MINUTES OF MEETING : Tuesday September 17, 2019
Editor: Bob Stewart
ROTARY GRACE
O Lord, The Giver of all good,
We thank Thee for our daily food
May Rotary friends and Rotary ways
Help us to serve Thee all our days.
Grace: Linda Porritt
O Canada: Peter Dueck
Toast To The Queen : Myles Fisher
GUESTS/VISITING ROTARIANS:
Happy to have Bill Creamer with us again this evening along with John Kellam (a guest of Lennis Trotter and of his son Shawn) with us tonight.
BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES:
Happy Anniversary to Hilda and Al Finnigan this week
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sue MacKinnon – Thanked the Fashion Show committee and all of the sponsors for a first class event. Everyone is ready for another fashion Show next year.
REMINDER: from David Penney: for every Dollar that you personally donate, anytime, during this Rotary year, to the Rotary Foundation Annual Programs Fund, our Rotary Club will match that amount to a maximum of $3,200 USD. Remember our goal “A Mill for Bill”.
David Andrews - October 24 – World Polio Day – Please REGISTER AS SOON AS YOU CAN. SIGN THE LIST OR SEND DAVE AN EMAIL TODAY. THE EVENT: 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm - joint meeting of Durham Region Rotary Clubs in the new Global Classroom in the new Centre for Collaborative Education at Durham College where we will celebrate World Polio Day with leaders from around the world. Cash bar and sandwiches will be served. Cost ($30.00) per person (a portion will be donated to The Rotary Foundation's Polio Eradication Initiative and will credited to your next Paul Harris Fellow.)
Spouses, guests and prospective members and all clubs in District 7070 are invited. We will see the live Rotary International livestream event and we will also livestream our event live to Rotary Clubs and to Universities and colleges worldwide. All clubs in the District are invited. Proclamations from City and Region to our clubs. Dr. Bob Scott, immediate past chair of Rotary’s PolioPlus Committee (worldwide) will be our keynote speaker and he will connect with Dr. Tunji Funsho, chairman of Rotary's Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee and others from around the world . REGISTER TODAY. There will be others speaking too about their experiences with polio in their countries.
David Andrews - October 3 – Canada Votes 2019 Debate of the Federal Oshawa Riding Candidates conducted by the Media of Oshawa, at the Oshawa Golf and Curling Club. 6 PM to 7 PM – fellowship hour ; 7 PM to 8 PM Candidates Debate; 8 to 8:30 PM – Candidates available to answer your questions. Admission: No charge . Cash Bar available. Members of the two Rotary Clubs in Oshawa (and their guests) and members of the Oshawa Golf and Curling Club (and their guests) are invited. Debate will be broadcast live by Rogers TV Oshawa. Seating is limited to approx. 100 guests. To reserve your seat, please email Dave Andrews at dave.f.andrews99@gmail.com . Debate will be October 3 at the golf club.
Dave announced that we are assisting the Rotary E Club of Southern Ontario / Western New York sell the “Big Game 54 “ lottery tickets. They are all out in the members hands. If you have any not yet sold, we could sure need them to sell on Sept 24 DG Visit and on Oct 24 World Polio Day. The selling price is the same as last year- 5 tickets for $20. The prizes remain the same. First prize has 2 tickets to the Big Game 54 in Miami on Feb 2, 2020 PLUS 4 nights accommodation in Miami PLUS $1,000 US. The second prize is $1,000 US, the third prize is $500 US, the fourth prize is $300 US, and the fifth prize is $200 US. All tickets must be sold by mid November. NO EXCEPTIONS. Get your tickets from Dave (if he has any left). Sell, sell, sell - $1.00 from each ticket sold goes to our Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood. There are only a few hundred not yet out.
REMINDER: Volunteers needed for Hallowe'en and Christmas events at the Kids Safety Village: HALLOWE’EN HAUNT AT THE KIDS’ SAFETY VILLAGE: October 25 and 26 at the Kids Safety Village from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Kids Safety Village, 1129 Athol St., Whitby. This is an S.O.S to our club members: many of our club members will be at the Rotary District Conference at the same time. We will need about 8 volunteers from our Rotary Club on both nights (if you are not going to the District Conference). AND we will need at least 6 volunteers to help on Saturday Oct 5 to set up the haunted maze and other things at the Safety Village from about 9 am to 2 pm. Please volunteer and let Robbie Larocque know if you can help. More details will follow when we can confirm the exact time and date of the set up.
Pres Lennis: Oct 5 an new Membership Academy is available to all Rotarians in District 7070 in Cobourg. Details are on the District Website: The Grow Rotary Academy. Please sign up today online on the District 7070 website under the October 5 event. Space will be limited.
REMINDER from Treasurer Devon Biddle – Club dues are due. We are ready at the Front Desk to take your money (Annual Dues are $210 and as an option, you may wish to contribute to The Rotary Foundation (perhaps $100 – just a suggestion ) and to the Polio Fund (perhaps $20 – just a suggestion). Donations to the Rotary Foundation will be registered towards your next Rotary Foundation Paul Harris Award level. Thank you.
ACE OF SPADES DRAW: Conducted by Our Sargant At Arms Tim Dwyre
Winner: Hilda Finnigan Card Drawn: 10 of Spades. The pot begins to grow again.
Thank you to Dr Larry Hurren for supplying us with the consolation prizes (travel size tubes of toothpaste) and to Hilda Finnigan for her Organ Donor Awareness pens
DUTIES FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
Front Door Robbie Larocque
Bulletin Editor/Greeter Hilda Finnigan
THANK YOU BOTH FOR VOLUNTEERING
(Editor’s note: If you cannot be there; please find a replacement)
HAPPY TOONIES
Hilda - $ 4 – Fashion Show
Bob S - $ 5 daughter married
Miles – very very happy to be back to the welcoming confines of Rotary
Dave P. - – Fashion Show
Bob K. – Fashion Show Committee and Lennis for driving his wife
Linda – Fashion Show
Dan – kids exceeded expectations – one son got Landscape Architect Designation
Devon – Lennis donated his large winnings from 50/50 back to Polio
David – Fashion Show hugely successful. First Class.
Janice $ 6 – Fashion Show success, 80 guests, Kris doing well
Linda – Thank you to The Oshawa Express for another People of Action Article
Kim – thanked Janice for her leadership on the Fashion Show
ROTARY MOMENT
From Your Editor: Bob K and Dan were served some very fancy looking vegetarian dinners . Scrumptuous. Two “Special” Meals for two very special guys. Our Buffet was pretty good also … but not in the same League.