Tina Bailey gave us an update on the impact on people's lives of the service dogs offered by Kingston 4 Paws, with an update on Millie, currently with foster parents in preparation for training.
CONGRATULATIONS
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* SPRING * 2023 GRANT RECIPIENTS!
* SPRING * 2023 GRANT RECIPIENTS!
We are pleased to announce that the following three organizations were awarded a total of $9,070 for their Community Projects in our SPRING Grants competition:
1. $5,000 was awarded to the KINGSTON COMMUNITY HOUSE for SELF RELIANCE for their BACK YARD PROJECT which will convert the property behind 99 York Street into a welcoming, inclusive, accessible, and affordable outdoor meeting space for community groups, organizations, and individuals.
2. $2,500 was awarded to KINGSTON INTERVAL HOUSE for the purchase of a new OUTDOOR PLAY STRUCTURE for Robin’s Hope 2nd Stage Housing which will provide a safe place for children to play and while allowing Moms to enjoy the outdoors while watching their children have fun.
3. $1,570 was awarded to the NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA CANADA for their DAY-in-the-LIFE PROGRAM which will provide approximately 80 Kingston youths enrolled in Sistema Kingston with the unique opportunity of spending an entire day immersed in musical mentorship, backstage access, an orchestra rehearsal, and a Q and A with professional musicians and a conductor.
C-K Rotary is proud to be sponsoring these projects and wish all participants much success in their respective endeavours!
THE GIFT of LIFE
ROTARY Brings DIALYSIS to the Poorest of the Poor in Porur, India
As Rotarians, we are all familiar with our claim that we serve to change lives, and as Rotarians, we do our best to live up to that goal through the many projects we support. But some projects not only change lives, they also SAVE lives! Through a Global Grant worth almost US$120,000, the Rotary Club of Chennai Capital obtained financial support from Rotary clubs around the world – including a contribution from the Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston – to provide life-changing and life-saving kidney dialysis treatment for some of the poorest people in the south of India suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) for whom treatment was virtually unattainable.
BREADWINNERS!
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LOUGHBOROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOL
The new Teaching Kitchen at Loughborough Public School was inaugurated by Mr. Alan Macdonald’s Grade 7 Challenge North Class on the last Monday of the school year! The students prepared and baked 16 loaves of bread and clearly enjoyed the experience of being the first class to use the new kitchen, as well as being pleased with the outcome of their efforts. The Kitchen is part of the the Greenhouse and Teaching Kitchen Project that has been in the planning and construction stages for the past three years. Once the idea of a previous Grade 7 Challenge Class as a “Legacy Project” for future generations of students, both the Greenhouse and the Teaching Kitchen are now fully constructed, although the interior of the Greenhouse has yet to be outfitted.
The purchase of the major appliances, work tables, and shelving units for the Teaching Kitchen was made possible by a CK Rotary Community Service Project Grant that was awarded to Loughborough Public School for that purpose in our Spring Grants competition.
CK Rotary congratulates Mr. Macdonald and his students on their bread making skills and wishes all who use the new kitchen success and a sense of pride in all their future culinary achievements!
IMAGINE…
…a classroom without walls, no chalk board, no bulletins boards, no desks, and no chairs, but a place in the forest, with trees, and wild flowers, and filtered sunlight, and rocks with moss, and squirrels running about! THIS is the classroom of Mother Nature where 120 young schoolchildren from Loughborough Public School will spend a total of five days during the next school year, experiencing the wonders that surround them in Frontenac Provincial Park.
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Today we were privileged to have Linda Cory and Jake Brant from Kagita Mikam Aboriginal Employment Services. Linda has worked with developmentally delayed adults at Prince Edward Heights, and also with the Federal Government with E.I. clients, before landing at Kagita Mikam. Jake, who is from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, ha a 29-year history of working in the field of Aboriginal Employment, including working at the First Nations Technical Institute.
Their full presentation can be accessed at https://youtu.be/szGQ3qkA-K8
Bill Gray gave a superb introduction for today's speaker. The Honourable Pat Bovey is one of 6 senators from Manitoba, and she is the first Senator to come from an arts background. Fortunately she was in town for H'Art Studios 25th Anniversary and came to our meeting to talk about her work in the Senate, and the value of the arts to our economy and society in general.
Senator Bovey was thanked by Elizabeth Cohoe. To see Pat's full presentation, go to https://youtu.be/c1k-yct4CyI
Better Homes Kingston: energy retrofits for your home and the globe!
Last year we heard about the commitment of the City of Kingston to supporting climate action, greenhouse gas reductions and more sustainable city-wide initatives. Better Homes Kingston is an energy audit and retrofit guidance program designed to support homeowners with making changes to save money, reduce energy inefficiency and promote better technology. Soren Christianson, Program Director joined us to discuss the program and how the last year has gone for this initiative!
Soren's presentation can be seen at https://youtu.be/-9oA1lxL82U
Steve Fine, founder and president of the Melanoma Education Foundation, attended colleges in the Boston area, receiving a doctorate in chemistry from Northeastern University. He then moved to Pennsylvania, completing a year of postdoctoral research at Lehigh University. After 5 years as Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, he moved back to New England where he served in technical and management positions in high tech chemical companies.
Shortly after his son, Dan, died of melanoma in 1998 at the age of 26, he founded the non-profit Melanoma Education Foundation and, since 2000, has devoted full time to the Foundation. The primary activity of the Foundation has been educating high school and middle school wellness teachers about melanoma and providing them with free online lessons to educate their students about self-detecting melanoma while it is curable.
Did you know? - most people only use 25 to 50% of the sunscreen needed to protect themselves?
If you have a 100 SPF sunscreen, and use 25% of what's needed, what is the effective SPF?
If you guessed 25, you would be wrong - it's only SPF 3.1 !!
Steve's full presentation can be seen at https://youtu.be/oXqFooNRpDg
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