December 11, 2025

Date	September 3	September 10	September 17	September 24	October 1	October 1	October 15
Location	Holiday Inn	Next Door Social Space	St Matthews Anglican Church	Holiday Inn	Holiday Inn	Mae & Bert at 799 Partridge at 6 pm	Holiday Inn
Captain (setup	Hillyer	Leung	Lindsay	Line	Gaydon	Mae	Haan
Greeter and Introduce Guests	Leung	Lindsay	Edwards	Dunsford	Edwards	Bert	E
Zoom Coordinator	Brindle	Brindle	Brindle	Brindle	Brindle	N A	Brindle
Cash	Alex	Alex	Alex	Alex	Alex	You must pay in advance	Alex
Anthem and Toast	Brown	Edwards	Gaydon	Williams	Woods	W	W
Moment of Reflection & Gratitude	Willard	Taylor	Leung	Thoem	Warnica	Bert	Williams
Land Acknowledgement				Beckett	Beckett	Mae	B
Announcements	Book @ Owen	Book @ Owen	Book @ Owen	Book @ Owen	Book @ Owen	Lawrence	Book @ Owen
Sgt. at Arms	Baillie	Baillie	Baillie	Baillie	Baillie	N A	Baillie
Intro Speaker	Willard	Anderson	Basnet	Brown	Leung	Mae	L
Speaker	Mahein Kazi	Payton Frappier	Joanne Bollinger	Kris Sparre	Friendship Exchange	Lots	F
Topic	Distress Centre, Halton	Next Door Social Space	Wise Zambia	Hamilton Professional Women Hockey League	Taiwan Exchange	Rotary Friendship	T
Thank Speaker	Maybury	Martin	Ostafichuk	Hillyer	Leung	Owen	Lindsay
4 Way Test	Everyone	Everyone	Everyone	Everyone	Everyone	Everyone	Everyone
Scribe	Line	Clarkson	Beckett	Hillyer	Line	Line	Clarkson

 

Burlington Central Rotary Club members clean up QEW Interchange

Our club raised over $6000 participating in the Coldest Night of the Year fundraiser in support of Open Doors outreach in Burlington!

The Club's Porsche Lottery for a 2022 Porsche Macan S is well underway and two early bird prizes have been awarded already.

 

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Finally the Summer BBQ has returned.

 

 

Click here for the VIDEO

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BBQ Photo Album

 

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• Try and place the camera at eye level
• Make sure you have decent lighting (fluorescents will make you look very pale).
• If you are using a virtual background, best to have a clear background behind you.
• Stay muted until you need to speak.

On January 31st, 2019 - Burlington Central presented Joseph Brant Hospital with their FINAL cheque of $40,000

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Burlington Central welcomes another new member.

Welcome Keith Williams

 

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The club gets a good breakfast "Next Door"

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63919 Kids Reached!

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Watch the president-elect's theme speech

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Rotary clubs worldwide mobilize in support of earthquake-ravaged Nepal

Let’s start off with a vital piece of trivia to impress your guests at the next Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (from National Geographic):

It started as a joke- and ended up among the most commonly used words in the world. This year marks the 175^th anniversary of “OK,” first printed in a Boston newspaper in March 1839. Caught up in a fad for whimsical misspellings and abbreviations, editors indicated that a statement was all correct by using the first two letters in “oll korrect.” By 1840, “OK” had gone national, used even by Martin Van Buren’s presidential campaign. His nickname? Old Kinderhook.

Guests this morning:

Paul Heil, Rotarian from Apple Valley, Minnesota
Fred Sweeney, RC Burl North
Ken Jacques, guest speaker
Jules Villinger, visiting from Germany
Juliette Gateau, exchange student

Juliette’s week- Friday was a PA Day, so she went to Toronto for the day, took in many sites including Casa Loma, Chinatown, and Kensington Market. Then she went up to Dean and Beth’s country place in Meaford for the long weekend. Hikes, hot tub, lots of laughs, way too much food, but she enjoyed her first Canadian Thanksgiving. Juliette also mentioned that she is raising money as part of the exchange student “We are the World” team in the Haunted Hill Run for diabetes in Bolton next weekend. As usual, our generous members already helped her raise more than half of her $200 goal just this morning. Catherine has sent out a link to her website for on-line donations.

Turkey Trot- Fred Sweeney of Burl North stopped by to invite us to come out to Bronte Creek Park this Sunday for the 5/10k runs and 5k walk. Start times are 10:00 am and you can walk up and register if you like. Cost is $35 for the Walk and 5k run, $40 for the 10k run. More info: www.rotaryturkeytrot.ca

Blood Drive- Peter Skoretz reminded us of our pledge, so the next group donation time is Tuesday, October 21, 5:00 pm on.

