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Jul 01, 2019 – Jun 30, 2020
 
Stittsville/Ottawa club - RI Film Festival
Oct 28, 2019
 
October Club meeting
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Oct 29, 2019
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
 
Passport Club social/meeting
KS on the Keys Restaurant
Oct 30, 2019
11:30 AM – 2:00 PM
 
District Conference 2019
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Nov 01, 2019 3:30 PM –
Nov 02, 2019 11:59 PM
 
Kemptville - Shake Rattle and Roll
Keptville Urbandale Centre
Nov 08, 2019 6:45 PM –
Nov 09, 2019 6:45 PM
 
Spagetti Festival - Stittsville/Ottawa Club
Nov 09, 2019
4:07 PM – 7:30 PM
 
Cornwall Sunrise Club Trivia Night
Cornwall
Nov 15, 2019
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
 
West Ottawa Club Shoe Bank Canada - Shoe Sorting
Dymon Kanata Storage
Nov 16, 2019
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
 
Brockville Santa Claus Parade
Brockville - 1000 Islands Club
Nov 23, 2019
 
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There are also many events on the District Calendar now, please check https://rotary7040.com/Events

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Please come to our in-person club social on October 30 in Ottawa.
It's a chance for fellowship and to get to know each other
over lunch at a great restaurant. Contact Len Goddard for details.
 
We need several people to volunteer on club committees. 
It takes little time and helps.
It's one of the duties of membership in this club.
Please contact our Secretary, Terry Forth, to put your name forward.
 
Till next week ...
     
        Secretary's Thoughts
 
I'm afraid we're not doing well at all keeping our reporting of attendance at our own Monthly meetings as well as our makeups.  All members of our club have Executive access to ClubRunner so that each member is able to regularly report accurately their Monthly attendance at our meetings. Please note that make-ups for the other three or four meetings that Rotarians would normally attend are also required.  If you are having trouble reporting your attendance and make ups there is help available right on the ClubRunner site or let me know and I'll try and assist you.   
 
We have the added benefit that our on-line meetings are recorded and the link is prominently displayed at the top of each Bulletin.  Therefore.it should be possible for every member not able to attend the on-line meeting to at least view the recording and then report that as a make-up, giving us 100% attendance for our monthly meetings, but we need all the other Tuesdays of each month to also be recorded as a makeup in order to attain that 100% attendance
 
Remember, there are many ways to report a make-up. Virtually any Rotary or non-Rotary volunteer activity will count. 
 
Take a look this week at Margaret Shibley's update on the Cataraqui-Kingston Club FAR Project that we are helping to support and the opportunity to get involved in that project as a Mentor! 
 
       Terry
 
Membership News
 
We are still looking for another member for the Membership Committee. The Rotary Citation requires that we have 5 members on the committee.  Please contact Ariane if interested.
 
Also please let Ariane know if you do not have a Passport Club name tag. We to need place an order soon for new members who do not yet have a name tag.
 
Foundation News
 
We also need 5 members for the Foundation Committee. Please contact Jacinthe if interested.
 

 

Rotary Youth Exchange

Last year we discussed the possibility of sponsoring a short-term exchange because it is a one-on-one exchange and does not involve having to look for host families.

Rotary Youth Exchange is now accepting applications for the 2020-2021 program. Short Term applicants (for summer 2020) need to use the Preliminary Short-Term application (EN). The club information they need to put in is D7040 Passport.

 

Details of the two types of youth exchange can be found at :
www.district7040ye.com/exchanges

Applications can be found at:
www.district7040ye.com/forms-info

 

Once preliminary applications are received, interviews will be scheduled. All applications are due by October 31st, interviews in November. Send to either Jacinthe Paille or Ariane Carriere. Our deadline to submit paperwork to the District is December 1st. No info session is currently scheduled.

