Upcoming Events
Greater Ottawa area Passport meeting
KS on the Keys
Feb 05, 2019
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
 
District Team Training Seminar
Kemptville, ON
Feb 23, 2019 12:00 PM
 
Rotary's Anniversary
District 7040
Feb 23, 2019 12:00 PM
 
February meeting
https://www.gotomeet.me/rotary7040/d7040-passport-club
Feb 26, 2019
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
March meeting
https://www.gotomeet.me/rotary7040/d7040-passport-club
Mar 26, 2019
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
April meeting
https://www.gotomeet.me/rotary7040/d7040-passport-club
Apr 30, 2019
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 

Are you adding your Makeups?

In order to get your 40 credits (see Participation Recognition), you will need to go according to the meetings listed. Do not bank meetings, just keep adding them to the next available date for you, even if it is in the future. I know that for those of you who have been Rotarians before that seems strange, but then we are not a usual club, so we do our attendance credits in an unusual way.
 
Those who attended our Jan. 29 meeting are all marked in. It is easy to add a list of everyone who attended. Minutes of that meeting will be available next week.

Partnership with Mediators Beyond Borders International

Rotary and Mediators Beyond Borders International have formed a service partnership to support our clubs and districts in their peacebuilding efforts. Read the partnership factsheet to learn how clubs and districts can take advantage of this partnership to make their peace and conflict resolution projects even better.
 
 

Congratulations

...to all having birthdays in February.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Carol Horn (nee Rollit)
February 10
 
Curry Wood
February 12
 
Jacinthe Paille
February 14
 

Executives & Directors

President
 
President Elect
 
Treasurer
 
Membership
 
Public Relations/Communications
 
Co-chair Rotary Foundation
 
Director Greater Ottawa area
 
The Rotary Foundation
 
Director International Service
 
Secretary
 
New Generations
 
President Nominee
 

There has been a change in our executive. Chris Cochrane is now in charge of Public Relations/Communications.

Ottawa Area Meeting

Our face to face meeting of members in the Greater Ottawa area is on February 5, KS on the Keys, 1024 Daze Street (East off Bank across from the Keys).  Induction of new members and reception of name tags are all on the agenda. To find out more about the agenda, click on the Event title on the left. I look forward to seeing many of you.
 

Celebrate Rotary's anniversary

On 23 February, Rotary will celebrate its 114th anniversary. Consider making a special birthday gift to The Rotary Foundation today. When you give to the Annual Fund, you empower Rotarians like you to improve communities close to home and around the globe.
 

#endpolio

The Rotary Foundation awarded nearly $700 million in PolioPlus grants from 2010 to 2017. Vaccines are largely covered by other donors, so Rotary International provides funds to cover the gaps. Grateful to our members for their generosity and commitment to making progress to #endpolio.

Rotary ABC's - RI World Headquarters

The headquarters of Rotary International always has been in the Chicago area. The first seven offices were in downtown Chicago, but in 1954 Rotary built a new building in suburban Evanston, Illinois. This building met the needs of the Secretariat until the 1980s, when the addition of new programs, the growth of The Rotary Foundation, and the new PolioPlus activities exhausted space in the headquarters building and required some staff members to operate in supplementary office space nearby.
 
In 1987, a modern office building that appeared to meet all of Rotary’s space and future expansion needs became available in downtown Evanston. Built in 1977, the 18-story glass-and steel structure provides nearly 400,000 square feet (37,161 square meters) of office and usable space. The building was purchased by Rotary International, which leases nearly half of the space to commercial tenants, until needed by future Rotary growth.
 
One Rotary Center, as it is called, has a 190-seat auditorium, large parking garage, and 200-seat cafeteria, as well as functional office space for the more than 500 employees at RI World Headquarters. The executive suite on the 18th floor includes conference rooms for meetings of the RI Board of Directors, Rotary Foundation Trustees, and RI and Foundation committees, in addition to the offices of the RI president, president-elect, president-nominee, chair of The Rotary Foundation Trustees, and general secretary.

The Rotary Foundation Weekly Messages: WEEK 32

WORDS FROM A FORMER GROUP STUDY EXCHANGE TEAM MEMBER: “In Warsaw, Woijeich Sierpinski, a Rotary Club President, took me on a tour that I will never forget.  We visited his parent’s house - where they lived during World War II.  There in the kitchen, under a dusty stack of crates was a secret wood panel in the floor.  Woijeich removed the panel to reveal a tiny room underneath the kitchen floor where his parents hid their neighbors - a Jewish family - during the war.  As I stood speechless, listening to Woijeich describe how they evaded the Nazis, I realized the full value of the Group Study Exchange program.”  Ian Oxman, Group Study Exchange member from California.
 
Editor's note: This message seems particularly appropriate since we have just observed Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January.
 

World Water Day

March is Water and Sanitation Month. Through water, sanitation, and hygiene programs, Rotary’s people of action mobilize resources, form partnerships, and invest in infrastructure and training that result in long-term change. Read about Rotary’s water and sanitation work and celebrate World Water Day with us on 22 March.

Have you checked Documents lately?

The list of events and notices is always changing. I receive a lot of newsletters and I try to pass them on to you. The latest Zone newsletter is there as well as a ShelterBox update, Operation Warm and WASRAG. A new entry is The Waterman newsletter. George Lewis raffles paintings for water Global grants.
 
An interesting fact is that we did one of those raffles at DisCon 2014. Murray Horn, then president of Iqaluit, was the winner.