THE PARKWOOD JOURNAL

OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF OSHAWA-PARKWOOD

Mailing Address: 96 KING ST. E., OSHAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA L1H 1B6

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO:

ROTARY – People of Action

Rotary is where neighbours, friends, and problem-solvers share ideas, join leaders, and take action to create lasting change.

We're made up of local business, professional, and civic leaders. 

We meet regularly, get to know each other, form friendships and through that, we're able to get things done in our community. 

It's up to YOU.............Join leaders in our community

Be sure to share this with all of your friends and associates and ask them to get in touch with our Club President Robbie Larocque at 905-576-8500 or our Club Vice President Linda Porritt at 905-626-6386.

You are invited to our next Rotary meeting. You may wish to become a Rotarian. Dinner is on us. Isn't it time to give back to your community?.

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.

Rotary Code of Conduct provides a framework for ethical behaviour that all Rotarians can use, together with The Four-Way Test, in their business and professional activities.

ROTARY CODE OF CONDUCT

As a Rotarian, I will

1. Exemplify the core value of integrity in all behaviours and activities

2. Use my vocational experience and talents to serve in Rotary

3. Conduct all of my personal, business, and professional affairs ethically, encouraging and fostering high ethical standards as an example to others

4. Be fair in all dealings with others and treat them with the respect due to them as fellow human beings

5. Promote recognition and respect for all occupations which are useful to society

6. Offer my vocational talents: to provide opportunities for young people, to work for the relief of the special needs of others, and to improve the quality of life in my community

7. Honour the trust that Rotary and fellow Rotarians provide and not do anything that will bring disfavour or reflect adversely on Rotary or fellow Rotarians

8. Not seek from a fellow Rotarian a privilege or advantage not normally accorded others in a business or professional relationship

THE ROTARY FOUR-WAY TEST

of things we think, say and do:

1. Is it the truth

2. Is it fair to all concerned?

3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships?

4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

MINUTES OF  MEETING:  Tuesday, October 12, 2021

                              Editor:  Allan Finnigan

Meeting Called to Order  By President David Penney

Start Time: 6.05 PM

Rotary Grace:  Pat Dyck

O Canada:  Bill Creamer

Toast to the Queen:   Linda Porritt

Guests:   Welcome to our Guest Speaker Todd Rollaur-Chief Durham Region Police Services; Chris Bovie -  Media Relations Director;  Glenn Courneyea Assistant Superintendent; District  7070 Rotaract chair Shauna Moore, Honourary Member Reg Malachowski

BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES.

Anniversary:  Terri Lynn & Robbie Larocque October 19

                     Moira and Dan Pantaleo October 7

Birthday:    Shawn Kellam October 11

                 Jill Fisher October 25

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.

Bingo – Saturday October 23rd; Team #3

Board meeting – Thursday October 14 – 7pm – ZOOM

Meeting at the Golf Club on October 19 is also cancelled

World Polio Day on October 21 LIVE from the Rotrary Global Classroom at Durham College – a virtual event from 7-8:15 pm – co-hosted by Oshawa and Oshawa Parkwood –  a premier event for District 7070 – watch for the link to register for this event

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

October 22 -  Is the presentation of our donation to Waverly School for their fitness equipment. Be  there at 12.00 noon. Everyone welcome.

Hilda announced that starting October 26 . 3 dinner choices will be chicken Caesar salad, club  sandwich and steak sandwich.       

ACE OF SPADES:

Sgt at Arms  Tim Dwyre

Draw Winner  Lennus Trotter  Card Drawn  10 of spades

Happy Bucks 

David Penney had a great cruise and was happy that Sue did a good job housekeeping while he was away

Linda happy we are doing kids for hunger again

Bob Stewart played golf with an 80 and a 90 year old golfer, moved up to hybrid teas with them and shot a par round.

Ted happy Kids for hunger is successfully  coming together

Dave Andrews was happy that his friend Reg Malachowski was there.

 Reg was happy to be back for a visit.

