THE PARKWOOD JOURNAL
OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF OSHAWA-PARKWOOD
P.O. BOX 54023, OSHAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA L1H 8T2
“ENGAGE ROTARY - CHANGE LIVES”
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT: Ron Burton – Rotary Club of Norman, Oklahoma, USA
R.I. DISTRICT 7070 GOVERNOR: Valarie Wafer - Rotary Club of Whitby , Ontario, Canada
ASSISTANT DISTRICT 7070 GOVERNOR: Wayne Routly – Rotary Club of Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada
MINUTES OF MEETING : MAY 13, 2014
Rotary Grace
O Lord, The Giver of all good,
We thank Thee for our daily food
May Rotary friends and Rotary ways
Help us to serve Thee all our days.
THE FOUR-WAY TEST
1. Is it the truth
2. Is it fair to all concerned?
3. Will it build good will and better friendships?
4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
OFFICERS & DIRECTORS 2013-2014
President: Alan Finnigan
Past President: Jodi Hewett
Vice President: Robbie Larocque
Treasurer: Devon Biddle
Secretary: Pat Dyck
Club Administration: Shawn Kellam
All Service Projects: Robert Kipling
Membership: Lennis Trotter
The Rotary Foundation: Laura Carey
Public Relations: Eamon Doyle
Sgt-at-Arms: Andy Lyons
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Grace: Past President Hilda Finnigan
O Canada: Past President Larry Hurren
Toast To The Queen : Past President and Treasurer Devon Biddle
BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES IN MAY
May 16 – Past President Jodi Hewett
May 20 - President Al Finnigan
May 23 - Past President David Mankiewicz and John Griggs
GUESTS/VISITING ROTARIANS:
Guests: Our Guest Speakers: John Williamson; Bev Lemay; and Tom Hamer
Visiting Rotarian: Lisa Brook. Incoming President Elect of the Rotary Club of Uxbridge
SARGEANT AT ARMS REPORT : PAST PRESIDENT ANDY LYONS
ACE OF SPADES DRAW: Winner: Past District Governor Ted Morrison; Card Drawn: 5 of SPADES .
ON THE DOOR NEXT WEEK: PAST PRESIDENT DAVE ANDREWS and PAST DISTRICT GOVERNOR TED MORRISON
BULLETIN EDITOR FOR MAY 2014: PAST PRESIDENT DAVE ANDREWS
(Editor’s note: If you cannot be on the door , please find a replacement)
HAPPY BUCKS
- Past President Hilda Finnigan: Very happy that our Rotary Club ran a truly successful Reverse Draw, Dinner & Silent Auction on May 8 . She is also very happy that the ticket sales for the Il Divo concert for May 27 on our Club’s Rotary Fellowship Night have been so successful.
- Past President Larry Hurren was very happy that during the Reverse Draw, as we got down to the wire, the number of tickets on the Big Board matched the number of tickets in the drum. Thank you to everyone that participated.
- Past President Alan Nason – A sad Buck. Margaret Nason’s ticket was one of the last 8 drawn from the drum.
- Mike McLaren – Thanked Bob Elliott for taking the photos of the Reverse Draw and realized that he has to lose 20 pounds. But Past President Bob Koski told him that photos put on 15 pounds so he only has to lose 5 pounds.
- Past President Lennis Trotter was happy that the Visiting Rotarian that was at our Rotary Club on may 6 , Sandra Mimic, is a Rotarian from BC who will be moving to the area this spring and plans to join our Rotary Club on July 1, 2014.
- John Williamson, one of our guest speakers from Fairmore Family Law Financial Solutions, donated a happy buck and thanked us for the excellent meal and the fellowship.
- Past District Governor Ted Morrison is happy to have his new golf cart and they are using it every day for golf on the course at Wilmot Creek or to go lawn bowling.
- Past President Dave Andrews was very happy and paid a few happy dollars for the great teamwork of the Reverse Draw Committee , and the co chairs Mike McLaren and Kim Boatman.
- Vice President Robbie Larocque was happy that his wife Terri Lynn enjoyed helping out , remove the numbers at the front of the room on the Big Boards of the Reverse Draw.
