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Guest Speaker & Committee Updates: Jed Levene - Ontario Winter Games February 27 - March 1, Orillia will be hosting the Ontario Winter Games. 27 sports, 4 days, 3500 participants and approximately 5.5 thousand guests! In 2018, Orillia hosted the games and they went as far as Collingwood and Huntsville to accommodate all of them. This year, all games will be within 30 minutes of Orillia. The projected economic impact is 5.1 million with an estimated 4 million staying within the area. The Ministry provides the framework for the games and the Provincial Sporting Organization is responsible for getting the participants but these games require a lot of volunteers! There is 1200 volunteer spots and currently there are over 800 registered volunteers which play a vital role during the games. Without one volunteer completing a job, things can go haywire! Want to know how you can help? This event needs cots and you can donate for one and the cot will be given back to the community after the games. Only one participate per bed and Orillia has a shortage of those to hold 3500 participants. The Ministry bought 150 cots, the Games bought 200 cots and they are renting 150 cots. Click on the link below and register for program #14588 SPONSOR A COT Committee Updates: Foundation Committee - promote goals of Rotary - educate our members and public at large of Rotary Foundation - Community recognitions at Charter night and three of our members received Paul Harris Fellow pins - EREY is in discussion - recognized a yearly budget is required so as to do public announcements for Polio events. This past October $510 was raised at Canadian Tire where we gave away buttons with donations. Need to plan early for next event and hope to raise $1000.00 - discussed each committee to have one night a month for Rotary 101 International Committee - the community’s capacity to address it’s own needs will be improved- the need being addressed is an important need identified by the benefiting community - The proposed activity will strengthen the capacity of the beneficiaries to address their own issues in the future - The activity be wealth generating or at least self sustaining in the community - The proposal have a timetable and training to transfer ownership to the beneficiaries - The price to the pride of the recipient of the charity is accounted for - Project will continue after the Rotarians leave and funding is complete - have committed and distributed the first $3,000 of the years budget to fund the Running Water to the Thomlong village in Laos - had hoped to find another International project to do directly with a partner Rotary club in another country. thought we had a good one in Nepal for a toilet project but it did not work out. - also hoped to find one with the Zambia Rotarians involved with the Friendship Exchange in October. We did not define anything in particular but a few Rotarians from our club are going to Zambia in April for the return Friendship exchange. Given how late in the Rotary year it will be after we are in Zambia any project might better be planned for the next Rotary year. |
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