Covid 19 Food Project: With the plan to give backpacks to children in families receiving food baskets at this time, 600 have been collected and there is a need for 900 more. Several suppliers have been reached out to, and Rotarians may donate money. Each will be stuffed with about $20 worth of learning supplies. Let Ana know if you can donate to this project. All four Kingston clubs as well as Gananoque and Napanee are involved. Ana will let everyone know the price of a backpack.
Go Nuts Campaign: There will be 2,500 Engineering frosh this year and Go Nuts will take an entirely different approach. Queen's Engineering Frosh will be asked to participate in the GO NUTS (Rube Goldberg) MACHINE CHALLENGE. There will be a selection of 10 best MACHINES. Once selection is complete, Queen's will post top 10 on the GO Nuts website. Queen's will promote to the Alumni, other Universities and student body. Rotarians will share that website throughout our Facebook, Bulletin and Rotary in Kingston.cool website, word of mouth, etc. to promote it. Voting for the best machine will be promoted. It will be $2.00 per vote. Vote as many times as you wish. The MACHINE with most votes wins the prize.
Centennial Committee: It has been decided that $15,000 will be committed to the Loughborough School greenhouse and teaching kitchen project. The school board now has a plan, and the project may become a model for future projects.
Communications Committee: We are close to being able to turn on the website, with an aim to having it ready by September 12th.
SNC – Supporting Newcomers to Canada: This is a Centenary project. Initially it was to provide mentorship to New Arrivals to Canada . Our Club hosted 2 Pot Luck social events. They were very well attended. It was fun and the food was all very good and interesting. It has developed into Workshops to Focus in on what the Newcomers needed; Conversations with Professions in various areas of expertise,
1. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields of study.
2. Educators
3. Non Profit and Social Service
4. Entrepreneurship
Please let me know if one or all the workshops are of interest and you wish to attend and participate in sharing your expertise with Newcomers to Canada.
Greta Dubois
Shashaba Project: Two weeks ago she presented the Sechaba Project of RC Morningside, Johannesburg, South Africa , to the club. The Sechaba ( meaning community) is a feeding project at an Early Care Program school in the informal settlement of Diepsloot of Johannesburg. The International committee decided to donate USD 1,500 to the project and last week John and Rick went to the bank to wire the money. It was received so to say the same day by RC Morningside and with the rate of exchange produced an amount of ZAR ( South African Rand) 25,800. This will go a long way to feed the little children, their families and teachers as a hot meal costs only ZAR 2.25. unemployment is at 50% in Diepsloot under normal circumstances and is aggravated by Covid. RC Morningside sent an email thanking Cataraqui Kingston for their generous donation and they will keep us updated about the project. Our club can be truly proud of its humanitarian help in this time of Covid.
The link to the short video shown about the project can be found below;
Greg Mumford
Auction: There will be an meeting of the Auction Committee on Wednesday August 26th at 5 p.m. All are welcome.
Robert Reid
National Committee meets Wednesday August 19th at 8:00 a.m.
John Gale
Rotary FAR: There will be a formal announcement of this project on Saturday September 12th.
Bill Egnatoff
Local Community Projects Committee: Let Bill Egnatoff know if you would like to attend the meeting on Monday August 24th at 8:00 a.m.
Other Announcements
Reminder to send Ana Sutherland your committee membership intentions.
Youth Service meeting Thursday August 20th at 7:30 a.m.
District Foundation Committee: John is unable to attend the meeting this Saturday morning and others are welcome to attend. Ana Sutherland and John Gale plan to be there.
Volunteers are needed to stuff backpacks on August 27th and 28th.
There will be a further harvest at the Robinson Community Garden on or around September 19th.
We will need one person from our Rotary Club to work as an administrator for the Rotary in Kingston website.
