November 1, 2020
Our Next PASSPORT CLUB Meeting will be November 24, 2020
 
The link to join meeting is the same every month:
 
Please use the link below - note that a password is not necessary - participants are admitted by the meeting Chair from a Waiting Room.   
 
 
Meeting ID:774-1711-6547
Upcoming Events
Membership Committee Meeting
Online
Nov 10, 2020
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
November Meeting
Nov 24, 2020 5:00 PM
 
Annual General Meeting
Dec 08, 2020 5:00 PM
 
D7040 Passport Online Social #2
Zoom
Dec 15, 2020
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
 
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Executives & Directors
President
Jacinthe Paille
 
President Elect
Maddie Roy
 
Treasurer
David Wood
 
Past President
CJ Cochrane
 
Membership
Ariane Carriere
 
Director Greater Cornwall
Fred Carriere
 
Director Greater Montreal
Barry Rowland
 
Public Relations/Communications
CJ Cochrane
 
Director Greater Ottawa
Len Goddard
 
International Service
Yves Soumillon
 
The Rotary Foundation
Ginette Valériote
 
Secretary
Terry Forth
 
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Anniversaries
Barry Rowland
Nicole Rowland
November 20
 
Join Date
Barry Rowland
November 10, 2018
2 years
 
Jennifer Williams
November 17, 2014
6 years
 
Maddie Roy
November 21, 2018
2 years
 
David Wilder
November 28, 2007
13 years
 

DISTRICT 7040 YOUTH PROTECTION POLICY

Revised January 2020
 
All Passport Club members should familiarize them selves with our District's Youth Protection Policy.  It applies to any Rotary activity members may be involved with as Rotarians with Youth.  
 
Please click on this link for the full policy:
 
President's Message
Jacinthe Paille
member photo
November is Foundation Month!
 
Let’s celebrate the great work that our Foundation does. There are many ways to do that!
-We can watch (or watch again) the Polio Plus concert – and even donate to help eradicate polio! Click here:  https://rcwo.org/page/polio
-We can read an interesting article about the Foundation (in all of our November bulletins and more!). As an example, here’s how the Foundation helps save mothers and children: https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/saving-mothers-and-children
-We can go on the Learning Center in my.rotary.org and take a course! 
*And if you haven’t donated to the Foundation yet, why not do it this month? It’s easy! Ask me or any of the board members for help if you need any.
Last Meeting, Next Meeting
At last meeting on October 27th, I mentioned three books you may be interested in. Here they are:
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig (a funny and interesting way to look at modern life)
Good Work Done Better by Sam Watts (on how to improve <the impact of community-based non-profits)
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio by Jeffrey Kluger (all about polio and the man behind the vaccine that has saved thousands of lives) 
Next meeting is on November 24th and we will start 30 minutes early (4:30pm EDT) for those who would like to chat and mingle. Once the meeting is finished, we will keep the Zoom going for another 15-20 minutes so the discussions can continue!
 
Secretary's Thoughts
 
Hello Passport Rotarians and Friends,
 
I am very sorry it was not possible for me to attend our meeting last week, but a special thanks to Brian Foster who kept the minutes of the meeting on my behalf and I was pleased to see that it was so well attended once again.
 
This was our DG Hadi's "Official Visit" to our club and he had some excellent remarks to make with lots of inspiration for our current Rotary Year.
 
Later in this Bulletin, in Ariane's Membership Corner, you will find Margaret's thoughts which she shared during last week's meeting about how we might go about helping to make our fellowship experience in our Passport Club more enjoyable.  
 
There is also a link to the 
slide deck she promised to share with us.
 
Our very own District Governor Elect – Fay Campbell was recently interviewed on Nigeria Rotary Radio, as part of the women in Rotary series. It will be broadcast this Tuesday, Nov 3rd at 9 am EST, please share the link below with your Rotary colleagues and others in your network.  Fay is very much looking forward to our feedback,
  
You can download the Global Rotary Radio app on android and IOS
 
 
 
You can also listen on the web 
 
Yours in Rotary Service,
 
Terry
President-Elect Maddie Roy
 
Maddie expects to be back next week with a new message
Membership Corner - Ariane
 
From Margaret Shibley:
 
For those who were at our Zoom meeting 27 Oct, here is the deck on Fellowship that I promised for your consideration and comment.  For those who were not able to be with us, and missed the brief presentation and discussion, let me explain.
 
With considerable credit to the work and insight of our Founding President and subsequent Presidents, the Passport Club structure both permits and encourages each of us to work with local Rotary and other community organizations where our individual areas of interest and expertise are useful. We are set up to function extremely well. We work together, and we make a difference. Just look at the World Polio Day concert Brian Foster just pulled off by enlisting the aid of other clubs! 
 
In a conversation with Brian after our September meeting, triggered by the advance of a bleak November and the realization that Covid measures are likely to be with us for months yet, we wondered whether it was time to focus on the FELLOWSHIP value of Rotary, to turn inwards briefly. Hence, the attached deck.
 
