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Dec 18, 2018
 
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Dec 18, 2018
 
Lunch Meeting
Dec 25, 2018
 
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Dec 25, 2018
 
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Jan 01, 2019
 
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Jan 01, 2019
 
Lunch Meeting
Jan 08, 2019
 
Satellite Meeting
Jan 08, 2019
 
Rotary Serving @ Lightouse
Jan 08, 2019 4:00 PM
 
Lunch Meeting
Jan 15, 2019
 
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Sargeant and Arms

Sergeant and arms - Ralph Cipolla

 

$1 for Tony Telford who couldn't remember that one of the students was on his ball team.

 

$1 for Andrew who had no gas at his table. Andrew went on to tell Ralph maybe if Council added another school he would have had a guest at his table.

 

$1 for Wendy for taking all the name tags.

 

$2 for Rick for having two weeks holidays

Welcome New  and Visiting Rotarians
Satellite Meeting November 27 & December 4
Guest: Dennis Good, about to become our newest member
Dennis Good won 50/50 and donated the win of $ 25.00 back to the foundation
 
 
Lunch
Rotary Students of the Month
 

Calla Johnston from OSS with French teacher Kristen Schlorff. 

 

Julianne Pires of PF and and teacher Mike Milliard. 

 

 

Kayla Williamson of Twin Lakes Secondary School and teacher Jeff Irwin.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
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Birthdays and Anniversaries
Birthday's
Dec 10, Karen Watson
Dec 12, David Shaw
 
Spouses Birthday's
Dec 2, Kelly Tulipano
Dec 5, Islay Levene
Dec 13, Keith Thompson
 
Anniversaries
Tammy & Allan LaFontaine (14 Yrs)
 
Joined Rotary
Dec 1, Bill Shaw (23Yrs)
Dec 2, Alison Braun (4 Yrs)
Dec 11, Karen Watson (2 Yrs)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Club Announcements

Satellite November & December 4

Gloria James: brought a banner from St. Maartens for President Andrew

Kat: Senior's Light Tour Sunday December 8 at ODAS Park.  Great Success!

Tony: Charter Night Tuesday December 11 Great Success!

Andrew: Rotary Orillia AGM will take place January 29 at the lunch meeting - there will not be a Satellite meeting that day.  Full package will be sent out.

Sad News, Lawrence Shaw will be having his last Christmas. Rusty Russell is now confined to a wheelchair.  Don Whitfield not doing well.

Former Rotarian and Police Chief, Ken Boyd passed away; $ 100.00 donation to the foundation in his name.

Tony T: has 2 tickets for Songwriter's night on December 14 at Alan's, contact him if you want tickets.

 

Lunch Club:

No lunch next week as we have Chartered night  at 6 p.m. and dinner is at 7 p.m. at the Best Western please bring a $20 gift exchange and food for the food bank.

 

January 29th is there a GM meeting at noon you can vote by proxy.

 

Doug Langman thank everyone who rang the bell last week for the Salvation Army.

 
 
 
   
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Happy Bucks

Satellite Happy Bucks in November & December!

 

Deena: went to 15 minute Washago Parade,  Sunday her boss took everyone to the Casino Spa and then dinner; oldest coming home for the holidays.

Karen: Curled for BBBS, Sandra was team captain and did an amazing job, lots of fun

Marilyn: traveling to Cuba

Sharon: great weekend dinner and band; went to hospital for Ralph & everything is good

Sandra: ski season started; thank you to all who donated to Rotary Club curling teams, raised $ 1400.00; ran in first Snowflake series run

Darlene: Going to Cuba with Marilyn

Tammy: enjoyed Beer & Wings, drank and watched movies all day

Jayne: great trip to Las Vegas, Black Friday shopping with Megan

Megan: daughter is in the band that played at the Opera House; went to Christmas Market with daughter

Alan: booked trip to Antigua for Anniversary; Thanks to Francis & Michael for planning the Snowflake Series; original founder has recently passed away

Andrew: convinced his wife to hire a cleaning person

Gloria: had a good vacation

Laura: nice to be back and also won the 50/50

Tony T: had a successful trip to Dominican; 29 boys housed in orphanage; will do a full presentation soon

Scott: survived a visit to Chatham to visit his mother in law

Michael: son has moved out; Snowflake Series is well on its way

Dennis: working at local food bank in Woodvale

Chris: happy to be back at satellite meeting

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Lunch:

Happy Bucks

 

Tony Telford for just coming back from the Dominican working at a boys orphanage building washrooms showers and a kitchen.

