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Today’s Speaker
Annette & Peter Turner
Classification Talk

Rotary Club of Guelph Weekly Bulletin

Check out all the bulletin news this week. All the regular things, a tip on keeping members information easy to find and up dates from our members doing due diligence in Mbale, Uganda, Africa for current & future projects.
 
President Paul welcomed members and guests the Rotary Club of Guelph Friday lunch meeting. He updated us on Carolyn Weatherson's health. Carolyn had an emergency operation during the week and is now much improved and ready to get back into the swim of things.

Head Table - The Teacher's Table

1. Tom Funk - introduced in 1980, classification University Academic

2. Joanna Penfold -introduced in 2017, classification Education Business

3. Reny Pietrobon - introduced in 1988, classification Eduction Separate School Cooperative

4. President Paul Dredge - introduced in 1996, classification Real Estate - Commercial

5. Annette Turner - introduced in 2018, classification Elementary Education

6.  Peter Turner - introduced in 2018, classification Elementary Education

Guests

Patty Burt - Environmental Services from Semoiahinoo/South Surrey B.C.
Manpreet & Avtar Kambo - guests of Mahmoud Hussain
 
Obituary for Adela Richardson
 
Kerry Johnson told us, with deep sadness, about Adela's life. Adela was the wife of Bob Richardson, a member of this club for over 45 years. Kerry and his wife, first met Adela, Bob and their 3 sons when they transferred from Saskatchewan to Ontario and became immediate neighbours  in 1977. From then on they developed a very deep, long-lasting friendship. Traveling together, celebrating special occasions, volunteering and attending many Rotary events. There when each of us needed support from best friends.
For the past 10 years, Adela had been living with a debilitating disease that went undiagnosed until very recently. Multiple System Atrophy gradually sapped the quality of life from Adela to the point where she resolved that medically assisted death was the only option to bring peace and comfort to her. Both came to Adela on Wednesday November 14, 2018. We extend our condolences to Bob and his family.
 
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Ranjit Singh - 41 years
 
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Peter McSherry - Corrected the annual Christmas Fellowship dinner date. It will be held on Friday 21 December 2018 and the price will be $37.00. He also reminded everyone that the Bracelet of Hope's 7th Annual World Aids Day Gala will be held on December 1st. Tickets available online for $125 until November 26th www.braceletofhope.ca 226-790-3824
 
Sue Ricketts - Asked "How many people have cell phones with them?" Almost every hand went up. "Ever find you don't have your Printed Roster in hand when you need to look up an email or phone number?" There's an app for that! On your cell phone go to either APP Store or Google Store and search for ClubRunner Mobile > download the app > sign in using the same password and ID you currently use for ClubRunner on your computer > every member is listed there with phone, email and address along with when they joined Rotary and when they joined our club. This is not available to anyone except our members and updates automatically if you change your contact information online. Try it.
 
Noma Vales - Reminded everyone to sign up for the convention coming up next June in Germany. After seeing what goes on in Toronto, she encourages making every effort to attend.
Dianne Dance - Happily announced that $3,000 has been raised for Adopt a Family so we can "adopt" 2 families - 5 adults and 3 children.
 
Bill Stevens - Announced that past member of our club, Russ Willoughby, in 1958 bought 2 life insurance policies, paying $7.01 per month. When he passed away his wife passed them along to the club's Rotary Foundation by way of a cheque for$10,000. Gratefully received.
 
Aldo Vilanovich - Was very pleased to announce that he is proud of joining this club. There are 85 clubs in the district and many of them did not send anyone to the Foundation Qualification Training on Grants at all, but our club sent 6 people to be certified. Well done World Service Committee!
 
Reny Pietrobon introduced today's speakers by talking about some famous couples throughout history who shared their life's journeys together. Adam and Eve shared a garden, then an apple and were thrown out of paradise together Was this really the Truth?. A few thousand years later, Anthony and Cleopatra met. Using today's terminology, she had a few issues and orchestrated her own death. Anthony was so despondent that he committed suicide. Now was this really fair to all concerned? A few centuries later the same scenario played out with Romeo and Juliet. They suffered the same fate. A more recent couple who seemed to portray one of the tenets of the Four Way Test were Lucy Ball and Ricky Ricardo. Why the very name of their show "I Love Lucy" helped to build good will and better relationships! How could anyone forget Lucy's Italian episode stomping grapes with her bare feet and Ricky tolerating her personality. There were countless other couples from all walks of life, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Bonnie and Clyde, Sony and Cher, and the Beat goes on and on and on... We have an example here in our own club, of a couple who exemplify the Four Way Test, Terrie and Alan Jarvis work to make it good for all concerned. We have also today another couple, Peter and Annette Turner, who will enlighten us today about their life's journey. I have had the pleasure of knowing both Peter and Annette and I can definitively say that they will be a real asset to our club.   
 
