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MINUTES OF MEETING: Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Editor: Dave Andrews Meeting Called to Order at 6:30 PM by President David Mankiewicz Grace: Janice Coupland Toast to the KING: Lennis Trotter Land Acknowledgement by President David Mankiewicz We respectfully acknowledge that the Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood is meeting on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nations, within the jurisdiction of the Williams Treaties. We are committed to our responsibility of stewardship, in these relationships and for this land on which we learn, share and live. Toast to Canada: Shashi Bhatia Visiting Rotarians and Guests: Welcome to two very familiar members from the Rotary Club of Whitby-Sunrise: Steve Rutledge, and Past District 7070 Governor Doug Byers Birthdays and Anniversaries: Esther Trotter –Happy Birthday on July 25 Kay and Larry Hurren – Happy Anniversary on August 3 Shashi Bhatia - Happy Birthday on August 4 and also on her real birthday April 24 Announcements: Al Finnigan announced that Rotary T-shirts (yellow) and blue Rotary golf shirts are now available for order. Your deadline to order is July 31. The golf shirt is $44.00, and the T-shirt is $14.00. He needs at least 10 of each to place the order. Janice Coupland reminded us that our monthly social is July 29, and we will be at the Canadian Brewhouse. The start time is 6 pm. Please let her know if you and your partner will attend. Dave Andrews World Polio Day LIVE form the Rotary Global Classroom at Durham College will be Oct 16 . 6 pm to 7 pm for light lunch and cash bar. Live Broadcast starts at 7 pm. Mike McGovern, Chair of the Rotary International PolioPlus Committee will be our keynote speaker and we are working on getting Aziz Memon from Pakistan and Valarie Wafer on the LIVE panel. Register today: https://rotary7070.org/event/world-polio-day-global-classroom/. Dave Andrews – Thank you to Ted Morrison, Tess Pierce and Don Igbokwe for our 3-hour first meeting on our ONCA compliant by law review yesterday. We have about 80% reviewed. 20% to go in early August and then we will pass them on to our Board of Directors and then to our members for approval. Then we can ask Leon Efraim to file the articles for incorporation. Goal to be dome by end of October. Ted Morrison – To date, we have had 2 cases of the wild polio virus in Afghanistan this year and 14 in Pakistan. Ted Morrison – Next project is Tulips For Polio – this year, starting the second week in September, we will be selling 20 tulip bulbs (muti colours in one box) for $20. Profits will go to End Polio Now. This is a project for all members to help sell the tulip bulbs. Sgt at Arms: Linda Porritt ACE OF SPADES: The winning ticket holder was Linda Porritt for the second week in a row. The chase is still on. Linda pulled the 9 of Spades. HAPPY BUCKS: Amber – went to Peterborough last week, took in a concert, went kayaking and took 300 photos of pregnancies for two of her girlfriends. David P – is happy and Jan is happy in her new car Shahsi – Happy to be here with her Rotary family. Happy to have been in Kingston last week, with the military promoting work hiring programs for reservists Robert K – very happy to finally meet Amber and he found out Amber knows as much about Peru as Robert. Janice – found a local neurologist, who has helped Kris with new medication. Quite a turn around Ted – very happy to see his good friends from Whitby Sunrise - Doug and Steve – tonight Dave A – also very happy to see Doug and Steve Bob K – very happy that the Blue Jays are winning and in first place and have a new winning record at home. Lennis T – A sad buck. His son was good friends with the boy that was killed in the seaplane crash on Lake Scugog last week. Steve Rutledge – thrilled to be with our club tonight Hilda – glad to see Doug Byers and Steve Rutledge here tonight and to say that son in law Greg has new rehab and is on the right track again SPEAKERS: Ted Morrison, Robbie Larocque, Linda Porritt, and David Penney – their impression of the Rotary International Convention in Calgary Ted – Calgary was the 13th Rotary International Convention Ted has attended. We were all treated like family. People saw his name badge and said “Hi Ted” wherever he went. He enjoyed meeting Rotarians from all over the world and very please to be able to talk with RI Polio Chair Mike McGovern, Pakistan Polio Chair Aziz Memon, and Valarie and Mark Wafer. Valarie is the Grants Chair of the PolioPlus Fund this year. Large distances to walk, even in the same building. He attended two of the major lunches (The Presidential Lunch and the Presidents-Elect Lunch) attended by 2,000 people. He was very proud, at the Presidents Elect lunch, when he talked to the Presidents Elect about our many fundraising, club events and community service projects that we do in our club. They were impressed. Ted was very please when it was announced that the goal of reaching $2.025 billion in the Rotary Foundation endowment Fund has been reached by the end of June 2025. This will assist in keeping the Rotary Foundation going in perpetuity. He was also please that Bill Gates announced that he is continuing with his one -for-two matching to the Foundation’s Polio Fund, up to $100 million donation per year, all the way up to and including 2029, which we hope is when we will be able to call the world polio free. Ted also was very impressed with the promotion of next year’s Rotary International Convention in Taipei Taiwan and encourage us to consider attending.