Speaker:  David Andrews introduced Chief Todd Rollaur

Todd presented an informative slide presentation:

• There are 1200 members on the police force at present

• They had the second public interaction meeting this year

• Inducting 29 new officers this month

• Had a successful youth in policing program with summer students

• Will have 200 officers equipped with body cameras by the end of the month

• Had a large increase in unwarranted vaccine calls, they have no authority to arrest

• The Police department are developing a vaccine strategy

• There are approximately 5 apprehensions per day in the down town area

• Gun crime-120 guns seized and 91 charges laid to date

• There was a 20 percent increase in mental health calls in 2021 over 2020

• With Provincial funding police (night)  foot patrols where increased down town

• Disorderly disturbances were up 22% this year

• Project ECO funded by the Province, Drug enforcement searched 28

and arrested 44

• Worked with 148 businesses downtown- handed out information sheets

Phase 1 put in 1200 hours and arrested 88

Phase 2 added 4 more officers arrested 115

Past President Allan Finnigan thanked Todd, Glen and Chris for their Durham Police administration  update.

Meeting ended at 8.05 pm.

OUR REGULAR WEEKLY MEETINGS ARE BACK  AT THE OSHAWA GOLF CLUB

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE AND OTHER ROTARY EVENTS PLEASE READ THE SECTION AT THE

END OF THIS BULLETIN

OCT 13, 20 and 27 – (3 nights)  6 to 8 pm - Rotary Leadership Institute  - Part TWO – Fall 2021 - Join us for an engaging session to learn and grow your knowledge of Rotary. . Register here: https://rotary7070.org/event/rli---part-2/

OCT  14– BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING AT 7:00 PM

OCT 16 – Grow Rotary Workshop  -  9:30 am to 11:15 am – Register here - https://rotary7070.org/event/grow-your-rotary---part-1/

OCT 19 -  Regular Weekly Meeting – MEETING CANCELLED. PLEASE SIGN UP FOR

                                                            THE OCTOBER 21 WORLD POLIO DAY EVENT

                                                      NO MEETING AT THE OSHAWA GOLF CLUB THIS WEEK

        OCT 13, 20 and 27 – (3 nights)  6 to 8 pm - Rotary Leadership Institute  - Part TWO – Fall 2021 -. FOR RLI PART 2, Register here: https://rotary7070.org/event/rli---part-2/

OCT 21 – WORLD POLIO DAY IN DURHAM REGION - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm –  joint meeting of Durham

                 Region Rotary Clubs and co-hosted by the Rotary Clubs of Oshawa and Oshawa-Parkwood,  in the Rotary

                 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. This is one of District 7070’s premier events in the Rotary

                  year :  The Rotary Foundation's Polio Eradication Initiative to END POLIO NOW. HERE IS THE LINK:

                https://durhamcollege.ca/globalclass/class/rotary-international-2021-world-polio-day/

MORE ROTARY INFORMATION:

THANK YOU FOR ZOOM:

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 look forward to all of our Zoom meetings and thank you both, for all of your help.

OUR REGULAR WEEKLY MEETINGS STILL ON ZOOM AND WILL NOT BE AT THE OSHAWA GOLF CLUB UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

We will let you know when and if we return to the Oshawa Golf Club. As it stands right now, the Oshawa Golf Club is not hosting any outside organizations (such as ourselves) at the present time.

FUNDRAISERS UPDATE:

# 1: GROW GREEN WITH ROTARY – Fall 2021.

Pre-order starting Sept 1. Delivery Sept 7. PLUS we will be at the North Oshawa farmers Market on Sept 11, 18 and 25 and Oct 2 and Oct 9

FUNDRAISER# 2: CATCH THE ACE:

IT’S HERE. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS.  – PLEASE GET REVVED UP TO GET YOUR “ASK” IN GEAR AND GET ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS TO BUY TICKETS EVERY WEEK FOR A CHANCE FOR THE BIG JACKPOT AND “CATCH THE ACE”. THE WEBSITE IS UP AND RUNNING . DRAWS EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT AT 8:00 PM.

FUNDRAISER# 3: END POLIO NOW TULIP CAMPAIGN – FALL 2021:

Coming SOON:

OUR REGULAR WEEKLY ZOOM MEETING LINK:

Topic: Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood Weekly Meetings on ZOOM, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Time: 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/99926166884 
Meeting ID: 999 2616 6884

Pass Code: 2020
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Meeting ID: 999 2616 6884

Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abpb4qHfvS

IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT, MAKE 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 Secretary Robbie Larocque, or give your make-up card to the attendance/registration officer at the next club meeting.