 

Wendy for her son being sworn in as a town councillor.

 

Angela for her daughter senior girls basketball team at OSS making it to OFSSA.

 

Randy For finally seeing his daughter and son-in-law at the airport after  454 days traveling around the world.

 

Andrew for having a quiet night with his wife has his good friends took their kids for for the night on Saturday night.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Satellite
All about Committee's
 
Kat: Senior's Light Tour December 9
 
Local needs : Salvation Army Food Hampers $ 1000.00
St. James Donation: $ 500.00
Angel Wish Foundation: $ 500.00
Upcoming Events:
January 8: Lighthouse serving dinner from 5pm - have all 6 required volunteers
February 11: Bowling theme night, Grant has been organizing & now needs a committee to finalize
 
Darlene: Rotary International licence plate holder was donated by the Best Western & auctioned by Alan. Won by Bryan Bondy for $ 50.00 which went to foundation. 
 
Francis: Snowflake Series - need volunteers for January 1
 
Marilyn: International, research project has not been completed but will be done soon
 
Marilyn: Membership, gained 6 members and lost 6 members; Washago Club is disbanding & 5 of their members will be joining Rotary Orillia.  Lunch Club is 41 members & Satellite is 42 members (after new members from Washago)
 
Social Committee: Charter Night, gift Exchange $ 20.00,  funds raised will go to Hospice or Jubilee Foundation.  Cost for Satellite $ 40.00 & Lunch $ 12.00
 
Vocational: Junior Achievement Canada $ 1100.00. 
Facilitator goes to elementary schools to teach basic life skills such as financial skills
 
Special Projects: Renamed Aqua Theatre Project, next meeting December 17.  January 10 at 4:00 will be a meeting with city; structure has been deemed ok to proceed and upgrades will be ongoing.  Saturday in mid September for Gala fundraiser at Opera House; tickets will likely be $ 100.00; volunteers will need to be on gala committee.
 
Foundation: Purple Pinkie to promote awareness of International Polio Day, did very well; December 6 meeting of Rotary Foundation of Canada
Programs: December 4, Student of the Month & Rotary 101, December 11, Charter Night
No Meeting December 25 or Jan 1
Classifications: Let Sarah Jane know if you want to do yours, Dennis Good suggested that current members also do a mini classification so that new members can get to know more about them.
 
PR Committee: No committee at present - send photos to Megan Bondy to post on FB
 
International Student Weekend: February 22, meeting in early january to coordinate
 
Club Admin: Lunch club members take on duties for 6 months at a time.  Suggestion to return to having the 4 way test text on the tables at meetings
 
 
Lunch
Wendy introduced the student of the month from each High School.
 
 

Calla Johnston from OSS with French teacher Kristen Schlorff. 

 

 Calla stays on top of her work, she's willing to take risks, she helps a lot with clubs including the Latin club she is a camp counselor and volunteers at the Trillium Manor senior complex. She helps with what it is to be bullied, mental health issues, Equity of volunteerism, and compassion to make the world a better place.

 

Julianne Pires of PF and and teacher Mike Milliard. 

 

Julianne Saturdays in the robotics program with Mike Millard and she has learned a lot and it's truly become a brilliant student. Other teachers have also made comments about Julian and recommended her the top student of the month. Julianne  has been instrumental in helping bring a tournament to town for robotics, they had a tournament in Toronto with 57 teams and took second place and a spot at the provincial championships. They have expanded the Robotics Academy to public schools and you can get major Scholarships in the states for robotics.

 

Julianne brought in some of the robotics that they built at the school and she's a brilliant programmer which is a major part of the competitions that they go into. She's also done a lot of extracurricular activities and helping and training a new students that want to join the robotics Club

 

 

Kayla Williamson of Twin Lakes Secondary School and teacher Jeff Irwin.

 

Kayla is full of empathy, she is a leader and impacts lives in the school. She's part of the leader youth leadership program, participated in gender equality, lack of water here and in Tanzania. Has managed the salon at the school in cosmetics and helps other students learn how to use cosmetics.

 

Twin Lakes has the only designation for changemaker and Ontario and Kayla run set. She has developed natural cleansing products for care initiatives for the health and wellness. Some of the products they have developed our natural lip balm, soaps, headache relief products and they sell these products at the school. She has donated her time at they really light hose hope and raise the roof.

 

 
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Beeton, Chuck
 
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