Attendance: 19 (including 2 guests, Dorothy Evans, guest of Basil, and Tunde Szabo, guest of Courtney, and our guest speaker)
President Danny started the meeting with a ring of the Rotary bell and a toast to The Queen, Canada and Rotary.
Program: Jacqueline Smith-Jordan on Agilec
Basil re-introduced our guest speaker to the club. Former club member, Jacqueline Smith-Jordan, then updated us on her work at Agilec. Unlike The Red Cross, where she was working last time she updated the club on her career changes, Agilec is not entirely charitable, and does do some fee-for-service work, but basically its mission is to work with people with disabilities, including vocational rehabilitation and disability management.
Jacqueline herself creates and conducts Agilec’s Government Funded Employment Programs, consisting of workshops and events. She created the “Revive Your Job Search” program as part of her application for the position with Agilec, and has since added several other very popular and useful programs for Agilec’s clients, including “Linked In Job Searches” and “Job Search for Older Workers”. She was initially the sole facilitator for these programs, but is now increasing the number of facilitators in order to allow her more time to create and implement more such employment programs.
Agilec also works for employers on a fee-for-service basis in order to assist them with corporate training programs and with successfully adding and maintaining people with disabilities in their work force.
Jacqueline fielded several questions from members, and then Mike Mushet thanked Jacqueline and praised her for her work in assisting those who would otherwise fall between the cracks in our social support network.
Jackie’s full presentation can be viewed now on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQmMLIC0KMU
Announcements:
- President Danny announced that the Board of Directors will be meeting Monday night at Rocco’s home. An email with details will follow.
- It was announced that the Rotary International Convention will take place June 2022 in Houston and that deals for hotels are still in effect, but time is running out for these early bird specials.
- Arthur announced that the Community Services Committee is having a meeting tonight at 7:30 pm.
- Dhanni announced that Park Property Management, through Gerd, had made a $50,000 donation to our club, and Gerd was heartily applauded for this fantastically generous donation.
Sgt-at-Arms, Gerd Wengler, worked the virtual room, collecting Happy Thoughts from those present. The contributions included:
- Gerd spent the weekend in Germany at a university reunion in the Black Forest and completed a $600 Million real estate deal for Park Property Management while there, involving a huge development in Cherry Hill Village in London, Ontario.
- Gordon was happy with the great turnout at the Pub Night at the Stone Cottage last week.
- Basil was involved in a car accident where he was rear-ended, but was happy that no one was injured.
- Dhanni enjoyed her Barbados vacation where she and John celebrated 50 years in Canada.
- Al Meredith has decided to visit Cancun for 3 weeks after two years of not being able to travel.
- President Danny enjoyed a Rotary event at Niagara-On-The-Lake and was also happy with all of the support that he has been receiving from the Board this year.
- Everyone else had a chance to share, and it turned out that we are quite a happy bunch!
President Danny then terminated the meeting