 
Annette & Peter Turner
Classification Talk
 
 
Annette’s Introduction
Good afternoon, President Paul, head table and fellow Rotarians and guests. Peter and I are honoured to be presenting our Classification Talk to you all today. We are each going to share defining moments in our personal journeys and how they brought us to where we are today and how they parlay into what we hope to bring to the Rotary.
 
Peter's Presentation
We are all on a journey through life that has defining moments. I’m going to describe three of my pivotal moments.
My life journey started in Calgary, Alberta on March 18th, 1959 when I was adopted by my parents. My dad was an investment representative for a smallish investment firm called Macleod Young & Weir and my mom was a stay at home mom. We moved to Edmonton, then Winnipeg, then Toronto and then to Pelham, a suburb of New York City as my dad progressed quickly through the ranks. My dad became president of Macleod Young & Weir’s operations on Wall Street. Money became more plentiful with each move. As a result, I was living the good life; country clubs, tennis lessons, summer camps, skiing trips to Mont Tremblant, Bermuda and a host of other trips. Anything I needed or wanted was provided. I was spoiled, lazy and lacked motivation. I started to hang around with the wrong crowd because I moved so often, was always the new guy and wanted to fit in. My parents eventually realized this as I entered grade 9 at Pelham High School and during a parent-teacher interview a gutsy teacher told them that the way I was heading I would amount to nothing. Shocked, they sought a remedy which became a defining moment of my life. I was put on the waiting list for Lakefield College School, someone dropped out and I was in an all boys boarding school two weeks later. It was a totally different environment with a rigid academic and athletic structure populated by serious students. It was the perfect way to find my way. I became more serious and strived to do my best. It was the kick in the pants that I needed. I was exposed to a variety of excellent teachers. My favourite being Prof. Barker who taught English Electives. One great course she taught was Irish Literary Nationalism. She helped foster my love of literature. I enjoyed running the tutoring/mentoring program while there. I graduated from Lakefield in 1978.
I went to the University of Western Ontario and graduated with a B.A. in English in 1981.
I had always admired my dad and thought I would like to have a career like him. Yes, I wanted to be a stock broker. I worked as a telephone clerk on the Toronto Stock Exchange during the summers when I was at Western. After graduation, I worked for Burns Fry Investments and Davidson Partners in the “Cage” where I was a clerk processing Stocks and Bonds. As I was doing so, I worked on and got my Canadian Securities Course and Registered Representative which enabled to me to sell and buy shares for clients. However, Investment firms weren’t hiring brokers that didn’t have their M.B.A.s because of the recession in the early 80’s. I went on a vacation for two weeks to England and France where I started to re-evaluate my life’s path or calling. I read a self- help book entitled What Colour is your Parachute? which is about job-hunting and career changing and figuring out who you are as a person and what you want out of life. Another defining moment was born. I decided that teaching would be a great vocation because I had many of the qualities listed.  After all, it especially suited my temperament in that I had found the joy of learning and wanted to pass that on to others as I did at Lakefield when I ran the tutoring program. If I could stop even one student from going down the wrong path, like I almost did, then it would be worthwhile. Determined, I went to the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Education Registrar and convinced him that I would be an ideal teacher. He told me that I would be admitted if I got a certain average in a series of year 4 courses within 2 years. I moved into the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity where the rent was cheap, worked as guidance councillor, and took the courses. Two years later I was admitted into the Faculty of Education.
Unknown to me was that the third defining moment of my life would be on my first day attending the U. of T.’s Faculty of Education. I was tardy for my first class which was art. When I arrived, I noticed a black-haired blue-eyed beauty who I later came to know as Annette. After class, I went up the stairs behind her. I muttered, “Hi, weren’t you in class with me.” She replied, “Are you talking to me?” as she gave me the once over noting my preppie clothes. I just replied “Yes”, and she didn’t seem too interested so I just started talking to a student that I recognized. As fate would have it, I was in every class with Annette except for one. I always tried to sit near her and talk her up. 
Everyone loves a puppy ….. right? My parents went away so I had to pet sit this adorable cocker spaniel puppy named Jenny in my frat. I invited Annette to see her. Jenny was so excited she peed on Annette’s shoe. I was mortified. I cleaned up her shoe and profusely apologized. I turned this accident to my advantage. Could I make it up to her by taking her for a drink? The answer was yes. After a few drinks and lots of talking, I invited her to dine at a Mexican Restaurant called Viva Zappas. The talking continued. A disastrous date was in the making. At one stage I became very animated and naturally brought my knife and fork down forcefully onto my plate full of food which flipped over into my lap. How embarrassing! Annette seemed to find this horrifying and amusing at the same time. At that time, I thought she would never go out with me ever again because I was such a klutz. Yet this was not the last part of the date. I had to get us home. Trying to salvage the date I kept on being animated. So much so that I made an illegal left turn from Bathurst onto Bloor. Naturally, the police pulled me over. However, Annette felt sorry for me and she gave me a pity date. I had never met anyone like her. I persevered. I wined and dinned her because she was so beautiful, intelligent, interesting and down to earth. She was so different than me. I’m not just talking about her height. Her background, as you will hear, was so completely different than mine. My pursuit paid off in that we planned our wedding 6 months later. We announced our engagement on our graduation date from the Faulty of Education. From then on, we have been inseparable.
These three defining moments led to our engagement, marriage, teaching careers, birth of our son; Peter-Thomas and our daughter; Kathleen and so much more. 
 My teaching career has been about service and I will continue do so through Rotary.
 
