Announcements:

• PRESIDENT WALTER presided.
• Holiday Luncheon on December 17 at Rosedale Golf Club, 12 noon for 12:45 lunch. Tickets ($50) can be purchased from Stephen Bianco at 416-441-2888, ext 22 or John McIntosh at 416-923-3326. Please remember to bring an unwrapped toy for a child to be distributed by the Salvation Army.
• Bingo: We need two volunteers to help with Bingo on Tuesday, December 30 from 2 to 7pm.
• JACKIE SCROGGIE asks everyone to come on January 7 to the “Oh My Gosh, I’ve Won It!” auction. Bring a friend. New format: Buy tickets at $2.00 each and put them in boxes beside the prize you would like to win. The more tickets you buy, the greater the chance you will win your choice. Please donate a prize. Some of the prizes to date are: Dinner for two; a photography session; an antique medallion. Call Jackie at 416-484-6315.
• Salvation Army Kettles: Please take a turn staffing a kettle for an hour or so at the Metro Store, Bayview & Eglinton or in the Yonge-Eglinton Centre. View the schedule at http://www.rotary7070.org/eglinton/download/KettleSign-UpSheetsTERC.pdf then email your choice to KATHRYN HOPE: kehope@sympatico.ca.
• ROTARY MINUTE: LARS HENRIKSSON talked about Rotary International Foundation, a bit about its financing and the request that Every Rotarian Every Year give $100.00 US. (= $125.00 CAD, now). Our contributions to the Annual Foundation Walk get credited and, in our club, the “Birthday Money” is another RI credited contribution. Lars reminded us that, instead of giving an amount equal to our age, we should all give as if we were 100 years old.

Speaker of the Week

MIKE HAZELL introduced three young ladies, all of whom have travelled to faraway lands on Rotary Programs.

Allie Fonarev went to Tanzania on the Rotary Cross Cultural Exchange program. She instructed in a day care centre for 2–5 each day. She was also teaching teenagers study skills and English and had to learn some Swahili to do this. Allie also became involved in cultural activities such as tribal dancing. She also helped local artisans to market their crafts worldwide by setting up websites for them. Allie is a giving, caring dedicated young woman.

Brooke Daprato went to Mongolia for 20 days - the youngest member of a team drawn from all over Canada - to help build a Habitat for Humanity home, They had to use broken or primitive tools, such as a bucket with holes or a broken shovel to complete the job. While this was not a Rotary Program, her eligibility to be part of the team that went to Mongolia was a result of her earlier participation in Rotary Leaders Today programs, sponsored by our club, one for training in Arizona and one of volunteer work in India. Brooke was effusive in superlatives about the Habitat work she did, the people she met and the pleasure she had in being an ambassador of international goodwill.

Hailey Firkser talked briefly about her year in Argentina as a Rotary Exchange Student. Her family here in Toronto housed Ruri Saga, the inbound student from Japan last year, who was hosted by our club. Hailey had a very successful year and will be our main speaker in a future meeting to give us more details of her year away.

As our program today was centred on youth, we had two special young guests: Tahaira Stanley, who will be sponsored by our club on a Leaders Today program, and Brent Duda, who came to learn more about opportunities for international volunteering through Rotary.

Draw: There was no winner this week.

Thought for today

Is it just me – or do buffalo wings really taste like chicken?

* Many of our projects depend on Bingo money
Note: All Bingos are on Tuesdays at 4 pm and Sundays at 10 am

(Volunteers: please be there at least two hours before the start)

December 30 (Kathryn)

The Four Way Test
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?

Editor: Walter Wells

Reflection: Pat Robinson

Sgt-at-Arms: Kathryn Hope

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