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Rotary Club of Barrie-Kempenfelt______________________________
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November 25, 2009
ServiceAboveSelf
Visitors
From Huronia:Steve Twigg
Guests:Davon Taylor (Cheryl Simpson)
Make-ups
Make-ups
None reported
Birthdays
Coos Uylenbroek, Greg Ferguson
Eye Opener
President: Barry WardEditor: Cheryl Simpson
Visit our website:www.clubrunner.ca/barriekempenfelt
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So you think it is difficult to land a a job these days? Just try it if you’re disabled. The need to sell yourself be-comes all important.Jay Wilson , our gues t speaker, is with Career Con-nections. He has also worked with the Multiple Sclerosis Society and United Way. To make matters real, Jay invited Graham, one of his clients, to come along and address the group.We all know someone who may be disabled. A disabil-ity may take any one of sev-eral forms: cognitive im-pairment, hearing, vision, mobility, speech, etc. In the end, however, employers will tell you that disabled workers are loyal and per-form very well.While the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act sets guidelines for the hiring and accommodating of anyone with a disability, it is difficult to get one’s foot in the door, because employ-ers are scared to handle a situation that they are unfa-miliar with. Career Connections helps disabled people to find jobs and to retain them. Because of his background in social services, Jay is able to get his point across and to re-move the fear from the hir-ing equation.Getting any job requires work, and Career Connec-tions is prepared to help, if the potential employee is
prepared to do his of her part. In a way, the work is similar to that required from anyone who wants to im-press an employer. First, one has to target the right companies and the right decision-makers within that company. It helps to un-cover jobs that are not rou-tinely advertised. Cover letters are important and will open doors, if written prop-erly. The importance of a resume is well known and will become one’s ticket to an interview. A potential employee needs the back-bone to get past the gate-keepers, not always an easy task. At interview time, you must sell yourself; you know that you are the best person for the job, and you must convince the employer that indeed you are. Show your interest by asking questions that show your interest. And finally, negotiate the best pay and benefits package.It might help if the potential employee views his applica-tion for employment as a two-minute commercial. Realistically, that’s all the time he our she has to im-press the employer and carry the hiring interview beyond the first often awkward mo-ments. So it is important to strategize.Anyone looking for a job must make it his or her prior-ity. This means that research is needed to identify the right industries and the right em-
ployers within those indus-tries.Preparing for the interview cannot be over emphasized. It may mean that you have to stand in front of a mirror and answer anticipated questions. It may require assistance from someone else. It does require work‘Rotary at Work’ is a pro-gram to support the hiring of people with disabilities. It has seen the light of day in Alberta where people with cognitive issues have been given a chance to become contributors to the Canadian economy. Employers will agree that such people have an above average attendance record, and less than 4% require any workplace ac-commodation.Graham stated that he is looking for a job in the office administration and/or com-puters. He was employed for five years at ‘A’ Channel and completed a thirteen-week internship at Talk Is Free Theatre.Jay stated that, in his previ-ous employment, it was his task to ask for donations. In this instance, he asked that we consider what we can do for members of society who could be productive, given the chance. Career Connec-tions will not only help with the hiring process, but will assist employers with ac-commodation needs.
CAREER CONNECTIONS
How to Land that JOB!
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The Eye Opener is published weekly for the sole use of the members of the Rotary Club of Barrie-Kempenfelt. The unauthorized use of text, graphics or photographs is prohibited.District 7010Club 52439
President Barry says ...
Simcoe history ....On November 25, 1863 the Bank of Upper Canada in Barrie was robbed.
Now the quote of the day ...If you’re not using your smile, you’re like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no cheque book. -Les Giblin
Sergeant-at-Arms
Yogi Berra says ...
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yan-kees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, no-body's gonna stop 'em.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
In theory there is no differ-ence between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
The battle continues for the food supremacy. Who will win it all? Who will have the pleasure of sitting comfortably at their table and have the losers serve them breakfast? Right now, it’s difficult to say who’s in the lead. Accusations have come fast and furious over the past several weeks. Remember, it ends next Wednesday. So bring in the groceries, our truck will be there for the collection. Thanks to Joe Givens and Greg Ferguson who have been good sports about it.
