Rotary Echo March 24 2021 (Mar 25, 2021)

New Members Welcome, Come Join Us

Service Above Self

Wednesdays at 12:00 PM

Zoom
Huntsville, ON P1H1P4
Canada

First Wednesday of the month @ 6:00 PM, all other Wednesday's 12 Noon Members receive Zoom invite weekly. Others that wish to join contact President Ron Strickland pdg.ron.strickland@gmail.com

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Guests

Madeline Gosset Andrea Bonafini Bill Weber Bill Rashleigh John Simpson Helen Luvison Carol Gibson Nick Paroschy

Club Announcements

President Ron opened the meeting with a toast to Queen, Canada and Rotary.

Thank yous were read from Jan Nyquist and Melissa Polischuk about the Celebrity Chef Culinary Experience

Darren Wiseman is scheduled for Heart Surgery

Mary Rashleigh reports that 6 people have volunteered to write cards for the Muskoka Seniors Friendly visiting program More are welcome

The Nepal Global Grant is within $ of completion

Rotaract Club Plant a Tree project

Our April 7th meeting will feature an interview by Rob Hurst (former president of CTV news) on Russia

Evening Satellite Group is doing Rotary Eats

Today's Speaker

Youth Exchange is a very important part of what we do as Rotarians. The Youth Exchange committee has brought back a few of the Students we have hosted over the years so we can catch up on their lives

Viktor Ozeg: He was happy to see old friends. He said all his hosts gave everything to him during his time in Huntsville, and his time here changed his life and it was the best decision he made in his life. When he returned to Croatia, he had to complete his last two years of high school, and then he went on to university to study Applied Social Sciences with a major in International Relations. After receiving his degree, he went on to do three more years to obtain his master’s degree. He said that he attended workshops on improving his personal skills and he now has a full-time job. He thanked Rob for introducing him to cultural events. He has gone back to playing the saxophone in two bands and is still involved in sports. He joined an Interact Club while in high school and is now in a Rotaract Club. Viktor hopes to visit Huntsville again in the future, along with his girlfriend of six years. He was so happy to be at the meeting and hoped to stay in touch like this more often.

Helmi Kivimaa: Helmi prepared a slide show with pictures depicting her life since leaving Huntsville. She thanked the Rotary Club and especially her host families. She was very grateful for being a member of these families. She said that returning to Finland was difficult, but she finished high school. Her family hosted an exchange student from British Columbia.

The spring of 2017 was very stressful for her, as she studied nine hours a day for two and a half months in order to pass the entrance exam for acceptance into the university of her choice where she wanted to study economics. She graduated from high school that spring and was accepted into the university she wanted, and actually returned to Canada that summer.

She was involved in an international affairs group at university and went to Sweden for two months as an exchange student. She has graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with a specialty in Marketing. She has one and a half years left to complete her master’s degree. She ran her first marathon last August.

Helmi showed photographs of her family, noting that all of her siblings have been exchange students and thanked members of the club for listening to her presentation

Rebecca Vestergaard: Rebecca had also prepared a slide show. She thanked her host families from her time in Huntsville. She started high school when she returned to Denmark and graduated in 2019, and then took a year off to attend a Folk School, a Danish school where you live in a house with twenty other students and take classes. Her main class was in in journalism, but she also took pottery, creative activities, agriculture and others. For the journalism program, she travelled to Israel where she had many interesting experiences. She started university last September, studying Political Science. Her classes have mostly been online from home, but she looks forward to the full university experience soon.

Madeline Gosset

Madeline is in her 3rd year of Psychology in Belgium and will have her Bachelors degree by the end of the year She will be doing an Internship in the African country of Benin and then back to do her Masters. She had a new baby sister on Dec 23rd. She looks forward to visiting Canada again when Covid is over.

Andrea Bonafini

Andrea is at home in Italy in his first year of Engineering. He has not been able to travel outside his village during the pandemic.

In his spare time he is renovating a home with his brothers and sister. He got his drivers license and has access to a car but of course can go nowhere. He did get paid by his friend for a bet that he would not cut his hair while on exchange and now he just keeps it longer anyway.

Celebrity Chef Thank yous

Chair Brandy expressed her thanks to the committee for all their hard work in putting together our virtual dinner

Chef Coordinators Paul and Rose Evans and Michelle Shabatura

Menu Program Rose Evans

Swag Bags Mary Rashleigh

Marketing and Promotion Trish Kruusmagi

Website and Ticketing Will Gibson

Sponsorship Ross Kirwin

Videos and You Tube Jen Simpson

Wine and Beer Ross Kirwin Jamie Thompson and Dave Van Gelder

Entertainment and Budget Rob Saunders

Food Delivery Peter Redwood

Charity Liaison Brandy Van Gelder

Every one of these people had a major part in the success of the Event.

Happy Bucks

Mary was happy about the Martian Helicopter that will carry a piece of the Wright Brothers original aircraft with it

Nick Paroschy was there to Thank us for the Celebrity Chef Experience

Len also thought we did a pretty good job with this project

Hugh happy about his Covid Vacine administered by Dr John Simpson

Ron is also now vacinated if all went well

Bingo Schedule

At the request of Your TV (who hosts our Bingo) there will be a set team handling the Bingo broadcasts for the next number of weeks. This will assist them in meeting their Covid 19 protocols. Members will be advised when we return to club wide participation.'

Mar 31, 2021

Club Assembly

Celebrity Chefs Culinary Experience wrap up

Apr 07, 2021

Robert Hurst and Lou Namouski

From Russia With Love.

Apr 14, 2021

Tanya McCready and Hank Debruin

Leadership and the Importance of Goal Setting from the perspective of an Ididorod participant.

Apr 21, 2021

Chuck McClelland

Refurbishing cedar canoes

Apr 28, 2021

Aussa Penniall

Chartwell care services and retirement living vs long term care

May 05, 2021

Gabriel Munro, Amarok Society

Teaching Mothers to Teach the World

May 12, 2021

Lou

Exchange students ?

May 19, 2021

Lou

Exchange students ?

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