MINUTES OF ZOOM MEETING : Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Editor: Hilda Finnigan
BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES
July 8 - Happy Birthday to Kay Hurren
July 8 – Happy Anniversary to Caroline & Robert Kipling
July 11 - Happy Anniversary to Florin & Roxana Popa
July 11 - Happy Anniversary to Colin & Elizabeth Carrie
July 17 – Happy Birthday to Linda Porritt
July 25 – Happy Birthday to Esther Trotter
July 31 – Happy Birthday to Greg McDowell
On the Zoom Call Tonight:
Hilda Finnigan, David Andrews, Janice Coupland, Kris Sachdeva, Sue McKinnon, Robert Kipling, Tim Dwyre, Lennis Trotter, Bob Koski, Ana Rejab, Linda Porritt, Devon Biddle, David Mankiewicz, Colin Carrie, Stanley and Chidinma Iboanugo, Bill Creamer, Heather Drakes
Guest : None tonight
President Sue MacKinnon started the meeting at 7:02 pm and welcomed everyone !!!
AGAIN, THANK YOU TO: our very own Oshawa-Parkwood Rotarian Eric Guernsey for arranging the Zoom Meeting sharing with Heather McMillan, Executive Director of the Durham Workforce Authority, The Durham Workforce Authority is the acknowledged provider of local workforce information and champion of workforce development initiatives unique to Durham Region. Their Mission is to produce and offer comprehensive Labour Market Information to our stakeholders, to facilitate workforce solutions by engaging community partners and employers and to encourage development and maintenance of a sustainable and dynamic workforce.. It was so nice to be able to have a whole hour for our Zoom meeting. We thank you both and hope we can continue in July.
PRESIDENT SUE’S OPENING REMARKS:
President Sue welcomed everyone to our meeting tonight.
A MOMENT OF REFLECTION:
We then took 10 seconds of silence to think about how happy we are today.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Ted reminded all of us to tell our friends and neighbours that there is still time to make a donation to our Rotary Club to help fight COVID-19 right here in Oshawa and our club will match their donation. Thank you to Kim and Sandy for their excellent half page ad in the May 13 and May 20 editions of The Oshawa Express and the news article in the May 20 edition, announcing our big fundraiser to fight COVID-19 here in our community. Thank you for the news article too announcing the matching funds donation. Our Rotary Club will match dollar for dollar, up to a maximum of $5,000, all money received from the public to go local community organizations to help them fight the COVID-19 pandemic. As individuals, we all can make a donation to help get to the $5,000 mark, and our club will match that. Lets all get together and put on that one big push.
MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS:
President Sue also noted a few more events too:
July 22 - Kids Safety Village Board and Committee Zoom Meeting
July 29 – Rotary Club Board of Directors Zoom Meeting at 6:30 PM – On Finances – Location to be announced.
Rotary District 7070 Virtual Walk for AIDS and Community Health will take place on July 29 at 7 PM. Please register on the District 7070 Website https://rotary7070.org/event/district-7070-rotary-aids---community-health-walk/
Be sure to see the event on our Club’s Facebook Page and also in the posting on our Facebook Page.
Treasurer Devon Biddle: Dues are Due. Very soon, you will receive an invoice from our Treasurer for the 2020-21 Rotary Dues. The Annual Dues will be $230.00. At the same time, you will have the option to make a donation to The Rotary Foundation Annual Programs Fund of $100 and a donation to The Rotary Foundation PolioPlus Funds for $20 (or more if you wish). You will be credited towards your next Paul Harris Fellow Award. Please pay your dues promptly when you get your invoice, by mailing or dropping off your cheque (or cash), payable to the Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood, to 96 King Street East, Oshawa L1H 1B6. Thank you everyone. We have already received our invoice from Rotary International.
Meals On Wheels – 2 Volunteers Required - President Sue’s car insurance no longer allows her to drive her car for meals on wheels. She is also on vacation for a few weeks coming up . She will look into the Rotary Club insurance to see if her car is covered for “Rotary business”. We need 2 volunteers. Please see President Sue so that our Rotary Club can fulfill our commitment to this very important community service.
BOTTLE DRIVE:
President Sue started with a review of the Bottle Drive and asked for suggestions so that the next Bottle Drive will be more profitable and more effective for our club. President Sue said that not a great deal of money was raised but it seems that all of our members enjoyed doing a hands on fundraising project in the community, being together again (although we were apart), and working as a team with our fellow Rotarians in the Rotary Club of Oshawa. One suggestion was better advertising in the local media, and signs up in the community well ahead of the Bottle Drive. In addition, the paperwork does need to be completed during the event. Tim Dwyre thanked Craig Porritt for all of his help at the Bottle depot.
President Sue suggested that our club needs that socialization, and that we should have a summer or late summer (August or even September) social gathering of Rotary family, perhaps a BBQ or corn roast.