• Abilities in Motion
• Alliston & District Humane Society
• Beeton Honey & Garden Festival
• CLASS (Community Living Association of South Simcoe)
• CONTACT Community Services
• County of Simcoe Long Term Care
• Good Shepherd Food Bank. 
• Matthews House Hospice
• New Tecumseth Public Library
• Next Step – Literacy Council of South Simcoe
• Procyon Wildlife
• S.H.I.F.T. (Support and Hope for Individuals and Families Today) 
• South Simcoe Arts Council
• Special Olympics South Simcoe
• Stevenson Memorial Hospital Auxiliary
• Stevenson Memorial Hospital Foundation
• The Gibson Centre for Community, Arts & Culture

Back in December 2020 the Rotary Club of Alliston donated $1000 USD to this Global Grant Project.

The article below is an update that was written by Steve Rutledge and posted on the District 7070 website.

The Karantina Hospital in Beirut, severely damaged by the port explosion in August 2020, is pretty close to reopening next month, thanks to support from NGO's and Rotary Clubs throughout Canada and many other countries in the world. With the support from Rotary International, we were able to provide life saving equipment for the pediatric operating theatre along with beds, tables, lights etc. Yesterday, the green light was given for the operating theatre light. Soon young patients will arrive for free or low cost, life saving surgery. Thank You Rotary for all you do!  Read more to see some of the photos.....

• Best Overall – Canadian Tire Alliston
• WOW Factor – Sheldon Creek Dairy
• Most Unique – Banting High School Robotics Team
• Best Use of Traditional – Shelburne Memorials Limited

The Rotary Club of Alliston welcomed our District 7070 Governor Iosif Ciosa at our club meeting at the Gibson Centre on Monday, August 29. Other guests were 4 members of the  Rotary Club of Kleinburg, Nobleton and Schomberg. DG Iosif Ciosa spoke about the Rotary year ahead for our district.  He introduced members to the Rotary Theme for the year "Imagine Rotary". DG Iosif talked about meeting Rotary International President Jennifer Jones. RI President Jennifer Jones is Canadian and is the first women president of Rotary International.

Rotary Club of Alliston President Bill Wray thanking District Governor Iosif Ciosa 

Photo by John McFarland

Iosif Ciosa, District 7070 Governor 2022-23

Iosif joined Rotary in 2012 at the suggestion of a former member who recognized in Iosif a commitment to, and a passion for, the values for which Rotary stands. In the years since, Iosif has truly embraced the “Service above Self” motto by serving in many capacities across Rotary.

In 2014, just two years after joining, he became the 64th President of the Rotary Club of Toronto Forest Hill. At the District Level, he has served on multiple committees and, as Assistant District Governor, supported the Rotary Clubs of Bay-Bloor, Toronto West, Parkdale-High Park-Humber and Toronto-Danforth.

In late 2015, the Rotary Club of Toronto Forest Hill presented Iosif with the Paul Harris Recognition. More recently, he served on the board of Boxing Ontario in the role of Director of Marketing. Currently, he is honoured to have been asked to serve as President of the Rotary Club of Etobicoke in the year the club is celebrating its 90th anniversary.

Iosif’s academic achievements include a Bachelor of Arts from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, a Masters in Diplomatic Studies from Leicester University in England and a Masters in Business Administration with a focus on International Business and Marketing from both the University of Nottingham in England and the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany.

In his professional life, Iosif is a dynamic and results-driven Business Development Consultant, agile in seizing opportunities that drive growth and revenues. He is an innovative thinker who identifies new and better ways to drive business growth while managing the delicate interplay among strategy, marketing, relationship management and sales.

Please enjoy reading DG Iosif Ciosa's August Newsletter below.

1. We accept cash or a cheque donations. Make cheques out to the Rotary Club of Alliston.  Please mark as Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine.
2. Drop the cheque off at the Grant Thornton Office  (formerly KD Wray office -  22 Paris Street, PO Box 51 Alliston ON Canada) in an envelope marked:  Rotary Club of Alliston Attn:  Bill Wray.
3. The club will provide a charitable receipt for your donation when the regular 2022 club charitable tax receipts are issued later in the year.

