Camp Tillicum
A fun and informative Rotary Weekend in North Bay including a yummy fish fry at Camp Tillicum. Thanks Juanita and District 7010!
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Guest Speaker: Louise Bergeron
What a fun meeting today! Our guest Rotarian from Rotary District 7010 was Louise Bergeron from the Sudbury Sunrisers, setting the stage for action planning. And we can't forget the amazing lunch prepared by chef Tim -- the best chili, salad and those biscuits (we had to have two!).
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Lunch Box Project
Another successful Lunch Box Project with 190 lunches sold to help support youth programs in our community. Thanks to everyone who bought a lunch and the volunteers who helped. Stay tuned for our next one in a few months.
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Paul Harris Fellow RecognitionPresident Dominic awarded four club members with Paul Harris Fellows this week. Rotarians Tom Baulke, John McNiven, James Saunders and Pamela Hillier were acknowledged for their work in supporting the club and the community.  |
The Common Roof - Rotary HubOn Tuesday, May 12th, 2020 after many years of hard work and a $250,000 investment, the Rotary Club of Collingwood held its first meeting from the Collingwood Common Roof/Rotary Hub! The meeting was a little different than originally intended but our Zoom tour worked out. Thanks everyone involved and Rotarians past and present for making this a reality!  Inside the Common Roof/Rotary Hub are (left to right) John McNiven, Club President, and James Saunders Past-President of the Rotary Club of Collingwood |
Rotary Peace Fellowships
Is promoting peace and global understanding important to you? Then you might be interested in pursuing The Rotary Foundation's renowned Peace Fellowship starting in 2018. Click here for info.
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Meet Rotarian Phil JacksonRotarian Phil is the newest member of our club. Bryn Styles (r) gave Phil an RI welcome!
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Rotary Learning AcademyThe Learning Academy program is designed to stimulate interest in acquiring more knowledge about Rotary. Newer Rotarians, who want to gather more information as part of their orientation to Rotary, will find this program extremely beneficial. It will also provide training to Rotarians who would like to assume positions of responsibility and leadership at either the Club or the District level. In general, Rotarians will learn more about Rotary both locally and internationally with a focus on Foundation, Membership, Community Service, Administration, and Public Relations (Image). For five consecutive months, each month will focus specifically on one of the areas with questions comprised of true and false, fill in the blanks, and multiple choice answers. You will have a month to complete the module and send it back electronically. The modules will be emailed to you by the Dean of the Academy. Some Clubs in our District are having fellowship events once a month and working on the modules together. The information is basic to Rotary. Advanced Rotary education and leadership training is found under "The Rotary Leadership Institute." This summer’s Learning Academy program will begin mid-August 2016 and finish at the end of December 2016. Certificates of successful completion will be delivered to the graduates. There is no registration fee for the program as all communication is via the Internet. The Rotary International website, the District 7010 website and Google If you were enrolled in the Learning Academy previously, and were unable to complete all of the modules, you can enroll and pick up the modules that you need to finish. We would love to have you complete your Learning Academy program! Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. You will find the application as a pdf or Word doc: Please return completed applications by August 15th 2016 to: info@creativetype.ca Janet Morozuk
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District Conference October 27th-30th in MuskokaThe RI District 7010 Conference for 2016 will be held October 27 to 30, 2016 in beautiful Muskoka at the JW Marriott The Rosseau Muskoka Resort & Spa. District Governor Margaret Walton is delighted to invite you to join her there, where you will enjoy and be enriched by the experience of “Putting It Together – In Unexpected Ways!” - See more at: http://portal.clubrunner.ca/50040/Page/ShowSitePage?ClassCode=SitePage&Slug=district-7010-conference-2016-nbsp-nbsp#sthash.ImJvZD98.dpuf
The RI District 7010 Conference for 2016 will be held October 27 to 30, 2016 in beautiful Muskoka at the JW Marriott The Rosseau Muskoka Resort & Spa. District Governor Margaret Walton is delighted to invite you to join her there, where you will enjoy and be enriched by the experience of “Putting It Together – In Unexpected Ways!” - See more at: http://portal.clubrunner.ca/50040/Page/ShowSitePage?ClassCode=SitePage&Slug=district-7010-conference-2016-nbsp-nbsp#sthash.ImJvZD98.dpuf
The RI District 7010 Conference for 2016 will be held October 27 to 30, 2016 in beautiful Muskoka at the JW Marriott The Rosseau Muskoka Resort & Spa. District Governor Margaret Walton is delighted to invite you to join her there, where you will enjoy and be enriched by the experience of “Putting It Together – In Unexpected Ways!” - See more at: http://portal.clubrunner.ca/50040/Page/ShowSitePage?ClassCode=SitePage&Slug=district-7010-conference-2016-nbsp-nbsp#sthash.ImJvZD98.dpuf
The RI District 7010 Conference for 2016 will be held October 27 to 30, 2016 in beautiful Muskoka at the JW Marriott The Rosseau Muskoka Resort & Spa. District Governor Margaret Walton is delighted to invite you to join her there, where you will enjoy and be enriched by the experience of “Putting It Together – In Unexpected Ways!”
