2022-2023 Board Induction Ceremony
 
Read the minutes from the event prepared by Cathy Henry.

AT THE BELL - 

President Julio started the meeting 12:10PM 

Oh Canada - Sandra Rothman 

Invocation - David Henry 

Toast - George Fitzpatrick 

4 Way Test - Julio Batres Gavidia 

 

Thought of the Day: 

"Imagine a world that deserves our best, where we get up  each day knowing that we can make a difference." - President Rotary International Jennifer Jones 

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed  citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing  that ever has.” 

– Margaret Mead  

 

VISITING ROTARIANS 

Name Tom Wegge 

Club Rotary Club of St. Catharines 

Classification ADG

 

GUESTS 

Valerie Fitzpatrick 

Sponsor - George Fitzpatrick

 

INDUCTION OF NEW BOARD 

Julio introduced ADG Tommy Wegge to induct the Board  members who were able to attend.

Tommy spoke of his history with Rotary in Finland and  Estonia. Please read his message here:

https://rotarysouth.ca/stories/tommy-wegge-adg-2022-2023/

 

MESSAGE FROM CLUB PRESIDENT

Please read his message here:

https://rotarysouth.ca/stories/2022-2023-president-s-message-julio-batres-gavidia/

 

WHATS GOING ON IN THE CLUB 

President’s Announcements 

  • Negotiation with the City of St. Catharines regarding  the St. Catharines Museum as a new home for the all  three St. Catharines Clubs. 
    • The Rotary Club of St. Catharines Downtown has  decided to continue on with negotiations with the City  of St.Catharines concerning the Museum as a  possible site for our three clubs to hold our Rotary  meetings. Lori from the downtown club will see what  proposal the City is willing to offer us for the space  and once a proposal comes forward, we will let our  membership know 
  • Clarice West Hobbs Contemplative Garden - we received the following letter from Eric Jones:

Thank you for being a donor or stakeholder for the Clarice West Hobbs Contemplative Garden at the St. Catharines Hospital site, a project of the Rotary Club of St. Catharines Lakeshore. I am pleased to attach our first issue of our new newsletter, the Garden News, as an Adobe Acrobat pdf file. You can also access the newsletter by clicking this link for an on-line version.

You can also access the newsletter, and all the details on Clarice, the Garden and more, by visiting the Clarice West Hobbs Contemplative Garden website via this highlighted link.

Please feel free to share this newsletter as a pdf or through the links with any who you feel would be interested. If any would like to join the Garden Newsletter email list, have them contact ejones@vaxxine.com with first and last name and email address.

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Deborah Garneau -Treasurer/Bingo 

  • Bingo-Protocol must be adhered to-dress code, attitudes  to players, fulfilling shift jobs They are watching every  charity very closely  
Mike Gionet - Director-At-Large/Corn Booth - Cathy Henry
  • Corn Booth- roster filling up- last meeting Wednesday , July 27th at Sandra’s house 7 PM to finalize all areas in need on August 12th.  Price for Corn has doubled this year. We will be looking to offsetting some of the cost through sponsorships.
Cathy Henry - International Committee
  • Bahamian (Nassau) and Abaco clubs are in partnership  with the Bahamian Ministry of agriculture  
    • Abaco -740 breadfruit are now in transit from California arrival on August 12th. Bahamian (Nassau) and Abaco  clubs are in partnership with the Bahamian Ministry of  Agriculture to accept and prepare the trees for distribution  and planting  

Dan Toppari - TV AUCTION

  • gave us an up date on needs – September 7th – hopefully deadline, Hugh Graham-chair of auction in  touch with Brock U to help 

Joey Trussell - Torch Relay

  • T shirts are ready for pick up

Dan Toppari also announced that the Rotary signage is now complete  at Happy Ralphs with our club’s name properly displayed 

 

HAPPY DOLLARS - Jeff Thomas 

Jeff - just finished a family time week at the cottage. His  granddaughter held her first  

Mike G- his grandson is staying over tonight

Debi - visited Port Stanley and had a wonderful time Julio-happy for the start of the new year 

Tommy - happy to be with our club today  

George - happy to be here- brings back living in Sweden

Val - happy for Julio becoming club president

Matt - going to see brother in Victoria 

Cathy- Happy for the Canadian athletes at the World  Championships in Oregon- especially the 4x100 world  champion relay men’s team 

Dan - happy to see Tommy – spoke about Finnish culture discovering heated sands can cut down heating bill 

Ed - Canada Games member of the torch bearer  photography team - taking pictures for the final relay on  Sunday. He also mentioned he is the biggest and most patient fan for the Hamilton  Tiger Cats - They have won 1 game all season but still have a  chance to make the play offs.

Joey - Is organizing a fund raising window washing crew starting  tomorrow. Please contact him to book the crew. All  monies go to The Youth Unlimited Centre 

David - praise for Julio’s beginning of the presidency,  fortunate to have Tommy- Finnish people are the happiest  in the world- although ADG Tommy disputed that fact with much laughter 

Hatim - Happy to be sharing company and good health 

As there was no other Rotary Business, meeting was concluded at 1:10pm and some of the members present stayed for social time.