Rotary Awareness Month is January

Rota-Teller

December 4, 2013

Anthem: David Seemungal

Grace: Jim Boyko

Toast: Rocco Colangelo

Attendance: 17, including 1 guest, Gerrard Baribeau from the Rotary Club of Scarborough.

Announcements:

Rocco read out a “Thank You” note from Operation Eyesight thanking us for our ongoing financial support.

Dhanni  - Thanks to Jack Holman and Cheryl Meredith who contributed $500 each to purchase one shelter box that will be matched by the federal government for the Philippines disaster.

Dhanni – encouraged all to come out to next week’s meeting and be part of the presentation of the big cheque to the Kizegi Maternal Health camp project in Uganda.

Marbelous Draw: Basil Dias was awarded the consolation prize of $5.

Sargeant at Arms – Barry Smith

-      David Seemungal was fined for not attending and fulfilling his SAA duties at last week’s meeting.

-      Late arrivals were not fined as Barry was happy that they all attended the meeting.

Happy Bucks

-      Charles Whitney was happy for no reason.

-      Basil is ecstatic about his vacation to Jamaica for 3 weeks.

-      Joan is excited about her vacation in January to Atlantis in the Bahamas

-      Gerd enjoyed being entertained by the Prime Minister at 2 separate functions.

-      Jim Boyko was happy on his saving of $100 on car rental on his upcoming trip to Florida.

This week’s topic is Engaging Rotary.

January is Rotary Awareness month and Gerrard Baribeau, from the Scarborough club, asked us to promote Rotary through getting sponsorships of business card size advertisements in the Scarborough Mirror. The cost is $275 each and the objective is to get 40 sponsors in a 4 page space and the Mirror will donate the rest of the space to Rotary. There are 7 participating clubs, 5 from Scarborough clubs and York and East York clubs.
Gerald's remarks can be found on the following link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7krbbknkucxqxdh/Gerard.MP3
A PDF Promotion made last year is also available at this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/byvj1bt3ido5s96/08-09_V1_SCA_SENC_JAN11.pdf

Basil Dias spoke on Rotary Engagement and reminded us of the core values of Rotary.

·       Service

·       Fellowship

·       Integrity

·       Leadership

·       Diversity

Basil closed by quoting RI President, Ron Burton who invites all Rotarians to make a choice to “Engage Rotary and Change Lives” – the theme this year.