The conference will include:
DUE TO OVERWHELMING INTEREST IN THIS CONFERENCE ACCOMMODATIONS AT THE JW MARRIOTT ARE AT OR NEAR A SELL OUT.
In order to accommodate more attendees, we have negotiated additional rooms at Clevelands House. Clevelands House is closed at this time of the year but they have agreed to reopen a block of guest rooms to accommodate our conference.
Clevelands Housed is located just minutes from the Marriott at 1040 Juddhaven Road. To get to the Marriott, one must drive by Clevelands House. There is a walking path between the two resorts and the walk is less than 10 minutes. In addition; the conference will have a shuttle bus running between the two resorts.
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Club Meetings - July
July 5th - Our speaker had to cancel at the last minute. This gave us the opportunity to discuss ideas for an upcoming special community event on June 26th. Thanks to Rotarian Mohammed Saigar, Alan Mallory agreed to present on his family's experience climbing Mount Everest.
July 12th - Jennifer Parker visited our club again, this time about the Healthy Kids Community Challenge (http://www.collingwood.ca/healthykids).
July 19th - The Cybergnomes Robotics Club dropped by, this time with their robot!!
 They recently placed 17th in the world championships. They are in the top 100 high school robotics teams in the world! It is our pleasure to be one of their sponsors.
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July - Trip of the Month Winners
.png) Listen to The Peak FM the first Tuesday each month around 8:40 a.m. for the live draw of our monthly winners. This month Jennifer Tomas won the $125 cash prize and the trip was won by Marius Van Der Merwe. Both tickets were sold by Honoury Rotarian Don Paul. To view a list of all the winners so far this year visit our website at www.rotarycollingwood.org.
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New Monthly eBulletinOur weekly newsletter "The Beacon" has been replaced with a monthly eBulletin (actually, we might send it our more often if we are in the mood). Please be patient as the new bulletin editor figures out the technology. If you have feedback or have any news to share send the details to the bulletin editor at info@rotarycollingwood.org.
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2016-2017 Board of Directors
Our new Board of Directors is at the helm and testing out a new structure which consists of a smaller Board that works with a Leadership Team. The Board has also assumed oversight for fundraising and public relations, and will continue to receive support from many individual members and sub-committees who oversee various tasks and responsibilities that keep the club running.
Board of Directors:
President - Greg Cholewinsky
President Elect & Secretary - James Saunders
Treasurer - Nancy Locke
Past President - Karen Burland
President Elect Nominee - John McNiven
Member at Large - Dominic Ellis
Member at Large - Tim Knorr
Leadership Team:
Projects - John McNiven
Community Service - Dominic Ellis
Membership - Mike Donovan
Youth - Geoffrey Belisle
Foundation - Gene Peycha
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Exchange Students
Sarah Houston is our out-bound exchange student heading to Denmark in August and our in-bound student (Matilda) will arrive in August from Finland. We are partnering with the South Georgian Bay club for both students. In addition to the year-long exchange students we have also sponsored three, short-term exchange students. Shayna Donovan is co-sponsored with the Wasaga Beach Club for a one month exchange; Lily Ruecker is co-sponsored with the SGB Club for a two month exchange; and Zac Nattress is sponsored by our club for a two month exchange. If you are interesting in becoming a host family, see Geoffrey Belisle.
