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Mar. 30, 2023 6:30 p.m.
Our “5th Thursday” dinner social meeting will be held Thursday, March 30. This month’s theme has switched (temporarily) from Persian to Italian. We have made a group booking at: 42 Main St. N. Markham, ON L3P 1X5 This is a quality, family-run Italian restaurant, now in its second generation. To whet your appetite, here is a link to their latest flyer: The restaurant is located in an old house, a short distance north of Highway 7 on the west side of Main Street (Highway 48) in Markham. There is limited parking behind the restaurant (accessed by a laneway immediately north of it) or on the street but more extensive parking a three minute walk further north on Main Street. The restaurant cannot provide a separate room but will try to seat any reasonable number of us together. To that end, please email me (lyonrex@rogers.com) your intention to attend by next Monday including any guests. The cost will be individual based on whatever you choose to order. Please try to arrive between 6 and 6:30 PM. Hope to see you there, Bill. |
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Clean Water Saves Lives
Apr. 13, 2023 6:30 p.m.
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May 04, 2023 6:00 p.m.
Join us for an encore comedy/magic night cosponsored by the Hat and Rabbit Club and the Rotary Club of Willowdale. It is a fundraiser to benefit multiple causes. The event will be held at Jokers Theatre and Comedy Club, 115 York Blvd Unit 9, Richmond Hill, ON L4B 3B4 on Thursday, May 4. The show will begin at 8:30 PM. Tickets are $60 (show only) and are available from Jokers at https://www.showclix.com/event/magic-mind-reading-laughter Dinner (from a limited menu) is available from 6 PM on. Al Warren assures us that the show is (if possible) even better than the one we enjoyed with Joshua Jay last fall! Invite your friends. |
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May 04, 2023 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Due the SELL OUT of our last very successful rotary event featuring Joshua Jay at Jokers in Richmond Hill, we are doing it again on Thursday May 4th with new (and better, is that possible?) talent.
The funds raised will go to the North York food bank and help in paying for the trees our club plants every spring along the Don Valley IN Willowdale. Rotary is our community.
The event will be at Jokers in Richmond Hill and start at 6pm for those that want to have dinner and a drink (not included in the ticket price) before the show that starts at 8:30 pm.
See the attachment and the video link below.
The ticket price for the show is $60 each and you can NOW purchase them online!!
Here is the link to purchase tickets... https://www.showclix.com/event/magic-mind-reading-laughter
Let me know if you have any questions.
Here is a link to a short 3-minute video of the feature act…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDSY2F5rVsw
Please share this email to anyone you know that is interested.
Thanks, Al Warren |
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65 PLUS POPULATION: THE NEW LIFE BUILDERS (click blue line)
May 18, 2023 6:30 p.m.
Lacking a suitable and available commercial space, Heather and David Graeme have graciously offered to host this meeting at their home, 89 Citation Dr., North York. As Heather will need to order in food, it is even more than usually important to have numbers in advance. Please email me at the usual address (lyonrex@rogers.com) by Tuesday morning if you intend to come to the meeting. Please plan to arrive by 6 PM for dinner so that the meeting can start by 6:30. Attendance will be at the reduced cost of $25; exact change would be greatly preferred. See you Thursday, Bill Khalid Hasan Ph.D. Director, Rotary Action Group Community Economic Development (RAGCED), RI Member, Rotary Club of North York, Toronto, Canada Dr. Khalid Hasan is an accomplished researcher, specialized in sustainability and global business strategy, market research and marketing communication expert with more than twenty-five years of experience, working for both commercial and not-for-profit organizations in South Asia and Canada. He is the Founder and CEO of ResInt Canada (www.resint.ca) – an international research organization. He also worked 20 years at world’s leading market research company Nielsen in Canada and South Asia. He studied Sustainable and Global Business Strategy at Harvard Business School. He holds a PhD (Business Administration) and an MBA and research diplomas from different universities and institutions in Asia, USA and Canada. He teaches Marketing and Human Resource Management in different business schools and universities, in Canada and South Asia. Khalid has co-authored three books on marketing management: 1. Strategic Marketing Management in Asia published by Emerald Publishing Group, UK, 2016. 2. Marketing Practices in Developing Economy: Cases from South Asia. 2006 3. Essentials of Modern Marketing - He has contributed with marketing Guru Professor Philip Kotler and others, published in 2022. Khalid is the 2 nd generation in Rotary family. His father was a Rotarian. Khalid joined Rotary as a Rotaractor three decades ago. At present, he is a member of Rotary Club of North York, Toronto. He is also a Director, Rotary Action Group Community Economic Development (RAGCED), RI. He is a Paul Harris Fellow (PHF |
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Jun. 15, 2023 6:00 p.m.
