Members: 11
Guests: Rotarian Grant Southwell Trenton and Inbound Exchange Student Daniella from the Faro Islands
Correspondence:
1. Thank you card from Trent Valley Quilters Guild.
2. Request for support from Bridge Hospice. They need some HVAC upgrades at cost of $25,000.
3. Request for support from Canadian Ski Patrol for supplies totaling about $3,000.
4. Brief report from Trafalgar Castle School in Whitby concerning the World of Difference Program support by the Rotary Club of Brighton.
5. Thank you card from the Hanna and Hana for support for their trip to Abu Dhabi. They had a gift of a handmade bowl.
Smile:
Announcements:.
- R Mark doing much better, sounding stronger and receiving visitors.
- Past R Michael Koerber now in BC.
- Welcome to new Friends of Rotary - Brenda Ellis and Lilie Ford.
- Christmas Hamper Committee next meeting to set dates will be December 3 at 7pm at Evangel Church.
- Club will have a Christmas social and dinner at Whistling Duck Wednesday December 11 starting at 5:30pm. We order off menu at 6:30pm. R Chris and Fran have again invited us to their home after dinner. Bring a dessert and drink. Cost is $5 each for snack before meal at Whistling Duck. R Chris is looking for attendees to pay $5 per person.
- No regular meetings Dec 13 or 27th.
- R Emily will be Club President following R Joyce. We do have some positions available for the 2020/2021 year.
- Daniella moved to R Joyce and Shane's home last night for December.
- R Chris will host club review of financial records Saturday December 14 starting about 9am.
- D7070 Foundation Grant Writing Workshop will be held at Whitby Public Library Saturday February 29 from 9am to 2pm. Lunch provide.
- A Certificate of Appreciation from the Legion for Rotary's support for their new roof. We have 6 complimentary tickets to their New Year's dance and dinner.
Upcoming Rotary Events:
- 2020 Rotary District Conference theme is 'Heroes and Champions' and will be held at Toronto Weston Prince Hotel October 23-25, 2019.
Daniella's Report:
She met with couple other inbound exchange students last weekend.
She is feeling some home sickness - now at her 3 month mark in Canada.
She has started curling and it is going well. She isn't falling as much.
This weekend she is going to Toronto as part of the District event, they entertain / visit at Sick Kids and tour Toronto.
She is going to a Belleville Senator's game Sunday evening with some other students.
Daniella shared some history of the Faroe Islands concerning their language - Faroese
About 100,000 people in the world speak Faroese and about half are in the Faroe Islands.
Faroese is a mixture of Islandic and Danish, an old Norse language with Germanic grammar.
The have 32 letters in their alphabet, and they don't have a couple of ours like no 'c'.
About 1800 the Faroe Islands was part of Norway which was part, or became part of Denmark.
After WWII Faroe Islands obtained home rule as part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
In School they speak in Faroese.
Daniella's Bucket List:
Play hockey
Niagara Falls
CN tower
Algonquien Park
See a moose
See a beaver
See a possum
See a bear
Play in the snow
Volunteer (animal shelter?)
See leaves change color
Ottawa (skate on the Rideau canal)
Go skiing
Swim in Lake Ontario
Cliff jump (?😬)
See the northern lights
Go to New York City?
See a baseball game
See a rugby game
See an american football game
See a ice hockey game
Try beaver tail (not from a real beaver)
Song: Fiere Jaques
Sharing: $18.00 won by R Daniel who donated it to Foundation.
Happy Bucks: good week, board meeting Tuesday very entertaining, the weekend, black Friday shopping with son tomorrow, youth exchange, to have guest in house, Rotary wonderful for changing lives, double happy, pleasure to deliver cheques, short vacation in Jamaica, coming home.
Rotary Minute: refer to Daniella's report.
New POD's for 2020
POD#1 - Murray, Chris, Joyce, Victoria, Mark, Jeff W and Steve
POD#2 - Ricardo, Jeff P, Emily, Craig, Rudy, Liesje, Clay
