MINUTES OF ZOOM MEETING : Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Paul Harris Awards Night
Editor: Al Finnigan
BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES
Congratulations to our Rotary friends
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May 20 – Happy Birthday to Al Finnigan |
May 20 – Happy Anniversary to John & Willie Kellam |
May 23 – Happy Birthday to David Mankiewicz |
On the Zoom Call Tonight:
Sue Mckinnon, Dave Andrews, Lennis Trotter, Robert Kipling, Robert Koski, Kris Sachdeva, Janice Coupland, Dave Penny, Linda Porrit, Ted Morrison, Robbie Laocque, Larry Hurren, , Allan Finnigan, Bill Creamer, Heather Drakes, Tim Dwyre, Devon Biddle, Sandy McDowell, Dave Mankiewicz, Ana Rejab
Special Welcome to our visiting Rotarians and guests tonight:
Bob Wallace (President of the Rotary Club of Port Hope, and Past District Governor, current Rotary Zone 24 East Coordinator, and incoming Chair of the District 7070 Rotary Foundation Committee), Linda Biddle, Sharon Morrison, Esther Trotter, Patti Koski, Kay Hurren, Caroline KIpling, Jan Penney, Terri Lynn Larocque
President Lennis started the meeting at 7:04 pm and welcomed everyone !!!
AGAIN, THANK YOU TO: our very own Oshawa-Parkwood Rotarian Eric Guernsey for arranging the Zoom Meeting sharing with Heather McMillan, Executive Director of the Durham Workforce Authority, The Durham Workforce Authority is the acknowledged provider of local workforce information and champion of workforce development initiatives unique to Durham Region. Their Mission is to produce and offer comprehensive Labour Market Information to our stakeholders, to facilitate workforce solutions by engaging community partners and employers and to encourage development and maintenance of a sustainable and dynamic workforce.. It was so nice to be able to have a whole hour for our Zoom meeting. We thank you both.
ANNOUNCEMENTS-
Lennis encourage everyone to attend, online, the MAY 20 – 7 PM for District 7070 Connects . We are all invited to D7070 Connects, a virtual District get together. Come find out what's happening all over the District how Rotarians are staying CONNECTED with Rotarians and their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. It;s a Zoom gathering. But you must register online. (see: https://rotary7070.org/event/d7070-connects/ ) This is our second 'D7070 Connects' - a virtual District get together via Zoom. We will have a brief update from DG Beth and DGE Mark on where we are and what is coming up in our District and in Rotary. We will share success stories for Staying Connected with Rotarians and with our communities - perhaps you can find some ideas to build on! And we will answer questions from the group. All interested District 7070 Rotarians are welcome to participate, with a special invite to any newer Rotarians who have joined in the past few years - come experience our District! Cost is free but you need to register in order to get a link for the session. Please register by 7 p.m. on Monday May 18th. A link will be sent on Tuesday May 19th.
.Dave Andrews invited everyone to next week's meeting , May 26 when our speaker will be Det. Martin Franssen, Durham Regional Police Service (and a proud member of the Rotary Club of Oshawa) who will be talking on scams associated with COVID-19. (Note: We will bring back martin at a future date to talk about Wills and Power of Attorney. . Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99926166884 Meeting ID: 999 2616 6884 . Dial by your location +1 647 558 0588 Canada Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abpb4qHfvS . This is the night we say Thank You and congratulate our Paul Harris Awardees.
Congratulations to Sandy McDowell . A grandma to her 5th grandson.
Ted thanked Kim and Sandy for their excellent half page ad in the May 13 and May 20 edition of The Oshawa Express, announcing our big fundraiser to fight COVID-19 here in our community. Thank you for the news article too announcing the matching funds donation. Our Rotary Club will match dollar for dollar, up to a maximum of $5,000, all money received from the public to go local community organizations to help them fight the COVID-19 pandemic. As individuals, we all can make a donation to help get to the $5,000 mark, and our club will match that.
Janice mentioned that her committee gave a check for $1000.00 to the Back Door Mission (see: https://www.backdoormission.ca/ )
Janice is giving a check from Rotary to Community Care for $500.00. (see: http://communitycaredurham.on.ca/
Devon is sending one check to the Rotary Foundation on June 1st. If you want to make a donation, please get your money to Devon, and he will send it to the Rotary Foundation, get you credit towards your next Paul Harris Fellow and ensure that you receive a tax donation. He will take cash or chaque.
GUEST SPEAKER: Bob Wallace - The Rotary Foundation
David Penny introduced Bob Wallace . Bob is Bob Wallace President of the Rotary Club of Port Hope, and Past District Governor, current Rotary Zone 24 East Coordinator, and incoming Chair of the District 7070 Rotary Foundation Committee Foundation Chair for District 7070.
