Free Day of Giving - Gift from the Heart (Oral Health Care Professionals) will provide Free teeth cleaning and extraction to first 100 people. Saturday September 11th starting at 8am at 488 Dundas Street West Belleville.
Smile:
While visiting his brother R Craig saw him kill 5 flies in the kitchen. He then claimed 3 to be males and 2 females. His brother's wife asked how he could tell the sex of a fly. His brother replied that 3 were on beer cans and 2 were on the phone.
Pres Joyce had a trail of ten ants crossing her garage floor. She asked if she was not a land lord as she now had tenants.
Announcements:
R Daniel and Bentwood Rocker are planning another back yard concert for September 25th at $50/ticket. Harry's Hots will serve food.
Next board meeting in September to be determined.
Next bottle drive moved to October (I think).
R Liesje described the September 22 meeting. It will be at 9am at King Edward Park. It will be official launch of the Friendship tree program. Sept 22 is National Tree Day. Dignitary's and students invited. It will be a media event. Hope to be able to plant a tree. More details to come.
Foundation walk will be in Trenton at Centennial Park. There will be a 1km and 5km walk. To keep numbers at 100 people, there will be a morning walk starting at 9am with box lunch following, and an afternoon walk starting with box lunch at 1pm and then walk. Volunteers will be needed. More to come.
There will be a Rotary Day of Service
October 21 will be World Polio Day. It was approved that we purchase an End Polio Now flag and ask the Municipality to fly it on the day.
October 21 all clubs asked to cancel regular meetings for the week and attend virtual End Polio Now presentation via Zoom at 7pm.
Rotarians asked to consider nominations for District Governor for the 2024 / 2025 Rotary Year.
Brighton Rotary are registered to participate in Rotary Youth Exchange for 2022 / 2023. We are looking for host families and a student.
Sept 30 will be Orange Shirt Day
We're excited to announce that The Rotary Foundation's peer-to-peer fundraising platform, Raise for Rotary, is now accepting goals and donations in Canadian dollars
(CAD). This tool launched in July 2020 and allows people to easily create fundraisers that support The Rotary Foundation. Over the past year, individuals have
used Raise for Rotary to create more than 800 fundraisers, which have collected a total of more than $400,000.
Some benefits of the platform include:
Making it easy to use and share; Setting up a fundraiser with Raise for Rotary is simple and fast. You can support specific Rotary causes, such as the areas of focus, fighting polio, or disaster response. And your fundraiser is easy to share with your friends and family — especially on social media
Giving donors recognition credit
Anyone who gives through Raise for Rotary using the email address they use for other
Rotary functions, such as their My Rotary account, will receive Rotary giving credit
and recognition.
Minimizing fees to do more good
External fundraising platforms have their own fee structures, rules, and guidelines.
By creating our own platform, more of the funds you’re raising go directly toward
insight into a project and provide a visualization of its impact. You can post them on your club website and social media channels or share them with friends. In one of
our newest videos, “Voices of Members,” be inspired by Rotary members from around the world talking about how they’ve been responding to COVID-19. It helps spread the
word that we are people of action, even in the most challenging of times.View more videos available on the Brand Center.
District 7070 Tuesday Talks September 14 at 8pm is 'Youth Services - Get Involved'.
D7070 Conference to be May 13-15, 2022 at the Courtyard by Mariott in Oshawa Ontario. Registration is $249 before September 1 and limited rooms for $129 per night. 'Be a Driver for Change.'
Rotary International Convention 2022 in Houston Texas June 4-8, 2022. Registration is now open.
Go to District web site for more information on any of these events.
Check out the District Facebook Page, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin and Youtube channels to see what is happening in the District.
Song: Raindrops
Sharing Pot: $23 to R Joyce who donated it to the Foundation or maybe Polio Plus
Happy Bucks: great trip to Atlantic Canada, amazing trip, likes how he talks, 60th birthday, family coming for Janet's birthday, always happy here, mom finished 6 months of biological treatment, good to see rain, grand kids went home.
Rotary Minute:
For District Grants the more clubs that participate the better percentage matching grants from District.