Poinsettia Campaign- as you heard previously, the goal this year is $10,000, so please do your best to promote poinsettias to businesses and friends. Deadline for orders is Nov. 19.

Polio Day, Friday, Oct. 24- Pres. Catherine asked for 8 volunteers to help distribute Polio Awareness pamphlets at the Burlington GO Station, 7:15 – 8:15 am.

Gaffe of the Morning- Pres. Catherine asking guest Paul Heil why he was in town from Minnesota. Can’t repeat the exchange, this newsletter is G-rated. Needless to say, Catherine put both feet in it...

Sgt. Rene
Fines this morning to Lawrence (who apparently has the best family in the world), Rick Howarth and Bruce Maybury.

Happy $- Rob Sybersma for spending Thanksgiving in Vegas (what exactly he is thankful for stayed in Vegas apparently); Dean Rutty for having Juliette up to their Meaford home for Thanksgiving; Kathy Thomas for surviving an on-line travel booking scam (see her Facebook page for all the gory details).

Pres. Catherine also made us aware of a special guest speaker at Rotary Lakeshore on Tues. November 18- Terry Fallis, award-winning author of Best Laid Plans.

Guest Speaker- Ken Jacques, Creating a Healthy Community
I
n 2008, Ken woke up and couldn’t walk. He was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, told in no uncertain terms that diet had no impact on the disease, and he was put on low dose chemo. Ken decided to start exploring alternatives to traditional medical procedure.

He referenced several books he discovered on his journey:

• Wheat Belly by Dr. W. Davis, about how a radically changed diet has healed several diseases;
• Mind Over Medicine by Dr. L. Rankin, about the impact of stress and how your mind can help heal you;
• Radical Remission by Dr. Kelly Turner, about cancer and 9 common factors that impact healing;
• The Unhealthy Truth by Robyn O’Brien, chronicling her journey to expose the food industry after her daughter had a violent reaction to eggs

In 2011, Ken started a blog, and in 2012, created what he calls his “Big Audacious Dream”, which, simply put, is to start the conversation about how we can all work together to build a healthy community in Burlington.

Ken believes we understand many of the factors that are potential root causes of many conditions, but often don’t let the body do what it is designed to do: heal itself. We aren’t teaching people what we know; the system encourages the masking of symptoms. What if our education system taught us alternatives such as the link between social status and illness; or if we had “wellness awareness campaigns” instead of illness campaigns; or if physicians spent more than 3 hours learning about nutrition in medical school so they can truly educate their patients on what is healthy for their body.

Ken suggested some sample projects to get us going:

• company wellness plans
• healthier food in food banks
• food projects where farmers, grocery stores and restaurants work together
• school science fair projects

A very interesting talk, Ken gave us all a lot to think about, and hopefully inspired us to create a healthier community in Burlington.

Mayor Rick Goldring declared that this is Rotary week in Burlington and raised the rotary flag.The lunchtime BBQ was well attended by members of the 4 Burlington Rotary clubs and the public.  The event also raised some money for the Burlington Flood Relief Fund.

Thank you to all the volunteers for the school breakfast program.  About 10 or 12 of our Rotary club mebers have volunteered to made a lot of kids at Tecemseh and Mohawk Gardens very happy this year with great pancake breakfasts.  And a special thanks to Ryan who is taking over the co-ordinating role at Mokawk Gardens next year.

The Rotary Club of Burlington Central intends to create a new position in the organization:  Director - Development.

Main responsibilities will be to develop and execute our club's annual fundraising plan.

4 Club Remembrance Day Meeting

Date:               Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Location:         Naval Veterans Hall,    2444 Industrial St., Burlington, ON L7P 1A5

Cocktails:         5:30 PM     Dinner:    6:45 PM

Cost:                $30.00 per person

Our efforts were hugely appreciated by the organizers - many thanks from them to all of you.

Janet Canavan, Peter Dunderdale, Gary Fisher, Lee Ford-Jones, Janet Gadeski, Kathleen O'Connor, Richard Pass, Nancy Penney, Susan Thompson, Kathy Thomas and please forgive me if I have left anyone out 

Our club added a fun component to the festivities as Gary Fisher, Hammered dulcimer, Anthony Ford-Jones, Button Accordion, were joined by two friends, John Stephen, Guitar and Jill Wiwcharuk, Fiddle. We busked for 2 hours and made the princely sum of $65 towards the festivals coffers. (we decided to stick with our day jobs but we had a blast!)

