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.