Annette’s Presentation
I call my journey “An Irish Story” because my Irish heritage, for both the good and bad, was the defining narrative of my life. It was abundantly clear to everyone when I was growing up that we were an Irish family, my parents having emigrated to Canada in 1958. The records played on the stereo were all Irish. If you name an Irish song, I knew it. In fact, family lore has it that I learned my first song at 3 years of age, Danny Boy, and that I would unashamedly belt it out for dinner guests, or for anyone else for that matter, who might be interested. When I started kindergarten, I had an Irish accent, even though I was born here. For 10 years I was an Irish dancer and moved up to championship level as I went from class to class. I pursued a Celtic Studies major at St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto and spent a summer at the Dublin Institute for Advanced studies focusing on Gaelic language. In fact, my Gaelic became sufficiently conversational that I would speak with my father in Gaelic when I didn’t want anyone to know what we were discussing. Shamrocks adorned our wedding cake and my beloved Peter embraced my Irish culture by wearing the traditional Irish wedding ring, the Claddagh ring.
When my father died his best friends sang “Dublin in the Rare Old Times” and I read his favourite poem “The Ballad of Father Gilligan” by W. B. Yeats at his funeral. Yup, we were an Irish family.
If you are at all aware of Irish history, you will know that the island of Ireland has two very polarized narratives. It is in fact two countries that are culturally and politically divergent. My Father’s Ireland was Republican. He was born and educated in Dublin during the DeValera period of revived Irish nationalism- the years of the Irish Fee State status. He was educated by Christian Brothers and all his studies were conducted in Gaelic. After a brief stint as a clerk in the famous General Post Office in Dublin he left Ireland to join the Royal Navy as a means of obtaining an education. It was the Royal Navy that brought him to Belfast for a military parade where he caught a glimpse of someone he described as “the most beautiful girl” he’d ever seen, and his fate was sealed.
Of course, that woman was my Mother. She grew up just off the Shankill Road in Belfast. Her Ireland was British. She was a mistress of the Orange Lodge, where her Father was Head of the Lodge and marched proudly playing the drums on the glorious 12th of July to celebrate Protestant William f Orange’s overthrow of the Catholic James II and the inevitable certainty of the Protestant ascendancy in Ulster.
To say the least, their views, and their family’s views, on what it meant to be Irish in 1958, which by then had the Republic fully restored with 26 counties and Ulster part of the United Kingdom with 6 counties, were diametrically opposed. So, it shouldn’t be surprising that in1958 Ireland, no one would marry them, and they had to settle for a wedding in the sacristy of a church in London, that none of my Mother’s family attended the scandalous nuptials, or that they decided that their best chance for happiness lay not in Ireland but in Canada.
Unfortunately, two realities conspired against their continued happiness. First identity politics and religious bigotry can be deeply ingrained, and they seemed to have packed both into their baggage. For example, my Mother would not attend any of my Irish dancing competitions because she felt innately that Irish dancing was part of the Republican orthodoxy. Secondly, my Mother absolutely hated Canada – the cold, the culture, the isolation. I suspect she came to view Canada as the metaphorical villain who robbed her of her dream of a happy life. And so, on a cold March day in 1972 my Mother fled, vanished from Canada forever, and ran back to Northern Ireland. My entire life, who I am, who I became, was shaped by what happened that day. Our lives completely changed overnight. My Mother drained our family financially and we were immediately financially insecure. Life felt shameful, confusing, chaotic and fearful. In 1972 fathers did not get custody of their children