This evening we will welcome our new executive for the new Rotary year.

Dr. Dixon will speak about youth peacebuiding. Dr. Dixon developed and taught a 3rd year semester course at Queen's University in the department of Global Development Studies. Students in this course included Aidan Gurung, our Global Grant Scholar.

The Magic of C-K Rotary Ecology

Join us this morning as our President for 2024-2025, Bill Egnatoff, shares his vision for our Club for the new Rotary year .

Join us as we celebrate one of the great pleasures in Rotary - the prsentation of a Paul Harris Award to an amazing member of our community.

Sandi Dodds has been the guiding force behind The Mess Studio Kingston for years. The Mess Studio has built a community around art that helps those living on the fringes of society. The Mess has also attracted a large group of volunteers that help drive their worthwile work.

Join us as we honour Sandi, and hear an update about one of their programs our Club has assisted with.

Join us as we welcome Paul Carl to speak about his new venture. Aanii Nichii Drone aims to conduct enhanced aerial photography, mapping and thermal imaging in support of non-profit Indigenous and non-Indigenous food sovereignty (community gardens), climate change concerns (thermal imaging and green space mapping) and community events.

For more info see https://aaniinichiidrones.ca

This morning District Governor Teresa will pay a visit to our club. Teresa is a member of the Rotary Club of Orleans. She has had a long career in real estate and the travel industry. Teresa becomes District Governor on July 1st, 2024.

Come and here our DG's goals for this Rotary year.

1. Scope: 1A Storytelling B. Operations
2. Review: What's working, what needs improvement, what's not working
3. Identifying our process and service pillars
4. Next steps towards effective communication
5. Next meeting

Watch for your invitation!

Would you like to join, and see what we are all about?

Send us an email through the contact link on www.ckrotary.org

Today we will review progress on several items, including environmental work, and Board highlights, including this Rotary year's budget. President Bill has promised to show some pictures from his trip to the Galapagos!

Join us as Tim Barber, Board Chair of Ryandale Transitional Housing speaks about their 25 years of hepling the homeless in Kingston.

Ryandale is a registered not-for-profit, charitable organization that began as the Ryandale Shelter for the Homeless. The first Ryandale transition house opened in 2010, and now with the assistance of a dedicated team of community partners Ryandale offers transitional housing to 23 people in three houses as they get ready for independent living.

Join us as we hear about Garnet Families, an organization dedicated to helping Military and First Responders and their families with the unique challenges that they face.

"Our team is dedicated to better understanding, supporting, and improving the lives of defence and PSP families across Canada. Through research, resource development, and public awareness campaigns we seek to listen, learn, connect, and support these critically important – and often overlooked – members of our community."

This morning's meeting is cancelled in favour of our Saturday event on Sept 28th at No. 9 Gardens

Violet Roy will share highlights of her short-term Rotary Youth Exchange this summer with her exchange partner from France.

William and John Stennett wil speak of what Adventures in Understanding meant to them.

No meeting this morning. We will be at the Pathways to Education FAR Project celebration Wedenesday evening, October 9th.

Youth Diversion helps youth overcome challenges by: Providing prevention, intervention and educational services that divert youth from risk and support their ability to thrive. Join us as Shawn talks about the range of programs that Youth Diversion offers.

World Polio Eradication Day is October 23rd. Join us as we hear what Rotary's largest humnaitarian project is all about, and the progress we have made over the last year towards Polio eradication.

Join us a we hear a report from our student representatives to the Adventuer in High Tech. The program exposes students to the wide variety of technology opportunities and education facilities. The Rotary Club of Nepean-Kanata his been hosting this program for 40 years.

There will be no morning meeting this week. See you at The Rotary Foundation Dinner with Rotary International Past-President and Foundation Trustee Jennifer Jones.

Suha Osman, currently Donor Services Officer with the Community Foundation for Kingston and Area, will speak about an initiative she started called "School Supplies for Sudan," which provides school-children with access to essential resources necessary for learning. She started the project after completing her graduate studies in International Public Policy in 2022. Utilizing her marketing and communications skills as well as personal connections at a local high school in Kingston and her alma mater in Waterloo, she was able to support an all-girls primary school in rural Khartoum, Sudan in the spring of 2023. Since then, she has facilitated two additional fundraisers to support displaced Sudanese students' access to quality education and to support displaced families in Sudan and Egypt. To date, the organization she founded has been able to raise over $35,000 USD, used to directly address barriers to education for Sudanese students.

Suha holds an Honours B.A. from Laurier in Global Studies and Political Science and a Masters in International Public Pollicy with a specialization in International Economic Relations, from Balsillie School of International Affairs.

There will be no morning meeting this week. Club social this week will by at the Newcomers Dinner on November 28th (see club calendar).

In this club  assembly, we will discuss all the gatherings that we attend as Rotarians: our regular club meetings, special events that we organize, and special events of our partners. What events are working well for us, and what events are not? What new sorts of events should we consider and why? For each type of event, we will consider:

• purpose: fellowship, club business, education, outreach, service, . . .
• timing, scheduling
• format: structure/agenda, meal, workbee, entertainment
• who we'll invite and why
• who will plan and run it
• any other matter we wish to raise that will help us develop

This meeting will include:

• Election of officers for 2025-26
• Club financial report
• Highlights of our service in 2024-25
• Foundation report
• Adoption of revisions to our bylaws

Please join us for a special holiday banquet at which we celebrate the work of Darkspark and its co-founders Melissa Larkin and D'Ari Lisle.

Date and time: Tuesday December 17, 2024, 5:30-8:30

Location: Upper Hall, The Spire, 82 Sydenham Street (accessible), Kingston

Program

Fellowship: cash bar (alcoholic and non-alcoholic)

Banquet: buffet holiday dinner with turkey, coffee and tea, dessert

Presentation of Paul Harris Fellowship to Melissa Larkin and D'Ari Lisle

Guest presentation: Melissa and D’Ari will share their story and music

Registration

Registration required by December 10: Cataraqui-Kingston Holiday Celebration

Payment: $45/person (e-transfer for autodeposit:  rotarydapontethomson@gmail.com OR cheque to Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston. For either payment method indicate "C-K Rotary December holiday celebration."

Background

Darkspark is an internationally recognized not-for-profit organization and culturally diverse network of recording artists, educators, music producers, and filmmakers who harness pop culture as an effective catalyst for social change. Darkspark develops the capability of youth to give voice to their concerns and aspirations through song, rap, and videostorytelling. Our club has provided support for Darkspark's work with youth since 2017, most recently for their year-long VERSIONS program. This celebration is an opportunity to hear the Darkspark story and inspire others to join us in continuing the collaboration.

Join us today as club member Alan Macdonald speaks about his 6 week trip to New Zealand and Australia with his two sons.