This meeting will be an open board meeting for the combined '22-'23 and '23-'24 boards. All members and guests are welcome to attend. |
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Youth Climate Corps
Jul. 13, 2023 12:30 p.m.
Ben is the Executive Director of Youth Climate Corps BC, and has been an outdoor leadership instructor for over a decade. He recently graduated from Royal Roads University Master of Arts in Environment and Management program, and for this Major Research Project created an educational toolbox for Youth Climate Corps. Ben's time as an instructor gave him a deep appreciation for the resiliency and adaptability of leadership in young people, while also seeing the human and natural consequences of the climate crisis. Ben has been involved with Youth Climate Corps BC for two years, and has grown the organization to serve communities across BC. |
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Jul. 29, 2023 4:30 p.m.
This event will be hosted by Jobson and Maria at their home, 31 Kentview Cresc., Markham L6B 0L6. This will be a wonderful opportunity to "reacquaint" with Rotary friends whom you have missed over the first half of the summer. Please RSVP to Jobson (easowjob@rogers.com) for numbers with your name and that of any guests by July 25. |
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Service project with milk bags - click blue line
Aug. 24, 2023 12:30 p.m.
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via ZOOM
Sep. 07, 2023 12:30 p.m.
Joan Littleford is both the past and the incoming president of the Rotary Club of Whitby. She is currently on the District Membership Committee and is the Secretary of the Basic Education and Literacy Rotary Action Group. In her professional life, Joan was a teacher of Special Needs students, children with learning disabilities and then Kindergarten where she found her real passion. She was a literacy and early years consultant in Scarborough and then the Toronto District School Board and was then seconded to the Ministry of Education to spearhead and document a consistent approach to reading instruction in the primary grades across Ontario. She was then appointed a member of the group who developed the first provincial approach to early learning from birth to age 6 which lead to the introduction of full day Kindergarten with a play based focus. Joan was then hired by ETFO -the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario where she worked collaboratively with the Ministry to develop an holistic approach to the education of young children in Kindergarten. |
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Canadian History and Public Memory: Remembering Air India
Sep. 14, 2023 12:30 p.m.
Dr. Chandrima Chakraborty is a Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies; Director of the Centre for Peace Studies and the Global Peace and Social Justice Program at McMaster University. She held the honorary title of University Scholar at McMaster University (2017-21). She was elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in 2019. Her research examines the relationship between nationalist history and public memory in South Asia and Canada. Her publications include, Masculinity, Asceticism, Hinduism: Past and Present Imaginings of India (2011), Mapping South Asian Masculinities: Men and Political Crises (2015), and Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning (co-edited 2017). She has been conducting interviews with families and friends of those who died on Air India Flight 182 and gathering materials from family members and other critical witnesses to create the first-ever archival collection on the Air India tragedy at McMaster University Library. See the website: https://airindiaflight182.humanities.mcmaster.ca |
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Guatemala literacy project
Sep. 21, 2023 5:30 p.m.
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Operation Pollination
Sep. 21, 2023 7:00 p.m.
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