Bob congratulated Parkwood Rotary on having 19 Paul Harris Fellows ( whose cumulative donations to The Rotary Foundation are $1,000 US or more) and 10 Rotary Foundation benefactors (who have bequeathed $1,000 US or more in their will.
He noted that since our club began, back in 1976, our members and our club have donated over $5000,000 to The Rotary Foundation and this year, we have surpassed our goal for donations to the Annual Programs Fund and to the Polio Fund.
He noted that even during the pandemic, Rotary needs funding from Rotarians to carry out our goal of Polio eradication, and urged us to make a donation to the PolioPlus Fund if we are able.
Bob also thanked Devon and Linda for their generous donation as members of the Arch Klumpf Society.
Bob suggested that since interest is down on our stocks, it is a good time to get a tax deduction and give to The Rotary Foundation
The Rotary Foundation has given over $4.7 million US (so far) in the form of grants to District from worldwide Foundation Disaster Fund for COVID -19 relief.
He noted that the Rotary responds COVID-19 Telethon, on May 2, 2020 raised over $525,000 US towards COVID-19 efforts.
Bob noted that our District has not yet applied for a Rotary Foundation $25,000 COVID-19 grant. The committee wil be doing so shortly and asked for suggestions from District clubs and members.
He thanked everyone in our club for donating, this year to The Rotary Foundation and help us all honour our Past District Governor Bill Patchett and try to donate , from our District members, $1 million to The Rotary Foundation this rotary year (40 days to go). Today it stands at $895,000.63 US.
Ted Morrison thanked Bob for his hard work and interesting and informative talk.
Ted Morrison, then made his presentation to the club , honouring our club members who have reached their next plateau in donations to The Rotary Foundation.
Congratulations to all of our members who have already reached Paul Harris Recognition plateaus:
(Note: a PHF indicates a cumulative donation of $1,000 to The rotary Foundation; a PHF +1 = $2,000 , and so on)
Dave Andrews PHF+5 David Mankiewicz PHF
Devon Biddle PHF+8* Michael McLaren PHF
Janice Coupland PHF+1 Ted Morrison PHF+8*
Peter Dueck PHF David Penney PHF+3
Pat Dyck PHF+1 Linda Porritt PHF+1
Al Finnigan PHF Kris Sachdeva PHF+5
Hilda Finnigan PHF+2 Robert Stewart PHF+1
Larry Hurren PHF+ Lennis Trotter PHF+3
Robert Kipling PHF
Robert Koski PHF+1
Robbie Larocque PHF+3
There are additional Rotary Foundation recognitions that our members have received for even more substantial donations
MAJOR DONORS: Devon and Linda Biddle , Kris Sachdeva, Ted and Sharron Morrison
ARCH KLUMPH SOCIETY: Devon and Linda Biddle
Tonight, we celebrate and CONGRATULATE our Rotary Club members who have reached their “next” Rotary Foundation recognition plateau during this Rotary year :
Robbie Larocque PHF +3
David Penney PHF +3
Larry Hurren PHF +5
Kris Sachdeva PHF+5
That is not all. Rotary Clubs can also recognize non-Rotarians from our community, who has performed outstanding service to our community, and has exemplified the Rotary motto of “Service Above Self” over many years, by making a $1,000 donation to The Rotary Foundation, in their name and bestowing upon them a Paul Harris Fellow Award.
Tonight, the Rotary Club recognizes a person who has kept in touch with fellow members and especially spouses of members for many years, has done hours of service at the Kids Safety Village, and who opens her home to our Club for many years at Christmas for our annual Christmas party and that, of course, is Esther Trotter.
CONGRATULATIONS ESTHER !!!
Ted suggested that members could donate to the Rotary Foundation from their savings from the weekly dinners. The money to support The Rotary Foundation comes from our members.
Since COVID-19 hit, we have missed about 2 months of spending money on our weekly meetings. At about $100 per month, wouldn’t it be a nice gesture if our members made a donation of $200 per member, to The Rotary Foundation.
REMINDER: Devon would like to get the donations in by the end of may so that he can tabulate the results of each donation, assign the correct amount to the Paul Harris recognition, and send one cheque to The Rotary Foundation. Thank you all.
Thank you to Linda Biddle for sharing with us our Rotary Club of Oshawa-parkwood Zoom Meeting:
President Lennis closed meeting at 7.39 pm but many stayed on and just had a nice chat with eachother.
NEXT MEETINGS:
.Topic: Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood Weekly Meetings
Time: 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Every week on Tue, until Jun 2, 2020, 6 occurrence(s)
May 26, 2020 07:00 PM
Jun 2, 2020 07:00 PM
Jun 9, 2020 07:00 PM
Jun16, 2020 07:00 PM
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