Bulletin - July 9, 2019 (Jul 09, 2019)

President Linda handed out the Prefect Attendance Pins to the largest number of Rotarians in our club’s history. Many Rotarian received perfect attendance during the 2018-19 Rotary year and received their Perfect Attendance Pin. They were not at all of our meetings but they were at committee meetings. Board meetings, community and international service events, District events and meetings, conferences and conventions. Well done to our awardees:

Pres Linda called on Past District Governor Ted Morrison to make some special presentations:

Rotary Foundation Benefactor – certificate and pin to David Penney. A benefactor to the Rotary Foundation means that in your will, you will leave a minimum of $1,000 US Funds, to The Rotary Foundation. Congratulations David. Ted noted that 15 of our 33 members are benefactors to The Rotary Foundation. Well done. Ted encourage ALL of our members to consider this donation in their will.

Ted then told us the history of how women became members of Rotary and recognized this to be the 30^thanniversary of accepting women in Rotary. Here is a link to the history. Ted awarded ‘Women 30 years in Rotary” Pins to our lady members: Hilda Finnigan (our first female President); Sue MacKinnon, Linda Porritt, Janice Coupland, Heather Drakes, Pat Dyck. Chidinma Igboanugo. Kim Boatman, and Sandy McDowell.

President Linda congratulated every member of the club on a job well done. We are going to receive the Rotary Citation again this year. We get more done, especially on our core projects than many clubs she has visited and other Presidents she has talked with. Our accomplishments go above and beyond as we drive ourselves.

President Linda presented awards to Rotarians who assisted with achieving our many goals in 2018-19:

President’s Award to Tim Dwyre - who stepped in and filled the many roles of Sgt at Arms and registration whenever Needed

President’s Award to Sue MacKinnon, our membership director who worked to ensure a net gain of members, followed up on many leads, developed a new procedure for handling member leads, continued to serve on the Kids Safety Village Board and served as a role model by attending many club, district, and international events.

President’s Award to Robbie Larocque (our Secretary) , and as co chair of our Reverse Draw Committee ,he helped achieve the highest fundraising total in many years . As secretary he kept all of the minutes and acted as a role model on many club activities, events and functions.

President’s Award to Devon Biddle – (our Treasurer), who ensure the financial health of our Club. He managed all Nevada ticket sales, licenses, applications, bingos. Dues, cakes and hams sales and profits, and served as chair of the District 7070 Audit Committee and as a role model in all activities at the club, District and International level.

Service Above Self Award to Hilda Finnigan – Hilda was always available to run the registration desk, sell tickets to all events, organize events and people, making sure we were on track. She looked after our flowers to our retired members, and chaired club service and bulletin and speakers functions.

Service Above Self Award to David Andrews – Dave met the 3 requirements for the Rotary Citation, added the people of action series on key members in the media (with president Linda), chaired the Superbowl raffle, worked on the cakes and hams and the Reverse Draw, the Friendship Day committee, and co-chaired the World Polio Day event at Durham College that was broadcast all over the world. He was chair of Public image for the club and for District 7070, attending many club, district and international events.

Community Service Award to Kim Boatman – our Director of Community and Youth Service. Kim continued to support the Rotaract Club of DC/UOIT, keeping in touch with our District 7070 Rotaract Rep, Carolina, finding a RYLA awardee , cochaired the highly successful Reverse Draw , continued with our Participation House Christmas Party, helped Mary Street School Girls empowerment and the McLaughlin Art Gallery Awards.

Club Service Award to Janice Coupland – Our District of Club Service – Jan was successful in completing our members dates of birth and entering them into the Rotary.org database. Her leadership was most appreciated at Friendship Day, World polio Day, Participation House Christmas party and the Reverse Draw. Her themed dinner nights were a tremendous success and are already scheduled for 19-20 as are all of our fun nights with spouses and friends throughout the year. We also thank her on being Chair of the Community Service committee and acting as a role model in many District and International functions.