( see: https://www.rotarytaipei2026.org/en/welcome ) Following that, the Convention will be in Dubai in 2027. Robbie – Robbie noted that he is very impressed with all the good work we do as, one Rotary Club. What he saw at the convention being done by thousands of clubs. Over 17,000 attendees to the Convention. He had on his hiking boots and thought public transit was great. He was very impressed with all of the clubs, fellowships, and Rotary Action Groups in the House of Friendship. He was most interested to learn about waterless toilets. He found out that the International Fellowship of Beer Drinkers with proceeds from their events going to WASHRAG (Water and Sanitation Hygiene Rotary Action Group), who in turn help build toiltets (see: https://rotarybrew.org/docs/brew-donates-to-wasrag.docx) . Robbie , by way of Terri Lynn , got an app on their phone for all of the events of the convention. Those events included 60 breakouts over 3 days. Many of those breakouts have powerpoint presentations that are available to us. Robbie will be giving the Directots a look at the 60 breakouts and they can decide which presentations that may benefit our club. Part of their convention was their tour of Canada. They started off in Vancouver and took the Rocky Mountaineer to Calgary before the convention and also went on a tour to Drumheller to see the Dinosaurs. Calgary is a great place to enjoy . Linda - After an early morning flight to Calgary , they had a nap. On the flight, Linda met a Rotarian from St Lucia , a District Governor Elect. Their club does all of their work on the island only because of all of the tremendous need. Linda pointed out to her many other projects and directed her to the House of Freindship.They had dinner in the Calgary Tower and also attend , at the convention a malaria breakout session. She was impressed to see how excited Rotarians get all 17,000 of them at the Convention. They also enjoyed an Irish Pub, and then Home Hospitality at the Cottonwood Country Club south of Calgary. The host club had $5 million in the bank, and have a golf tournament that raises $500,000, and still do lots of projects. The host club put on a western BBQ with lots of western entertainment and even line dancing. At the Home Hospitality event, she met a women from Arizona who asked Linda lots of questions about how we Canadians work with and honour our indigenous peoples. The lady was of indigenous heritage in Arizona, a state that does little for the indigenous. She even found and won $500 at the cowboy casino. Way to go Linda. David – Dave and Jan attended the all-day Global Malaria Eradication Congress 2025, before the convention started, with 10 to 15 speakers. Dave was very impressed with the House of Friendship and all of the exhibitors. . He met a Rotarian from Kenya who knew of the WAKAM project in which we are the lead club in Canada, who has a daughter going to Magill University in Montreal and asked Dave if he could help get her accommodation. Dave noted that Rotary is very big in a small world. He was impressed with the speakers in the main daily sessions, many of whom worked their way up the Rotary ladder being exchange students and scholars before becoming Rotarians. Dave said the convention was fun, educational and concluded that it is good to be a Rotarian. More News on the Convention: Learn about everything that happened at the 2025 convention on our social media channels. Speeches and reports (EN only) RI President Stephanie Urchick (PDF, watch and download) RI President-elect Francesco Arezzo (PDF, watch and download) RI General Secretary and CEO John Hewko (PDF, watch and download) Rotary Foundation Trustee Chair Mark Daniel Maloney (PDF, watch and download) RI Treasurer’s Report RI General Secretary’s Report President Dave closed the meeting at 7:54 pm. IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT, YOU CAN MAKE IT UP: Go online at www.rotary.org, go to the club locator and find a club or clubs near your destination. Or you can add the free App Rotary Club Locator to your phone for instant look up of any club in the world. Please mail or fax your make-ups to Executive Secretary Dave Andrews or give your make-up card to the attendance/registration officer at the next club meeting.
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