Rotary Club
of Niagara On the Lake

 
Welcome to another issue of our weekly bulletin! Find out who our upcoming speakers are, what we covered during the last weekly meeting, and upcoming events and announcements.
Rotary is a Dynamic Organization
Tuesday September 21st at noon
 
Special Joint Meeting of Rotary Clubs of Caledonia, Dundas, Oleon and Niagara-on-the-Lake Tuesday September 21, 2021 - with District 7090 Governor Anne Bermingham 
 
Via ZOOM only.
COME JOIN IN DISTRICT 7090 fellowship and meet fellow Rotarians from Canada and the United States!!
 
Objectives: ● Learn more about the other clubs - what they do and how they do it ● Get inspired by the 7090 Plans for this Rotary Year and how you can be a part of it
 
12:00 pm      Welcome
12:05 pm      Introductions to Each Club
12:20 pm      Rotary International - Vision and Action Plan
12:30 pm      Breakout Groups with Participants from Each Club     
(4 different groups: Impact, Reach, Engagement, Adapt)
12:45 pm      Highlights from Breakout Rooms
12:58 pm      Toast to Rotary the World Over
1:00 pm        Meeting End
 
 
Dates to Remember and Announcements
DATES TO REMEMBER:
September 20- 6pm- Club Board meeting
 
September 21– Noon Club Assembly with Rotary District Governor Anne Bermingham –ZOOM meeting only
 
September 25- 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Newark Neighbours Porch Food Drive
 
September 28– 6:30- 8:00 pm- Tour of the Niagara Falls Power Plant- $35pp. Contact Jan Van Haren- Pre-registration is now closed.
 
Sept 29- 7PM Fundraising Committee meeting- Penny Milligan
 
October 2 - SAVE THE DATE- Participate for POLIO event. See details below. Contact Bill French frenchwe@gmail.com
 
October 5Adventures in Canadian Book Publishing-Doug Gibson Location and Evening Time TBD
 
October 12 Club Assembly – Location and time TBD
 
October 13- 10AM International Service Committee- Zoom meeting 
 
October 19- Noon End Polio Now- feature speaker Dr. Bruno- Location TBD 
 
October 21 to 23: Annual District Conference 7090- A Hybrid Showcase- see below for details- sign up details TBD
 
October 26-NOTL Ghost Walk – Jan Van Haren details to follow 
 
November 9th- SAVE THE DATE - Paul Harris Awards Dinner at Ravine beginning at 6:00 pm. $80per person.Registration to begin soon. Contact Jan Van Haren  janvanharen@live.ca
This is the Event of the Year!!
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS-
 
Participate for Polio
TAKE ACTION TO ERADICATE A DISEASE FOREVER
 
Walk, ride, run or roll to End Polio Now!
 
Please encourage your family and friends to join us for a fun ride/walk and BBQ or sponsor your participation in the event.
 
Every dollar we raise will be matched 2 to 1 ($1 becomes $3) by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
 
Our goal is to raise $20,000 ... $60,000 with the support of the Gates Foundation.
 
Let's do this! PLEASE REGISTER NOW!
 
To register for the Participate for Polio event on Oct 2, 2021:
 
 
5 REASONS WHY WE MUST ERADICATE POLIO
 
IMPROVE LIVES.
Today, 19 million people who would otherwise be paralyzed by polio are walking, and 1.5 million people who would have died are alive.
 
INVEST IN THE FUTURE.
If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children annually. A polio-free world will be a healthier world for children everywhere.
 
IMPROVE CHILD HEALTH.
Polio surveillance networks and vaccination campaigns also monitor children for other health problems, like vitamin deficiency and measles, and address them sooner.
 
LOWER HEALTH CARE COSTS.
The global effort to eradicate polio has already saved more than $27 billion in health care costs since 1988, and expects to save $14 billion more by 2050.
 
MAKE HISTORY.
Polio eradication will be one of history’s greatest public health achievements, with polio following smallpox to become only the second human disease eradicated from the world.
Contact Bill French at    frenchwe@gmail.com
 
District 7090 Conference is coming soon - October 21-23, 2021.  Save the dates!.  We have designed it so that there are many ways you can participate.  On Thursday October 21, there is a virtual conference event from 7-9 pm - you won't want to miss the interaction and the cocktail and appetizer feature.  On Friday October 22, it is a day of service - or rather a few hours in the late afternoon of service followed by 18 socials in all the various areas in our District.   And Saturday October 23 is an in-person conference in my hometown of Hamilton Ontario from 9:30 to 3:30 pm - with hopefully the chance to stream the keynote lunch speaker.  Flyer attached with this message.  Be sure to make a plan to take part in it. 
 
 Anne Bermingham our District Governor would like to see each and every Rotarian in our District take part in some aspect of the conference.  Let’s keep serving to change lives.
Websites to Remember
RI Website: http://www.rotary.org
District 7090 Website: www.rotary7090.org
Your Club website: 
 
Adventures in Africa- September 14
 
The feature speaker this week was Jodey Porter, Director of the International Service Committee. She was our tour guide through our Club’s Adventures in Africa.
 
Jodey drew us in with a brief introduction to our local history. She told of the Neutral tribes who had been a chiefly agrarian nation, wealthy and prosperous. She recounted their end at the hands of the Iroquois people in the 1650s. It was a story of conflict and genocide; peacekeeping and healthy community building. It is just like the other 35,000 international communities led and supported by Rotary who are all in the same process of changing their communities for the better. 
 
This is the link between who we are today and our partners in Africa. We are all striving past conflict, warfare and genocide to build healthy communities for all. This is our partnership in our world. 
 
Africa – a continent of 54 countries today. We are involved in Mali, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, and Zambia. Our projects focused on WASH (water and sanitation), economic development, and food security, from couture, to honey production, to traditional gardening and hydroponics, and to maternal health and childcare.
 
It was a story of conflict and genocide; of the triumph of human endeavour; of making a difference in the world.
 
 
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