Directors' Reports

Rotary Club of North Scarborough

Rota-Teller
September 4, 2013

Anthem: Peter Masson
Grace: Gordon Brown
Toast: President Rocco Colangelo

Attendance: 19 including guests:
Margaret List, guest of our newest member Roland List
Jadish Joshi (prospective member)

Announcements:
-All members are advised of the change in address for Jack Holman.  (The annual dues invoice has been sent out with his OLD address).  The new one is now on our website but here it is again:

P.O. Box 194
#112 Fire Route 371
Kinmount, ON
K0M 2A0 (Those are zeros 0 not "O" s)

Group meetings to be held:
Group 1 Monday Sept 9th at Charles Whitney's home (7:30 pm) 
Group 2/3 Monday Sept 9th at Peter Masson's home (7:30 pm) in Swan Lake Village in Markham
Group 4 Tuesday Sept 17th on or near Mike Mushet's boat at CBYC.

Mark you calendars for the Foundation Walk in Newmarket on October 6th.  Details to follow

Marbelous Draw:
Peter Masson was the $5.00 winner this time again.  But he's no richer after the S@A David returned Prime Minister Laurier's offering to the club's treasury.

Seargeant at Arms:
Dave Hardy got into form by fining any members who did not attend the recent "First Annual Scarborough Rotary Multi-club Networking Picnic"
Happy Bucks were donated by:
Jim Boyko who with Marti enjoyed a cruise on the Northlander superyacht.  See http://www.camperandnicholsons.com/yacht-charter/northlander-475/ if you want to what a 124 foot superyacht has to offer for a week on the water.
Basil Dias donated to celebrate their return from a trip to our east coast in Dorothy's car which was short on luggage space but great for seeing the sights.
Rocco Colangelo reported that granddaughter Laura is now at University of Ottawa after her report to us last week and she says we are a "COOL" group of ???

Induction of New Member (see photo)
A team of members carried out the induction of Roland List to be a member of the Rotary Club of North Scarborough.
Basil Dias made the nomination, Dhanni Ramdeen, David Hardy, David Seemungal and President Rocco completed the induction.
We all welcomed Roland as a new member of our club and his wife Margaret who was there to support him. 

Directors' Group Reports:

Group  reports and a Foundation can be downloaded from Dropbox  at:

Directors Reports  https://www.dropbox.com/s/qhluv5116eh2uaa/Group%20reports.MP3
Foundation Report  https://www.dropbox.com/s/ub4l2t3d7jchqkt/Foundation.MP3

Those that were submitted in written form follow:

North Scarborough Rotary Group 1 update, Sept 2013

Group 1, as you know, is responsible for the running of the club. Our lunch-time meetings are organized via the POD system which has been in place now for about 4 years and it is running well. It gets members more involved in the running of these meetings and everyone seems to agree that the quality of the speakers has improved since its implementation.

Of course we try to have some kind of fellowship event about every month. Last month (August) we had what we have now named the “Lifetime Achievement Award” party at Mike Mushet’s Yacht Club. This year it was in honour of Al McDougal – each year it will be in honour of one of our long serving members – most of them now being honorary members. We are trying to arrange the President’s Party at the Toronto Hunt Club for sometime in the Fall – once Charles is able to ‘pin down’ a date with Jacob!  Camp Enterprise is in the latter part of October so we don’t want to arrange anything that will interfere with that. The Christmas Party is set for December 13^th.  Thank you Carolyn.

Within our group Kevin Manuel is the speaker co-ordinator. So, if you have any speakers you would like to invite to the club, contact Kevin and check what dates are available. Joan Manuel is the sick and visiting contact – so if you are aware of someone in the club who is ill or bereaved  please contact Joan and she will arrange for a card to be sent and, if appropriate, flowers to be sent as well. If you wish to advertise on our website then Rocco is the person to contact for this.  

We are in the process of setting up a survey through a program called Survey Monkey. The idea of this is to get club members to give us some feedback on what you like about the club, the things you think could be improved and any new ideas you might have. So when this is sent to you please take the time to respond. 

Upcoming meetings are on the calendar on our website – so if any of you would like to attend the meetings then we would be pleased to see you – just let us know first.   

Thank you.

Gordon Brown, Director, Group 1 (2013/14)

North Scarborough Rotary Group 2/3 Update, Sept 4/13. 

We have hit the ground running this year.

With our group meetings scheduled for the year, and our POD duties for September and October posted, we are ready to turn our focus to “Camp Enterprise” and our “Warm Hands Project”.

We have been busy behind the scenes, and hope to pull “Camp Enterprise” together at our next meeting on September 9/13. It is essential that we move quickly, in order to get the students that we need, for the October 18-20 date.

We have put in place a team for our “Warm Hands Project” and plan to get them together at our next meeting, to divvy up the work load, and set the plan in motion.  We want to have the gloves in place, long before”Old Man Winter “shows up.

We plan to send a candidate to “Adventures in Citizenship” in the spring, so please forward names of anyone that you know who might be interested in this amazing experience. At present, I am awaiting the application release,

Our “Paul Harris Scholarships” are in the capable hands of Peter Masson. He will be talking with the other clubs involved and we will keep you posted as to the when and where, as well as what further assistance we will need.

This year we will be looking into having an applicant attend RYLA. The program is usually run in May.At this time there is no information available.

 We plan to continue supporting our community, as we have in the past. In addition, this year, we hope that we can find some local worthy projects to support. “The people who fall through the cracks”.

 If you know of anyone who needs our help, please have them forward their request to Group 2/3 for consideration.

We have a great team.

Thank you Peter for standing in for me, I really appreciate it.

I look forward to working together in 2013/2014.

Carolyn Nicholson,  Director, Group 2/3