- Lisa Brooks, Incoming President Elect of the Uxbridge Rotary Club, paid a happy buck for the warm welcome and a chance to talk with Incoming President Robbie Larocque. And another Happy Buck because this was her first meeting where she made up her attendance at another Rotary Club.
- Past President Devon Biddle was very happy for a very successful Reverse Draw & Silent Auction.
- President Al Finnigan was happy to have won $ 5 onside bets at the Reverse Draw from Sandy McDowell and happy that he is now playing golf from the Gold Tees.
- Past President and Secretary Pat Dyck was anxiously looking for Ken today and found him on the porch at the house. Ken was fine and just enjoyed the day outside.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Past District Governor Ted Morrison congratulated the Whitby Rotary Club for a successful Gourmet Food Truck event at The Abilities Centre in Whitby, this past weekend. Looks like 35,000 attended. A tremendous success. And something our Rotary Club should consider trying.
- Past President Hilda Finnigan has distributed all of the tickets for the Il Divo concert to be held on may 27 at The General Motors Centre to the Club members. It will be a Rotary Fellowship Night. Please come to the Golf Club at 6 pm for dinner (one half hour earlier than normal).
- Ted Morrison reminded all members that June 12 will be the Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood’s first Paul Harris Fellowship Awards Night. The June 10 meeting is cancelled and everyone and their spouses are urged to attend this event when two Paul Harris Fellowships will b awarded to two deserving people in our City, for their outstanding community service. Past President of Rotary International and Past Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Rotary Foundation, Wilf Wilkinson, will be our guest speaker s A sign-up sheet will be forthcoming.
- Incoming President Robbie Larocque passed around the Rotary Club Committee sign up sheets for the 2014-2015 Rotary year and urged all members to sign up for a committee or two, to ensure that your talents will be used right where you feel is best, to help our Rotary Club.
- President Al Finnigan announced that there will be the monthly Board of Directors Meeting on may 20 (at 5 pm sharp) at the Golf Club. The agenda is filled with many items for the Board to review and act upon.. He also noted that the numbers for the Reverse Draw & Silent Auction ate not yet in. However, the Silent Auction will realize over $5,000.
ROTARY MOMENT : none tonight.
GUEST SPEAKER :
Name of Speakers: John Williamson, Fairmore Family Law Financial Solutions (a firm offering analytic services to Family Law Counsel, Financial Services organizations and their clients, couples and individuals working through separation and divorce).
Bev Lemay, a licensed psychotherapist for over 35 years and a member of the College of Professional Social Workers, with the firm, The Centre for Constructive Thinking who works with adults, adolescents and children to help the reconstruct their thoughts and learn to think positively about their life.
Tom Hamer, a lawyer since 1979, with practices in Toronto and Whitby, and has practices Collaborative Law since 2003. Tom is the outgoing chair of Collaborative Practice Durham Region and is Vice President of the Ontario Collaborative law Federation.
Introducer: Past President Lennis Trotter
Thanked By: Past President Larry Hurren
Speaker’s Remarks: Ontario Collaborative Law Federation – A different Way to Divorce.
The three speakers, experts in their respective fields defined collaborative practice as a way to resolve disputes respectfully without going to court. In a separation or divorce, Collaborative Practice requires your commitment to mutual respect, open communication, information sharing and a mutually acceptable settlement. You and your spouse or partner work with your own lawyers and other trained professionals. They provide support and guidance as you work together on a solution that everyone can live with.
No single approach is right for everyone. Many couples who want a process that gives them control over the outcome, choose Collaborative practice or Collaborative Law.
Collaborative Practice works for couples who agree to behave ethically, listen objectively, disagree respectfully, make kids a priority, plan with the future in mind, work creatively and cooperatively, and keep their process out of the courts.
The Collaborative Team includes a lawyer who provides legal information for crafting an agreement, a financial consultant who helps develop viable financial options, a child specialist who addresses the needs of the children, and a family professional who helps with communications and emotions in a time of transition.
