Weekly update Rotary Club of Etobicoke

District Governor: Bob Wallace RI President: Kalyan Banerjee Week January 04, 2012

Board 2011 - 2012 President: Ron Miller, Vice President: Hugh Williams, Past President: Diane Irvine, Secretary: Nigel Brown, Treasurer: Don Edwards. Directors: Michael Bell, Justin Di Ciano, Carol Weber, Gary Hepworth, Alex Woda,

Christine Woodman.

January 11, 2012 – Bernard Trottier MP Etobicoke Lakeshore

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Today’s Speaker: Dr Dale Shuttleworth – Training Renewal Foundation (TRF)

Doug told us that our advertised speaker called him yesterday to apologise and tell him he was sick and unable to attend. Luckily, Doug knows more than a couple of people and found Dr Dale Shuttleworth, who was happy to talk about the Training Renewal Foundation (TRF), of which he is Executive Director. The TRF was registered as a charitable organisation in September 1997. It is a non-profit charitable

training organisation which prepares the unemployed for careers in a post-industrial economy based on consumer-related services and knowledge-driven enterprise and globalisation. Dale is a member of the St Matthews Anglican Church Men’s Ministry. Dale’s experience came through his career as a teacher, community worker, school principal, superintendent and university lecturer in (as was) the City of York. Dale has published a number of books on school management & innovation and schooling and the General Educational Development (GED) Test. Dale said that the TRF has established a number of social enterprises. These include Training Interns in Education, which assists recent immigrants who were previously employed as educators in their native lands to resume their former vocations or prepare for alternative careers. From 1995 the GED Preparation Centre pilot project was instrumental in bringing GED exams and the Ontario High School Equivalency Certificate (OHSEC) to the province. In 1997 TRF partnered with Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) and Alfa Food Machinery Ltd to establish North America’s first Café Equipment Technician training program, which later developed additional partnerships and helped the unemployed to get training and work. TRF & HRDC partnered with the Ontario Fabricare Association to create the Dry Cleaning & Laundering Training Advisory Committee. In 2001 TRF partnered with the York Catholic District School Board, the York Region District School Board and the Ontario Ministry of Education to found the Your Choice Learning Centre to cater for the needs of expelled students in the region under the provisions of the Safe Schools Act. From 2002 TRF initiated a series of

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training programs with the Regions of York & Waterloo and Hewitt Material Handling to train Ontario Works recipients as industrial warehouse workers and lift truck operators. The list of achievements goes on! Newly arrived immigrants, those people thrown out of school and the work system need help to get back into the workforce. The training schemes & organisations that TRF has founded have done that. By working with so many governmental & industrial organisations it has helped individuals achieve their potential. Launched in 2010, the GED Online demonstration project was launched with Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Adult Learning Centre. 85% of the 2000 social security recipients undertook a year’s Internet-based instruction to prepare for the OHSEC, earned by passing 5 subjects to test their literacy & numeracy. Dale thanked Christine & Doug, and our club, for the funding TRF received to give 10 scholarships to students who were unable to claim any provincial or federal support. Dale also mentioned Etobicoke Youth Networks, developed in central Etobicoke. He and the organisations he is involved with have done a lot of work with youth in the area, including through Rathburn Area Youth (RAY). A useful pocket-sized directory, “Power in your Pocket – accessing youth services in Etobicoke” is a popular item. Helping young people to help themselves stops them drifting into crime, drugs & gangs. By helping them to prepare for jobs the whole community is better-off. Here again, our club has been involved in the same drive to help youth to make the right choices. Gary Hepworth thanked our speaker.

Chinese - ShenYun Performing Arts

Toronto: Date: Jan 12-15 (Thurs. – Sun.)

Time: 2pm / 7:30pm Venue: Toronto Sony Center (previously called Hummingbird) To order tickets: 416-248-1168 or visit https://webticketcenter.com/toronto/performance.php

January Birthdays

Greg Dobson – January 06 Lynda Ryder – January 08 Doug Hartry – January 11 Robert Lychenko – January 13 Judy Burnell – January 20 Gary Hepworth – January 24 Happy Birthday to all of you on your happy day…….

January PODS TEAM Doug Hartry (Leader), Georgr Bablis, Bernadette Hunkeler Brown, Donna Cansfield, Ralp Chiodo, Andre Dugas, Sharon Lee, Bob Maxwell, Carlos

Petosa, Ara Run, Carol Weber, Christine Woodman

Visitors & Guests

Visiting Rotarians Brock Buchanan – Rotary Club of Moshe, Tanzania

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Cletus Doucet – Rotary Club of Bathurst, New Brunswick

Guests Dr. Dale Shuttleworth – Our Speaker 14 Rotarians were present today.