A few years ago my wife Lee Ford-Jones and I had a wonderful opportunity to meet Mrs. Jehan Sadat, wife of the late Egyptian president, and to hear from her first hand about the project she developed for women’s cooperatives in Egypt where they took refurbished sewing machines and sewed their way out of poverty.  Initially I thought I could involve Rotary to obtain machines here in Canada and ship them out to her projects.  Thinking about the old Aladdin story I had an idea: New Lamps for Old!  what about “New Sewing Machines for Old!”, where we would obtain a really nice, all singin’ all  dancin’ sewing machine and have a lottery to win the machine if people would only hand in their old machines languishing in cupboards and attics .  The idea of sending them to Egypt fizzled when I realized that there was a voltage difference. 

A couple of weeks ago there were about 16 people who had registered on Club Runner for our annual Christmas / Hanukkah party. Then, in true Rotary fashion, just about everyone decided that they to wanted to have a seasonal get together with some great friends before the end arrives on the 21st of December. So 83 Rotarians, partners, friends and other party animals made their way to The Water Street Cooker. Everyone was warmly greeted at the door by our noble leader, Jamie Edwards.
                   
 Everyone received a lovely purple ticket or three as they were relieved of some excess cash by yours’ truly.  Then Marie Cresswell took some incredible photographs of the guests to provide a memento of the evening.

The staff at the Water Street Cooker were great, even allowing us some extra chairs to accommodate the last minute influx of revelers.  Aside from the free wine, cheap beer, hot.hot.hot horseradish, excellent rare roast beef, great tasting shrimp and chicken appetizers, fantastic fish, and crazy good chicken, there were even some door prizes. Included was Rene Papin for a night (with the lucky winner and the jealous 2nd place winner behind)

 

 

 

Marie handed out some exquisite men’s wallets and some other prizes to the lucky winners of the door prize draw.

Dave and Patti Beckett won the all expense paid ten trip to Paris, France. Please send Patti an email at patti.beckett@sympatico.ca to congratulate her ! Really ! Send her an email!

The Beer Bar Fridge that had been schlepped around southern Ontario over the past 6 months by our wonderful Ron Lambert was won by Anthony Ford-Jones. He will be keeping it well stocked for any Rotarian who wants to drop by his office for a cold one (although I am sure he would warm his hands first if you asked politely).

 

 

 The Grand prize winner !

Andree Ansaldo, Jamie Edwards guest, scooped the lovely gift basket that was provided to the club by Cam Rothwell.   Thanks Cam, for the extra effort that you always provide !

Owen & Nima & our newest Rotarian’s to Be, the Cooper’s

 

                                    
         

For even more pictures please go to Marie’s website at

 

http://thomascole.smugmug.com/Events/Rotary-Club-of-Burlington/Rotary-Club-of-Burlington/27089949_B4k6kh#!i=2273107888&k=P7mZ9Gg

        
See everyone next week with breakfast with Santa ! Have a great week..  Love Robert & Alison

Bulletin for December 6

Posted by Janet Canavan

 

I am sending this bulletin really quite late and for this I apologize to our faithful Rotary readers who anxiously await the e-bulletin and whom I have regrettably disappointed. If this means relinquishing my Scribe duties I will accept this justified fate…

 

I noticed right away that the podium was moved to the right side of the room but this did not deter Jamie and the meeting began on time with a warm welcome back for Robin as a staff server. Efficiently Mae R. said Grace, Karmel S. led the Toast and Anthem, Albert S. recited the 4 Way Test and Peter T. introduced our guests who included Mike Torsney, Hamilton Downtown;  Abi Mackey outbound exchange student; Harrison Wheeler our guest speaker and Javiera our lovely exchange student.  Imagine her experience of being a teenager and experience snow for the first time and skating for the second time? The joys of being Canadian.

 

The following news/updates are late but I will capture it for the archives. Andrew outlined the Poinsettia pick-ups after the meeting, Gerry recruited volunteers for the Salvation Army Kettle Campaign and it was announced that the Canadian Orpheus Choir would perform at the Performance Arts Centre with proceeds to the hospital. Our annual Christmas party (which was a lovely evening and special thanks go out to those involved in the planning!) was held at the Water Street Cooker on Dec. 13^th. If this goes out tomorrow you may still have time to attend the Christmas Breakfast, 7 – 9:00 a.m.  and please bring along a gift for our Seniors. Melanie S. is the contact if you wish to know more about this special seasonal event.

 

Bernie spoke about new member recruitment. We have 68 active members, 8 honorary members and -this may be important to some - 19 women or “power houses” as he called us which represents 36% of our membership. Thank you Bernie? The reality is we need 8 new members- male and female- in the next 6 months and encouraged us to hand out Be My Guest tickets.

 

The nominating committee, chaired by Kathy Thomas, and the 2013-2014 Slate of Officers include:

Past President- Jamie Edwards

President- Glen Warnica

President Elect- Catherine Brady

Treasurer- Peter Skoretz

Club Administrator- Tim Justice

Membership- Bryce Leggatt

Communication and Web- Jim Brindle

Secretary- Janet Gadeski

International Projects- Peter Thoem

Community Projects- Adam Doering

Youth Services- Sheila Whelham

 

Nancy Brady, SAA, congratulated Reni P. and Catherine B. on their birthdays and “well done” Marie C. for your happy birthday rendition.

