President Gordon started the meeting with a bang on the gong and a toast to the Queen, Canada and Rotary.
Attendance: 16 members and one guest, Joan Masson, wife of Peter Masson.
Today’s program was Director’s Reports, ably presented by our club Directors.
President Gordon started things off by thanking all club members for their support during these trying pandemic times, reminding us of the fantastic work we continue to accomplish, and the fact that we have been able to induct new members.
Next up to bat was Rocco Colangelo, Director of Club Service. This group meets monthly on the 2nd Monday , to schedule all club functions, duties and activities, including weekly meetings, speakers and club social activities. The 3rd week of the month is dedicated to a fellowship evening meeting, temporarily replacing what would have been our “pub nights”
Club Service arranges for the various groups to take turns organizing the “Pod” system, with responsibility for the several tasks required to successfully run a weekly meeting, including Sargent at Arms, Greeter, Introducing and Thanking the Speaker, and Reporting.
This was followed by Arthur Retnakaran, Director of Community Services, Youth Services and Fund Raising. This group is responsibly for our Service above Self in our local community.
As the community needs have escalated during the current pandemic, emphasis has been placed on Shelters and Food Insecurity. Money has been allocated for the youth program Adventures in Citizenship, as well as Trans Care Community Support Services (meals to wheels and wheels to meals), Dr. Roz’s Healing Place (a Women’s Shelter), Youth Link Shelter ( previously Big Sisters), the Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care, and Agincourt Community Services.
Barry Smith, Director of International Service was next. This group is our arm that helps to make our world a better place.
Besides responsibility for our donations to our RotaryInternational Foundation, donations were made to Operation Eyesight (treating avoidable blindness in the third world), Sleeping Children Around the world ( providing bed kits for children forced to live on the streets), Shelter Box Canada (providing boxes with tents, cooking utensils, and repair tools and material to disaster hit areas), and ROOTA (a program to assist marginalized people in Egypt who collect and recycle trash for their survival). We also support the Laos water and Sanitation Project (bringing clean water to villages in Laos)
The International Group is also researching other projects such as Support for Refurbishing the Beirut Hospital (destroyed after the disastrous explosion), and the Rise Ghetto Initiative (a program to supply free sanitary material to girls in the slums of Kampala) and their Menstrual Purse Program.
Our Treasurer, Dhanni Ramdeen, reassured us that we’re not broke yet. With major donations from Park Propertiesand their partners, Champ Engineering, Hardy Stevenson & Associates, Investers Group and other donors, we have been able to weather the pandemic storms and retain a small surplus for rainy days.
Our club is looking into the Great Lakes Clean-up, to see if we are able to work with the other Scarborough Clubs to do Environmental Good in our Community.
SAA Alan collected Happy Thoughts from all and sundry, including Courtney (who is trying to get his Rotarian uncle to join one of our Zoom meetings), Peter (who has had his first jab), and a generally happy crowd.
Today’s program was Director’s Reports, ably presented by our club Directors.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x25qegkcfdjc88v5urcxa/President-s-Report.docx?dl=0&rlkey=75ddiacyypsuhfkhw6nlfde3h
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rwefhot3tjwsppcq2gyv7/Community-Services-Group-report-to-the-Club-on-10th-March-2021.docx?dl=0&rlkey=bq68gqb7hrhat9kx4pzkerp0b
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a6641hubv71pcry/ROTARY%20CLUB%20OF%20NORTH%20SCARBOROUGHInternational%20Service%20Committee.pdf?dl=0
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https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/frdygz6xhsyfryb87nbq5/NSRC-Treasurer.docx?dl=0&rlkey=qj27gm06v2isnjiiqgvr3230j
SAA Alan collected Happy Thoughts from all and sundry, including Courtney (who is trying to get his Rotarian uncle to join one of our Zoom meetings), Peter (who has had his first jab), and a generally happy crowd.
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