Land recognition: President Courtney opened the meeting and read the land recognition.
National Anthem: Gordon then led us in the National Anthem.
Toast to King, Canada, and Rotary. Courtney gave a Toast to King, Canada, and Rotary.
Members present: 10 members present. One guest (other than the speaker), Courtney, introduced his wife, Sandra.
Courtney introduced the speaker, Stephen Siu, President of Yee Hong Community Wellness Foundation He was assisted by Denise Yan Senior Manager of Development.Prior to being President of Yee Hong, Stephen was Executive Director of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto. Then he took up a director position with the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in Toront, in charge of Hong Kong Government’s public relations across Canada Yee Hong is the largest non–profit senior care home in Canada They have four long-term care centres The first one opened in 1994, then one in each of 2002, 2003 and 2004 There is a total of 805 beds They have many programs throughout the day They have dancing to help people with Parkinson’s and table tennis for those with Alzheimer’s The Yee Hong Peter K. Kwok Hospice is the only hospice in Scarborough They are very highly rated and have a waiting list of 10 years, compared to the Ontario average of 152 days and 16 months for other religious/cultural long-term care facilities.
Link to the recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/upqflrxh5jri7qy/6_7%20Stephen%20Siu.MP3?dl=0
For more information their website is www.yeehong.com/foundation.
Arthur then formally thanked Stephen for his presentation.
Announcements:
- Rocco advised there will be Club Service Group Meeting at Madhavi’s next Monday, June 12th.
- Avrum announced that Scarborough Health Network is having a ‘Zoo Day’ this Sunday, June 11th, one of the sponsors being IG Wealth Management Avrum has some tickets, so he asked if anyone is interested to let him know.
- Basil announced that next week we will be inducting our newest member Dr. Vijay Kumar Chattu.
Sergeant-at-Arms.Basil was SAA this week, and he fined anyone who was not wearing a Rotary pin or had the Rotary logo.
Happy bucks.
- Danny thanked everyone who contributed to his Ride to Conquer Cancer this coming weekend He also announced that the furnace had been sold and installed $5000.00 has been deposited to the club account.
- Gerd told a joke – “What do you get if you tell a semi-funny joke in Hawaii? – A low ha” (aloha)!
Arthur told a joke which is too long to write here, so please listen to the ‘announcements’ recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pymgwdnqs8gy59v/6_7%20Announcements.MP3?dl=0
There being no further business, President Courtney closed the meeting.
