Events

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. 

We are pleased to welcome Steve to CK Rotary this morning

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 will join us to discuss the program and how the last year has gone for this initiative!

More information is avaialble at: https://www.cityofkingston.ca/resident/better-homes-kingston

Invitations have been sent to CK Rotary members for this blended social and community project tour!

If you haven't received an invitation, please contact Sean Goodall or Ana Sutherland with your interest in attending - savoury and sweet treats will accompany the tour of the facility and opportunity to see directly the impact of our Community Projects Grants have!  $25pp for catered treats will be billed to each guest.

Senator Bovey will be on hand to discuss important pieces of legislation, such as;

An Act respecting the Declaration on the Essential Role of Artists and Creative Expression in Canada; and

An Act to reduce poverty and to support the financial security of persons with disabilities by establishing the Canada disability benefit and making a consequential amendment to the Income Tax Act.

Patricia Bovey was appointed to the Senate of Canada in November 2016 as an Independent Senator from Manitoba. She served on the Foreign Affairs & International Trade Committee, Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament Committee and the Official Languages Committee,. She was Deputy-Chair of the Special Senate Committee on the Arctic and the Transport and Communications Committee. She also served as a Steering Member of the Social Affairs Science & Technology Committee. She is Chair of the Senate Artwork and Heritage Advisory  Working Group and a member of Internal Economy, Budgets & Administration Committee.

RSVP is required, please email info@ckrotary.org for details.

Linda Cory, Administrator of Kagita Mikam, Aboriginal Employment Services & Training will join CK Rotary to outline the programs and good work in our community.  Linda will be joined by Jake Brant.  More inforamtion about Kagita Mikam is available: https://kagitamikam.com/

Please join us for this presentation from Brittiney Poffley, Kingston YMCA General Manager about the Work Hard Live Well Program.

Watch your inbox for the invitation with details on menu and RSVP date!

Please join us for a presentation from Jerri Jerreat.  She she directed  “Youth Imagine the Future a Festival of Writing & Art”, 2022 which invited youth 18 or younger living in Eastern Ontario (the region covered by the Limestone and Algonquin& Lakeshore School Boards), to research green technology and nature based solutions, and design a more hopeful future in regards to the Climate Crisis and social equity. Students then used their vision of a (better) future to create art or as a setting for a short story.

The stories and the art were absolutely breathtaking. Please check out the website www.youthimaginethefuture.com

Join us for an interesting presentaiton from Alexandra Clinton, RDH.

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