MINUTES OF MEETING: Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Editor: David Andrews
Meeting Called to Order at 6:30 PM: by President Hilda Finnigan
Grace: David Mankiewicz
Toast to the KING : Lennis Trotter
Land Acknowledgement: 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 : Emmy Iheme
Visiting Rotarians and Guests Guest – John Baboolal (former member of the Rotary Club of North Scarborough)
BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES: November 12 – Happy Birthday to Kristen Colton (Shawn Kellam’s wife)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hilda – Some of our members are still under the weather and we are thinking of them and hope they get well soon: Bill Creamer, Tess Pierce, and Pat Dyck.
Hilda – Remembered Terry Giles, our first (charter) Rotary Club President ,who passed away last week. He will be fondly remembered by everyone.
Lennis T. - Encouraged everyone to volunteer at the Kids Safety Village for Christmas at the Village from 4:30 pm to 8pm on Dec 6 , Dec 7, and Dec 14. Dec 13 is filled up but we need you to help the other nights. A sign up sheet went around. Please let Lennis know, as soon as you can, which nights you are available to volunteer.
Ted M. - Cakes and Hams.. The hams are $30 and the cakes are $25. Deadline for all final orders is TONIGHT November 12th.
Hilda – we are all invited to the ground breaking ceremony of the Whitby Hospice (our club has made donations) on Nov 15 at 2 pm. (corner of Crawforth and Prince of Wales Drive in Whitby).
Hilda – There is still time to register for the District 7070 Rotary Foundation Grants Qualification Workshop on Nov 16 from 8:30 am to 2 pm at the Oshawa Shrine Club. Please let Ted Morrison know if you can attend.
Hilda – Esther Trotter has planned a lunch for the ladies and spouses of the club on Nov 21. Lennis is going to fill in at Bingo so that Hilda can attend. Thank you Lennis.
Hilda - Next Bingo is Nov 21 with Hilda, Al, David P, and Robbie. Hilda also attended the Annual General Meeting of the Red Barn Bingo Charities on Nov 4.
Jan – Participation House Christmas party will be Dec 3 at the Jubilee Pavilion from11:30 am to 1:30 pm. Spouses invited. A sign up sheet went around. Please let Jan know if you can attend.
Jan – Our club Christmas party is the week of Dec 10. Please let Jan know where you want to go for our party. The party can be any time that week, depending on room availability. Details will follow.
Hilda – A tremendous season selling Ploughman’s Choice. Only a dozen bags left. Thank you to Emmy for making a big sale to Bob Jarvest (RC Whitby Sunrise).
Robbie – We are having a regular weekly meeting on Nov 19 at the Golf Club. Regular time. Our speakers will be the Reverse Draw, Dinner and Silent Auction Committee. This will help keep our members well informed on our planning and encouraged to help.
Ted M – Has picked up a huge prize for our may 8 Silent Auction table – 2 tickets to every attraction in Niagara Falls – a $500 value. Ted encourages everyone to start getting silent auction items anytime.
Ted M. - Cakes and Hams.. The hams are $30 and the cakes are $25. Deadline for all final orders is TONIGHT November 12th.
Hilda / Jan – Nov 26 - We host DG Virginia O’Reilly and her official club visit Tuesday Nov 26th at the Oshawa Golf Club. Oshawa Rotary Club is coming too – a joint meeting. Meal Cost is $40. Sign up with Jan Coupland (sheet was passed around). There will be soup, a build your own salad , topped with shrimp or chicken if you wish, roll & butter, dessert tray, coffee .
Ted M – Giving Tuesday is fast approaching. Why not make a donation to the Rotary Foundation. Do it before Dec 31 and get a tax receipt for this year.
Ted M – An urgent request from Partners In Service – individual with cerebral palsy need a new suctioning machine. The first one broke down. The Government only pays for the first one. Debbie Morgan has vetted this request. Our share would be $329.53. Our club members approved the request. Thank you all.
Lennis T – On Nov 15 at 2 pm at the Kids Safety Village, there will be a meeting to plan the Christmas at The Village program . On Nov 25, there will be the Annual General Meeting of the Kids Safety Village. Time to be announced.
SGT AT ARMS Shashi Bhatia
ACE OF SPADES The draw was won by Shashi and she drew the Queen of Spades. Only 20 cards left. For next week. The pot grows bigger. It is now over $600.