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Summer Team - Meeting DutiesThe Summer Team is up to bat with meeting duties for July, August and September. Led by Mary Ann Winterton, the team lineup is Tyler Chatterson, Geoffrey Belisle, Dominic Ellis, Brian Hickey, Bill Huggett, Nilusha Premasinghe, and Karen Willison.
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Past Presidents Honoured as Paul Harris Fellows
.JPG) At our recent changeover, President Karen honoured several Past Presidents with Paul Harris Fellows. Receiving Paul Harris Fellowship awards were Past Presidents: Pamela Hillier, Paul Darby, Brian Hickey, Susan Kenney, Kim Tranter, Tom Baulke, Gene Peycha, Karen Willison, and Mohammed Saigar. President Karen also recognized Matthew Wells for his continued support of our club through photography and his work on the Johnson Trust committee.
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Two New Honourary Members
.JPG) Before stepping down as President, Karen Burland inducted Rotarians Kim Tranter (left) and Gord Andrews (right) into Honourary membership.
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African Literacy Project - Barrie (April 17 & 18 2015)Hello Everyone!
Thank you for your contribution and effort for this weekend in making this event a true success. With everyone’s full attention and contribution we were able to have the container FULL of equipment and books embark on its journey to Sierre Leone Africa to assist and provide a better environment for learning and developing for the future. Our goal has been met for this our second container and so a big THANK YOU to everyone from the Simcoe County Board of Education, Rotary Club of Collingwood, Rotary Club of Alliston, Rotary Club of South Georgian Bay, Rotaract Club of South Georgian Bay, Rotary Club of Innisfil, Rotary Club of Barrie-Huronia, Rotary Club of Barrie, YMCA Collingwood and YMCA Barrie.
The container is planned to begin its journey on April 19, 2015 when picked up and will be driven to Montreal and loaded on a ship to Antwerp Belgium followed by Morocco and then onto Sierre Leone with an arrival date of June 25, 2015. We will have photos for the arrival and the unloading as this is the first container being sent to this region there will be much celebration and joy brought to those who currently have little to assist in their education.
With the assistance of some eighty-eight volunteers over the two days we were able to have all the following goods packed into the shipping container without incident. We are now much better positioned for future activities with the organization of remaining equipment being sorted and arrange at Prince of Wales School so any additional pieces will be added in the same areas making access in the future much easier.
A special thank you to those who were able make our tasks were made much easier with donations of equipment from Rockbrune Movers, Barrie and Saunders Book Company, Collingwood. Lunch on Saturday and refreshments were provided by YMCA of Simcoe and Muskoka.
We expect to have photos of our event that we will post onto our website; when this has been completed I will send everyone the link so you can review at you leisure or download for you album. Our plan is to receive from Sierre Leone photographs when the container reaches its destination on or about June 25, 2015 these will also be posted when we have them and you can return and view.
JOB WELL DONE EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is a condensed list of the goods that we packed and shipped in the container:
451 boxes of books which is 14,500 books
543 student chairs
327 student desks
20 teacher desks
49 tables (seating for 294 students)
2 book cases
1 piano
27 computers
9 chalk boards
8 boxes of toys
6 stools
4 projector screens
5 clocks
Thank you and best regards.
Dave Wright
Rotary Club of Collingwood
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Supporting The Salvation Army - Kettle CampaignThanks to all of our fabulous volunteers for supporting this important event. Here is a photo of some of our volunteers.