Recognition and honors keep coming. In the latest round, PP Gerry Pilon’s firm was recognized for its achievements in the Globe and Mail, no less. Now, that’s very near the top of the heap. Well done, Gerry. And thanks for the cash.
Incoming Pres Mike Kinsey went to NASCAR races again, this time in Vegas. But he did a make-up while down there. Mike claims that this was three vacations in one. Now that he’s well rested, expect trouble! Oh yeah, Mickey forgot to address the chair.
Greg Ferguson found a bunch of things wrong with his counterpart. Joe Givens was not wearing his name badge, did not have his Rotary pin, and got his mustache shaved off ahead of schedule. Is our man falling apart? Is the pressure too much? Where’s the prozac?
The argument pertaining to Don Eagles rages on. Which team is he really on? Joe, who claimed Don as one of his own, accused Greg of being a thief. Don is caught in the middle of it all, and he may have problems deciding where his con-tribution will go.
Kevin Richards announced that his child will be born on Christmas eve. But Kevin was observed in a club setting, and there are members who wonders when he has the time to fool around in drinking establishments. By the way, Barb Richards, Kevin’s mother and a friend of our Club, has been chosen as Barrie’s Business Woman of the Year. Well done!
There is a note to the effect that Glenn Gibson was asked by Joe to get bigger un-derwear. We only report it, folks. For more details, contact the individuals in-volved. We dare not go further ...
We’re not quite sure who held the lucky 50/50 ticket, but whoever it was, no one got the grand prize.
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Duty Roster
Members assigned to the duty roster are required to report no later than 6:45 a.m. on the day of the meeting.
November Team Captain: Gerry Pilon SAA: John RockbruneDominic DeCastris Editor: Alexa WilsonDerek Smurthwaite Greeter / Thanker: Gerry Pilon
December Team Captain: Steve Thompson SAA: Kevin RichardsPeter Madden Editor: Rob HallPaul Pancel Greeter / Thanker: Terry Steine
January Team Captain: Dave Warren SAA: Dan StuartSteve Gage Editor: John McNivenGlenn Gibson Greeter / Thanker: Brad Watts
February Team Captain: Greg Merrill SAA: Ken PickeringLes Girdler Editor: TBAMary Poeta Greeter / Thanker: Eric Wormsbecker
Announcements Programs
December 2, 2009Krista LariviereClassification Talk
December 9, 2009TBA
December 16, 2009Club Assembly
December 23, 2009Christmas ThemeSpecial meeting
December 30, 2009NO MEETING
Visit our Districtweb site at:
www.rotary7010.org
Rotary FoundationMonth
Our Foundation is a jewel. Consider what has been accomplished in the world because of it.Does it not make sense to contribute to it? It is our best way to become truly international and, t h ro u g h o u r g o o d works, promote world-wide peace.
1905-2005
There are good reasons to get the H1N1 vaccine. Is it worth taking a chance? Clinics are open to everyone, so go for it! Get the flu shot too.
Keep in mind the ‘First Annual Great Canadian Beaver Race & Festival’. We need volunteers. If interested, contact Krista Lariviere or Don Ea-gles.
The Holiday Train is coming to town on Decem-ber 3rd, but there won’t be any rides this year. Be at the Midhurst location by 12:40 p.m. It’s all for the Food Bank, and it’s great fun.
Sign up for the Christmas Party on December 10th (Crazy Fox), or contact Heather Forde.
Anyone leaving early is asked to pay $1 for the privilege. This in in addition to excusing yourself to the speaker.
Once again, our record is safe. we have 100% participation in the Foundation. Thanks, every-one.
Sign up for the RI International convention in Montreal. More about it next week.
We also offer our condolences to John Grinton and his family. John’s mother passed away a few days ago.
AuctionAuctions continue, and we thank everyone who donated funds which will go to Christmas Cheer. This time, four Colts tickets and a $25 gift certificate where donated by Mike Kinsey, and they were won by ... Mike Kinsey! The event is January 30th.