 

Melanie introduced our guest speaker Harrison Wheeler, Author. He began his talk with the statement that “clowns are not cutting it these days”. And from that point he had our attention specifically when he slammed Ronald McDonald, shared that 1 in 5 people living with clinical depression in our society, and shared his personal journey with mental illness and our lack of human contact because screens are stealing our valuable time.

 

After this disclosure the question “How can Jesters help us?” was begging to be answered. Harrison, speaking from firsthand knowledge as his father was an original Jester, educated us that Jesters are original, spontaneous and from being in the room for about an hour noticed that we have a few Jesters in our club already. Who knew!?! His encouragement to go out and find ourselves a Jester might be as easy as attending a Thursday morning meeting!

 

Just for Jest-If you enjoy humor and speculative fiction, are curious to meet Vincent the stories main character and if you are an adult over the age of 12- consider reading Jesters Incognito as it is guaranteed to entice. 

 

Ryan thanked Harrison for his engaging talk and wished him well with his book. And our meeting closed…

 

 

 

 

On September 28-30 this year's Leadership Camp was held at Pinecrest YMCA Camp (near Bala).  45 Students, 7 "Junior Chaps" and 8 "Senior Chaps" spent a long weekend at the camp and judging by the evaluations and emails from the students - it was a very rewarding weekend. 

Richard does a spiderman impression.

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Many years ago when the club was young a team of us built a fence around a farm.  It was hard work; we got it done after a fashion, but then the average age of club members was about 42. 

About 10 years ago we planted a whole bunch of Memorial Trees at Central Park, the soil was soft but the work was hard; we got it done, but then the average age of the club members was about 56.

Today we planted 30 Memorial Trees at Maple Park. We feel old.

It rained all day yesterday and I was glad of it.  Rain would certainly soften up the ground and the Maple Park area is known for its soft sandy loam anyway.  Well let me tell you, it doesn’t always work out that way. 

You see it all the time with new construction: they strip away the topsoil, pummel the ground with all kinds of heavy equipment, bury loads of construction debris and then cover it all again with topsoil and grass.  Perfect; but just don’t try digging there.  That’s what we worked with today.

True enough the rain had softened the topsoil, but no amount of rain will make it easy digging through old asphalt, electrical cables, rock and compacted limestone.  But we had the Axeman wielding his pick axe and he made a difference.  Anyway, over two back-breaking hours we dug thirty holes, each about a yard in diameter and 2 feet deep. We eased a young but sturdy native tree into each and back-filled the holes adding a half bag of cow manure as we went.  A quick barrow-load of wood chips and a drenching of water and there you have it: the makings of a forest. 

These 30 trees are the latest addition to the club’s Memorial Tree Project.  With the help of the city we have started on a glade of native trees each of which is, or will be, memorialized in the name of a lost loved one.  Just today, as we worked, Rick Howarth sold 9 trees to various families who had previously expressed interest in the opportunity.

We got it done and the average age of the club might well be coming down, but for the most part it was a bunch of older guys at work.  True, we did have Nancy Brady and her friend Marilyn contributing youth and charm to the event.

I’ll confide that my bones ached for a while after that, but it was good fun, good fellowship and a good time at the Dickens afterwards.

P. Scribe

January 12, Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital Foundation announced its capital campaign to redevelop the hospital. Together, the four Rotary Clubs of Burlington are proud to be among the first to donate $1 MILLION DOLLARS over seven years to the project. Several Rotarians have served in the past or are serving on the JBMH Board of Governors and on the Foundation Board of Directors.

Over the past three years, Telling Tales: A Family Festival of Stories has raised more than $50,000 to support Hamilton-based literacy projects.

This year, $5,000 will be distributed to Early Literacy Hamilton and the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board Rotary Summer Literacy Program, along with $4,000 to Hamilton Literacy Council’s Literacy and Basic Skills Program.

Festival founder Susan Jasper said because Telling Tales is such a huge volunteer effort, with lots of generous in-kind contributors, Telling Tales is able to reach hundreds more children through the festival’s support of vital literacy projects.

“This makes for a very satisfying end to our 2011 campaign,” she said.
More than 20 Canadian authors, illustrators, storytellers and musicians entertained about 6,000 people during the third Telling Tales event at Westfield Heritage Village in September.

 

 Hey Dean,
Yep I was just about to send my monthy email haha. Well I´ll try to cover as much as I can! Firstly, I live in a Valley beside the capital Quito. The altitude is around 10,000 feet or so, which was sort of hard to get used to at first...

