District Governor Michael Bell visit

 

 
An email was sent to all club members that Andrew and Leigh Elliot were moving back to their family and home in the UK. They have spent 4 years in Canada and have been an incredible source of support to our club.
With strong leadership and an obvious compassion for their community, they will be missed, We wish them all the best in their return home.
 
President Leigh thanked the club for the many emails they received on the their announcement
 
- Ride for Refuge 50 km event is this Saturday October 3rd. at 9:00am
- Book club starts this week, hosted by Betty. Wine will be involved.
- Bowling at Leisure Lanes October 17th at 4:00 pm. Some members are attending The Royal Oak north for dinner and drinks, all are welcome.
  Jeff Callery is the musical guest.
- The Rotary Learning Institute courses are being held November 7th at the Oshawa Golf Club anyone wishing to attend will so at the club's expense -Fred commented how much he enjoyed the           Mystery Dinner a good time was had by all, and hopes it will be done again.
- District Governor announced a new program by the Canadian government where $1.2 million dollars is to be used by Rotary's 6 avenues of service over the next five years.
 
 
President Leigh turned the meeting over to Ray to review the International Committee projects.

 
International overview

 
International Committee members : Ravi Joshi, Simon Kariuki, John Patte, Charlie Rolland, Des Newman, Arthur Capon, Larry Giofu board representative
 
Ray reviewed the grant formats in that a District Simplified Grant has a limit of $30,000.00 and has a 1:1 return rate on the money raised, and is much easier to apply for.
A Global Grant is for projects over $30,000.00 and has a return rate of
3:1 on the money raised. The application process is substantially more complicated, and can be quite a lengthy endeavour. From start to finish it can sometime take years to complete.
 
Past Major Projects
 
- 1970 we were involved in bringing cattle to Haiti
- School project in Jamaica
- Leg brace project in West Africa with Dr. Ken Hobbs Bill & Marion Irwin were instrumental in this as well.
- Dr Hobbs was also involved in India with the Polio and Measles vaccines.
- We have a long standing relationship with Dr. Paul Thistle
 
Current Ongoing Projects
 
- Rift Valley Water Plan
- Malawi combined with Dignitas in support of Aids
- South African Literacy and Training for illiterate adults in conjunction with the Kitchener Club
- Karanda Mission Hospital in Zimbabwe with Dr. Paul Thistle where global grant money has just been received.
- Mansfield Mission which is a $40,000.00 project
 
New Projects
 
- We contributed $2,000.00 to the Laos Water venture with Steve Rutledge of the Sunrise Club
- $2,000.00 was contributed toe the Tanzania Water Project with the Toronto Skyline Club and Dr, Julie Caron
- Ugandan School Water project in Kampala
- Biddi Race contribution of $2,000.00 for student support
- There is a potential for a water project in Kenya coordinated by Simon
- $2,000.00 for Karanda Mission Hospital
 

 
Happy Bucks

 

 

- District Governor Michael Bell paid as he was glad to be at our club.
- Hans Rempel paid to sit on "The Throne" and comment on how much he enjoyed the Mystery Dinner and wishes it to continue -Sean Lockhart also paid for "The Throne" privilege and announced       forward movement in his health and job.
-Larry paid and commented on the success of the Mystery Dinner and also wished it to continue.
 
Birthdays- Joe Dale, Jane Ritchie, and I apologize to the third person but I did not write your name down.
 
Sorry if I missed anybody or anything.
 
50/50 draw  Chris Butryn and Mary Souter were unsuccessful in their attempts to win the draw.
 

 

 

 

 

Val Wafer introduced our guest speaker Michael Bell
 
He is a member of the Rotary Club of Etobicoke and has added 41 new members to their club. He helped the Etobicoke club raise $650,000 at the Ribfest. He is a Paul Harris recipient.
Michael thanked the assistant District Governors for all their hard work. He reminded us if the Be a Gift to The World theme for 2015.
He showed a video of Rotary President Ravi Ravindran.
He spoke on the importance of Rotary membership and to show compassion to our club members.
He shared three goals for 2015-2016 to add 100 members,$800,000 for Rotary Foundation, and to add 1 fellowship event.

 

He shared his Strategic Planning Tools

 

- Presidential Citation
- District 7070 Foundation Citation
- Six areas of Focus
- Rotary Club Central
- Club Visioning
- Rotary Leadership Institute

 

He further touched on the End Polio Campaign and how close we are asked are we ready? Nigeria and Africa are now polio free. World wide there was 359 cases of polio last year, compared to 42 this year.

 

He reviewed the 2015-2016 District Events
- Million dollar dinner
- Foundation Walk September 20th.
- RLI training October 3rd.
- District Conference October 23rd at the Westin Harbour Castle
- District Assembly May 14th at the BMO Center for Learning
- Rotary International Convention May 28th in Souel Korea
 
Michael Bell was thanked for his visit.
 
President Leigh also thanked Michael Bell for attending then adjourned the meeting.