Please join us at Renaissance Event Venue, 285 Queen Street, Kingston ON
The Rotary Four Way Test
Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned
Rotary Reflection
For food in a world where many walk in hunger
For peace in a world where many walk in fear
For friends in a world where many walk alone
And for the opportunity to serve others through Rotary,
May we be truly thankful!
The Loyal Toast
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Queen of Canada!
Acknowledgement of Territory
We are gathered on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory. we are grateful to be able to join together in Rotary Fellowship on these lands.
Hakeem Subair – 1 million teachers, guest of Rick Fiedorec
Jacob Gardner – speaker
Maya Bergersen – exchange student
Makeups
Heather Kembel, Chamber meeting
Greta DuBois, Friendship Exchange
Murray Cotton, Princess Promenade
Ana Sutherland
Rotary Anniversaries in October:
Elizabeth Cohoe, 12 years
Terri Hodges, 2 years
Patti LeCollier, 2 years
John Gale, 10 years
Happy Bucks
John Gale – Happy $5 for 50th wedding anniversary with Elton John!
Rick F – Thanks to those who volunteered for Princess Promenade and Chamber events; first year that I’ve been involved in Adventures in History and it was wonderful.
John Farrow– Promenade was a lot of fun and 28 years ago today was a sunny October afternoon and my daughter was born J
Bernie – has tickets for Charter night for new Ottawa club
Maya – visited the Kingston Pen as part of Adventures in History
Greta – It’s a rainy day today and coming from South Africa, every rainy day is a happy day
Bill E – Adventures in History had 12 great young people participate; really do need more help with this great program in the future
Doug T – Happy to be back!
Hakeem – Thanks for the warm welcome
Robert R – Venue fees are due please
Announcements
Auction meeting Thursday at Kingston Dodge
John Farrow is among those in our club going to the new Ottawa Club charter night October 15th, and can take more folks in his van.
Fundraising Report--Elizabeth Cohoe
Auction
Bingo
Nut Drive
Calendars
Concerned that with drop in membership, so many members are doing double and triple duty.
Rick will report soon on the Nut Drive, but Elizabeth is concerned we may not have the personpower across the area to do it. Queen’s now has 700 Engineering students involved. We will need a new lead person for next year.
Murray is still doing calendars, but concerned about fundraising fatigue.
One idea is to buy your calendars and give them to your auction donors!
And did you know that Greg Mumford is now co-ordinating Bingo!
Greta DuBois re: Friendship Exchange
Next year we are going to India! February 9th-23rd in Chennai hosted by RC Madras-Coromandel and RC Madras.
We will be visiting Rotary projects, meetings, cultural events and sightseeing. Also attending a three-day event to celebrate RC Madras's 90th anniversary.
Visiting Pondicherry, Tanjore, Karaikudi, Madurai and will visit with Rotarians in all of these cities.
RC Madras is hosting at no charge! You pay airfare and some incidentals and meals for post-event trip.
Max of 12 participants
Open to all Rotarians of all clubs
Rotary accepts no responsibility
Ana is taking bookings: let Ana know (asutherland@xplornet.ca); buy your ticket from Merit Travel (Gayle Outhwaite at gouthwaite@MeritTravel.com , referring to “The Rotary group”; Scan your ticket and give a copy to Ana before Dec 1st
The trip will require vaccines and we’ll let you know; a visa; and medical insurance, including repatriation.
Greta will send an email with the details to the membership
Jacob Gardner, our guest speaker, October 2, 2018, is a Radiologist at KGH and is involved in the Ranked Ballot initiative and is here to tell us about it.
I went to Ottawa when I was 17 as part of Adventures in Citizenship.
We are currently use a first-past-the-post system for civic elections in Kingston. This splits the vote across those running on the popular issue.
A ranked-ballot system is being proposed in which voters rank all the candidates, first to last, and the race is run over and over, each time eliminating the last person, until one candidate has more than 50% of the vote.
This sets up for a more civil election.
You shouldn’t have to vote "the least of the evils." There is no strategic voting with ranked ballot– you don’t have to vote for someone you don’t want.
The ranked ballot system allows newer candidates to thrive.
The referendum question will be on the ballot of the upcoming mayoral and district rep election.