Mentorship and the Rotary FAR Project

As Club members know, Margaret Shibley proposed the Rotary FAR Project at our meeting on September 24th and our partnership on this project with the Cataraqui-Kingston Club was approved.  We are grateful for all of the terrific background work that Margaret has been doing with the Cataraqui-Kingston Rotary folks and this past week she went to the first mentorship meeting held by the KEYS Job Centre (www.keys.ca) on Thursday afternoon to find out more about how the Mentorship training is going to be undertaken.
 
Please take a moment to read her notes below and we  hope that many of our members will want to get involved in this important project. 
 
Here is Margaret's report from the September 17th session held in Kingston.
 
 
Have you been thinking about being a mentor in this project? The Pathways to Education (P2E) high school and program graduates who are going on to full time employment, college, or university will be supported by the the FAR (Facilitator of Alumni Relations). Some alumni, tho, haven’t made up their minds yet. While we know there are lots of good reasons for delaying attendance at a post-secondary institution, the community they come from tends not to be so aware. These are the kids, estimated to be about 10 a year, who could really use some patient support. That’s where we come in.
 
This roll was discussed briefly at our September on-line meeting, and you have information already (see pp. 14-16 in the Annotated 24 Sep meeting agenda/presentation deck).  KEYS (keys.ca), which will be providing the mentorship training and program support, held an information session 17 Oct to respond to questions from potential Rotarian mentors. I attended to take notes for the Passport Club. Assuming you have read the information already provided by KEYS on the Insight Youth Mentoring Program, here are some points I took from the meeting that are more specific to us:
 
1. KEYS is a registered charitable organization. Our participation would fit in with a well established mentoring program, staffed by enthusiastic, educated, effective, and experienced folk. We would have back up throughout the mentoring process, not merely training. This is critical, as some of these kids will have issues that are well beyond our individual capacity to deal with alone.
 
2. The purpose is to develop healthy, respectful, and fun one-on-one mentoring relationships. Mentoring bonds help young people set and reach goals, building life skills and having fun.
 
3. The training (look at 7h, but more is available if desired) is offered by people who already know the clientele.
 
4, Research in this program has shown that mentees show the greatest benefit by about 1 year.  So the program asks mentors for 4 hours a month (maybe 2 hours twice a month) for 5 months, but the mentees are ready to move on after a year. That doesn’t mean the relationship ends (that’s up to you and the mentee), just that if may become informal. 
 
5, The match is important - so each mentor will meet 3 potential mentees, and each mentee will meet 3 potential mentors. The program staff will coordinate the best match.
 
6. Both training and mentoring can be done on line and will be supported by the program. However, face to face conversations sharing a coffee or an activity have value. (The program even has funds set aside for things like taking an art course together!) The Program Facilitator did say she would look to see whether some kids were in Ottawa or Cornwall. 
 
7. Training is offered regularly. However, the group felt it better if all the Rotary mentors were trained in the same sessions so that we got to know each other as well. Ana Sutherland / John Gale, CK Rotary, will be coordinating training dates and times and let us know. Training could begin as early as 24 October.
 
8. Finally, nope! I am neither too old nor too privileged to be of use as a mentor to any of these kids. That was the very strong response when I asked. So that means, neither are you. 
 
Want to get involved? Contact me: Margaret.shibley54@gmail.com 
 
Members should refer to information already made available in the Annotated deck from our club's September 24th meeting.  Later this week we will either re-send you the relevant ODF documents or provide you with a link where you can find the documents explaining how the mentorship program will work.  
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Upcoming screening of Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope.
 
https://www.cfka.org/film-screening-resilience-the-biology-of-stress-the-science-of-hope/

This film relates directly to the population served by Pathways and to the Rotary FAR project.

Particularly if you intend to mentor, if you can make it to Kingston, this film builds on the work by the Community Foundation for Kingston and Area (CFKA) on ACEs (adverse childhood experiences). 
 
Thursday October 24 at the Bio Sciences Complex auditorium of Queen's University at 116 Barrie
Street.

Admission is free.

Registration from 5:30 to 5:50
Screening from 6:00 to 7:30