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MINUTES OF MEETING : Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Bulletin Editor: Bob Stewart

ROTARY GRACE

O Lord, The Giver of all good,

We thank Thee for our daily food

May Rotary friends and Rotary ways

Help us to serve Thee all our days.

Grace: Sandy McDowell

O Canada: Peter Dueck

Toast To The Queen : Tim Dwyre

GUESTS/VISITING ROTARIANS:

A warm welcome to John Zarowny aka Johnny Z a guest of Bob Stewart

BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES : Happy Birthday to Craig, Shawn and Hilda. And Dan's Wedding Anniversary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Sue MacKinnon – We need volunteer on Oct 26 and 27 from about 4:30 pm to 8 pm to volunteer at the Halloween haunt at the Kids Safety Village. Many of our club memebrs will be at the District Cionference so that puts the onus on those not going to the conference to setep up to the plat and help with our signature project. Sign up TODAY.

Past Pres Dave Andrews – World Polio Day 2018, hosted by the Rotary Clubs of Oshawa and Oshawa-Parkwood, will be held right on the date, Wednesday October 24, 2018 at Durham College in the new Global Classroom of the new Centre for Collaborative Education. So far the Rotary Clubs of Oshawa, Oshawa-parkwood, port Perry and Port Hope have canceled their regular weekly meetings that week. Dave urged everyone to attend this grand event. Please register here at the District Website, as soon as you can. All of the Clubs in Durham Region have been invited and urged to register as soon as possible. The cost for the event will be $25 with a portion of the ticket price going to the Rotary Foundation's PolioPlus Program and will be credited towards your next Paul Harris Fellow. A light luncheon will be served and there will be a cash bar. There will be a fellowship time from 5:00 pm to 5:45pm followed by a welcome from Durham College and from Rotary District Governor Mary Lou Harrison. At 5:45pm, we will feed in the live stream Rotary Polio Program, righta after the intros with the live Rotary International program from Philadelphia this year from 6 to 6:45 pm . We will then continue to broadcasting live from Oshawa. During this live Oshawa portion, the two Rotary Club Presidents from Oshawa will receive their Proclamations from the Mayor of Oshawa, and the 10 Rotary Club Presidents and District Governor Mary Lou Harrison will receive their Proclamations from the Chair of the Regional Municipality of Durham. Dr. Bob Scott, the immdeiate Past Chair of the Rotary International PolioPlus Committee will bring us up to date and hoepfully , bring in some of his associates from the Polio stricken countries , again, live. Questions and answers will follow and then an after-party, finishing at 9 pm. The entire event will also be available, by computer, through a URL for any Rotary Club in the world to view. Go to the https://durhamcollege.ca/globalclass/classes/ and on Ocotber 24 , there will be the class : World Polio Day – Rotary International. In addition, the broadcast will be sent live all over the world, to the colleges and universities on the Durham College Global Classroom network.

Hilda Finnigan met a young lady, Monique Masoud, at a retail store in Oshawa recently. It turns out the she is a student at Durham College and doing pasrt time work. She rememberrs getting 2 drops of the polio vaccine in Pakistan when she was a young girl and she has agreed to come to World Polio Day and tell us her story.

Past District Governor Ted - announced that the Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood will have, as our guest speaker, a Rotary PeaceScholar, at our November 13 Rotay Club meeting, as part of our Rotary Foundation Month activities in November. Ted asked the othe clubs to please let Dave Andrews know if you wish to attend and perhaps bring a guest.

REMINDER: Janice Coupland – Oct 30 is our Oktoberfest Party at Rotary. Spouses invited. Traditional German dishes will be seved and Brock Street Brewery will be here with Beer for Oktoberfest. A fun night. Sign up sheet went around. Please email Janice if you and your guest are coming. Editor's note: It will be Party of the Century- try not to miss it.

REMINDER: Past Pres Dave Andrews – We have about 50 tickets to sell on the Big Game 53 (Superbowl) tickets from the Rotary E Club of Southern Ontario Western New York - $5 each or 5 tickets for $20.00. Please let Dave know how many you would like to sell. Two excellent opportunities coming up: Foundation Walk on Sept 30 and DG Mary Lou's visit on Oct 2. Can you help sell at these two events? Great prizes, first being 4 nights lodging and 2 tickets to the game plus $1,000. Plus many more great prizes. Final day to have money and ticket stubs returned is November 20.

