Events

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 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

Our guests will be Exchange Students 

Come and hear from the three students we sponsored for the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), held at the RKY Camp, May 26-28, 2023.

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

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National Youth Orchestra Canada.

Chantel Balintec, Development Manager

Christie Gray, CEO of NYOC, and  Project Lead for the DAY-in-the-LIFE PROJECT

Emily Dunbar, Marketing Manager

Nikki  Beaulieu, Director 

Join us as former exchange student Scot Campbell visits us to talk about his path to working in STEM education in China. Scott will reflect on how his excahnge year in Japan has impacted his life today.

We'll conclude our discussion of our C-K Rotary Vision 2023-24 for approval at the Club Assembly August 22.

We'll also discuss annual one-time service expenditures made before our funds are distributed across our areas of service: Community Service including Youth Services, Regional and National Service, and International Service.

The Kingston Community House (or “99 York”) is a not-for-profit organization providing safe, comfortable, and inclusive meeting spaces for community groups and individuals. For 40 years the house has served as a gathering point for folks to come together, learn from another, share resources, and trade skills.

KCHSR was a recent grant recipient. Elinor and Bruce will tell us how their grant money is being used.

Join us as we launch the new Rotary Year with this year's theme; Create Hope in the World.

Riley will share his experience in the canoe-based, multi-cultural Adventures in Understanding, August 27 - September 1. The program is offered by the Rotary Club of Peterborough Kawartha with the assistance of the Curve Lake First Nation Youth Committee, with the co-operation of Camp Kawartha and the Canadian Canoe Museum. Riley is a high school student who also works and volunteers at the Boys and Girls Club in Kingston, BGC South East.

Join us as fellow Rotarian Ayo updates us on this International project, which C-K Rotary played a small part in.

Board Meetings are open to all members. Agendas and minutes, once approved, are posted in the Club Documents space on ClubRunner.

Meetings are normally held by Zoom (click on link to join), occasionally in person. The normal date is the third Monday of each month, from 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

The board, in close consultation and communication with the whole club, sets the overall direction for the club, develops a budget, and authorizes special expenditures. It is both a policy and administrative body. Attending a board meeting is a good way to get insight into the operation of the club and to share your ideas and concerns with the board. If you want the board to consider an idea or concern in depth, please ask the president or secretary to put it on the agenda, which is developed a week before the meeting.

Join us as Paige talks about participating in Adventures in he Environment, a program hosted by the Rotary Club of Cornwall Sunrise.

As Rotary's seventh area of focus is the environment, this programs fits in perfectly with Rotary's values