AT THE BELL
12:15 Call to Order
National Anthem - Krystal
Invocation - Jeff
Toast to Queen Canada and Rotary - John
GUESTS
Assistant/Area Governor (ADG) - Tommy Wegge - Rotary Club of St. Catharines Downtown
Captain Jason Page - Retired - Guest Speaker
Dr. Ken Taylor - Not Just A Tourist / Warehouse of Hope -Rotary Club of St. Catharines Downtown - Cathy
Mrs. Denise Taylor- Not Just A Tourist and Warehouse of Hope
Jane Gordon-RN - Warehouse of Hope
Anna Demchyshyn -AMD for Hope
WHATS GOING ON IN THE CLUB
President’s Announcements
- New location for meetings status - all St. Catharines Clubs will meet tomorrow via zoom with City Staff to discuss the next steps in regards to the new location of the Welland Canal Lock Three.
GENERAL MESSAGES
RUTF - 66,000 meals have now been airlifted to stranded villages in Pakistan-totally funded by private donations Our main RUTF program remains intact
Abaco Trees (140) have arrived partnering with Rotary Club of Nassau,Trees That Feed and Ministry of Agriculture-Bahamas
Social on the 10th- 4:30-7:30 at Joey’s place Fenwick head count needed . Please register by tomorrow
Lisa - officially announced the Hayden donation of $20,000.00 to the Hospice Children’s Bereavement Program in memory of Bob Hayden. The room was officially open with a plaque naming Bob Hayden and our club as sponsors. The donation will also include the cost of running the program annually. Our club will continue to support yearly through bingo funding.
HAPPY DOLLARS
Tommy- happy to be here
Jason- happy to be here to present the Ukrainian situation
Ed- sad dollar- Hamilton lost again to Toronto
Cathy- happy that Jason is back safely and to see so many Rotarians and guests today
Krystal- happy the children are back to school
Will be supporting Hospice Niagara Taste Festival this week-end
Debi- glad to be here
Jim H- sad that the kids are back at school,
Coached his last baseball game- and they won
Jane- happy to be here for Jason’s presentation
Mike- leaving tomorrow for 11 day motorcycle ride to Winnipeg- fund raiser for
Jeff- happy to be golfing with Dan and Najeeb
Dan- leaving tomorrow for a 1 month trip to Europe- please deliver all donations to the TV auction to his home while he’s away- 5 Via Del Monte- must be catalogued by Oct 13th
Denise- happy to be attending
Anna- thanked all Rotarians and private supporters for The Ukraine
Ken- thanked Dan for reminding him to get donations for his downtown club for the auction
Julio- happy he made it in time from his commuting from Toronto for today’s meeting
Matt- happy for good health
GUEST SPEAKER:
Retired Captain Royal Canadian Artillery Jason Page-Cathy
Retired Military Captain Page- married with a daughter 9 years old
Lives outside of Ottawa in Mallory Town,
Trained for 4 years as a Medic- to participate in the Canadian Military tour in Afghanistan, became injured before leaving, was appointed a Course Officer (Captain)in Hamilton- served for 15 years
Founded Disaster in a Box and Ambulances For The Ukraine
Has participated in 2 training missions to Ukraine so far- just returned safely last month.
AMBULANCES FOR UKRAINE 2.0 MISSION A SUCCESS
Quick mission summary with pictures and some captions for them.
We are in Poland now and flying home in a couple of days. It has been a long 21 days In our efforts to support Ukraine in the war against Russia.
This trip we:
1) Delivered 3 more fully stalked and operational ambulances These were 4x4 ones.
2) Trained 386 Ukrainian troops in the basics TCCC (Tactical Combat Casualty Care)
3) Delivered 1 Tone of salt to a fishing community
4) Worked on the front line in Donbas as medics.
5) Provided the military with front line trama bags bags.
6) Delivered hundreds of Tourniquet, bandages, decompression needles, burn dressings and other life saving supplies.
7) purchased and delivered food for a group of families who had been living uncovered since the start of the war. They were in a partially calapsed apartment building basement and crawl space.
8 ) Gave a weeks grocieres to a woman whos husband had been killed for her and her 7 year old boy. As they strugle without work and only enough money forn2 more months rent.
9) Gave several field trama bages to the military for their front line medics.
10) and duscovered counterfeit Tourniquets that had been delivered by another aid group. The aid group did not know they were cheep Chinese knockoffs that could kill people. We managed to stop ther delivery and recover most of them from the field befor people got killed. More on this as we continue to investigate why Amazon continues to sell counterfit medical supplies.
We did more than we had planed to. We were able to do this with your donations.
We going to take a rest and start planing our next two missions. One will be further medical support and training. The other is far more ambitious and that is to build a medical facility with ambulance bays, trauma bays, diagnostic equipment, and a bomb shelter. This will be put in a community that has had all its hospitals destroyed by Russian artillery, rocketry, and tanks.
Lots more to do as the war rages on and is actualy intensifying.
Q&A
Thanking the Speaker-Julio
ADJOURNMENT 1:45