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/