HAPPY BUCKS
Shashi B – A great Oshawa Walk of Fame Gala. Emmy was an excellent host with Louise Parkes.
Bob Stewart – Sad that he has not seen Dave A. walking up Masson Street lately. Dave has changed his route, He will walk by their house one day soon.
Robbie – as club admin he has most of the blanks filled in for bulletin, greeter, front desk and sgt at arms for the year.
Irina – Glad to be back at the Rotary club and her eldest is 9 yrs old today.
Al F. – Doated $2 that he received from Bob Koski. Something about a political election.
Emmy - A belated Happy Birthday to Jan Coupland. And he was very happy with the Walk of Fame. Thank you to Dale Duke who did all of the audio and visual for the event. Thank you to Kim for getting so many excellent items for the silent auction. Thank you to so many Oshawa-Parkwood members for attending.
Linda P – Glad to carry the Oshawa-Parkwood wreath in the Oshawa Remembrance Day parade , walking with Oshawa Rotary President Grant Desjardine and then being at the service with Rotarians from both Rotary Clubs.
Linda P – Thank you to Kim for selling so many cakes and hams in her first year with our club.
Dave A – Thank you to Emmy for a first class Walk of Fame Gala
Hilda – Prayers for Greg Finnigan who is undergoing a bone marrow transplant
SPEAKERS Board of Directors Update and Annual General meeting of the Oshawa-Parkwood Rotary Club Charitable Foundation
Ted Morrison started the updates with our Club’s Rotary Foundation Committee. Ted noted that we have already reached our goal for donations to the Polio Fund of the Rotary Foundation, but he encouraged us all to make donations to the Annual Programs Fund to reach our goal. He talks about the various programs of the Rotary Foundation, including the $9,000 District grant for the Kids Against Hunger program that helped us pack 45,000 meals last weekend and the Global grant that we are pursuing to help patients from getting malaria in Kenya. He reminded us that any donations made to the Foundation before Dec 31 would get a tax receipt for the 2024 tax year.
David Penney updated us on the activities of the International Service Committee. His committee is busy reviewing two new request to assist clubs with global grants for a school in Uganda and a cancer screening mobile van for India. The committee is recommending a donation of $1,200 to Shelterbox Canada. We have donated $2,000 to Adopt A Village Laos and are very close to obtaining the grant for malaria aid for Kenya and the water global grant for the Hospital in Uganda.
Robbie Larocque update the activities of the Administration committee. Each year we send poinsettias to some of our shut ins and he will need volunteers to take those plants to them.( near the end of November). He still needs volunteers to help with registration desk in January and April, and he needs bulletin editors in April and June. We also need a sgt a arms for Feb 2025. Please sign up with Robbie.
Hilda updated the activities of the Community service Committee. She thanked the committee members for their assistance. So far this Rotary year, our club has made donations: $1,000 to Salvation Army: $2,000 to Simcoe Hall; $1,000 to Sharons Kids (CAS Holiday of Hope) ; $2,500 to Grandview Kids; and $1,000 to Autism Home Base. Treasurer Linda Porritt added that we also donated $1,000 to Alzheimer Society; $2,000 to Feed The Need in Durham; $3,000 to Durham College Skills Trade Centre (the final instalment of our $10,000 donation over 3 years). Along with the other 5 Rotary clubs, our club paid for $2,000 for the ingredients for the Kids Against Hunger meal packing.
Al Finnigan updated us on the activities of the Public Image Committee. He noted that we are constantly adding posts and events to our social media Facebook and Instagram accounts. He added that in the next 2 weeks, more posts will be seen with our club making donations to various charities in Oshawa.
Treasurer Linda Porritt updated us on our financial activities. She noted that we have raised $18,600 so far this year , including $1,160 from the Rotary Foundation Walk.
President Hilda noted that the Annual General meeting of our Rotary Club is postponed until we have the incorporation completed and the by-laws revised to reflect changes to ONCA (Ontario Non for profit Corporations Act).
She introduced Al Finnigan who , as president , presided over the Annual general meeting of the Oshawa-Parkwood Rotary Club Charitable Foundation. The new Board of Directors will be : Al Finnigan (President); Robbie Larocque (Vice President); Jan Coupland (Secretary); Bill Creamer (Treasurer), Dave Andrews (exec Secretary), and Directors Don Igbokwe, Larry Hurren, Emmy Iheme, and Shashi Bhatia.
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