MINUTES OF MEETING: Tuesday, October 28
Editor: Dave Andrews
Meeting Called to Order at 6:30 PM
Grace: Larry Hurren
Toast to the KING: Bev Fiddler
Land Acknowledgement: President Dave
We respectfully acknowledge that the Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood is meeting on the traditional territory of the Mississauga of Scugog Island First Nations, within the jurisdiction of the Williams Treaties. We are committed to our responsibility of stewardship, in these relationships and for this land on which we learn, share and live.
Toast to CANADA: Emmy Iheme
Visiting Rotarians and Guests: Introduced by Hilda Finnegan
Randy Gill – Their Opportunity – our guest speaker
Carole Rowsell – Rotary Club of Parkdale High Park Humber
Past District Governor Lars Henriksson – Rotary Club of Toronto Eglinton
BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES:
None tonight
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Past District Governor Lars Henriksson
As Chair of the District 7070 Rotary Foundation Grants Committee, Lars presented a cheque for a District Grant of $5,000 to our club to assist with the cost of the ingredients for our Kids Against Hunger food packing of 40,000 meals taking place on Nov 1 at the Jubilee Pavillion in Oshawa with the Rotary Clubs of Bowmanville, Oshawa, Whitby, Whitby Sunrise and Ajax joining in. Ted Morrison thanked Lars for the personal delivery of the cheque. When we donate to The Rotary Foundation, we can do very good thing for so many. Ted Morrison presented Lars with a recently found plaque from the Rotary Club of Port Hope for his official visit as District Governor in 2004. A little late but what a kind gesture.
Lennis
The Halloween Haunt at the Kids Safety Village was a tremendous success with 6,000 parents and kids, going through the Village on Oct 23, 24 and 25. Thank you to all of our Rotary Club Volunteers for taking shifts at Kids Safety Village,
Hilda
Get your Rotary Club T Shirt and Golf Shirt orders into Hilda before Oct 31, 2025
Ted
Sell those cakes and hams. Orders must be in before Nov 12. Cakes are $25 and Hams are $30.
Kids Against Hunger packing party is Saturday, Nov 1 at the Jube. Set up is at 7:30 am. Everyone else be there by 8:45 am for a 9 am packing start. Come join the fun. We’ll be done around 12 noon.
Emmy:
Oshawa Walk of Fame is Nov 6 at the Jubilee Pavillion. You can purchase tickets at https://oshawawalkoffame.ca/
President David
Our Club Board of Directors meeting is Nov 4 at 5 pm at the Oshawa Golf Club.
SGT AT ARMS: Larry Hurren
ACE OF SPADES:
President David held the winning ticket. He drew the 8 of Clubs. The pot grows….
HAPPY TWOONIES:
Al F
Thank you to Dale Duke for all of his tremendous audio visual work at the Rotary District 7070 Conference at Fern Resort
Bev
Happy to be so involved as a Rotarian. She volunteered at Bingo on Saturday, and at the Kids Safet Village on the weekend and this Saturday, she is volunteering at the Kids Against Hunger food packing at the Jube.
Janice
Go Jays. She stayed up until 2:20 am to see the 18 inning game.
Larry
Stayed up until 3 am for the game. He donated a lot of bucks if we could guess the nicknames of some of the Jays.
Kim
She is going back to Asia from the end of Feb to April 1. She will be here and in charge of our Feb 17 meeting – All about Chinese New Year. Stay tuned.
Dave
On Monday and on Wednesday, Dave an Al presented the Big Rotary Cheque to 7 different organizations. A very proud time for our club. But it only happens if we have lots of volunteers helping raise those funds. We need everyone’s help so that we can keep on giving to those who need it the most.
Emmy
Very happy to see past District Governor Lars and Carole and also a very warm welcome to our guest speaker tonight, Randy Gill.
Ted
Very pleased to see Lars and Carole who came down from their home in Fenlon Falls to deliver our District Grant cheque for Kids Against Hunger food ingredients.
Ted said it was the best District Conference in 15 years. He is re-energized. Thanks to District Governor Niecy and her onesies and flip flop program and to the Polio plunge, a total of $22,000 was raised to End Polio Now. Dr Raffy and Sonya Chouljian matched that amount. Wow. All to End Polio. We heard from Joe Dittmar who was on the 105th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center on 9-11 a by making choices, got out. We also heard from Ramesh Ferris, polio survivor and District Governor who was paralyzed from polio. See you all next year Oct 23-25 , 2026 at Novatel in North York. You can even register today.
Carole Rowsell
Happy to be back with all of her friends at the Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood
Thanks to Kris’ PSW, Janice is now a Blue Jay’s fan (although she had to admit that she thought they won the World Series already).
Hilda
A great District Conference.
Thank you to our very own Dale Duke for all of audio-visual work at the District Conference.
Welcome to Lars and to Carole
We did it Rotarians. Thank you to all of the volunteers that allowed us to be at Bingo at the Red barn, at the Rotary District Conference , and at the Kids Safety Village. This only happens when we all volunteer together.
Lennis
Happy for the successful Halloween haunt at the Kids Safety Village
Dale
Happy that the District Conference is over. No one noticed but there were projector changes due to a faulty projector. (Great work Dale.) Thank you to District Governor Niecy for a very successful conference. And Dale has signed up to do it again next year for DG Liz Compton.
Lars
Very happy to be here. Happy to present the cheque for the District Grant. As he did many years ago when we expanded the Rotary building at the Kids Safety Village.
Shashi
Shashi is always happy to be with all of her Rotary friends.
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