REMINDER: Pres Linda - District 7070 Conference – Rotary Reunion in Prince Edward County – Register at http://rotary7070conference.org/ . Casual country all day and evening. 8:30 a.m. – Arrive and enjoy breakfast snacks between. All day Programming – Fun and learning through the six areas of focus. Lunch – Picnic lunch as you enjoy Reunion activities; 6:00 p.m.– Gather for the Rotary family banquet. Sunday– Prince Edward County area activities will be highlighted for personal enjoyment. The cost for the day is $99 per person. Register for the Oct 27 party at the Legion online too.

REMINDER: Treasurer Devon Biddle announced that our annual club dues invoice will be sent to us by email BUT you can pay right now at the front Registration Desk. Dues are $210 for the year (may be paid now or one half now and one half Jan 1, 2019). On the invoice , there will be a voluntary contribution of $100 for the Rotary Foundation Annual Programs Fund and $20 for Polio Eradication, if you so desire to pay, and Devon will ensuire that you get credit towards your next Paul Harris Fellow Award. Spouses may pay $165 annual dues for their membership, as long as one spouse pays the $210. You can start paying TODAY at the front Registration Desk, when you come in to the meeting. Invoices will be emailed shortly.

REMINDER: TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: AS SOON AS YOU HAVE YOUR COMMITTEES IN PLACE, PLEASE SEND THE NAMES OF THE COMMITTEE CHAIR, VICE-CHAIR AND MEMBERS TO DAVE ANDREWS SO THAT WE CAN UPDATE AND PUBLISH THE 2018-19 COMMITTEE CHART

SERGEAT AT ARMS REPORT: Sonya Thompson ACE OF SPADES DRAW: Dave Penney was the lucky winner tonight but alas, he drew the King of Spades and received a consolation prize, thanks to Dr Larry Hurren. The deck gets smaller and the pot grows.

DUTY ROSTER:

FOR October: Front Desk Sue MacKinnon Bulletin Editor AND Greeter Bob Stewart

(Editor’s note: If you cannot be available for these duties , please find a replacement)

HAPPY TOONIES:

Ted – sadly the end of summer as the new unused deck patio furniture was taken in for the winter

Larry – Cottage now closed up … but not the convertible top of his Miata

Hilda – we made $ 4 on Bingo

Devon – pleased at Hilda’s Announcement

David – pleased at last weeks meeting as we had a larger turnout than normal … much larger

Sue – just generally happy with life and stuff

Bob Koski - $ 5 as happy to be on Team 1 for Bingo plus Patty had successful knee surgery and their girls filled in and did wonderful job on the Turkey dinner. Also had fun reading about last weeks ultimate three club buffet feast

ROTARY MOMENT

From your bulletin editor: Leafs win….Leafs win…Leafs win…

GUEST SPEAKERS : Our own memebr Dan Pantaleo – His craft / Classification Talk

Dan was married in 1982 and he and his wife have 2 sons and a daughter. All doing very nicely in life. His parents came to Canada from Italy . Dan has 4 brothers and 2 sisters. His father was a hardworking Steam Fitter specializing in High Rises. A favourite memory of Dan was growing up in the lively Kensington Market area. When he was only 15 years old Dan began to consider a careerin Justice. Hence he went on to become a Police Officer for about 20 years before joining the private sector purchasing an Alarm Security Company . He started up the successful Canguard Agency around 2006. Canguard encompasses Private Investigation, Uniformed Guards ( keep multi past President Dave safe at home ), Training ( connected to Corrections Ontario ?) , Alarm Systems and Security Camera Systems. He currently employs 12 people and they all strive to deliver “ PREMIUM SERVICE “ Access through www.canguard.org. Daniel answered numerous questions from very interested listeners and said that 80 % of all home break ins happen the the daytime … and most through the front door.

We are certainly very fortunate to have added such a personable and interesting Rotarian.

Dan was introduced and thanked by President Linda.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:15 PM.

IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT, MAKE UP : Go online at www.rotary.org go to the Rotary Club Locator and find a club or clubs near your destination. Or you can add the free App Rotary Club Locator to your phone for instant look up of any club in the world. Please mail or fax your make-ups to Secretary Robbie Larocque, or give your make-up card to the attendance/registration officer at the next club meeting.