MINUTES OF MEETING: Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Meeting: October 19 World Polio Day LIVE from the Rotary Global Classroom at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Manure and Tulip sales going well; North Oshawa Farmers Market on Saturdays 8am – 1pm; order on line or call Hilda Finnigan 905-431-4258,50 bags left.
Catch the Ace – not doing so well, need to encourage ticket buyers. Larry Hurren won the weekly Catch the ace draw.
Kids Against Hunger – Ted Morrison announced that we will be able to have this event November 6. Ted asked for volunteers and will contact the Jubilee and other clubs
Hilda announced that starting October 26 . 3 dinner choices will be a chicken house salad, club sandwich and steak sandwich.
Speaker:
What a special night it was , as Durham College and Rotary invited the world to watch "LIVE” from Durham College's new Global Classroom on October 21, 2021
Tune In Here and press play. https://tinyurl.com/28w4tmn2
The 10 Rotary Clubs in Durham Region (and the Rotary Club of Port Hope ), on behalf of your co-hosts, the Rotary Clubs of Oshawa and Oshawa-Parkwood and Durham College invited the world to District 7070's World Polio Day 2021 - Live from The Rotary Global Classroom at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario Canada.
The event ran from 7 pm to about 8:30 pm live from The Rotary Global Classroom. Dr, Bob Scott, (past Rotary International Vice-President and Chair Emeritus of the Rotary International Polio Plus Committee ) led a panel discussion with Shekhar Mehta (President of Rotary International) , Valarie Wafer, (Vice President of Rotary International), Mike McGovern, (the current Chair of the Rotary International Polio Plus Committee), and Dr. Tunji Funsho (Rotary International Polio Plus Chair in Nigeria) . We also heard from Jennifer Jones , incoming President of Rotary International.
Together, they will updated all of us about Rotary's efforts with our Global Polio Eradication initiative Partners and our challenge, going forward to End Polio Now and how we can help eradicate Polio from this world.
Photos Courtesy of snapd Oshawa:
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