Events

Rotary Club of Etobicoke AGM

Please join us!

Our Annual Christmas Lunch - Come and enjoy our year end celebration - IN PERSON   We are following all provincial Covid rules and everyone must provide prrof of vaccination to the restaurant staff.

Rotary Club of Etobicoke (RCE) is asking each of our fellow Rotarians and their network of family and friends to help support of 575 students and teachers at the BayBay School located in Triunfo, Ozamiz City in the Philippines.

The funds will be donated to Lakeshore Charitable Foundation (LCF), a registered charity (881299929 RR 0001) in Etobicoke, located at 3421 Lakeshore Blvd West.

Each 25 kg of rice is $30 Canadian, sourced locally to help stimulate the economy. Please donate today.

https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/69028

RCE’s International & Indigenous Service Committee is granting $1,000 to this project

We have requests out for matching funds to:

• Rotary Club of Toronto
• Rotary Club Toronto West

Background

The LCF’s mission is to advance education in developing countries by building and repairing public schools and providing them with books and supplies. The organization also addresses food insecurity by partnering with local rice farms to provide students and teachers with food.

RCE currently supports their project called Letters to Santa. For this project students write a letter requesting something from Santa. The letters are shipped to Toronto where volunteers from RCE, schools and other organizations reply to the letters in hand-writing. Every year we receive hundreds of letters and most of the children request food.

When the students request food, LCF sends them a sack of rice weighing approx. 25kg. In prior years LCF have only sent rice to students that specifically requested it, however, with additional funding they would be delighted to organize the logistics of providing all 550 students and 25 teachers at BayBay Elementary School with a sack of rice, as there is most certainly a need for it.

Attached are two pictures of students and teachers receiving a bag of rice. LCF has supported the BayBay Elementary School which is located in Triunfo, Ozamiz City in the Philippines since 2007.

Our annual economic update

Richard was born in Toronto and grew up in Scarborough where he attended Public and Secondary school as well as University of Toronto Scarborough Campus.  Richard graduated in 1981 with a major in economics and a minor in computer science.  Richard is married Elizabeth and lives in Newmarket.  Richard and Elizabeth have also hosted 7 international exchange students for a year at a time.

Richard is currently self employed as a licensed Mortgage Broker with Homeguard Funding Ltd. and primarily specializes in residential and small commercial financing.

Richard has always been passionate about community involvement serving as a member of the Scarborough campus Alumni association, worked on multiple political campaigns at all levels of government and taught the Boating Course for the Canadian Power Squadron in Newmarket.  

Richard has since served on many municipal committees and the community liaison committee for York Regional Police in District 1.  In 2004 Richard was asked to join the inaugural board of directors for INN from the Cold an emergency homeless shelter in Newmarket in 2004 through 2009.  Through the support of the Rotary Club of Newmarket for Inn from the Cold Richard learned about Rotary and joined Rotary in 2007.  

Richard became President of the Newmarket club in 2009 and was an Assistant Governor for District 7070 from 2011 – 2014 and is currently the District 7070 Water and Sanitation chair 2015-present previously the District 7070 Literacy Chair for 2014-2015.  Richard has also participated with RADAR (Rotary’s AIDS action group).

Richard is currently the President of Rotary Club of Newmarket, member of District 7070 Leadership team 2020-2022 in the role as Action and Partnership Committees Coordinator to oversee and assist all Rotary Area of Focus Committees.  

In 2009 Richard made his first trip to Uganda and has returned to Uganda 24 times, most recently December 2019. This was Richard’s twenty fourth time to Uganda to continue implementing a unique rain-water collection system at Ongutoi Health Centre for drip irrigation in an orange orchard where the revenue generated will provide long term free health care for this community and region.   

Awards & Recognitions:

2005 – Town of Newmarket 125^th Anniversary - Community Volunteer Ambassador Recognition

2009 – Nelson Mandela Humanitarian Service Award

2011 – Rotary District 7070 – Council of Past District Governors Award

2020 – Spirit of Success – Entrepreneur of the Year, East Gwillimbury Chamber of Commerce

Rotary Club of Etobicoke is inviting you to a virtual Lunar New Year celebration with us on Thursday February 17, 2022 at 7 pm EST.

Click here to register, https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/rotary-club-of-etobicoke/events/2022-lunar-celebrations

Make a donation amount of your choice ($10 or more per person) and then on the dya of the event, you'll receive a Zoom link foyou to join the festivities.

This year's focus will be on the foods of Lunar New Year, looking at the meanings of each course. You'll receive a reciepe for each for course that you can try to make yourself.

Everyone is welcome!

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Morris is an author, professor and trainer. As a Freirean educator Morris works in opposition to the banking model of learning by working with all learners to ensure that their experiences are used to transform systems that maintain oppression.  He has designed numerous lessons with such a philosophy.  His commitments to education go beyond the classroom. Morris was the inaugural co-lead of Humber’s employee Resource Group for Black staff and was also a member of Humber College's EDI Taskforce and Campus Culture Work Group.  His most recent publication focuses on the challenges and dangers of cultural competence as praxis for the non-profit and social serving sector.  

An interactive session on what it means to be Black in Canada and North America. It will look at historical roots of Black people's current social location/s and briefly explore our role in a different future.

Toju Ogbeide is the founder and CEO of Goodszilla, a marketplace sharing app that donates a portion of sales to a Canadian charity.

Toju had the desire to help others, but also understood there wasn’t much a single person could accomplish by themselves. When starting his own company, he took this into consideration, and his desire to help others translated to the creation of Goodszilla Inc, a digital marketplace facilitating donations and assisting charities

https://goodszilla.ca/about

The Rotary Club of Etobicoke is inviting you!

ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

On ZOOM

6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Join us as we celebrate the Feast of St. Patrick!

Order from your local pub or restaurant

You will receive a ZOOM link to join the festivities

A presenter will share the traditions of St. Patrick’s Day

$10 registration/donation

https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/rotary-club-of-etobicoke/events/2022-st-patricks-day/

Rotary Club of Etobicoke is hosting a virtual luncheon meeting on Wednesday, March 23rd at 12:00 PM via ZOOM.

Our speaker will be Yvan Baker, MP, who is also a Member of our Club. He will discuss “The Ukrainian Situation”.

This will be a very timely and important meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Below is the ZOOM link for tomorrow’s meeting;

Time: Mar 23, 2022 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89916744380?pwd=dmdEOU9YYnRXVWFWeGs4U0NUTm4wdz09