Club Service Award to Sandy McDowell – We thank Sandy for organizing our major new fundraisers in two locations - for our Club at the Red Barn, and for the Kids Safety Village at Delta in Pickering. We thank her for her service as a Board member of the Kids Safety Village and thank her for her tremendous work on the Grans re-Opening of the Kids Safety Village.

International Service Award to Kris Sachdeva – Our Director of International Service – We thank Kris for his work on the Board of Directors and his tremendously successful Global Grant Project with the school in India, and all of the detailed work that went into it. We thank Kris for being a role model , participating in many District and International vents throughout the year.

International Service Award to Ted Morrison – Our Director of The Rotary Foundation – We thank Ted for organizing the second highly successful Kids Against Hunger project with 4 Rotary Clubs, his tremendous work on the World Polio Day, his achievement of averaging $100 per member to the Rotary Foundation Annual Programs Fund, and spearheading the brand new initiative “ A Mil for Bill” , his work on Friendship Day , and acting as a role model to so many Rotarians with his work at the District and at International functions.

Rotarian of The Year Award to Lennis Trotter – Our Vice president - We thank Lennis for his outstanding work on the Kids Safety Village Project for over 20 years culminating with the Grand Re-opening on Sept 22, 2018. Over 1,500 hours on this project in the last two years alone.

Special Award for Service to Ted Morrison – President Linda presented Ted with a Special Certificate of Appreciation Award for Service as President of our club in 2017-18 for the second time. Thank you for your leadership.

President Linda added that , in addition to these accomplishments:

We also increased our membership by welcoming Dan Pantaleo, Heather Drakes, Dr.Colin Carrie, and welcomed back Al Finnigan.

We increased our hands-on project participation at the Kids Safety Village. Kids Against Hunger, and Community with Brooms.

We highlighted our club members as People of Action through a series of articles in The Oshawa Express. (Editor’s Note:Thank you to Linda Porritt and to Sandy McDowell and to Kim Boatman).

We enjoyed craft talks by Dan Pantaleo, Dr Kris Sachdeva and Tim Dwyre.

We varied our program content with informative speakers.

We were very successful with RYLA and our Global grant.

We improved our member retention.

We carried out a number of successful events: Friendship Day, Community With Brooms, World polio Day, and Kids Against Hunger.

We continued to have fun and be a strong and generous Rotary Club, working in harmony with many community partners and with other Rotary Clubs, locally and internationally.

Linda presented Lennis with his President Pin and turned the gavel over to President Lennis.

President Lennis presented past President Linda with her Past President Pin and he Past President Gavel Plaque

President Lennis presented Sue with her Vice President Pin.

President Lennis Remarks:

President Lennis announced that the Board of Director has voted to accept the membership application of Jackie Schagen. The next step will be her meeting with the Rotary Information meeting and vote by the members before she can be inducted.

He thanked Past President Linda for leading the Club on so many accomplishments in 18-19.

Lennis introduced us to the new Rotary International President Mark Maloney and his theme : Rotary Connects the World.

Here is a link to President Mark Maloney and his theme and the goals that he has set for 19-20.

He introduced us to our new District Governor Beth Selby (from Cobourg) who will be meeting with us on September 24.

President Lennis encourage all of our members to support our club and our District Governeor and Rotary and our service to our local and international communities and he highlighted some major events coming up:

Sept 8 – Rotary Foundation Walk at Humber College

Sept 24 – District Governor Beth Selby visit to our clubs (Oshawa, Oshawa-Parkwood, Bowmanville)

Oct 24 – World Polio Day at Durham College

Oct 25 to 27 – District Conference in Muskoka

Next week, the club directors will be introducing our goals for 19-20.

Thank you very much to Devon and Linda Biddle for hosting us at their home, after the meeting as we thanked Past

President Linda for her successful year, and thanked President Lennis for leading us in 19-20.

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