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Violin virtuoso and polio survivor Itzhak Perlman received two standing ovations dur-ing a sold-out performance 8 November at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA, before an audience of 1,800, including 260 Rotarians. The concert was sponsored by the Rotary clubs of Cedar Falls, Waterloo, and Waverly as a fund-raiser to benefit Rotary's efforts to eradicate polio. The clubs and individual members contributed $10,000 for the event, with proceeds going toward Rotary's US$200 Mil-lion Challenge.
Perlman performed a variety of music, from Beethoven to Gershwin, and filled the second half of the 90-minute performance with pieces drawn from a stack of music at his side. Afterward, he met with Iowa Rotarians and polio survivor Doug Oberman, a retired attorney and Cedar Falls resident. "Listening to Perlman play transcends every experience you have ever had with that instrument," says Steven Carignan, executive director of the university's Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center and president of the Waterloo club. "He sets the standard for playing the violin that everyone will be measured against.
"When you hear a human being surpass what you previously thought people capable of, it makes you begin to think you may be capable of more than you thought," he adds. Perlman will also perform 2 December with the New York Philharmonic in the Concert to End Polio, a benefit performance supporting the global effort to eradicate the disease. The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Buy tickets.
Robert S. Scott, chair of the International PolioPlus Committee, spoke at a presentation before the 8 November concert, saying improved vaccines and stronger support from government leaders in endemic countries are among the recent developments to help bring wild poliomyelitis under control.
Rotary InternationalItzhak Perlman helps PolioPlus
Opinion Corner
Member retention has always been an issue. The emphasis has been on attendance, with the hope that regular attendance will create an interest, thus keeping our members coming back.Some Rotarians in the know have advanced a slightly differ-ent theory. They argue that we perhaps place too much empha-sis on attendance. We have been asked to get younger members to join Rotary, and we quickly forget that their family and work lives are different than ours.Young members are faced with many pressures, such as raising children and competing at the entry level in their profession. Many of us joined Rotary after our children had left the house, or were at least in their mid teens. We did not have to get them ready for school and deal with a multitude of last minute emergencies.So if attendance is not the key, what is? The answer may be found in the social aspects of Rotary. The interaction of members outside the confines of the club may indeed bring cohesiveness. Inviting a Ro-tary couple for dinner might be the right thing to do. Arranging group events, such as bowling, car rallies, etc. may create the glue that binds us.We should therefore place our social activities at the top of our priorities. It might be the right goal for next year.
Monday
Alliston - 6:30Lions Hall
Aurora - 6:30The Atrium
Gravenhurst - 12:15 The Opera House
Wasaga Beach - 12:15 Beacon
Tuesday
Bradford - 6:15 China Gardens
Collingwood - 12:00 Temple Building
Orillia - 12:15 Highwayman Inn
Penetang - 12:00 Curling Club
Barrie Huronia - 12:15 South Shore Community Ctr.
Wednesday
Huntsville - 12:15 Grandville Inn
Midland - 12:15 Brooklea Golf
Washago - 7:15 a.m. Washago Community Ctr.
Innisfil - 7:30 a.m. Innisfil YMCA
Springwater - 5:00 p.m.Springwater Township Offices
Thursday
Beeton - 6:30 Simcoe Manor
Barrie - 12:15 South Shore Community Ctr.
Newmarket - 6:30 House of York
Orillia-Lake Country - 7:15 Mariposa Inn
Collingwood-South Georgian Bay - 7:30 Blue Mountain Golf
Friday
Bracebridge - 12:15 Rotary Centre
Theme for 2009-10
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Donation to Royal Victoria HospitalIt was our pleasure to present Janice Skot, president and C.E.O. of Royal Victoria Hospital, with a cheque in the amount of $10,000. This amount will reduce our commitment for the expansion of this fine facility.Janice Provided an update on Phase I of the project. The roof is on for the cancer centre, and the weather has helped a lot. We are on track to open the facility in early 2012.Of the 200 workers on site, three-quarters are from our area. It is estimated that 1,000 additional employees will be needed to complete the project. Janice is confident that we will reach our goal of $35 million very shortly. Last week, RBC donated $300,000 towards the campaign.