We are pleased to announce the Rotary Club of Burlington Central along with the Rotary Club of Burlington Lakeshore have launched the "Golf Gives Back " Golf and Travel Lottery. Now in its 2nd year!  Evolving from the Central Club’s Masters lottery in prior years, we have increased the prize pool to include over 130 golf related prizes including trips to Florida, Las Vegas, Ireland and BC, and 150 other golf prizes.  Tickets are only $20 each!  There will be a maximum of 5,000 tickets sold with Two Early Bird Draws starting October 2011 and January 2012 and a Grand Prize Draw in March 2012. www.golfgivesback.org for tickets and information.  

 

 

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Katri, our newest exchange student arrives from Finland. 

Pauline Johnson Public School recently raised $150 from a fundraiser called Pennies for Polio. Over a one-week period, students and staff donated pennies toward polio vaccinations.

The school donated the money to the Rotary Club, which works around the world to vaccinate people against polio.

Due to these efforts, the disease has been eradicated in countries such as Liberia, Sudan and Chad.

 

 

Pennies for polio. Pictured are, back row from left, Rotary’s Duncan Hart, Claire Lowe, Aiman Akmal, Bani Badwal, Emma Blue and Rotary President Gerry Willard; front row, from left, Zayna Halis, Annie Kohler, Zahra Abdallah and Rotary’s Roy Cooper. Special to the Burlington Post

 

 

 

 

DISTRICT 7080 GSE TEAM 2010/11

Our Group Study Exchange Team for 2010/11 is currently in District 4340. They arrived in Chile on March 19 and are cur-rently half way through their Exchange. On the following pages, we will introduce you to each of the team members and note some of their hopes for this Exchange. We encourage you to consider inviting the team to speak at your club upon their return by contacting Team Leader Peggy Anderson-Coats from the Guelph Trillium Club by sending an email to her at coats0922@rogers.com

As you read the information about our Team Leader and Team Members, please begin thinking of candidates for 2011/12 as we will soon be seek-ing applications for next year’s exchange

Emergency Information Vials Now Available in All Burlington Pharmacies      

 

Thanks to a generous donation from the Rotary Club of Burlington Central, funding has been made available to produce “Emergency Information Vials” for distribution to all Burlington residents through community pharmacies.   The main purpose of the vial is to “house” a document containing pertinent medical information, current prescription and non-prescription medications, allergies and contact information that can be used by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in the event of an emergency.  When the EMS personnels arrive on scene, it can be difficult for the patient to communicate this vital  medical information.

You are the missing piece

The Rotary Club of Burlington Central will welcome you as a visitor for breakfast to learn more about Rotary.

We meet at 7:15am every Thursday at the Burlington Golf & Country Club, the meeting includes breakfast and an interesting speaker and concludes at 8:30am.

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World Polio Day is on 24th October. Please share your plans with me and the District.

If you have any photographs of your event, I would appreciate if you would share them with me.  you may forward the photographs to me via email.

Hajra Wilson
District 7080

PolioPlus Chair 

Past President Gerry Willard, Rotarian Bryce Leggatt & Exchange Student Katri Niemistoe serving the children at Tecumseh Public School during our School Breakfast Programme.

 

Tecumseh             October 2012            Kings Road

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	1 René Pâpin Lawrence Leung Tim Justice	2	3	4	5	6
7	8 Thanksgiving	9	10	11	12	13
14	15 René Pâpin Lawrence Leung Tim Justice	16	17	18	19	20
21	22 Karmel Sakran Gerry Willard Bryce Leggatt	23	24	25	26	27
28	29 René Pâpin Lawrence Leung Tim Justice	30	31

Tecumseh             November 2012            Kings Road

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
				1	2	3
4	5 Mike Molloy Gerry Willard Bryce Leggatt	6	7	8	9	10
11	12 René Pâpin Lawrence Leung Tim Justice	13	14	15	16	17
18	19 Karmel Sakran Gerry Willard Bryce Leggatt	20	21	22	23	24
25	26 René Pâpin Lawrence Leung Tim Justice	27	28	29	30

Tecumseh             December 2012            Kings Road

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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2	3 Mike Molloy Gerry Willard Bryce Leggatt	4	5	6	7	8
9	10 René Pâpin Lawrence Leung Tim Justice	11	12	13	14	15
16	17 Karmel Sakran Gerry Willard Bryce Leggatt	18	19	20	21	22
23	24 W I N T E R	25	26 B R E A K	27	28	29
30	31 W I N T E R

 

 

