Paul Harris Fellow. If $500 is too much, then what about $100 US to be a sustaining member or to join the Polio Society ($100 minimum commitment) or even giving $25 US to achieve Every Rotarian Every Year (EREY) status can make a difference.
I challenge each of you to start a Rotary Direct pledge for as low as $2.50 per month (EREY) or $10.60 (Sustaining member) or $107 per month (Paul Harris Society- $1,000).
I would like to see the number of Paul Harris Society members increase from 90 to 128 members (10% of the District), I would like to see the EREY ratio increase from 46.5% to 60% (#1 in the Zone) and I would like to see the number of Rotarians making Rotary Direct donations increase from 156 to 200.
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