There are three Friendship Exchanges in the works.
In a little over a month, our first inbound Friendship Exchange will be visiting us from District 1420 Finland & Estonia on September 14th to the 26th. This group of twelve Rotarians will be visiting the Annapolis Valley, Prince Edward Island, Pictou /New Glasgow/ Stellarton/ Westville and then on to Cape Breton.
Our host teams have been busy planning and organizing some wonderful tours and events for our visitors. Please take the opportunity to meet with these visiting Rotarians when they visit your club or area. This itinerary and the bios of our visitors will be posted shortly on the District website.
Our return exchange with them will be in August 2018.
The second inbound team to visit us is from District 5020 Vancouver Island & (western) Washington State. They will begin their visit with us in HRM on 1st October and then travel to the Lunenburg / Bridgewater area, Yarmouth and then the Annapolis Valley. This visit is in the planning stages and more details will be forthcoming shortly.
We will return this visit to their district in May 2018.
Unfortunately, our third inbound exchange has been cancelled for this year. The team from District 6990 South Florida & Grand Bahamas who were to visit St. Pierre and Newfoundland had to cancel and hope that we can accommodate them next year. I know of some disappointment from several members who were looking forward to hosting these visitors. Thanks to those members who put effort into the planning of this inbound exchange.
We will still be sending our team to visit them at the end of February 2018. (Not a bad time to visit that area đ)