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Jun. 02, 2018 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Annual Giant Rotary Yard Sale - Saturday morning, June 2 from 8: am to 1:00pm. At 687 Masson Street, in Oshawa near the intersection of Rossland Rd and Simcoe Street. Attention Rotarians: Start collecting things like electronics, bicycles, golf equipment, indoor and outdoor household items and many more treasures Remember, the very item that you put into a yard sale, is exactly what your neighbour wants. Our Co-Chairs are Bob Stewart and Sonya Thompson. |
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Jun. 05, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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Ted Morrison and Linda Porritt
Jun. 19, 2018 6:00 p.m.
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Jun. 24, 2018 2:00 p.m. - Jun. 27, 2018 3:00 p.m.
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Jun. 25, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
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Jul. 07, 2018 4:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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Jul. 10, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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Summer BBQ and Putting Lesson - Outside at the Oshawa Golf Club
Jul. 17, 2018 6:00 p.m.
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Aug. 04, 2018 4:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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Aug. 07, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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Durham Region Hospice Expansion
Aug. 14, 2018 6:00 p.m.
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Aug. 25, 2018 4:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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RAGAS - Rotary Action Group Against Slavert
Aug. 28, 2018 6:00 p.m.
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Sep. 01, 2018 4:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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Sep. 04, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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Sep. 08, 2018 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
All Rotarians in District 7070 and their guests are invited to the 2018 Rotary District 7070 Friendship Day on Saturday, September 8, 2018 at Parkwood, the Estate of the late Colonel R. S. "Sam" McLaughlin , in Oshawa.
Oshawa Rotarian Michael Adams, co-chair of the event , along with Linda Porritt of the Oshawa-Parkwood Rotary Club, said, “Tickets for the event are $75 per person with all proceeds going to The Rotary Foundation. The Rotary Foundation transforms donations into service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world. During the past 101 years, the Foundation has spent $3 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects, the most notable of which is the PolioPlus campaign, Rotary's effort to eradicate polio from the world.”
Please register to join Rotarians to enjoy a day of friendship, fellowship, food and fun. Tours of Parkwood Estate are planned following the meeting meal. Rotarians and their guests from all of the 56 Rotary Clubs in southern Ontario, district 7070 are invited to join the hosting clubs, The Rotary Club of Oshawa and the Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood for this fundraising friendship event.
Please register online as soon as possible, by clicking "member" or "guest" registration (big blue box just to the left).
WE WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR PAYMENT BY CHEQUE AND MAIL IT TO US.
Please make check/cheque payable to: Rotary Club of Oshawa, P.O Box 91, Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7K8.
You may also pay by CHEQUE, CASH OR CREDIT CARD at PARKWOOD, on the day of the event, SEPTEMBER 8.
About the Event - Rotary Friendship Day in Oshawa - History
For many years, starting in 1948-49 and running through the 1950's and '60's, during his lifetime Colonel Sam McLaughlin, founder of GM Canada and an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Oshawa, invited the Rotarians of District 7070 out for an annual Friendship Day to his home, Parkwood Estate.
In its heyday, the Rotary Friendship Day was attended by over 350 Rotarians from all of the clubs in our District then called 707. The day included lunch, at the Rotary Club of Oshawa, and sometimes dinner at the Armories in Oshawa afterwards. The day also consisted of tours of the General Motors Plant plant in Oshawa, golf at the Oshawa Golf and Curling Club, lawn bowling , tours of Windfields Farm (the home of Northern Dancer) , and the Canadian Automotive Museum and then back to Parkwood for cocktails where Rotarians were met and hosted by Colonel Sam and before, her death, his wife Adelaide McLaughlin, at Parkwood Estate.
“Following Colonel McLaughlin’s death in 1972, this Rotary tradition was lost. With the 100th anniversary of Parkwood Estate, the Rotary Clubs of Oshawa and Oshawa-Parkwood have invited their fellow Rotarians of District 7070 and their guests to revive a great tradition and build on it for years to come,” Lind Porritt added.
“This is an opportunity for Rotarians and guests to see old friends, meet new friends, and share their ideas of Rotary service to others in their communities and throughout the world with their fellow Rotarians and to see the Parkwood Estate, a national historic treasure, right here in Oshawa,” added Michael Adams. Colonel Sam’s home, Parkwood Estate, begun in 1916, and was designed by the Toronto architectural firm of Darling and Pearson and completed in 1917.
In 1989, the Parkwood estate was officially designated a National Historic Site of Canada. Parkwood Estate has been used in many television and film productions and most recently seen in the Murdoch Mysteries television series as the home of inventor, wealthy businessman and general rascal, James Pendrick.
More About Colonel Sam Mclaughlin
Honours and awards
McLaughlin was appointed honorary lieutenant-colonel of the 34th Ontario Regiment in 1921 and held this position until 1931, at which time he was appointed honorary colonel of the same unit, later designated as The Ontario Regiment (RCAC), a reserve armoured regiment based in Oshawa. Affectionately known as "Colonel Sam", McLaughlin served as honorary colonel until 1967, thereby becoming the longest continuously-serving colonel in the history of the Canadian Forces.
