Events

Our regular luncheon is cancelled today. Instead, we'll be having an evening barbeque starting 6:30pm at 67 Arundel Avenue.

Today our speaker will be Megan Anevich.  She is executive director of Not Far From the Tree, an organization that harvests urban fruit trees using volunteers.  The fruit is split between the home owner (if they want any), the volunteers and a community organization such as a food bank or shelter. 

Today we'll have a speaker from Community Literacy of Ontario. This is an organization which has the goal and mission to support, promote and provide a united voice for Anglophone community-based literacy programs in Ontario.

This year's TERC golf tournament will be held at Richmond Hill Golf Club on Wednesday September 19, 2018 so were taking the week off from our luncheon.

Our luncheon this week will take place at Michael Garron Hospital, 825 Coxwell Ave. G2 Conference Room, (2nd Floor of the G Wing). We'll find out more about the exciting, new expansion taking place at the facility.

Our speaker today will Mary Lou Harrison.  Mary Lou is Rotary Governor for District 7070.

Our speakers today with be Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, MP and Josh Makuch, a candidate in this year's municipal election.

Our speak today will be Christopher Walker of Loft Community Services. Christopher is a Development Manager for LOFT Community Services. He has fifteen years of experience in fundraising and communications in the not-for profit sector in Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador. His professional background includes the work in the hospital sector, social services, child welfare and as a fundraising consultant. His volunteer activities include serving on the boards of Adopt4Life Ontario’s Adoptive Parent’s Network, Scugog Memorial Library Capital Campaign and the Queen’s University Alumni Association.

Our speaker will be one of our newest Rotary members, Shaheynoor Talukder.  She will be giving her classification talk today.

Mercy Ships operates the world's largest charity hospital ship-providing free life-changing surgeries and training in Africa. Staffed by a volunteer crew, every dollar received is leveraged by gifts-in-kind from corporations and volunteers so that it provides $3 of health for every $1 raised. To date, in 40 years, Mercy Ships has directly touched the lives of more than 2.6 million people providing $1.3 billion in free health care.Our speaker is from their Alumni, who share stories of life on-board and of the courage of the patients and the families served.

Our guest speaker this week will be Elizabeth Witmer. Elizabeth is currently serving as chair of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and has 37 years in public service.  

Today we will honour those fallen in a special Remembrance Day ceremony.

This week Michelle Binette will be giving a classifcation talk and we'll be holding a business meeting to discuss TERC issues.

 Instead of our regular luncheon, we'll be sorting food at the Daily Bread Food Bank betwwen 1:00 and 3:30 pm.

Psychotherapist
Executive Director / Co-Founder
Blake Boultbee Youth Outreach Service
1989 – Present 29 years
Mr. Cohen started the agency in 1989 after spending five years working on the streets of Toronto and doing research on working with disenfranchised, alienated, high-risk youth. 

Today there will be no speaker.  Instead, we'll be deal with club business issues.

Stephanie Christensen is the Executive Director of ShelterBox Canada and a humanitarian professional. Stephanie started her career in International Development working for CIDA and local charities throughout East Africa developing curriculum for HIV/AIDS Education in primary schools. After living in Kenya during the famine in 2011, Stephanie moved into the humanitarian disaster relief field.

January is Vocational Services Month.  Should Rotarians be held to a higher standard of ethics or integrity in their professions? Aaron Harnett will look at this from the perspective of the legal profession.

In this meeting Bill Dunk-Green will do a presentation on the TERC Club website, showings members how to navigate it efficiently and effectively to obtain information on the club, district and RI levels.

Joanne is the Executive Director of Opportunity For Advancement (OFA), an organization working with women who face exclusion from their communities. OFA works with women experiencing barriers to moving forward in their lives. These barriers include being a sole support parent, experiencing poverty, medical problems, legal and criminal issues, being a survivor of trauma and violence as well as homelessness, job loss, and minimal attachment to the work force.

OFA offers several programs such as the Shape Your Life Boxing Program, Women’s Wellness programs for youth and adults, and Women’s Employment Development Program.

Please check out OFA’s website for more information. 

Joanne joined OFA in 1998 and has been working in community development and individual client support while developing new programs aimed at new and creative ways of addressing issues such as generational and developmental trauma, gender-based violence and recovery. A musician, artist and filmmaker in her spare time, Joanne’s endeavours are focussed on improving the quality of life for vulnerable and at-risk women.

Joanne Green has been instrumental in establishing the Shape Your Life (SYL) Boxing program. This is a unique and free non-contact boxing program for self-identified women who have experienced violence. The program uses trauma and violence-informed approach to provide a safe space for participants to foster respect and empowerment through boxing lessons.

For more information, please check out the SYL’s website.

Luncheon cancelled. In it's place we'll be holding a Robbie Burns Supper to raise funds for the Rotary Foundation and End Polio Now TERC contributions. Details are on the website.

Our speaker will be Dave McLennan, a retired police officer and founder of Boots On The Ground, a non-profit, volunteer organization providing safe and confidential peer support to First Responders – Police Officers, Firefighters, EMS and Corrections Officers - impacted by the exposure to trauma in their positions. This dedicated team will soon be providing confidential Peer Support 24/7 to First Responders across the Province. Full details of the organization can be found on their website -- www.bootsontheground.ca. 

Dave will speak about the development and implementation of the Boots On The Ground program.  He will outline the services presently being offered and their vision for the future of this organization.

Our newest TERC member, Bob Kitchen will give his classification talk.

Lindsay’s family comes from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She is German and Mohawk; Wolf Clan and her spirit name is Swooping Hawk. Lindsay has worked in the non-profit sector for nearly 20 years, most recently as the Executive Director of the Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy, where she led a full scale organizational re-development plan for programs in Ontario, which included notable revenue, partner and resource advancements. She has served in senior management roles both locally and provincially for both the OFIFC and NCFST and she started her community service work as a volunteer at Council Fire Native Cultural Centre as a teenager, 19 years ago. Her areas of expertise include; Indigenous social justice issues, and wellbeing, provincial and federal negotiations, program and training development, research and evaluation, policy and advocacy and capacity and partnership building.

Lindsay is passionate about Indigenous community wellbeing and she has a strong commitment to developing sustainable and measurable solutions for social change and lasting impact. Lindsay holds a Women’s Studies certificate from York University, an Advanced Diploma in Advertising, an Executive-Level Conflict Management and ADR certificate from University of Windsor Law School, and a Diversity Leadership certificate from the Schulich School of Business at York University. Lindsay was the recipient of the 2003 YWCA Young Woman of Distinction Award and she has been featured in a variety of media for her commitment to social change and advocacy. Lindsay is the Current Executive Director of the Toronto Aboriginal Support Services Council (TASSC).

International documentary photographer, Juris Kornets, was commissioned by a child-centred international development organization, to photograph children and document the issues they face living in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Paraguay and Nicaragua.  With free rein to photograph, his poignant images reveal how children are overcoming hardships such as human trafficking and child migration, child marriages and harmful tribal customs, let alone environmental hardships in order to thrive in school, dream fearlessly and realize their right to be heard and included. In the presentation he will showcase the images and talk about the associated stories.