Visit by Port Hope CAO Candice White

Our meeting tonight opened with President Steve and others passing delicious hors d’oeuvres due to the many guests who joined us this evening - all are welcome!

President Drina asked for the introduction of guests:
Max Chipman, Phil Carter and others representing the Jazz Festival in August

 

Rotarian Blake Holton who asked the club to consider donating money to a young man who lives in the north in extreme poverty. (His ask resulted in approximately $460 out of Rotarians pockets this evening to help with transport by airplane to fly into this isolated area)
Candice White (guest speaker) and Mayor Olena

 

Aldona Tallo

Rotarian Rob Pope our AG who heads up the Exchange Program in our district
And, I think there were a few more but I couldn’t write fast enough to get their names down, my apologies!

President Drina conducted our Rotary toast and the land acknowledgement

Kevin gave the blessing and our guest table led the way to our delicious dinner. Thank you, Lisa!

After dinner, Max Chipman and Phil Carter accepted $1000 from our Rotary club. The Jazz Festival was paused for the past two years and everyone is glad to have it back this year. The festival starts on Thursday, August 22 through that weekend and event tickets will be available. Please support and enjoy this great weekend of fabulous music!

Our guest speaker, Candace White, CAO of the municipality of Port Hope had an excellent slideshow and talk about her role including overseeing the Council Directors. We are so happy to have you here Candace. Rotarian Jim thanked her for the informative presentation.

Kathy Wallace presented the club with two awards that the Port Hope club won for contributions to the Rotary Foundation Annual Fund and PolioPlus

We had a busy agenda this evening, so no happy bucks this time, the meeting adjourned after the singing of O Canada, shortly after 730.
The service projects group had a meeting after the Rotary meeting.

The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 22 at the Knights of Columbus Hall. This meeting will be a club assembly to talk about the Rotary year ahead.
Please remember to accept or decline your attendance so that we have the correct numbers for dinner!