The Four-Way Test
From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The 4-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy. This 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy. The 4-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways.

Rotary’s current code of ethical conduct – The Four-Way Test – is a four-part ethical guideline that helped Herb Taylor rescue a beleaguered business. The code’s four points are simple and direct .....

“Of all the things we think, say or do:
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?”

The Four-Way Test was officially adopted by Rotary in 1943 and has been translated into the languages of over 100 countries. It appears on highway billboards, in schoolrooms and on the walls of businesses, in labour contracts, courtrooms and halls of government. It’s even on the moon, in the form of a Four-Way Test pin planted on the surface by astronaut Buzz Aldrin!

Fotini Chandrika has spent the past decade as devoted Steward and Listener of her four Horses, Spirit, Malachi, Penny and Isa, who are her teachers and partners in their Equine Guided Wellness practice. She is a born empath and has lived in the wonder of sacred communion with the Animal Kingdom and at home in the Natural world since her earliest memories. Fotini is the Founder of Awaken With Horses International, where she is wholeheartedly devoted to the mission of the Horses as they lead the way to a better world for both Horse and Human. Together with the Herd, Fotini shares a unique modality, Horse Wisdom Yoga® which offers intuitively guided, creative, private sessions, small group retreats and various training opportunities at Red Barn Wellness Farm in Loretto, Ontario, Canada.  Fotini strongly believes in the importance of reciprocal wellbeing between both Horse and Human. Through her support programs for Horse Stewards and Equine Guided Professionals, Fotini shares two decades of personal and professional experience in the study of, holistic care for and thriving partnership with Horse as teacher and partner with equine enthusiasts from around the world. For more information, please visit www.AwakenWIthHorses.com or @awakenwithhorses on Instagram. .  *Horse Wisdom Yoga® is not yoga on horseback. All activities take place on the ground. No Horse experience necessary*

See this great video clip from CTV news 

Rotary Daily Cash Lottery/Community Calendar 2022 - Now Available

The Rotary Club of Alliston had partnered with the Rotary Club of Barrie-Huronia and other Rotary Clubs and Group Sellers to sell the 2022 Daily Cash Lottery/Community Calendars. All proceeds going to local organizations, community projects, and charities. The lottery ticket comes with a beautiful community calendar so you can keep track of the daily draws! 

Tickets are just $20, with $25,000 in cash prizes to be won. All winners remain in the pool for multiple chances to win. Cheques will be mailed to the winners. 

➢ Six (6) draws of $1,000 

➢ Six (6) draws of $500 

➢ One (1) draw of $300 

➢ 12 draws of $100 

➢ 120 draws of $50 

➢ 196 draws of $25 

Buy your 2022 Rotary Cash Lottery Ticket/Community Calendar from your Rotary friends or at one of these locations: 

• Colleen Kotnisz's office/home,  19 Rogers Rd Alliston

• KD WRAY/ Grant Thornton office, 22 Paris St in downtown Alliston

• Canadian Tire, Alliston

• Trillium Ford, Alliston

Cash only please.

The 2022 Daily Cash Lottery supports these Community Service projects in the Alliston area.

The Rotary Club of Alliston

• The Frederick Banting Legacy Foundation 

• Stevenson Memorial Hospital Foundation

Welcome Sign for the "Walk in the Footsteps of Banting" on August 20-22, 2021.

 

The weekend long event was a celebration at the Banting Homestead and Heritage Park for the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin.  Hosted by the Sir Frederick Banting Legacy Foundation, the events included six presentation sessions in the Drive Shed, two on each day, followed by tours of the exhibits in the Reception building and the Farmhouse.  

Rotarians Eric Jagger and John McFarland volunteering on check in for guests.

