Fine payment-the interact e-transfer options for members includes fines/dues. Refer to recent Clubrunner email to all members.
Watch YouTube Clubrunner videos covering multiple topics to improve understanding & usefulness. Within last month Clubrunner has produced numerous learning videos on a wide range of topics, check it out!!
It costs nothing to send an eCOG to a friend/prospective member/neighbour. Please advise Jim Belton of names/contact info.
--ADVANCE A BETTER WORLD THROUGH SERVICE BORN OF FELLOWSHIP AT ROTARY CLUB OF LONDON--
--JANUARY IS VOCATIONAL SERVICES MONTH--
--PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR MEETING ON JANUARY 31st--ZOOM--
Here are the details: Time: The Zoom meeting will “open” at 11:30 am for those that want to socialize before the meeting which starts at 12:00 pm. Login: https://zoom.us/j/666121982?pwd=ckhwQTN1RFNsbkJBUWxqYkY0SWtLdz09 Meeting ID: 666 121 982 Password: 030500 If you want to dial in via telephone — you can use: +1 647 558 0588 Canada.
Our speaker on Monday Jan 31st will be Jennifer Raymer. Jennifer has volunteered many years in London with Ark Aid Street Mission, One Run London, Canadian Cancer Society, Military Family Resource Centre and her church. As young child she knew she wanted to be a humanitarian and dreamed of being in a third world country, making a difference there. She is a retired photographer and now works full time as a missionary for Cuba, spending 4 months each year in Cuba and 8 months here at home in London. Having served Cuba in several different ways over the past 10 years, Jennifer is a licensed missionary under the registered charity, Mission Go. Her mission name is Together For Cuba, a not-for-profit initiative to assist Cuba’s orphans. Under the umbrella of Mission Go, they deliver vital services, such as housing, medical supplies and education. In her private life as a military wife she has been married to Ben Raymer for 17 years, they have 4 children and 2 grandchildren.
--MESSAGE FROM JIM BELTON--
The purpose of the Paul Harris Fellowship Community Recognition Award is to recognize Londoners who have been highly involved in providing the Rotary value of “Service Above Self” locally, nationally, or internationally. The recipient(s) will be presented with a Paul Harris Fellowship Pin in the third week of April to acknowledge the founder of Rotary’s birth, April 19. This year the presentation will take place at our April 25th meeting. Anyone from the London area is eligible to receive this prestigious Award with the exception of all current members of a Rotary club in London and past recipients of a Paul Harris Fellowship recognition from the Rotary Club of London. Each member of the Rotary Club of London (active & active-satellite) is invited to make nominations for this prestigious Award. Nominations can be made any time during the year, and will be considered by the Paul Harris Fellowship Community Recognition Award Committee (Committee) with a recommendation to be forwarded to the Club’s Board of Directors for their March meeting. Please complete and forward Nomination Form by email, prior to February 11, 2022, to Club Secretary Jim Belton, jimbelton@rogers.comwith the reasons for your choice. The entire list of nominees will be presented to the Committee. If you have any questions please get back to me. Thank you very much, Jim Belton, Secretary Rotary Club of London
--MESSAGE FROM JIM BELTON--
Letters to the Parkwood Veterans to boost their morale.
From: GCC <garrisoncommunitycouncil@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM Subject: Operation Omicron - High Importance To: GCC members have been asked to support an important mission. Several elderly Canadian veterans are isolated and alone at Parkwood Veterans Hospital in London. President Tom Dean has been asked to distribute the following message from Brian Harris Vice President, The Royal Canadian Legion, Ontario Provincial Command. GCC members are encouraged to write letters to the Parkwood Veterans to boost their morale. Details are below. You can send the letters via email to lindsey.moore@sjhc.london.on.ca addressed to “Dear Veteran.” Thank you for your consideration.
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.