Karen Hatcher, General Manager of the College of Piping, was our guest speaker for the September 1 meeting.

Karen did a great presentation, informing club members of the programs that the College of Piping offers, the teaching staff and the three teaching locations - Summerside, Charlottetown and Cornwall.

Information on the College of Piping is available at http://www.collegeofpiping.com/

Rotarians are welcome to attend a Rotary meeting of any club in the world. Dr. David Morrison from our club is seen here accepting a banner from the Rotaract Club of Shanghai, China.

Each year a different PEI Rotary club is responsible for entering the Rotary float in the Gold Cup Parade. This year, it was the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty's turn.

The theme of the parade this year was "The ABCs". 'R' is for Rotary.

This year participants in the Special Olympics road on the float for the parade, and a special guest (besides Sunny the Clown) had his picture taken sitting on the float - Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

At the microphone is Kaleb Zelman who has just returned from Switzerland after spending a year there as our club's outbound Rotary Youth Exchange Student.

Looking on is club president Debbie Phillips and this year's inbound youth exchange student, Valentin Moser from Basil, Switzerland.

Two or three times a year the breakfast meeting of the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty is held in an alternate location. For the August 11 meeting club members were treated to a wonderful breakfast at the York Community Hall, put on by the Women's Institute.

After the meeting the members moved a short distance down the road to ......

....... Vesey's Seeds Trial Gardens, where we toured around the flower, fruit and vegetable trial seed gardens. Vesey's Seeds is owned by Rotarian Bev Simpson.

Mary Hickey, partner of Rotarian Paul Hickey, is spending a year teaching in Nyamata, Rwanda.

Mary is a CUSO/VSO volunteer, and received some funding for teaching supplies from our club.

More details of her year can be seen on her blog at www.maryhickey.ca.

Three Rotarians are seen here having a close look at the flowers planted by our club for the City of Charlottetown's Communities in Bloom program.

It is always good to see former Rotary Youth Exchange Students return for a visit. On July 28, Sophie Olsen from Denmark, our club's 2008-09 exchange student visited Charlottetown and brought her parents along to a club meeting.