 

Rotarians manned the front gate checking registrants in and providing them with a COVID questionnaire.  A pair of Lions members also volunteered and handled parking and way-finding, and two Banting Memorial High School students performed a variety of duties.  

Lion's Volunteers with David Sadleir in centre. 

Rotary President George Scott and Kait Perez Diaz

 

Rotary, along with the Alliston Lions Club, was also instrumental in the funding and reconstruction of the octagonal drive shed back in 2010.  It’s now a featured building and the primary learning centre for all the SFBLF’s educational programs on diabetes.  

 

Monument was unveiled to celebrate the 4 scientists who were responsible for the discovery of insulin 100 years ago.

 

Frederick Banting and his assistant Charles Best discovered insulin in 1921 with the help of Cullip, a chemist, and MacLeod, who ran the lab at U of T. Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923 and remains the youngest ever recipient 100 years later. 

The stubs are in and money is counted and the membership exceeded our goal of selling 500 tickets!

The total tickets sold are 524 tickets total revenue of $10,480.00. Congratulations to our membership! Half of the revenue $5,240.00 is from selling the calendars/lottery tickets will be divided up among the 3 charities named at the beginning of the fundraiser, Alliston Out of the Cold, Sir Frederick Banting Legacy Foundation and Stevenson Memorial Hospital Foundation.

The club’s membership is to decide collectively on the percentage to each beneficiary with a motion. The motion needs to be conducted by January 15 2021 so the Rotary Club of Barrie-Huronia can complete the overall accounting. A motion has been sent to the board and a notice of motion will be sent to the membership which will open the motion up for discussion at the club level and the inclusion of all members who want to contribute in the discussion to the final allocation of the funds raised to the three beneficiaries named at the start to the fundraiser.

Ad revenue is split, half of the ad revenue is returned to the club that places the ad on the calendars.

One ad value of $250.00 was purchased so additional revenue is $125.00 was added to our total.

Total revenue raised from calendars/ lottery tickets $5,375.00

Recognition and our sincere thanks to:

Rotary Club of Barrie- Huronia. – Sue Carr and committee for sharing the idea and spearheading it.

Canadian Tire Alliston – member Megan White for organizing the selling of calendars/tickets at cash registers.

Colleen Kotnisz  member for having calendars available at her office.

Christine Brayford for having calendars at Flato Homes Sales office in Beeton.

The beneficiaries for their promotion of the fund raiser on their social media platforms, and selling of the calendars /lottery tickets.

The membership of the Rotary Club of Alliston  - Thank you all!

As a result of the campaign but not part of it was the generous donation from Flato homes of $2,000.00 specifically $1000.00 each to the Sir Frederick Banting Legacy Foundation and Stevenson Memorial Hospital Foundation. This donation was made directly to the club charity account and then cheques were distributed to each organization. This donation was not associated with the Rotary Club of Barrie-Huronia.

Flato Homes did not forget Alliston Out of the Cold, they had already given a corporate donation of $10.000 to the organization prior to our campaign starting.

Next Fundraising meeting is January 14th at 7:00a.m. via Zoom. Please let John know if you would like to attend and are not on the committee and he will send you an invitation to the meeting.  

Thank you for your help

John McFarland  Fundraising, Committee Chairperson

Alliston Rotary Club

john@nu-tekelectric.ca

705-391-8556

“COVID protocol, physical distance yourself, wear a mask if you can’t,wear a mask everywhere in public,wash your hands several times a day.”

October 23 - 30, 2020

Rotary Alliston Health Walk 2020 from Rotaryalliston on Vimeo.

Rotary's Support for the Community During the Pandemic

Under the current difficult conditions, with the COVID-19 pandemic affecting so many individuals and businesses, the members of our club thought about what help we could provide for our community -- especially for our most vulnerable citizens.

