The Lung Association

Attendance:               16 including 2 guest speakers, representatives of the Lung Association: Seka Kokeza and Kathy Downes

 

Anthem:                     Gordon Brown

 

Grace:                         Dave Hardy

 

Toast to the Queen, Canada and Rotary:  President Gerd Wengler

 

Announcements:       Alan Meredith  gave us a brief introduction to the 2016 TV auction scheduled for November 18/19/20. This year we have a total of 5 Clubs participating. Alan pointed out that our Club has been finishing 2nd or 3rd in bringing in # of items but he would like to see our Club back to #1.  In order to achieve this, we need to start now in securing quality items for the auction. He told us that the item entry system this year will not allow to enter items if the value is less than $50. Anything less than 50$ would have to be bundled with something else.

                                   

                                    Dhanni Ramdeen reminded members of the international group to meet after the Rotary meeting.

 

Marbelous Draw:       Conducted by Frank Allison, drawn by the guest speaker Seka Kokeza The elusive mutant marble continued to elude Gerd/Mike team and had to settle for $5.

 

Sergeant at Arms:      S/A Gordon Brown fined who didn't participate to the park cleaning or attend the fireside, of course didn't cost anything if both events were attended.

 

Happy bucks:             Arthur was happy and thanked all who participated in the park cleaning.

                                    Gerd was happy that the 45k Bruce Trail hike was successfully completed.

                                    Peter Masson happy that he will soon be sailing.

                                    Dave Hardy happy to be heading to Fort Myers Florida.

 

Program:                    Gordon Brown introduced today's speaker Seka Kokeza from the Ontario Lung Association who provided a very interesting presentation on the health of our lungs.

 Seka Kokeza,

Campaign Officer, new to the Ontario Lung Association, she is responsible for building and strengthening partnership with organizations and individuals across the province.

Seka also provides support for the Breathing as One Campaign for Lung Health Research.

 

For more than 100 years, The Lung Association has been dedicated to its mission of promoting and improving lung health for all Canadians. The Lung Association movement began in 1900 to control the spread of tuberculosis and provide better services for TB patients.

Today, the Lung Association focuses on all issues that affect the ability of Canadians to breathe.

Seka Kokeza’s presentation included many very interesting tips on how to take care of our lungs such as: 

Stay informed for good air quality programs, refrain from smoking and also avoid 2nd hand smoking, RADON awareness which is the 2nd leading cause of lung cancer and many more advice on how to always keep our lungs in check.  

Kathy Downes joined Seka on answering the many questions coming from almost everyone present.  For the full details of the presentation follow the audio link.

Dhanni Ramdeen thanked Seka for her interesting presentation and presented her with an operation eyesight certificate for speaking to us today.

To listen to the MP3 audio presentation please open the attached link.