August 14 2019

Posted by David Hardy on Aug 17, 2019

14 August 2019

 

22 attended

Guests: Dr. Beth Selby, District Governor; Hadia Raheel, Assistant Governor; John Ramdeen

Anthem: Peter Masson

Grace: Dr. Arthur Retnakaran

 

Speaker: District Governor Dr. Beth Selby was introduced by Assistant Governor Hadia Raheel.

Dr. Selby shared her joy at hosting exchange students particularly a future Dr. Leticia Marquis, a former exchange student from Mexico.  She pointed out that exchange students symbolize this year’s RI Theme – Rotary Connects the World.  She said International President Daniel Mark Maloney identified four goals: 1) grow Rotary 2) involve our families, 3) build a viable path to Rotary leadership 4) renew Rotary’s history with the United Nations.  The new Rotary Vision is Unite People and Take Action.  

Beth’s goals for our District are: 1) 20 in 2020 referring to 20 exchange students in and out of the District; 2) assist Presidents to strengthen Clubs; 3) improved uptake of Global and District Grants; 4) increase public service activities; 5) increase and heighten our public image.  She stated that our District is pursuing the ‘mill for Bill’ program so as to make District 7070 the largest contributor to the Foundation.  She ended by pointing out the great program for the District Conference in October and invited everyone to attend.

District Gov Beth.MP3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Announcements:

  • Councillor Cynthia Lai said that the North Scarborough community was changing from focusing on shelter to also supporting an Asialicious Carnival at the Woodside Square Shopping Mall at McCowan and Finch on Saturday August 24 at 7:00.  She invited the North Scarborough Rotary Club to be a sponsor and attend as a community partner.  It is being co-sponsored by the Federation of Asian Canadians Toronto (FACT).
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  • Gordon said that the Rotary box was missing a bag of wires for the Power Point Projector.  Gerd will do an email blast asking for it to be returned.

 

SAA: Avrum Liederman.  No fines but happy bucks.

  • Dave for returning from his trip to Battle Harbour, Labrador
  • Maddy for a trip to Switzerland where she could speak German
  • Arthur for receiving and hosting friends from Sault Ste Marie
  • Gerd for having his mother visit for three weeks and their imminent trip to Germany
  • Ralph Jones for having a chance attend the Club meeting
  • Avrum for returning from vacation
  • Basil’s happiness at seeing Chelsey thump Manchester United
  • Sai Foo’s happiness at Cynthia joining us for lunch
  • Barry for the DG’s visit
  • Peter for a recent sailing and racing opportunity on Lake Ontario
  • Gordon for a UK trip where he had an opportunity to speak English and for their new 7th grandchild.

Marbelous Draw:

Sai Foo Lau.   Mutant marble was drawn by Gerd Wengler.  Congrats Gerd.

Next meeting August 21st will be informal but at the same place and time. This is an opportunity to have a “dress down Friday” but on Wednesday so that we can replace our normal club formalities with just catching up on what’s going on in each other’s busy lives.

 

Reminder. Items are needed now!

 

 

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