Presidents Corner

Quotes from Past Rotary International Presidents 1963-64 Carl P Muller – Rotary Club of Los Angeles, USA. “Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you sit down” - 1963 RI Convention 1964-65 Charles W. Pettengill Rotary Club of Connecticut, USA. “Rotary works through man’s elemental confidence that something good can be made better” - The Rotarian July 1964

Secretary’s Corner By Nigel Brown

Happy Birthday to Gregory Dobson & Lynda

Ryder who have birthdays this week. We

sang them “Happy Birthday”

International committee meeting at 7.00pm

at Bernadette & Nigel’s house on Monday,

9th

January

Community Service Committee meeting at

Christine & Russell’s residence at 5.30pm on

23rd

January

Board Meeting at 5.30pm on Monday, 30th

January, venue TBA

Please attend the club meeting on 8th

February as the Proposed By-laws are going

to be voted on. More information will be

given later

Night of 1000 Chopsticks fundraiser in aid of

A Mine Free World will be at 6.00pm on

Wednesday, 29th

February. Tickets will be

on sale shortly so please raid your piggy

banks!

Opal has been asked for help by our

Rotaract club at York University. They are

holding a fundraiser in aid of ShelterBox on

Monday, 9th

January and need an electric

urn to heat water for hot chocolate/tea

(Ralph kindly offered one of Active Green &

Ross’), prizes for Bingo winners and also

baked goods. Please contact Lynda with

offers!! The Rotaractors have a busy

schedule in the coming months

Just as a reminder, please consider taking

out our exchange student, Nils, if you are

going anywhere “interesting” in the next

few months

An announcement from Doug: next week’s

speaker will be MP for Etobicoke - Lakeshore,

Bernard Trottier. A good turnout is requested!

Something not mentioned at the meeting –

it is semi-annual dues time again! If you

have not already done so, can you please

pay them as soon as possible? Thanks!

Please let Nigel know any make-up

meetings you have attended

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Night of 1000 Chopsticks fundraiser in aid of

A Mine Free World on Wednesday, 29

February 2012.

The next Rotary Trump AIDS Poker Walk is

on Saturday, 28 April – watch this space!!

There will be a Sweat Equity Trip to Malawi

in early May 2012. For more details contact

Nigel.

Please put all of these dates in your diaries!

50/50 Draw 50:50 Draw Lynda Ryder 2 of Diamonds. So the Pots Grows...

Happy Bucks

Nigel Brown– Nigel was happy because he had

received a commitment from the RC of Midland, ON, to donate $1000 to the Genesis Project in South Africa

Lynda Ryder – Lynda announced that Don

needed every penny he could get for the club and emptied her purse as a good example!

Ralph Chiodo – Ralph said he is leaving for Italy,

where next week he will be speaking at our twin club Amantea. His talk is on immigration into Canada

Michael Bell – Michael said he was sad to be

leaving us all behind as he & Jo-Ann head off for their latest cruise around Hawaii. The effect was spoiled by his laugh!

Ken Bromley – Ken said he was happy to not be

in jail. A week ago he had been fast asleep in his bed when he was woken by two police, telling him none of his phones were working. They left him to ponder the meaning of this statement. Next morning he called Bell to ask what the problem was (so at least one phone WAS working) and the doorbell rang – such quick service!

Brock Buchanan – Brock was happy to be

heading off to Tanzania in a few days for 3 – 4 months. Delphi will be following him in a month. He said the fundraising to pay for an operation to straighten the legs of a poor, little girl is going well. And he will be taking some ideas from our club to his at Moshi to liven them up a bit!

January 2012 Meeting Calendar

January 09, 2012 – 7.00 PM

International Services Committee Meeting.

Venue: Nigel & Bernadette’s Residence, The

Kingsway. Contact: Nigel Brown (416) 237-0257.

January 23, 2012 – 5.30 pm for 6.00 pm

Community Services Committee Meeting.

Venue: Christine Woodman’s Residence, 231

Riverside Drive. Contact: Christine Woodman (416)

767-3352

January 30, 2012 – 5.30 PM

Board Meeting

Venue: TBD. Contact: Nigel Brown (Tel) 416 237-

0257.. .

Reported By: Nigel Brown * Pictures: Hugh Williams