Support for Health Care Workers - The Rotary Club of Alliston recently purchased 450 ice cream treats and 450 individually wrapped cookies. Today Rotarians George Scott and Kelly McCague delivered these treats to the staff of four retirement facilities: Riverwood Senior Living, Good Samaritan Seniors Complex, Kingsmere Retirement Suites and Simcoe Village. Rather than hot meals that can only feed those on duty at the time, the ice cream and cookies can be stored onsite and served up over several days to ensure every staff member gets a treat. And these purchases help to support our local businesses at a challenging time.

April is Oral Health Month in Canada. Celebrate with us. We have some great ways to keep the kids entertained this month and have fun at home while staying healthy.

Visit www.brushamania.ca to see the details and how you can get your kids involved.

1. Scam calls claiming to come from Service Canada stating that “Your SIN number has been fraudulently used”. The caller then attempts to have the person called give them their SIN number to confirm the number. Clearly we need to hang up when this call comes in.
2. A call claiming to be from “Visa Canada” stating that they have seen “some unusual activity on your account” should throw you a red flag. The main reason being, we were told, is that it is the bank or credit union that is the issuer of credit cards and so a legitimate call would be coming from your bank, not from the parent network. Clearly, we need to hang up when this call comes in. 
3. Many other scams are making the rounds, such as “Romance” scams on social media, Readers Digest or other publications telling you “you are a winner but need to pay the taxes,” and “house for rent” scams by a phoney landlord who doesn’t actually own the property.  Just hang up when you get those calls.

To download a PDF copy of Bill Edward's notes on Harry Lawrenson's talk visit this link

Day 4 - Building the Rotary Family in Ukraine

The Rotary Club of Rivne is very committed to the growth of Rotary in Ukraine. Today we visited the town of Ostroh with Rotarians Olha and Eugene to talk with young people about Rotary and Rotoract.

Ostroh has a population of about 12,000 people and is situated 50km south of Rivne.  This is a university town centre around the National University Ostroh Academy.  The academy is one of the oldest tertiary learning centres in Eastern Europe having opened its doors in 1576. In it early years it was centre for language and publishing being source of the Ostroh bible.  This 1256 page book was the first complete bible printed in Cyrillic type. The original academy closed in 1636 but was reopened as a university in 1994.

We toured the campus learning about its history and famous people and the after lunch met with faculty and students to talk about Rotary and Rotoract.  Nine young people had many questions about the Rotary movement and how it functions.  The Rivne Rotarians and Rotoractors hope to establish a Rotoractor club on the campus in the near future.

Meeting the new Partners.

With the project for the visually impaired community of Rivne completed the Rotary Club of Rivne is now moving forward with a new global grant.  The new grant will address the diagnosis and treatment of people on the Autism Spectrum.   This is a serious issue in Ukraine as being handicapped is one of leading causes of death.

Four organizations in the community will partner in this project. Today we visited the partners at their facilities and then participated in a general meeting of the global grant team. The project has three key components: 

1. New diagnostic tools for the diagnosis of Autism
2. Training of staff in the use of the tools and treatments
3. Construction of two sensory “dark” rooms for use by children with Autism.

The purchase of new diagnostic tools will allow earlier detection of autism.  Staff training will focus on the use of these tools and new treatment regimes. Additional training session will be held with parents and caregivers so that the treatment plans be implemented on a daily basis.

Our first stop of the morning was at the Children’s Rehabilitation Centre.  This centre works with children and youth with mental and physical challenge (up to 16 years of age).  This location will be a group training centre for the project and will have a room renovated into a  “dark” sensory room for treating children with autism.  This centre is a bright welcoming facility, with a variety of treatment approaches including, physical therapy, speech pathologist, art therapy, music therapy, massage, water therapy and more.  

Our second stop is the regional psychiatric hospital. This facility treats more serious cases of mental health treating both children and adults.  They have day and residential programs. This will be the key diagnostic centre for the global grant.  This facility is in need of funding to update the infrastructure.  Such renovations are well beyond the scope and scale of the project.

