President Heidi flawlessly called the meeting to order - and asked Rena to read the 4-Way Test, and Jeff to do the Invocation - which I must say he did a great job using his fancy loud and clear ANNOUNCER voice

 

Larissa P provided the S@A report, indicating we had 16 members in attendance, and 2 zoomers - along with our guest speaker John Lomax and 3 guests he brought along

- Todd L - shared some good news, and also welcomed Larissa P. to our table...  (you had to be there....)

- Linda B - spent some vacation days with Guy on her sister's sailboat, and also visited Mike T and Karen, and Chris W and Wally - a really great break in the summer, and is now looking forward to getting our online auction up and going

- Mike T - after multiple months of no haircuts...  was pleasantly surprised at how well Karen managed the job

- Pres Heidi - is back from an over 3,000km road trip on her motorcycle up to Thunder Bay - and back here to golf with her 91 year old father - who WALKS the course!

 

- President Heidi announced that WHO African Region has been declared wild polio virus free!  This means the 47 countries have gone 4 years without a new case!

- Todd L encouraged all to get on selling roses!  We have 2 weeks and 3 days left until the Sept 13 deadline.  Club Runner, at the top left, has a link containing all of the details - if you have ANY questions, please reach out to Todd L or Mike T.

- Rena - spoke of the upcoming hands on social at the Coping Centre, Sunday September 13, 8am to 12pm; which will include installing an original JJ Rotary Bird House.  Please email Rena for details, and to advise if you can participate.

 

PP Larry B - introduced our ZOOM speaker, Brampton Rotarian since 1985, John Lomax.

 

Some of the details of John's talk:

- North America....  used to be (or still is) referred to by Indigenous people as 'Turtle Island'; as that's the name they gave it thousands of years ago...

- 1/3 of all 18-35 year old Indigenous males fought in either a world war, or the Korean war

- Our relationship really started out badly, in 1860, with Sir John A. MacDonald saying we need to "Take the Indian out of the child".

- it's taken us 7 generations to get where we are today...  and it will probably take another 7 generations until we come out the other side

 

HIP (Honouring Indigenous Peoples) was started in 2014, and has 3 main objectives:

1. Build relationships - how can we help

2. Learn (their ways) and Share (their knowledge)

3. Walk together

 

It is to reach all across Canada, using Rotary; the intent is to have one HIP champion in each club in the Country to assist, and for each club to support this initiative.

Please see their website at http://RotaryHip.com

 

Linda B thanked John for speaking with us today.

 

President Heidi offered official thanks from the club - and added some major milestones that some of us have crossed this month:

 

Birthdays in August!

Larissa, Chad, Murray, Sukhi, and Karen S.

 

Rotary Anniversaries!

2 years:

1 year: