Speakers

Speaker	Date	Topic
VFL Draw	Jun 18, 2025
OFFSITE - President's Change over meeting/dinner	Jun 25, 2025
Margaret Trainor	Jul 02, 2025	Rotary Purple Polio Gardens May 2025 For more than 35 years, Rotary International has actively supported the eradication of polio around the world - but challenges remain. A member of the Rotary Club of Guelph has arranged a garden campaign to raise awareness and funds that will go to Rotary's "End Polio Now" program. Details below. Two packages are locally available: $50 package includes a lawn sign, 6 purple perennials (from Royal City Nursery), Rotary information and more $35 package includes a lawn sign, Rotary information and more For more information, contact Margaret Trainor (e: baronesserainn@gmail.com 519-317-8918) or go to the Purple for Polio Gardens Facebook page.
Taylor Francis	Jul 23, 2025	Entrepreneur, Coach, Carpenter Taylor Francis is a venture coach in the Conestoga Entrepreneurship Collective’s Venture Lab for Skilled Trades program supported by RBC Future Launch. He is responsible for mentoring individuals on their path to entrepreneurship in the skilled trades industry. Taylor is from Fergus, Ontario. He is the founder of Cutting Edge Construction. His latest venture is a game-changing mobile app to streamline legal contracts for contractors. Taylor has deep experience in finished carpentry, small business development, technology business integration, sales and customer relations. Taylor is a graduate of the woodworking technician program at Conestoga College.
Andrew Leith	Jul 30, 2025	Uncovering Super powers
Paul Heidebrecht	Aug 20, 2025	Kindred Centre for Peace Advancement At the Centre for Peace Advancement, we recognize the value of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and multisector approaches to the advancement of peace. For this reason, the Centre for Peace Advancement is home to a variety of participants involved in the work of advancing peace. Our 6,000 square feet of space is occupied by a range of peace scholars from the University of Waterloo, as well as practitioners from local peace building organizations. Through forging opportunities for collaboration in the form of research, training and/or community engagement, we work to advance peace along with academics and practitioners from the University of Waterloo and beyond.