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Success! Global Literacy ProjectThank you to everyone involved in making this event a true success. With everyone’s full attention and contribution we were able to have the container FULL of equipment and books embark on its journey to Mpumalanga District of South Africa to assist and provide a better environment for learning and developing for the future. Our goal has been met for this first container and so a big THANK YOU to everyone from the Simcoe County Board of Education, Rotary Club of Collingwood, Rotary Club of Alliston, Rotary Club of South Georgian Bay, Rotaract Club of South Georgian Bay, Rotary Club of Innisfil, Rotary Club of Barrie-Huronia, Rotary Club of Grand Bend, YMCA Collingwood and YMCA Barrie.Here is a condensed list of the goods that we packed and shipped in the container:
700 boxes of books which is 17,500 books
240 student desks
7 teacher desks
7 tables
36 book shelves
479 student chairs
4 pianos
9 screens/easels
4 chalk boards
1 sewing machine
130 milk bag mats
Assortment of sports equipment, primary toys, and school supplies (this includes 100 hockey sticks)
Thank you and best regards,
Rotarian Dave Wright
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Our First Visit with In Bound Exchange Student Alberto Carrasco from ChilePresident Pam and Alberto
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Out Bound Exchange Student Will Giffen Arrives in Brazil |
Polio - We are Really This Close!Polio End-Game Plan Announced at Rotary International Conference
Collingwood - Local residents Pamela Hillier and Martin Oosterveld were two of more than 18,000 Rotarians from around the world recently attending the 2014 Rotary International Conference held on June 1-4 in Sydney, Australia.
Hillier and Oosterveld, Presidents for each of the two Rotary clubs based in Collingwood as of July 1, were eager to share some of the major announcements about the global fight to end polio they heard at the conference.
 Dr. Bruce Aylward, a Canadian physician who heads the global effort for the World Health Organization, stated that of the three remaining polio endemic countries in the world, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, one country is very close to elimination and plans are in place to end the eradication task by 2018.
In Nigeria there have only been three new cases since the start of the year. Earlier this year India and all of South East Asia announced they were polio-free and that means that 80% of all children in the world are now born in polio-free countries.
The remaining countries where the virus is still endemic are Pakistan and Afghanistan. The frustrating resistance to vaccination in the tribal border region between these countries is being worn down systematically. While there is concern about some secondary outbreaks in countries such as Syria, Dr. Aylward indicated that with an immediate massive effort these flair-ups can be controlled quickly.
Aylward announced a new strategy has been developed from recent experience that will be used in the next few years. When the secondary flair ups started, they were very concerned that the virus might find a new foothold in Somalia -- with a failed government and very dangerous conditions for vaccine distribution, this could be a major setback in the overall battle.
To avert the problem they set up controls at all the border points in and out of Somalia and vaccinated every person who crossed who could not prove they had previously been vaccinated. This new strategy of total containment worked very well and will now be deployed in all the other endemic and flare up situations. So while it may be very difficult to go into every home and community in the lawless and war torn areas of the world, this new strategy makes sure the virus cannot spread to surrounding areas.
The fight to end polio is not cheap, with an estimated $5.5 billion dollars required over the next five years. Several major funding announcements for the Polio campaign were made at the conference.
Rotary International announced it will be contributing $35 million a year for the next five years, and a new agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will see matching Rotary’s contributions two to one. These two annual contributions result in $105 million dollars.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot attending the conference with his father, also a Rotarian, announced the Australian Government would be contributing $100 million over the next 5 years. Also at the event a Rotary member from Nigeria, Sir Emaka Offor, announced a personal donation of $1 million and free office space for the Nigerian effort for as long as required.
There are 34,282 Rotary Clubs and over 1.2 million members worldwide. The two Collingwood-based clubs will continue their efforts to support international, regional and local projects through fundraising and volunteer service. Combined the two clubs raise more than $200,000 each year and have almost 100 members. New members are always welcome.
If you have bought a Rotary calendar, a Trip of the Month ticket, or attended the Scotch Nosing & Noshing or the Taste of the Town events – you are supporting the work of Rotary in your community and beyond.
For more information about the polio campaign visit www.endpolio.org and to find out about becoming a member visit one of the local clubs at www.rotarycollingwood.org or www.rotarycollingwoodsgb.org.
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Meet our Newest Members Jennifer and Dave Wright Left to right, President Paul Darby, Rotarians Jennifer Wright, Dave Wright and Karen Willison
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Meet our Newest Member - Lisa McKinley |
We are a Proud New Sponsor - Bowl for Kids' Sake |
New Member Classification - Jerry Wijngaard |
ReBound Exchange Student - Noelle WiltonNoelle Wilton shares her experience living in Thailand as a Rotary Exchange Student.
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are excellent resources, as are experienced Rotarians. What’s New! This semester modules will also include PDFs of information to reference.