Meeting Report November 13th, 2018
President’s Announcements
Tomorrow Board meeting 7am Response IT. Still need a few reports.
Positions available: President-Elect, Treasurer, Service Projects, Club Admin, Sergeant-at-Arms. Communications—proposal to merge with Membership
Next week Paul Harris presentations. Four recipients.
Nov. 27 Local Grants Presentation. 8 recipients. $18K
Dec. AGM and Arnold Lawrence
December 25th and Jan 1st no meeting.
Feb. Friendship Exchange no meeting Feb 12 & 19.
Youth Services meeting Nov. 22 7am Sizzles.
Other Announcements
Elsabe: Santa Claus parade. Rotary Clubs provide three Comfort Zones for people with disabilities. Area to give opportunity to get close to the parade. Accessible parking lots and washrooms nearby. 1. Giant Tiger; 2. Montreal Street; 3. Milestones. May put up tents, depending on weather. Role: provide access, tell people about Rotary (be ambassadors), keep others out.
Six volunteers from our club offered to help.
Anita: Friday Morning YMCA Peace Medal breakfast. Two winners: Dr. Soni Pancham (improving women’s health locally and internationally), Save the Children. Local Award Sister Pauline Lally for work with PeaceQuest. Counternarrative to war. 7am Four Points Sheraton. Guest speaker remarkable story of 10000km bicycle journey.
Ana Sutherland: Mon Nov 19th 6:30. Blanket Exercise at The Sanctuary (Queen and Clergy). On'a'got'tay and others will be there. Hope to have 30 people there. Extend to friends and family. Including all four Kingston Rotary Clubs.
Bill E. highly recommended this event.
The blanket exercise provides education about the history of Indigenous peoples in Canada with the hopes of providing an understanding, and perhaps a motive for change, for the issues they face today.
About the Exercise:
The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is an interactive learning experience that teaches the Indigenous rights history we’re rarely taught. Developed in response to the 1996 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples—which recommended education on Canadian-Indigenous history as one of the key steps to reconciliation, the Blanket Exercise covers over 500 years of history in a one and a half hour participatory workshop.
Blanket Exercise participants take on the roles of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Standing on blankets that represent the land, they walk through pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance. They are directed by facilitators representing a narrator (or narrators) and the European colonizers. Participants are drawn into the experience by reading scrolls and carrying cards which ultimately determine their outcomes. By engaging on an emotional and intellectual level, the Blanket Exercise effectively educates and increases empathy. Ideally, the exercise is followed by a debriefing session in which participants have the opportunity to discuss the experience as a group. This often takes the form of a talking circle.
Auction: John Farrow
last minute items, get in immediately. 104.3 & 96.3 live version about auction. Prefers radio! Check your items on Web site. Notify John of any errors. Physical item pickup changed from last year: Howard Lee has donated his office for item storage and pickup. 4Office Automation. 2 days Sat. Dec. 1 or Thu. Dec 6. 11am - 7 pm. Need volunteers for 4-hour shifts (11-3, 3-7. Email John. Auction closes 5 p.m. Sunday. Hand out Bid to Give. Sunday close at Joan and Greg Mumford’s, 3 p.m.
Elizabeth Cohoe on TV with Sue Collins from Helen Tufts this morning.
Polio Update: Bernie Allard
Setback: two more cases in Pakistan, exceeding last year. Going backward.
Friendship Exchange to India: Great du Bois
Leaves February 9th. Ana’s persuasion—>now 11. Still have room for one more. Have until 15th of December. [Editor's update: now 12.]
Guests, Visiting Rotarians and Make ups
15 members present
Maya Bergerson, Youth Exchange
Ayo Banjo, Rotary Club of Lagos
Elsabe Falkson, Rotary Club of Kingston
Fun Master: John Farrow
Maya (we sang Happy Birthday).
$1 at her table for sitting with birthday girl
Outstanding items for auction $1
Did not attend Remembrance Day ceremony
$1 for privilege of attending Peace Award breakfast
past midnight last Tue to watch midterms (only 1—John F)
Michelle for having weekend day with daughter at knitting workshop
Ana’s pronunciation better (Rick)
Happy Bucks
Robert Reid: trying to pay another table fo 10 Thu Dec. 6 Queen’s School of Business forecast
Rick FIedorec: 5 min of fame with Ana CKWS re Rotary and Auction. Did an excellent job. Tomorrow Heather with Maya and Noah (rebound)
John Richards: In London this past weekend. Nov. 11 with Ann’s mother 99, watched service in Ottawa. Dorothy had many reflections on her 99 years re relatives who served.
Ayo Banjo: same birthday as Mayo. Everyone should have stood, not Maya. Pay for all.
Ana Sutherland: $1 since Rick was there for TV shot. $1 happy, found fulfillment bible Michelle prepared last year. (10 years of history of auction and technology)
Elsabe Falkson: Happy not to worry more about Santa parade.
Terry Hicks: Remembrance Day service 900 students in auditorium, attended KCVI. Performance of students outstanding. 4 former staff there.
Bill Egnatoff: 2 concerts
John Farrow: Genalogical Society event WWI talk re Vimy. 9:30am at Senior’s Centre Sat Nov. 17th.
Weekly Draw
The weekly draw was won by Rick Fiedorec, but he missed the Ace of Diamonds. $107 in the pot.
Meeting notes by Bill Egnatoff