STOJANOVICH, Roy

Suddenly at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital, Bracebridge on Saturday, October 22, 2011, Roy Stojanovich of Burlington in his 75^th year. Beloved husband of Leona (nee Kachur) Stojanovich. Much loved father of Laura Reid and her husband Steve of Burlington, Debra Lanktree of Brantford and Lana Stasuk and her husband Jake of Burlington. Cherished grandfather of Kyle and Korey Reid and Andrew and Diana Lanktree. Roy will also be lovingly remembered by the Kazimer, Sostar and Kachur Families. A fixture for many years at Carmen’s Banquet Centre, Roy was also a long-time Rotarian and member of The Rotary Club of Burlington Central and founder of the Rotary Memorial Tree Campaign. We will all miss "Rotary Roy", "Santa Roy" & "Bartender Roy", but most of all "just plain Roy" who was always ready to help anyone who needed it. Visitation at SMITH’S FUNERAL HOME, 1167 Guelph Line, (one stoplight north of QEW) BURLINGTON (905-632-3333) on Tuesday 3-5 & 7-9 p.m. where Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday October 26, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. Reception to follow at the funeral home. Cremation. If desired, expressions of sympathy to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or The Rotary Foundation would be sincerely appreciated by the family. Online condolences maybe made at www.smithsfh.com

He lived the model of “Service Above Self”

Asking for your support through a contribution of a bottle of wine (from one of the wineries attending Lakeside à la Carte) or a dozen golf balls to help us stock the wine fridge raffle prize and the door prize table. Your support in the past has made this a real premier golf event in the area and we thank you for your anticipated participation again in 2008.

http://www.tellingtales.org/

for great info and video clips on Telling Tales Festival

 

These comments were made after 2010 fabulously successful festival: 

 - Telling Tales has raised an astounding $45,000
for local literacy projects. "I am so pleased that through our second annual
festival we were able to raise twice as much for local literacy programs,"
says Susan Jasper, festival chair and founder.

"We absolutely could not have done it without the support of our community
partners, sponsors and volunteers."

The literacy programs that will receive a portion of this year's funds
raised are:

* Hamilton Literacy Council's Literacy and Basic Skills Program
* The Hamilton Wentworth District School Board/Rotary Summer Literacy
Program at its new mountain location
* Early Literacy Hamilton's pilot program focusing on literacy for newborn
babies. 

Please get involved again this year.  Our club is a major sponsor in $$$

$2000 makes us a "Silver" Sponsor. 

We really want people to be involved on the day by volunteering for jobs that will be posted closer to the time.  Gerry Willard, Jim Brindle and Anthony Ford-Jones et al. were involved with the Book Shop and Swap tent which was very successful.  There are many other areas that we could get involved with in the running of the event. 

 

We need books for all ages of child and youth, and don't forget the boys!  Please look hard at the possibility of coming up with gently used books from attics and cupboards, your children's old books, library withdrawn books etc.  Kathy Thomas has kindly agreed to store books at Green Thumb on Guelph Line above Hwy 5 and Richard Pass can also store books in his office on Brant St. 

Many of you already know of our humanitarian projects in India where we have been helping sponsor "Healing Little Hearts" surgeries for underprivileged children with congenital heart disease.　 We're currently travelling in India with a group of ten Rotarians and partners to visit WCS projects, including children who have been saved through this wonderful project.

Dear Fellow Rotarians,

I rececived this news from William Patchett which I wish to share with everyone in the District.

WOW!!  We have had a fabulous year toward meeting our $ 200 million
Challenge.  We have only $ 65 million to go..................!  If we
continue with our strong support, our creative, innovative marketing program and continue to 'go outside of the box' to let others participate in this
dream, we will succeed in meeting our Challenge.
Please try to concentrate on those clubs that have not yet participated.
They, too should have the opportunity to be part of the Team and share our
success.

Ms. Thie Convery has a new idea for us:  she will swim across Lake Ontario
to raise funds for Polio.  This venture is called STEP - Swim To Eradicate
Polio.  There is a file attached with dates and distance.  If you know of
someone who would sponsor Thie and her swim, by all means do inform me.   I
would truly appreciate any contribution towards Thie's swim.  All money will
go to The Rotary Foundation.  Send it to David Prowse, The Rotary
Foundation, Canada, Box B 9322, Post Office Box 9100, Postal Stn F, Toronto,
Ontario, M4Y 3A5.

What an easy way to meet our Challenge and promote Polio eradication.

William R. Patchett
District 7070 Foundation Chair
Past District Governor 7070 2006-2007
Zone 24 $ 200 Million Challenge Coordinator

Hajra Wilson
District 7080
Polio Plus Chair,

Dear Club President,

It is an exciting time for The Rotary Foundation and Rotary's US$200 Million Challenge. The Rotary Foundation is teaming up with world-renowned violinist and polio survivor Itzhak Perlman and the New York Philharmonic to present the Concert to End Polio, a benefit performance supporting the PolioPlus Fund.

