President Jerome Freiburger (L) and Past President Troy Stuebing (R) thank Guest speaker Jessa Braun.
Kitchener Westmount Rotary Club
Meeting minutes
September 5, 2018
Birthdays:
Louise Puopolo September 6th
Wedding Anniversaries
Rich & Janice Bolzon, Sept. 3rd – 35 years
Simon & Ruth Adler, Sept. 6th – 37 years
Tom & Nancy Jeary, Sept. 8th – 62 years
Club Anniversaries
Karen Spencer, Sept. 1st – 1 year
John Vickery, Sept. 6th – 18 years
Business:
Breakfast with Steve Paikin, Nov. 2nd 6:45 a.m. – register via the website
Crown & Anchor – if you haven’t signed up yet, please do. It is every member’s responsibility to participate. Contact Troy Stuebing.
Oktoberfest President’s Opening Lunch – tickets are now available from John Vickery, Jerome Freiburger or Alison Scott
Thanksgiving Turkey Shoot – Oct. 2nd, Waterloo Rod & Gun Club, 5:00 to 8:30 – rifle range, steak, other festive events – sign up online via our website
Other news:
Only 14 new cases of the wild polio virus in 2018.
October 24th is World Polio Day – join an event and help publicize our fight to eradicate polio forever
Speaker:
Jessa Braun spoke passionately about ‘She Scores’, a not-for-profit organization who’s goal it is to increase awareness about, and combat, some of the issues that detrimental to the expansion of women in sport. Jessa highlighted the following problems women’s sports faces:
Objectification of women in sport
Lack of media support
Sexism
Fewer role models than men’s sports
Few fans
A gender wages gap
Lack of job security
Jessa provided a number of facts and examples to illustrate these problems.
She Scores is combating these problems with a web-site, articles, You Tube and other social media, promotion of women’s athletic events and articles by well-known women athletes.
President Jerome Freiburger exchanges Club Banners with a visiting Rotarian from the Rotary Club of Eket, Nigeria.
Congratulations to Lesley and Brad Enns on the birth of their new baby boy!
Congratulations to Judy Nairn on the recent groundbreaking of the new Hospice of Waterloo Region building. The new building will be located across from RIM Park.