To help you with the many challenges in the dispute resolution process, Collaborative Practice provides specially trained lawyers and offers a team of other specialists to support you with financial issues, concerns about children, and emotional turmoil. The Collaborative Team lends advice, expertise and support at a time when you most need it.
The Collaborative Practice Durham Region is one of 17 groups of specially trained professionals across the Province that make up the Ontario Collaborative Law Federation.
They also cited many facts: 43% of married couples in Ontario will be divorced before their 30th anniversary. In common law situations, over 50% of common law arrangements are over in the first 5 years. The rate of divorce is increasing exponentially for those over 50 years of age. The average court case takes over 2 years. Collaborative practice is completed in less than 6 months.
Collaborative Law was started in Minnesota over 20 years ago.
The three speakers want to talk to Rotary Clubs because we are leaders in our community, that practice high ethical standards, and service to others. They ask us to help people choose “the alternative” to the court system. The Durham Region Collaborative law website is filled with over 40 professionals.
They encourage everyone to go to the website: www.durhamcollaborative.com and see fist hand, the better way. Collaborative Law is giving a couple the best human, legal, and financial conditions for their lives going forward.
Prenuptual agreement can also be created by the Collaborative Law group.
THE OBJECT OF ROTARY is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
The “ideal of service” is the key. It is an attitude that does not change from one version to the next. It is an attitude we all have, as Rotarians.
IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT, MAKE UP : Pat Dyck, our Club Secretary has a Rotary International Directory of all Rotary Clubs in the world, when and where they meet. Please mail or fax your make-ups to Pat Dyck, or give your make-up card to the attendance/registration officer at the next club meeting.
HERE’S A LIST OF SOME ROTARY CLUBS CLOSE TO YOU:
MONDAY:
Belleville – Ramada Inn – 11 Bay Ridges at Hwy 2 - 12:00 noon
Oshawa – Oshawa Shrine Club, 1626 Simcoe St N., – 12:10
Markham-Unionville – Al Dente Ristorante, 39 Main St.N., - 6:30 pm
Port Hope – Knights of Columbus Hall, 1 Elias St., – 6:00 pm
Richmond Hill – Sheraton Parkway Hotel, 600 Hwy 7 East, – 6:00 pm
Trenton – Holiday Inn – 99 Glen Miller Rd. at 401 - 6:00 pm
TUESDAY:
Whitby – Public Library, 405 Dundas St W - 7:00 am
Pickering – Chartwell Pickering Centre, 1801 Valley Farm Rd, – 7:15am
Bowmanville – Trinity Church Hall, 116 Church St. – 7:15 am
Picton – Royal Canadian Legion, 347 Main St., - 12:15 pm
Scarborough Bluffs – Loblaw’s Superstore (upstairs) – 1775 Brimley at Progress – 7:15 am
Scarborough – Scarborough Golf Club – Golf Club Rd. – 12:30
Scarborough Twilight – Stone Cottage – 1370 Kingston Rd. - 5:30 pm
WEDNESDAY:
Whitby-Sunrise – Sports Garden Café, Iroquois Park , 500 Victoria St W – 7:15am
Markham Sunrise – Delta Markham Hotel – 50 East Valhala Dr., Hwy 7 east of 404 – 7:00 am
Northumberland Sunrise – Dalewood Golf Club – Dale Rd, Port Hope - 7:00 am
North Scarborough – Delta Toronto East – 2035 Kennedy Rs, Scarborough – 12:30 pm
Port Perry – Piano Rest., 217 Queen St. – 6:15 pm
THURSDAY:
Ajax – Public Library, 55 Harwood Ave S., – 12:15
Agincourt – Radisson Hotel, 55 Hallcrown Place – 6:30 pm
Quinte Sunrise – Bay of Quinte Golf Club, 1830 Old Hwy 2, – 7:00 am
Uxbridge – Jersey’s, 104 Brock St W. – 7:15 am
FRIDAY:
Toronto – Royal York Hotel, 100 Front St, – 12:15
Cobourg – Best Western Cobourg Motor Inn, 930 Burnham Rd. at Hwy 2 – 12:15
Courtice – White Cliffe Terrace, 1460 Hwy 2 – 7:15 am