It is an honor that Mr. Perlman and the New York Philharmonic are supporting Rotary in our effort to achieve a polio-free world. Their participation demonstrates the importance of this unprecedented global health initiative.

The Concert to End Polio will be at 7:30 p.m., 2 December 2009, in Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City.

Concert tickets are $70-$200 and are currently on sale. A private reception with Perlman will follow the concert. A premium concert seat and admission to the reception is offered at a package price of $500. All proceeds will benefit Rotary's $200 Million Challenge.

Sincerely,
Glenn E. Estess, Sr.
Chairman
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International

The Rotary Clubs of Burlington Central and Burlington Lakeshore announce the launch of a unique Fundraiser lottery. Building upon the past success of the Rotary Club of Burlington Central's draw for tickets to the Masters Golf tournament, the two Rotary clubs have combined to offer a much larger prize pool with over 130 individual prizes which any golfer will appreciate.

GREAT EVENT THIS MORNING ! THANKS BERN

What an opportunity to recognize some well deserving people in our community while at the same time enjoying each other's company, some good food and an excellent speaker.

As this is one of four planned annual 4 Club events, just one observation to make these events better. We are all guilty of sitting with our friends and acquaintances (read our own Club members), which is natural, but we miss out on the opportunity to converse with Rotarians from the other Clubs. How much better it would be if we would mingle with the other Clubs at our tables.

See the Upcoming Events shown below for details on the other 4 Club Events.

See the "Downloads" banner to the right for a copy of the brochure.

The attached was received by Rotarian John Souvage. One third of the funds that we collected for Haiti were forwarded to ShelterBox Canada. Our Club is responsible for 8 of the ShelterBoxes that are mentioned in the article below.

Congratulations.

OUT OF THE BOX
ShelterBox Canada
March 2010
Dear John,

In the last bulletin at the end of January we made a comment about Canada's generosity for Haiti leaving us speechless. Well if we were speechless then, we are now dumbstruck. In total, donors to ShelterBox Canada sponsored (drum roll) 4000 ShelterBoxes! No, we have not made an error with the number of zeros on the end. Our office has processed four years' of work in the last 7 weeks! It is truly remarkable and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your outpouring of love. There is still a desperate need for shelter in Haiti and people will be succumbing to the elements, disease and lack of housing unless immediate aid is provided. We can provide them with shelter, comfort, survival and some dignity back into their lives. The rainy season has already begun. And now ShelterBox is responding to the stricken nation of Chile which has just experienced one of the largest seismic events ever recorded. In the course of the last few weeks, we often had to explain to donors that it has always been our policy to not accept donations that are location specific. In the past some charities have found themselves with funds they are unable to use because they were restricted to a certain country. Unfortunately sometimes governments in disaster areas make decisions which preclude further aid, such as was the case in Sri Lanka recently when the government would not allow any more tents into the country. We sometimes made the flippant observation in this regard that you never know what city is going to fall down next, and Concepcion, Chile is a perfect example of this.ShelterBox needs the flexibility to deploy resources according to verified needs and priorities identified by ShelterBox - wherever those disasters occur, and to acquire stock in readiness for the next disaster.

Public donations are vital to ShelterBox's continuing work around the world. To make a donation please call 1 800 677 0990 or go to www.shelterbox.ca to donate on line.

Go to www.shelterboxcanada.blogspot.com, and sign on as a follower.

Sincerely,
Don Ohlgren
Executive Director

Call it "just under the wire" BBQ...that's because Jamie's deck was still 2/3 rds incomplete that morning. And with the 60 or so guests arriving that evening, it either took courage or anxiety ridden fear to get the job done. And, but for a young child banging a stick along the length of the deck during the singing of "O'Canada", the evening went without a hitch and everyone had a blast. So, here are some pictures (in the photo journal section to the right)that will save a whole lot of writing....enjoy.

Mark your calendars for the Rotary Lobsterfest brought to you by the Rotary Club of Burlington and the Rotary Club of Burlington North.

Date: Saturday May 29, 2010

Place: Central Arena

Time: 5:30 PM - midnight

All you can eat lobster, chicken & salad

Cost: $80.00 per person

Music - Dancing - Casino

Why not get a group and support our sister clubs.



See poster in the download banner to the right.

What a wonderful morning it was for the children and their families. Bright eyed and bushy tailed at such an early hour, they all waited with anticipation to sing and visit with Santa. Our pianist, David Dean, did a wonderful job in playing all the favourite Christmas carols and Santa Roy arrived on time but out of breath. (See the Photo Journals box to the right for the rest of the pictures).

