Upcoming Events
Youth Now farm visit
5039 Russell Road
Oct 21, 2017
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
 
Polio Plus Soup Day!
First Baptist Church
Oct 24, 2017
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
 
Board meeting October
https://www.gotomeet.me/Rotary7040
Oct 30, 2017
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Annual General Meeting (AGM)
https://www.gotomeet.me/Rotary7040
Dec 04, 2017
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 

Notes about Events

What are you doing for World Polio Day October 24? The Cornwall group is doing a meal and will collect donations for World's Greatest Meal to End Polio.
 
Youth Now has organized an afternoon for Ottawa area clubs and members at the farm on Russell Road for October 21.
 
An events list would be helpful to find out what was happening with other clubs. Look on the District website www.rotary7040.com for the Calendars tab. Some events have started to appear.
 
We need to know if you are willing to serve on the board of directors for next year. We need to report names to Rotary International after the December AGM.

Meet the Member articles needed

Have you written your article introducing yourself yet? It does not take long and helps others in the club get to know you.
 
Adding a picture to your profile also helps others get to know you. Some of you may notice that your profile pictures have now been added.
 
Also, for some members, a biography has been added to their profile. Those are the Meet the Member articles that you have sent to me.
Download Files
How to add your own makeups (with illustrations)
Rotary Direct donations

Notes

Mark in your makeups as soon as you get this bulletin.
 
Quarterly dues should have been paid as of October 1.

Some thoughts from the Ottawa area meeting

As a virtual club it is important to find a focal point for our communications and share what we are involved in.  Everyone wants email because it's familiar.  But that's going to be tough because there will be no central point where as president I can share info.  Not everyone is reading the weekly bulletin and it’s hard to keep sending out reminders and the like. There's are bunch of options that can be used that combine email messages and online bulletin boards so that we have a place to post info, and members can depend on emails from the bulletin board to let them know something new has been posted. We are investigating if Club Runner can do that. Kathy Trim, our new Communications and Public Relations director will be sending out a survey with some options to get the opinions of members.
 
We discussed the Dictionary 4 Life program and the feeling was that although it was a good program it was too much for us to get into right now. We also had some discussion about whether our club would get involved in fundraising.  Some may want to get into the calendar sales with West Ottawa, but that is only for those who want it.
 
Len Goddard will try to set up a date with the Salvation Army for kettles in Ottawa, as we also will do here in Cornwall.  There need to be ten members (or families or friends) to volunteer for a day, if we wanted to do it at the same location. 
 
We talked about events lists of what is happening in Rotary Clubs throughout our District. This was set that in motion with DG Sue and club presidents and secretaries. See the note about events to the left.
 
A message has been sent to Fay Campbell and Hadi Mortada, Area Governors for the Ottawa area about getting representation on the Ottawa area presidents’ council.
 
We know that for some it feels really strange, or disconnected somehow not to be tied to a meeting schedule, on the other hand it’s also great to feel that you’re not wasting your time but doing something you want to do. One of the members said that what he felt was the main benefit of Rotary was the support from other members.  If you get involved in a cause or an event, you can count on your fellow Rotarians for support.  You're not alone.
Think about this picture.