It seems Brian and I have not been not only folk thinking about the issue. Just last week at DisCon 2020, Rushton Hurley spoke of the need for fellowship in e-clubs, affirming our concerns. Then the Oct 26 Bulletin shared that the Membership Committee had taken up that message and was thinking about several ideas along the same lines.
 
So, the Passport Club structure effectively meets our organizational needs. The question becomes, "Is that enough?" Might there be personal needs of our members we need to address? Do we need to find ways to strengthen our social ties to support the continued health of an electronic club? We developed a few easy to implement ideas that are intended to increase our social contact and support network. You may well have other ideas. Clearly, we need to check in with the Membership Committee. This winter is probably a good time to experiment. 
 
TIMELINE
Oct meeting    
Introduce topic, provide information, request feedback
Oct - Nov   
Collect input, opinions, ideas from membership
Nov meeting   
1. Report findings back to membership
2. Pilot breakout groups after formal meeting - divide those able to remain after the meeting for 15 min or so into breakout groups of 3 or 4, just to get to know each other
                   
Let us know what you think.
 
And now, back to our regular column. We will have another Membership Committee meeting in November. One of the things that we need to decide is who is in each regional grouping for our club. Remember that we are trying to keep communication going. You can get a free Zoom account and as long as you keep the conversation under 40 minutes, you can talk to anyone in the club, at any time.
 
We have a private Facebook group for our club, but it was not used a lot so I have revived it. You need to be my Friend and you need to like our club Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/D7040rotarypassportclub before I can invite you as a member of the private group. Let's use this to have conversations.
 
We have received 100 cash calendars. Quite a number of you felt that you would be able to do these sales We can return any that we do not sell. Even if you have told me that you cannot actively sell, you can buy a calendar yourself.
 
David has spoken for 20 and Fred has been selling quite a few already. There has also been a mailing to Jacinthe and Ginette.
Make an e-transfer to d7040passport@gmail.com and David will let me know who wants a calendar.
 
As Len mentioned in an email, 100 calendars would make us $600 for the club, an easy way to make some money in this time of COVID. The calendars work on the same principle as the West Ottawa calendars, and look very similar, but they are a joint venture of the Kingston area clubs.
 
 
Please canvas for advertising again. It is such an easy way for us to generate funds also.
 
Calls have started to come out for the Salvation Army kettles. Contact your regional rep (Len, Fred, or Barry) if you are interested in volunteering. The date that we set was December 5. This is an easy way to do a makeup. Even if you are not in a regional group, you can volunteer on your own.
 
There will be updates on our home page of Colin Lyle helping out his former club for Polio Day, and of our grant for the Sonshine Centre where I was privileged to have a tour on the 28th. Hopefully, these will be in place when you receive this bulletin.
 
Ariane Carriere, Passport Membership Chair

FOUNDATION MOMENT

Welcome to our Bulletin’s first “Foundation Moment” in November as Rotary’s Foundation Month.  Each week starting today, and for the next four Sundays, one of the members of our Passport Club’s Foundation Committee will be writing a special feature about some aspects of the important work of the Rotary International (RI) Foundation.   In addition to these weekly features, we can also look forward to our November 24th Club Meeting where our guest speaker will be Rotary Peace Scholar Sarah Champagne. 
 
Please note that in December we will once again be welcoming DG Hadi’s Foundation Moment back to our Bulletin pages. 
 
In this week's first feature it will be my challenge to briefly talk about Rotary’s efforts to eradicate the scourge of the polio virus from our planet.  This has been a signature program of RI for over thirty-five years and it has been a herculean effort of RI as well as thousands of Rotarians who have volunteered by supporting special immunization clinics primarily in developing countries which have been hardest hit in recent years as well as raising funds for the End Polio effort.
 
Polio is a paralyzing and potentially deadly infectious disease that has existed for thousands of years, but only recognized as a distinct condition since 1789.  The virus that causes it was first identified in 1908 by the Austrian immunologist Karl Landsteiner. 
 
Major outbreaks started to occur in the late 19th century in Europe and North America. In the 20th century it became one of the most worrying childhood diseases in these areas. The first polio vaccine was developed in the 1950s by Jonas Salk and soon after, Albert Sabin developed an oral vaccine, which has become the world standard.   
 
In 1979, RI began its fight against polio with a multi-year project to immunize 6 million children in the Philippines.  That effort was followed in 1985 by the launch of RI’s PolioPlus with an initial fundraising target of US$120 million.   
 
Three years later RI and the World Health Organization launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.  In 1988 there were an estimated 350,000 cases of polio in 125 countries. By 2014, the number of countries had dwindled to just three.
 
As of the 2018-19 Rotary Year, a total of $1.6 US Billion has been raised by the Foundation for polio eradication. As DG Hadi reported in our Bulletin last week, “by the time the world is certified polio-free, our contributions will make Rotary the largest non-governmental financial contributor to the global polio eradication effort.”
 

You can help end polio by making a gift to the PolioPlus Fund at endpolio.org.

Terry Forth