and mothers were not runaway. We had no extended family, no support systems, and there were no precedents to help us to navigate our way. Being the only girl in the family, it fell on me to become the woman of the house. To take care of everyone, the chores and the cooking even though I was only 9 years old. I lived with the fear that my father, who was so overwhelmed with the task of raising three children on his own, would somehow, some day, come to the conclusion that he couldn’t. What would become of us then? Of course, people did not know how to react to such a turn of events. They did not realize how I was shaped by my Mother’s abandonment. However, just in case you think the story serves only as a victim impact statement, it does not. I will disabuse you of that notion by telling you that it drove me. As I got older, I realized that it was never my fault that my Mother left, but it was, I felt, my responsibility to respond to this defining moment in an affirming and building way.  
So, it became my mission to be the resourceful protagonist who overcame adversity and came through the other side. My tool of choice was education. I quickly recognized that I did not want in my future life, the kind of life I was living – a life of poverty, chaos, insecurity unhappiness, uncertainty and fear. I also realized that I did have one special gift. I was very good at school. So, the pursuit of education would be the great equalizer for me. It would serve as my ticket to a completely different life. I hit the books. I won scholarships. I earned my honours degree at the University of Toronto, studied at Laval and in Dublin. Not surprisingly, with my innate belief in the life-changing power of education, I finished an under graduate degree.
As a teacher I became one of the most prolific proponents of staying in school. Education is the great equalizer. Education is a gift no one can ever take away from you. Get all the education you can. Especially when I was teaching intermediate and my students were filling out their high school course selections. I would implore them – don’t close any doors, keep all the doors to higher education open. I would provide the analogy of the Presidential race which found Barak Obama, son of a single mother, up against Mitt Romney who was born with the proverbial platinum spoon in his mouth. In what universe would these two men share the same august stage. They did because Barak Obama sought out a world class education. Education is the greet equalizer. So, I preached, and I preached.
My Mother’s departure drove another narrative during my long teaching career. It became my personal mission as a teacher to be for my students, the woman I wished I had had in my youth. I wanted to be THAT teacher, the one who had your back, who would advocate for you and who would help you navigate your way through what can at times be a pretty frightening world. There are far more motherless children than in my day and I mentored them. But the staggering reality I uncovered was that many of the children I mentored were Motherless even though their mothers actually lived with them. They had checked out, tragically, and for whatever reasons could not or would not mother their offspring. It is from these experiences, this skill set, that I hope to impart to my activities in Rotary. To mentor youth at risk, to promote the value of education, and in so doing, to continue to have my defining moment drive me in positive directions as I continue my own journey. Thank you for listening to my Irish story.
The Claddagh Ring
 
 
50/50 Draw - Ranjit Singh
 
Next Week – Dr. Jean Costello - Homewood Research Institute
 
Greetings from Mbale, Kenya.  Luisa and I are having a heavy schedule and are quite exhausted but exhilarated at the same time.  Members of the 2 Rotary Clubs in Mbale have been tremendous.  They are extremely well organized and have seriously made a list of projects, according to the "community assessment" that are required on this area.   They are working very hard to show us their needs. - Rosemary Clark
                           
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