Virtual RED BADGE NEW MEMBER--Ian Davies & Julie Pontes--please reach out via ZOOM chat with an energetic Rotary welcome!!
Meeting Responsibilities:
Zoom Host - Don Bork
Registration - Sandy Ronson
Sgt-at-Arms-Malcolm Cocks
Fine payment-via interact e-transfer, refer to recent broadcast email to all members for details or contact Keith. NOTE-the interact e-transfer options for members now includes fines/dues/bottle drive proceeds & tulip fundraiser. Refer to recent Clubrunner email to all members.
A little bit about me:
May 7th--John Kozoriz
It costs nothing to send an eCOG to a friend/prospective member/neighbour. Please advise Jim Belton of names/contact info.
Having difficulty accessing and using Clubrunner, the platform RCL website runs on. See Clubrunner supplied link and information at the very end of the eCOG.
Rotary Satellite Club meeting details----not currently meeting at the Fox and Fiddle due to C-19, but but join them via ZOOM on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 6:30 pm.. see details on the Facebook Page, the link is: https://www.facebook.com/rotarysatellitecluboflondon.
Have a suggestion for an eCOG-Bulletin article/story, please let Keith know.
Our guest speaker on May 10th will be Martyn Williams---Growing up in Liverpool, England, Martyn Williams has led an extraordinary life. He has 45 years of experience leading extreme expeditions including climbs of Mt Everest, the North and South Poles, whitewater rafting, and meditation retreats around the world. He was a founding member of the Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association (CRCA) in Winnipeg in 1975, the organization changed the name to Paddle Canada in 2006. Martyn has created global leadership projects for youth that inspired 65 million youth to participate. His prime time documentary was seen on national TV stations around the world. As a professional speaker he has spoken to audiences of over 100,000 people on all 7 continents. Most recently he has spent 7 years as a monk studying and teaching yoga and the enlightenment sciences to thousands of people, in India and around the world. Martyn is renowned for his bliss, his humour, energy and love of life.
ROTARY CLUB OF LONDON BOTTLE DRIVE POSTPONED TO MAY 29TH
Please hold on to those empty bottles and cans or return them and donate your funds directly to Sandy Ronson. You can e-transfer funds directly to Sandy as follows: sronson55@gmail.com Include the password mybottles and note that this donation is for the bottle drive. Don’t forget to add your donation of $25 for a missed luncheon! All donations are greatly appreciated and very much needed to sustain club projects including our donation to Habitat for Humanity. Help us build a new home for an area family.
ENVIRONMENTAL DAY IS ALSO SCHEDULED TO MAY 29TH
AREA 4 ROTARY TULIP SALES
Start selling Rotary tulips to your friends and family. Boxes of 25 tulips are $25 per box. Sandy Ronson is coordinating sales so let Sandy know when you sell a box. Send her a note at sandyr@bell.net to confirm your sale. Funds are to be etransferred to Sandy at the following: sronson55@gmail.com include the password mytulips and again include a note that the funds are for tulips. The actual tulips will arrive in August for fall planting. Our club has 100 boxes in total to sell so the quantity is limited. Confirm your order early!
SATELLITE CLUB TRIVIA NIGHT
Thank you for everyone who participated in last night's Wet 'n' Wild Trivia, and congratulations to ️TRIVIA TURKEYSon their victory! 🥳
We hope you all had a great time!
As a small thank-you for supporting our club tonight, we're offering you $15 off your registration for our Virtual Trivia Night - May Edition on Wednesday, May 19!
Simply purchase your team ticket by Saturday, May 1 by clicking here and using the promo code MAYEARLYBIRD at checkout. Don't forget, there are prizes to be won!
1st place: $100 in gift cards to the store of your choice!
2nd place: 25% of the proceeds from this event will go to the charity of the 2nd place team's choice! The remaining proceeds will support our Rotary Club's projects.
1st & 2nd: Free entry to next month's trivia- Click here to purchase your team ticket, and remember to use the promo code MAYEARLYBIRD at checkout! Do you know someone else who would be interested in entering a team? A friend, family, coworker? If so, please forward them this email so they can register! The more teams we have and the more funds will go to ths charity the 2nd-place team's choice! As always, thank you for your support, and we'll see you on Wednesday, May 19!
