Posted by Jacqueline Smith on Oct 31, 2017
Anthem – Peter Masson
 
Grace – Mike Mushet
 
President toasts Queen, Canada, and Rotary
 
Attendance: 14 members;  4 guests
 
Basil Dias introduces Kathleen from Park Property Management. He’s hoping she will become a member. Arthur introduces Peter Lee, a member of Agincourt Rotary, and the husband of today’s guest speaker, Jane Pang.
 
Announcements:
 
 
 
 
 
Dave Hardy: The Scarborough Community Renewal Organization is meeting tonight at Scarborough Village Centre at 7:00pm. The Institute for New Suburbanism is having a meeting on November 1st at 7:00pm at JC’s Banquet Hall. There will be an exciting speaker from the United Kingdom at this event so all our encouraged to attend. A reminder about the district conference November 3-4 at White Oaks.
 
Jacqueline Smith-Jordan:  The eBay auction preparations are underway and we need volunteers in the following areas – Item Blocking and Upload, Photography, Photo Editing, and Item Check-in. Please let us know if you have free time to spare in the evenings or weekends to assist with any of these jobs. Basil reiterates that we also still need lots of items for donation. Mike announces if members don’t have a physical donation and want to bring in money that can be used to buy gift cards there are a few savvy accountants in our midst who can help with charitable tax donation receipts.
 
Arthur Retnakaran: The “Warm Hands Project” is underway and those members who agreed to deliver mittens to Scarborough schools should pick them up from Arthur after the meeting today.
Before moving to the Marbelous draw Gerd tells a not too funny joke about a badger and a horse. Allan suggests that Gerd be banned from future joke-telling.
 
Marbelous Draw: Arthur wins the consolation prize of $5. Many people jokingly question whether the draw is rigged because Arthur’s ticket number always seems to be drawn for the draw.
 
Sgt at Arms
Arthur fined anyone who is not wearing a Rotary pin and doesn’t know the meaning of his question “what was the score last night”?? Many fines are collected!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Peter is happy to have passed his driver’s test. Gerd is happy to have flown an “Owl” to Ottawa. Gord is sad that Fats Domino has passed away.
Rocco makes an announcement that Peter’s wife Joan has joined us! A few members offer to give up their seats so that Joan can sit closer to Peter. Peter’s not having it and says he sits with her all the time! Laughter breaks out!
 
Dhanni Ramdeen introduces the guest speaker, Jane Pang, who is the founder and principal of Clearview School of Arts and Culture.
Jane shares with us her knowledge of traditional Chinese culture and explains that she wishes to bridge Western and Eastern cultures. She explains why China is known as the Land of the Divine; the importance of Feng Shui in Chinese culture; and the difference between Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and how Taoism parallels Rotary’s Four Way Test.  She goes on further to explain how, in 1949, The Chinese Communist Party came to power and opposed the previous virtuous philosophies of traditional Chinese culture and how in 2006 the Shen Yun Performing Arts group was established to showcase the core traditional Chinese culture and bring its teachings back to the forefront. She invites all members to see an upcoming Toronto performance of the group in January and provides brochures.
 
 
 

 
Gordon Brown thanks the speaker and Mike Mushet closes the meeting.
 
 
 
Joke of the day:
Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Officer asks a young engineer fresh out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "And what starting salary are you looking for?" The engineer replies, "In the region of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package." The interviewer inquires, "Well, what would you say to a package of five weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every two years, say, a red Corvette?" The engineer sits up straight and says, "Wow! Are you kidding?" The interviewer replies, "Yes, but you started it."
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