The City of Barrie has agreed to donate %52.5 million, and the District of Muskoka will contribute an additional $3 million.Janice thanked our Club far its support over the years.
Our Newest MemberI was a pleasure to induct our newest member this morning. Craig Goulding’s induction was performed by PP Ken Pickering. Craig is the president of a medical supply company called ‘Link Medical’. He lives in the south end of Barrie with his wife and two children.
No photo is available at this time. It will be published in due course. Please make sure that you introduce yourself to Craig and include him in your activities.
Fifteen years after becoming a Rotarian in 1971, Bob Selinger was seriously injured in an industrial accident and had to use a wheel-chair. Every day for a year, Rotarians drove Selinger to physical therapy. He eventually recovered and was able to leave the wheelchair behind. But the generosity of his Rotarian friends left a lasting impression on him, and a strong desire to give back.
Selinger, a member of the Rotary Club of Newport-Irvine, California, and his wife, Jean, who died in 2005, were among several cou-ples from the United States inducted into the Arch C. Klumph Society in late October at RI World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois. The society honors people who give at least $250,000 to The Rotary Foundation. "You couldn't ask for a more giving or loving organi-zation," says Selinger, who was inducted during a ceremony on 26 October. "I want to show how much I care about Rotary and the Foundation." The Selingers hosted more than 25 Rotary Youth Exchange students and supported the Annual Programs Fund, Perma-nent Fund, PolioPlus, and the Humanitarian Grants Program. Selinger says he made his recent contributions to the Foundation in mem-ory of his wife. Selinger served as a district Youth Exchange officer and executive director of his regional Youth Exchange organiza-tion, and is a 2008-09 recipient of the RI Service Above Self Award.
William W. and Jean Wilson
Bill Wilson, a member of the Rotary Club of Greater Statesville, North Carolina, and past governor of District 7680, was inducted into the society with his wife, Jean, during a ceremony 26 October. The Wilsons support the Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution and have established an endowed fund to underwrite Rotary Peace Fellowships in perpetuity. A former officer of the U.S. Army and part owner of the G.L. Wilson Building Company, Wilson says that by giving to the Foundation, he is say-ing yes to a better world. Wilson represented his district at the 2003 Presidential Peace Conference in Panama. The same year, his club honored him with the District Distinguished Rotarian Award.
Jack and Vivian M. Harig
Jack Harig, a Rotarian for four decades and a member of the Rotary Club of Akron, Ohio, was inducted into the society with his wife, Vivian, during a ceremony on 29 October. Harig says giving to the Foundation allows Rotarians to do extraordinary things worldwide that they normally couldn't do themselves.
A past governor of District 6630, Harig is a leader in the real estate industry and a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Midwest Global Trade Association. He and his wife are dedicated to the Akron Rotary Camp for Children with Special Needs. They also are longtime supporters of the Foundation's Annual Programs Fund and Permanent Fund.
Rotarians who made a difference
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Objects of Rotary
The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encour-age and foster:
1. The development of acquaintances as an opportunity for serv-ice;
2. High ethical stan-dards in business and professions; the rec-ognition of the wor-thiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
3. the application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s per-sonal, business and community life;
4. The advancement of international under-standing, goodwill, and peace trough a world fellowship of business and profes-sional persons united in the ideal of service.
Board of DirectorsBarry Ward, President
Jackie Glacer, Past President
Mike Kinsey, Incoming President
Steve Periard, Secretary
Ben Rattelade, Community & International Service
Heather Forde, Club Service & SAA
Kirk Johnson, Ways and Means
Scott Brumwell, Membership & Public Relations
How to reach Our DirectorsOur Directors may be contacted as follows:
PresidentBarry [email protected]
Past PresidentJackie [email protected]
Incoming PresidentMike [email protected]
TreasurerJohn [email protected]
SecretarySteve [email protected]
Community & International ServiceBen [email protected]
Club Service & Sergeant-at-ArmsHeather [email protected]
Ways & MeansKirk [email protected]
Membership & Public RelationsScott [email protected]
Executive DirectorJack [email protected]
The Four-Way Test
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all con-cerned?
Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER UNDERSTANDING?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