In 1967, McLaughlin was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Philanthropy
In 1951, he established the McLaughlin Foundation which, from 1953 to 2003, donated nearly $200 million to the University of Toronto and other causes, including the McLaughlin Planetarium at the Royal Ontario Museum. McLaughlin was a major contributor to Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. The university's Mechanical Engineering Department is housed in McLaughlin Hall, which was his donation in 1948. McLaughlin Hall in Queen's University's John Deutsch University Centre is also named for him. His wife, Adelaide McLaughlin, was honoured in 1957 by Queen's, which named the women's residence Adelaide Hall for her.
In 1947 McLaughlin and his wife donated land for a Boy Scout camp on the outskirts of Oshawa. The camp was named "Camp Samac".
McLaughlin donated $1 million to the 1968 library building at the University of Guelph, which bears his name. He provided partial funding to build a college at York University in Toronto. Opened in 1968, it was named McLaughlin College in his honour.
McLaughlin Hall at St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario, which he unveiled in 1971 at age 99, is named after him in recognition of his contributions to the school.
He endowed the Regimental Foundation of The Ontario Regiment (RCAC) and quietly paid the salaries of some of the regiment's soldiers during times of severely curtailed government funding. McLaughlin House at the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific also bears his name.
Thoroughbred horse racing
In his youth, McLaughlin competed in cycling and yachting, and he was an equestrian show jumping champion at competitions in Canada and the United States. His love of horses led to the establishment of Parkwood Stable, a thoroughbred horse racing and breeding farm located a few miles north of Oshawa, Ontario . McLaughlin's horses won numerous races in Canada and in the U.S.; his horses won important races including the 1942 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park. A three-time winner of Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate, in 1934 his future Hall of Fame colt Horometer won both the Queen's Plate and the Breeders' Stakes. In 1950, the nearly eighty-year-old McLaughlin retired from racing, selling his Parkwood Stable to E. P. Taylor, under whom it would become known as Windfields Farm (the home and resting place of Northern Dancer).
A long-time director of the Ontario Jockey Club, McLaughlin was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1963 and the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1977. |
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His Annual Update to the Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood
Sep. 11, 2018 6:00 p.m.
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Sep. 15, 2018 4:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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Update on the Literacy Council of Durham
Sep. 18, 2018 6:00 p.m.
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Sep. 22, 2018 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Economic Development and Tourism, Region of Durham
Sep. 25, 2018 6:00 p.m.
The Rotary Inetrnational Theme for Ocotber is Economic and Community Development, one of the Rotary Foundation's 6 Areas of Focus. Simon Gill is the Manager of Business Development and Investment Attraction with the Region of Durham Economic Development & Tourism Department. Simon leads the implementation of the Region’s Foreign Direct Investment Attraction strategy by marketing and providing advisory services to foreign companies seeking to invest in the Region, contributing to job creation and economic growth and prosperity in Durham. Simon previously worked at Ontario Power Generation as the Corporate Business Development lead for new wind and solar generation projects, and prior to that, as the National Manager of Business Development and as project execution lead for a global solar electricity project developer, overseeing acquisitions, and project portfolio construction budgets of $850M. |
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Sep. 30, 2018 8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Oct. 01, 2018 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
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Her Official Visit to A Joint Meeting of the Rotary Clubs of Oshawa, Bowmanville and Oshawa-Parkwood
Oct. 02, 2018 6:00 p.m.
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Oct. 06, 2018 4:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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Oct. 09, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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His Annual Update to our Rotary Club
Oct. 16, 2018 6:00 p.m.
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Oct. 20, 2018 4:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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World Polio Day - Broadcast Live from Durham College's New Global Classroom
Oct. 24, 2018 5:00 p.m.