Our final stop is the Rivne Regional Children’s Hospital.  We have visited this location on previous trip to Rivne.  One of our clubs first projects with the Rotary Club of Rivne was the rehabilitation playground and equipment for this facility.  The hospital is undergoing renovations and we could see the improvement since our last visit.  This location will also receive diagnostic tools and staff training for the diagnosis and treatment of children with Autism.  One of the sensory “dark” rooms will be constructed at this location. At the end of our visit the key staff from each facility met with us and we talked about the co-ordination and implementation of the project.

The Rotary Club of Rivne have done a great job in connecting these partners and coordinating the start of the project.  The grant has been approved and will move forward once funds are transferred from Rotary International and our club to Rivne.  The project will result in better care and treatment of people with Autism in the Rivne Region.

Day 2 - Review the results of the project to assist visually impaired

Today we visited locations associated with the global grant projects that helped the visually impaired.  This grant is near completion and seeing the final parts of the project in place was inspiring.

NGO at the Regional Library

Our partners at the regional library were responsible for the education tools and materials for youth.  They have done a great job with 40 schools receiving the new learning aids and many teachers and parents being trained on how to integrate these tools into the regular learning environment.  They have already taken orders for more materials from 5 schools creating an income stream that will help them become more financially sustainable.

The recording studio has been completed and 10 books have been recorded and put on digital media.  The NGO and the library are updating their websites to make these resource available online.  Volunteers are lined up to read more books and enlarge the digital library.

Institute for the Blind

The programs and projects at the Institute for the Blind focussed on job creation and skill development.  The sewing workshop renovations are now complete and all the new equipment is up and running. Six women with visual impairments work producing uniforms and aprons for local businesses.  The new sewing machines allow for more workers and an expanded range fproducts.  The computerized embroidering machine enhances their product by allowing the addition of logos and company names to clothing items.

The toilet paper production equipment is fully installed and employs 4 men per shift.  This process converts large rolls of paper, into small rolls which are covered, cut and bagged for sale and distribution.  We were each gifted with our own bag of 8 rolls...wait until we have to claim that one at customs...”anything to declare?”

The Rotary Club of Rivne pull out all the stops and invited the media to Institute for our visit and the celebration of the completion of the project.  Four TV stations sent reporters and camera people to see the TP paper production and the sewing workshop.

We were thanked and entertained by the people at Institute with speeches and songs.

Concert and Dinner

Our day ended with our own personal concert at a local music hall...organ, piano and some beautiful operatic vocals.  We spent our evening with the Rivne Rotoractors at a restaurant serving Georgian foods.  The future of Rotary in this community is bright and enthusiastic with these thirty something young people leading the way.

Flight to Do Right Beer Pairing Event

Take action, build international understanding, and make new friends around the world.

Interact clubs bring together young people ages 12-18 to develop leadership skills while discovering the power of Service Above Self. Find out how serious leadership can be seriously fun.

Here are some of our Interactors with the Alliston Rotary Club:

Alliston Rotary Club Interactor Executive:
Pictured are Treasurer Irbaaz Syed, President Amzy Sayed and Secretary Emily.  
 

Learn more about Interact

What is a Diabetes Support Dog or DSD?

Especially the hardy families who came out and had fun.

• As of December 15 (that is this Friday) the registration fee will jump by $100 US. Go to http://www.rotary2018.org to register today.
• For those of you travelling some distance to Toronto 2018 please note that the Host Hospitality registration is now open and there are still spots available. This is a tremendous opportunity for fellowship and I cannot recommend it enough.
• If you really want to be in the convention spirit, go to http://www.rotary2018.org and order some Toronto 2018 clothing. We have shirts, hats and even socks!
• The Host Organizing Committee have organized three terrific parties.
  1. Rock at the Distillery District  Saturday evening
  2. Jazz at the Aquarium Saturday Evening
  3. ROTARYFEST Tuesday Evening

We we are a go for tonight. Dress warm. Fire starts at 6:30.