Virtual RED BADGE NEW MEMBER--Ian Davies & Julie Pontes--please reach out via ZOOM chat with an energetic Rotary welcome!!
Meeting Responsibilities:
Zoom Host - Don Bork
Registration - Sandy Ronson
Sgt-at-Arms-Malcolm Cocks
Fine payment-via interact e-transfer, refer to recent broadcast email to all members for details or contact Keith. NOTE-the interact e-transfer options for members now includes fines/dues/bottle drive proceeds & tulip fundraiser. Refer to recent Clubrunner email to all members.
A little bit about me:
May 7th--John Kozoriz
June 14--Elizabeth Harris
It costs nothing to send an eCOG to a friend/prospective member/neighbour. Please advise Jim Belton of names/contact info.
Having difficulty accessing and using Clubrunner, the platform RCL website runs on. See Clubrunner supplied link and information at the very end of the eCOG.
Rotary Satellite Club meeting details----not currently meeting at the Fox and Fiddle due to C-19, but but join them via ZOOM on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 6:30 pm.. see details on the Facebook Page, the link is: https://www.facebook.com/rotarysatellitecluboflondon.
Have a suggestion for an eCOG-Bulletin article/story, please let Keith know.
The Strategic Planning Committee has put together a survey to allow it to collect more specific information as to what changes members would like in the club. The survey is only 14 questions long and should take less than five minutes to complete. We ask that you complete this survey sometime before 6:00pm on Monday, May 17.
Our guest speaker on May 17th will be Gordon Pitts. Gordon is an author, public speaker, and business journalist with more than forty years of experience writing about management, strategy, and leadership. Unicorn in the Woods is the eighth book he has published. They include the national bestseller The Codfathers: Lessons from the Atlantic Business Elite; as well as Fire in the Belly: How Purdy Crawford Saved Canada and Inspired a Legacy of Leadership, which won the 2015 Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction. His book Stampede: The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite was the winner of the 2009 National Business Book Award. Described as “the dean of Canadian business storytelling,” Gordon has also written Kings of Convergence,In the Blood, and The Last Canadian Knight. His first book, Storming the Fortress: How Canadian Companies Can Conquer Europe in 1992, was published in 1990. Five of his books have been National Business Book Award finalists. He is a former senior writer in The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business section, with a major mandate for business feature writing across the Canadian West. For years, he wrote the “At the Top” interview feature in the Monday Report on Business and the “Exit Interview” in the monthly Report on Business Magazine. Since 2014, Gordon has been the Business Writer-in-Residence at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. Today Gordon’s talk is titled “Unicorn in the Woods: Building entrepreneur superstars off the beaten track”
ROTARY CLUB OF LONDON BOTTLE DRIVE POSTPONED TO MAY 29TH
Please hold on to those empty bottles and cans or return them and donate your funds directly to Sandy Ronson. You can e-transfer funds directly to Sandy as follows: sronson55@gmail.com Include the password mybottles and note that this donation is for the bottle drive. Don’t forget to add your donation of $25 for a missed luncheon!
ENVIRONMENTAL DAY IS ALSO SCHEDULED TO MAY 29TH
AREA 4 ROTARY TULIP SALES
Start selling Rotary tulips to your friends and family. Boxes of 25 tulips are $25 per box. Sandy Ronson is coordinating sales so let Sandy know when you sell a box. Send her a note at sandyr@bell.net to confirm your sale. Funds are to be etransferred to Sandy at the following: sronson55@gmail.com include the password mytulips and again include a note that the funds are for tulips. The actual tulips will arrive in August for fall planting.
SATELLITE CLUB TRIVIA NIGHT
Thank you for everyone who participated in last night's Wet 'n' Wild Trivia, and congratulations to ️TRIVIA TURKEYSon their victory! 🥳
We hope you all had a great time!
As a small thank-you for supporting our club tonight, we're offering you $15 off your registration for our Virtual Trivia Night - May Edition on Wednesday, May 19!
Simply purchase your team ticket by Saturday, May 1 by clicking here and using the promo code MAYEARLYBIRD at checkout. Don't forget, there are prizes to be won!
1st place: $100 in gift cards to the store of your choice!
2nd place: 25% of the proceeds from this event will go to the charity of the 2nd place team's choice! The remaining proceeds will support our Rotary Club's projects.
1st & 2nd: Free entry to next month's trivia- Click here to purchase your team ticket, and remember to use the promo code MAYEARLYBIRD at checkout! Do you know someone else who would be interested in entering a team? A friend, family, coworker? If so, please forward them this email so they can register! The more teams we have and the more funds will go to ths charity the 2nd-place team's choice! As always, thank you for your support, and we'll see you on Wednesday, May 19!
SAVE THE DATE--PRESIDENT'S CUP GOLF
Sept 11th-WIDDER STATION Golf, Grill & Tap House THEDFORD Widder Station has long been regarded as the venue of choice for public golf and events in Lambton County. The beautifully manicured 18-hole championship golf course winds through the areas rolling terrain and provides a wide variety of interesting holes for even the most experienced golfer. we pride ourselves on providing your guests with exceptional customer service, a beautifully manicured golf course and a memorable experience.
Weekly Coffee Klatch
Since the Province has extended its Stay-at-Home directive, we decided to set up a weekly Zoom “Coffee Klatch” each Thursday from 10:30 to 11:15 am.
Support for Majo’s Extended Stay / Post-Secondary Education in London, Canada
As most RCL members are aware, Maria Jose Camacaro Figueroa (“Majo”) was sponsored by our club as a Rotary Youth Exchange student for the 2019-2020 academic year (Grade 11 at HB Beal Secondary School). Because of the Covid pandemic and also due to the political and economic circumstances in Venezuela, Majo could not go home last summer and, indeed, has no option to return there any time soon. If you would like to view a video message from Majo, click this DropBox link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q2xl2h37vtcb5x4/2021%2003%2029%20Majo%20Camacaro.mov?dl=0
Five local couples have taken turns hosting Majo for this extra extended year and she has been enrolled for Grade 12 at Beal, graduating with a full Ontario high school diploma in June. She has been accepted into the Interior Design program at Fanshawe College with classes starting in September 2021. Majo has also submitted her application to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to extend her study visa and for permission to work (part-time during school and full time during summers). We anticipate little trouble finding accommodation for Majo during her upcoming studies but would appreciate some help in funding her substantial tuition costs as she is required by Fanshawe to register as an international student. (A short time ago, Majo’s parents had to flee Venezuela, leaving home and business, and cannot provide financial support.) How can you contribute? Our Rotary Club of London Foundation has an Education Fund. The Foundation Board has authorized that amounts from this Fund can be used for post-secondary tuition through direct payments to Canadian colleges and universities, Fanshawe included. Contributions to this Fund receive a Canadian charitable donation tax receipt. To make a donation:
1)-Send a cheque payable to the “Rotary Club of London Foundation” (put “Education Fund” on the memo line of the cheque)
2)-Use your credit card at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/60706 (a CanadaHelps webpage dedicated to our Foundation, enter “Education Fund” in the message field)
3)-Via Interac email to sronson55@gmail.com (no need to set up security question or answer, funds go direct to our club and are then forwarded to the Foundation, put “Education Fund” in the message field--security password--education--)
Next Club Board Meeting
The next meeting of the Rotary Club of London Board will be a Zoom meeting on May 19th-Wednesday-4:30PM
Note:
- all members are welcome to attend Board meetings
- to view the Club's Board Meeting Minutes go to our website, Member Login, My ClubRunner, click on View Club Documents.
Our guest speaker on May 17th will be Gordon Pitts. 
