ACE OF SPADES DRAW:
Winner: Aziz Saleh Card Drawn: 7 of Diamonds
On The Door Next Week: Janice Coupland
Bulletin Editor: Past President Robbie Larocque
(Editor’s note: If you cannot be on the door , please find a replacement)
HAPPY BUCKS
Past President Kris Sachdeva – commented on the Red Tsunami
Past President Hilda Finnigan – is happy to see all our guests this evening
Past President Bob Koski – hoping for the Blue Jays to repeat their efforts form 1993.
Past President Devon Biddle – spoke of his newest grandson - Kip
Bob Elliott – he wants Dave Andrews’ golf clubs out of his curling rink
Sandy McDowell – spoke of the birth of her second grandson
President Mike McLaren – he got a hole in one at the Oshawa Golf Club last week
Robert Kipling– told us about the upcoming Book Sale at the Oshawa Public Library
Past President Ted Morrison – will be attending the Council of Legislation coming up and has been asked to give a few words – he is the guest speaker
President Geoff Lloyd – he is going to the Blue Jays game tomorrow
Sharon Davidson – spoke of a great fund raiser from Courtice in favour of End Polio Now with a Purple Pinkie program
Past-President Dave Andrews – thanked all our guests for attending tonight in advance of World Polio Day
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Past President Lennis Trotter – announced that the Halloween Haunt will take place at Kids’ Safety Village on Saturday afternoon
Past President Bob Koski – Live Act tickets now on sale; he announced that we have great prizes for our raffle
Past President Hilda Finnigan – will be having an Administration Committee Meeting next Tuesday at 5:45 p.m.
Past President Ted Morrison – announced about the upcoming Rotary Leadership Institute seminars Parts 1,2 & 3 on November 7, 2015 at the Oshawa Golf Club
ROTARY MOMENT: OCTOBER 13, 2015
WORLD POLIO DAY IS OCTOBER 24, 2015
A REMINDER TO EVERYONE:
The Rotary Moment is something we do here at our Rotary Club almost every week of the year. It's a 2 minute brief about some Rotary Information that you may or may not know about.
Last week's Rotary Moment was so important, it bears repeating . So tonight is a reminder to tell the world about World Polio Day and remind you of just a few of the events leading up to World Polio Day.
As you all know , Ocotber 24 is World Polio Day when Rotarians around the world focus on telling the world that we are this close to eradicating polio from the world.
Here's just a few:
On Oct 5, at the Oshawa media debate of candidates for the federal riding of Oshawa, at the Oshawa Golf Club, hosted by the Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood, we raised $120 from the guests at the debate. That will be matched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Canadian Government so that $600 will go to the End Polio Now campaign to rid the world of this terrible diease. And everyone on Rogers Cable TV saw that repeated several times leading up to the debate.
Terry Johnston of Radio Station CKDO will be interviewing District Governor Michael Bell and Dr Bob Scott in two separate interviews. Bob Scott, as most of you know, is Rotary's immediate past chair of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The interviews will be broadcast later in the week as World Polio Day approaches.
Here are the links:
DG Michael Bell Interview
Dr Bob Scott Interview
Fellow Rotarian and City of Oshawa Mayor John Henry presented proclamations to the Presidents of the two Rotary Clubs in Oshawa (Geoff Lloyd of Oshawa and our very own Mike McLaren of Oshawa-Parkwood) at yesterday's noon hour meeting of the Rotary Club of Oshawa , right here in this room at the Oshawa Golf Club.
Tonight, Roger Anderson, Durham Region Chairman, will be presenting a proclamation to the 10 Rotary Club Presidents in Durham Region on Tuesday Oct 20 at the Oshawa Golf Club at the regular evening meeting of our Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood and District Governor Michael Bell will be here to accept the proclamation. And the 10 Rotary Club Presidents and Assistant Governors and Michael Bell will be here for Rotary dinner with us.
In many communities, an End Polio Now Flag will be flying high over City and Town Halls and End Polio Now brochures will be handed out to the public.
And in Toronto, at the Rotary District 7070 Conference at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, on October 24, Rotarians from the 55 Rotary Clubs will hear a breakout session on Polio Eradication
AND at 4 pm, we will be on hand to raise an End Polio Now Sail at the Harbour Castle Hotel in downtown Toronto.
And dont forget to Join Rotary on October 23, 2015 for our third annual World Polio Day event. We’ll be streaming live from New York City, so tune in at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time to watch a global status update on the fight to end polio and take part in the conversation.
Guests will include Global Polio Eradication Initiative partners, celebrity ambassadors, polio survivors, and others. So tune in to the livestream at www.endpolio.org
If you missed the livestream event, here is the link to see it now: The End Polio Now Livestream Event
As World Polio Day draws closer, the world is 99.9% polio free, the fight to end polio is not over and Rotary Clubs world-wide, just like ours , here in this room, continue to raise funds to meet the challenge.
The message to world leaders is clear: support the final push to achieve eradication now while the goal has never been closer, or face the potential consequences of a new polio pandemic that could disable millions of children within a decade.
“It is so important to generate the funds needed to End Polio Now.
To fail is to invite a polio resurgence that would condemn millions of children to lifelong paralysis in the years ahead.
The bottom line is this: As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, all children – wherever they live – remain at risk”.
And that is tonight's Rotary Moment.