SAVE THE DATE--PRESIDENT'S CUP GOLF
Sept 11th-Widder Station--Thedford
WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT UPDATE
RCL Board/Foundation has recently agreed to fund a Communal Toilets project as detailed below (by Dale Hoyt Palfrey-4/29/21-Guadalajara Reporter)
---HEAD LINE--Needy Chapala barrio to get new communal bathrooms. The project may serve as a model for the village of San Pedro Itzican.---
While many lakeshore residents worry about community overdevelopment, few are disturbed or even aware of local underdeveloped issues. The exception is the long standing partnership between the Tepehua Community Centre and Sunrise Rotary Club in addressing the deficiencies in water and sewage services that plague families living in impoverished and heavily populated areas. The Tepehua Center has a long history of providing educational, medical and nutritional aid to the residents of the eponymous barrio located in Chapala's northeast sector. Director Moonyeen King cites a survey indicating that half of the neighborhood's 7,000 residents live without basis indoor plumbing. They have no rooftop tinacos to hold water supplies, no bathroom fixtures for bathing and relieving physiological needs, far less connections to the municipal sewage system. It means that hundreds of people urinate and defecate daily at any discreet spot outside their modest living quarters, causing a staggering sanitation nightmare. Initially King considered that placing portable toilets for the public to use at strategic points might be a viable solution. On analysis that approach was scrapped due to the onerous cost and maintenance factors involving heavy use of noxious chemicals. King then envisioned installing brick and mortar public toilets as a more practical alternative. A large street front storage room at the center perfectly fits specifications for a pilot project that is now underway. Utilizing the existing structure minimizes remodeling expenses and is estimated to run to around $4,000-USD. Sunrise Rotary has pledged financial support to convert the storage room into side-by-side bathroom modules, one for men with two toilet stalls, two urinals and a sink, and the other with two toilets for adult women, a smaller one for kids and a sink. Situated at a location already familiar to neighbors, the project is expected to fulfill its purpose and serve as a model for facilities on the drawing board for elsewhere in Tepehua and the distant, destitute village of San Pedro Itzican
Weekly Coffee Klatch
Since the Province has extended its Stay-at-Home directive, we decided to set up a weekly Zoom “Coffee Klatch” each Thursday from 10:30 to 11:15 am.
Support for Majo’s Extended Stay / Post-Secondary Education in London, Canada
As most RCL members are aware, Maria Jose Camacaro Figueroa (“Majo”) was sponsored by our club as a Rotary Youth Exchange student for the 2019-2020 academic year (Grade 11 at HB Beal Secondary School). Because of the Covid pandemic and also due to the political and economic circumstances in Venezuela, Majo could not go home last summer and, indeed, has no option to return there any time soon. If you would like to view a video message from Majo, click this DropBox link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q2xl2h37vtcb5x4/2021%2003%2029%20Majo%20Camacaro.mov?dl=0
Five local couples have taken turns hosting Majo for this extra extended year and she has been enrolled for Grade 12 at Beal, graduating with a full Ontario high school diploma in June. She has been accepted into the Interior Design program at Fanshawe College with classes starting in September 2021. Majo has also submitted her application to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to extend her study visa and for permission to work (part-time during school and full time during summers). We anticipate little trouble finding accommodation for Majo during her upcoming studies but would appreciate some help in funding her substantial tuition costs as she is required by Fanshawe to register as an international student. (A short time ago, Majo’s parents had to flee Venezuela, leaving home and business, and cannot provide financial support.) How can you contribute? Our Rotary Club of London Foundation has an Education Fund. The Foundation Board has authorized that amounts from this Fund can be used for post-secondary tuition through direct payments to Canadian colleges and universities, Fanshawe included. Contributions to this Fund receive a Canadian charitable donation tax receipt. To make a donation:
1)-Send a cheque payable to the “Rotary Club of London Foundation” (put “Education Fund” on the memo line of the cheque)
2)-Use your credit card at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/60706 (a CanadaHelps webpage dedicated to our Foundation, enter “Education Fund” in the message field)
3)-Via Interac email to sronson55@gmail.com (no need to set up security question or answer, funds go direct to our club and are then forwarded to the Foundation, put “Education Fund” in the message field--security password--education--)
Next Club Board Meeting
The next meeting of the Rotary Club of London Board will be a Zoom meeting on May 19th-Wednesday-4:30PM
Note:
- all members are welcome to attend Board meetings
- to view the Club's Board Meeting Minutes go to our website, Member Login, My ClubRunner, click on View Club Documents.
Our guest speaker on May 10th will be Martyn Williams---Growing up in Liverpool, England, Martyn Williams has led an extraordinary life. He has 45 years of experience leading extreme expeditions including climbs of Mt Everest, the North and South Poles, whitewater rafting, and meditation retreats around the world. He was a founding member of the Canadian Recreational Canoeing Association (CRCA) in Winnipeg in 1975, the organization changed the name to Paddle Canada in 2006. Martyn has created global leadership projects for youth that inspired 65 million youth to participate. His prime time documentary was seen on national TV stations around the world. As a professional speaker he has spoken to audiences of over 100,000 people on all 7 continents. Most recently he has spent 7 years as a monk studying and teaching yoga and the enlightenment sciences to thousands of people, in India and around the world. Martyn is renowned for his bliss, his humour, energy and love of life.
ROTARY CLUB OF LONDON BOTTLE DRIVE POSTPONED TO MAY 29TH