Joint meeting of Durham Region Rotary Clubs at the new Global Classroom in the new Centre for Collaborative Education at Durham College where we will celebrate World Polio Day with leaders from around the world. Cash bar and sandwiches will be served. Cost $25 per person (portion will be donated to The Rotary Foundation's Polio Eradictaion and credited to your next Paul Harris Fellow. Spouses invited. We are asking all 10 Rotary Clubs in Durham Region to cancel the weekly meetings this week and instead, attend, with their spouses, this World Polio Day Event in the new Global Classroom, in the new Centre for Collaborative Education Building at Durham College, 2000 Simcoe St. N., Oshawa, ON, Canada L1G 0C5 . The event, hosted by the Rotary Clubs of Oshawa and Oshawa-Parkwood, will run from 5 pm to about 9 pm. There will be a 45 minutes reception from 5 to 5:45 pm and there will be a cash bar. This will be an opportunity to visit with fellow Rotarians and share with them our great desire to eradicate polio from the world. Light lunch will be served. Cost of the event will be $25.00 per person and a portion of the ticket price will be a donation to the Rotary Foundations' End Polio Campaign. That portion, going to The Rotary Foundation, will be credited to each Rotaria's next Paul Harris Award. The capacity will be 200 and it will be on a first come first served registration . The Global Classroom has the ability to receive and send out the Rotary livestream feed (from 6 pm to 6:45 pm) featuring Rotarians and their Global Polio Eradication initiative Partners (as we have done for the last few years). This feed would be made available to all Rotary Clubs in District 7070 and may also be able to be broadcast to colleges and universities worldwide on the Durham College network. Please Register for the event on the www.rotary7070.org website. |
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Oct. 27, 2018 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Rotary Reunion in Price Edward County – Register at http://rotary7070conference.org/ . Casual country all day and evening. 8:30 a.m. – Arrive and enjoy breakfast snacks between 8:30 and and 9:30 am All day Programming – Fun and learning through the six areas of focus Lunch – Picnic lunch as you enjoy Reunion activities; 6:00 p.m.– Gather for the Rotary family banquet. Sunday– Prince Edward County area activities will be highlighted for personal enjoyment |
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Nov. 03, 2018 4:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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Nov. 06, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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Their African Safari - our SPOUSES are Invited
Nov. 06, 2018 6:00 p.m.
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Rotary Foundation Peace Scholar Program
Nov. 13, 2018 6:00 p.m.
Chenai Kadungure -a Rotary Peace Scholar - from Zimbabwe Chenai has been involved in non-profit work since she was a teenager. In high school she was an Interact member. Interact taught her the value in “Service Above Self” and this attraction to serving the world has never left her. Chenai earned her undergraduate and master’s degree in Cape Town, where her experience of xenophobia inspired her to become a part of the solution to global conflict. She has experience in research and customer relations and has strong interpersonal skills. She has fundraised for philanthropic initiatives, and assisted NGOs, such as Open Door Education, Cycle For Understanding and The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE). As a dedicated soldier for peace; Chenai volunteers for The Red Frogs, has been involved in various church leadership activities, serves on the Board of Directors of Mwala, a charity organization and she mentors in her spare time. She most recently worked for a non-profit called The Hope Factory, an Enterprise Development company owned by The South African institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) which grows people, to develop businesses and impact communities. She is committed to being “a gift to the world” and the Fellowship to study at UNC-Chapel Hill, is just the beginning for her. Chenai holds a B.A. degree in Media, Sociology and Gender Studies and an M.Phil. in Diversity Studies from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She is currently conducting her M.A. studies in Global Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she aims to obtain the necessary skills to succeed in the international development space. (arranged by Ted Morrison). IF YOU ARE BINGING A GUEST, PLEASE LET DAVE ANDREWS KNOW BY NOV 6 AT THE LATEST. |
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Nov. 16, 2018 5:00 p.m. - Nov. 24, 2018 8:00 p.m.
WE NEED AT LEAST 2 VOLUNTEERS EACH NIGHT FROM OUR ROTARY CLUB - NOVEMBER 16 THROUGH NOVEMBER 24 FROM 5 PM TO ABOUT 8 PM – TO WELCOME VISITORS, SOLICIT DONATIONS TO BUILDING FUNDS FROM THE PUBLIC. Please sign up with Lennis Trotter TODAY and VOLUNTEER to help. The Community is Invited to Take a Walk Down Christmas Lane and Get into the Spirit of the Holidays.Holiday Spirit at The Kids' Safety Village. |
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Nov. 17, 2018 8:00 a.m. - 4:33 p.m.
Rotary Leadership Institute - Scarboro Golf and Country Club, 321 Scarborough Golf Club Rd. Scarborough, ON M1J 3H2 This is your opportunity to learn more about Rotary and share your ideas with other Rotarians. It's the perfect learning experience for newer Rotarians and an excellent knowledge update for those more seasoned. For all Rotarians who have joined a Rotary Club in District 7070 in the last year, your Rotary District will pay your tuition fee for Rotary Leadership Institute part one!!! All you have to do is sign up online (click here) and enter the promo code "RLIFree1". Just register on line TODAY, and you will be reimbursed by our Rotary Club. |
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Nov. 17, 2018 4:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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Nov. 20, 2018 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
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Nov. 21, 2018 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Night of A Thousand Dinners – Proceeds to the Canadian Landmine Foundation 6:30 pm , Officers' Mess, Ontario Regiment, Simcoe Street North. Tickets $75.00 per person. Fundraiser for Canadian Landmine Foundation by the Oshawa Rotary Club. Call Ron Dick for tickets at 905-728-4550 and at ron@rddfsi.ca. many Rotary Clubs contribute directly to this organization. If we wish to pertner with the Oshawa Rotary Club, Ron would be very happy to talk with us about the possibilities. |