True to tradition, a great time was had by all at the Club BBQ held at Kathy & Jack's place last month. The weather co-operated wonderfully, the liquid lubrication was in plentiful supply and we were treated to mouth watering steaks & salmon ably prepared by Kathy's own son-in-law the professional chef, Brenden McCrory. Assisting Brenden was another member of the Thomas family, grandson Kirk Rainey. We certainly owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Kathy and her family for once again hosting such a wonderful event.

For more photos of the evening, see the Photo Journal section to the right.

On September 10, 2009, Treasurer George Pyle presented to the Club the financial statements for the Rotary Year ended June 30, 2009, and the Budget for this Rotary year. To view these documents click on the "Downloads" to the right entitled "Financial Statement 2008-09" and "Budget 2009-10 "

By supporting Rotary Foundation and Rotary ideals, we are recognized in the Community as enthusiastic men and women who get things done - at home and abroad - for youth and our communities, while enjoying fellowship and friendship.

There is a story in here somewhere.  If anyone knows the details (who won and who lost) please contact Gerry.  Below is Simpson's version.  Anyone else have a different version?   See below for the rebuttal.

Welcome

Mobility Cup is recognized as Canada's International Regatta for Sailor's with Disabilities. Every summer competitors come from across Canada and the United States as well as Europe and as far away as New Zealand. Billed as a "regatta of possibilities" Mobility Cup´s inspiring format brings sailors that may have never sailed before to the start line with Mobility Cup champions that have gone on to represent Canada in the Paralympic Games! Mobility Cup is open to anyone with a significant disability - regardless of their sailing experience. Mobility Cup '2009 - Toronto is the 10th year anniversary of Toronto's first Mobility Cup (Mobility Cup 1999). In September 2009, 60 sailors will come from around the globe to compete from Ashbridges Bay Yacht Club on Toronto's waterfront for the Mobility Cup and the Sam Sullivan Trophy. As we prepare to host sailors from across Canada and around the world, check the schedule and blog to stay up to date on news about Mobility Cup 2009. And please contact us if you need additional information or assistance. Mobility Cup wants to thank it's key sponsors and all the people working to make the event a success. Drew Robertson Jeff Levine Danny McCoy

We were to be honoured guests for dinner. We arrived before noon to visit briefly with the children before the evening hour meal. We honked the horn and the rusty metal gates parted welcoming our van into a paved yard - no grass, no vegetation - simply a paved yard.

Please welcome Mille, our new exchange student from Denmark. Mille is staying with Sheila Welham (Hayley's mom) as her first host. Remember to include her in your plans. Co-ordination should be through Dean Rutty.

Recently Rotarian Gerry Willard and his wife Dorris travelled "down under" to SCUBA dive on the Great Barrier Reef.  Once Gerry has had the chance to edit the photos taken during that excursion he will approach the Director of Club Service to offer to make a photo presentation at a future Club meeting.  In the meantime, here is a sneak preview - check "Down Under Photos to the right.

As promised, the online auction is up an running - check it out at www.rotarypartnershipauction.ca and tell your friends, family, neighbours about it! We're raising money for ROCK!!

A few Rotarians (Karmel Sakran, Bernie Hanna, Bruce McDougall and Brian Torsney) plus 3 other community members formed a group to raise money for local kids. The plan was to run a 1/2 marathon on May 25, 2008 in Ottawa. The Burlington Post put a nice write up for the group and over $7,000 was raised helping more than 20 local disadvantaged children with things like, cost of a tutor, counseling, a bike, a prom dress and the like. YIR, Karmel Sakran

Marisol-mariela is our Foster Child in Bolivia.  We sponsor her through Plan International.

Rotary Clubs of Burlington and Burlington Central joined forces to help make Burlington Sparkle. Thirty Rotarians, friends and family members met at the Beach Pavilion early Saturday morning and worked hard to cleanup the beach strip. Following the cleanup everyone moved to the nearest Tim Hortons for coffee and chatter. See photos

This poem is posted in honour and memory of Bob Elstone

This was one of Bob Elstone's favorites, and is posted here in his memory.

Former DG Doug Vincent reports from Mexico where he is giving out gift boxes from Rotarians.

Bob Elstone passed away on April 12, 2007 after more than 40 years of perfect attendance and active service in Rotary.  A charter member of our club, and instrumental in starting several other clubs, Bob will be fondly remembered, and sorely missed.  This eulogy was delivered by Mae Radford at Bob's funeral on April 16.

For all you lucky scribes, I've detailed the steps to write the Bulletin directly into Clubrunner. Good luck & good writing!

The following letter was received from World Vision regarding our foster child in Zambia (Mukwamatama Wakunuma).  She is 8 years old.

The following report was received from Plan International regarding our Foster Child (Marisol-mariela Miranda) in Bolivia.

Pictures of Marisol are posted in the "Photo Journal" section of the site.