Monday, March 19, 2007
Lloyd Grahame
Topic: Emergency Services Training on Death Notification

Statistics show that the majority of deaths in Canada happen in health care institutions. As a result it is usually the staff of those institutions who notifies the next of kin of the deceased person.

However, police officers, clergy, victim support workers and emergency support workers, who are present at the scene or who visit the residence of the next of kin will deliver about a third of the death notifications in our society.

These contact people need training

Lloyd talked about the coursework that has been developed as support for training for those people who are routinely called upon to deliver Death Notification news. He said that a 3 hour information seminar has now been incorporated into the regular training of police officers throughout Canada with the assistance of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) organization.

The goals of the seminar are:

To teach law enforcement officers, victim support workers, clergy and emergency services workers, how to compassionately notify a loved one that their relative has died.
To ensure that victims of impaired driving crashes (and all newly bereaved persons) begin their traumatic grief process with the best possible, most compassionate death notification.

• Volunteers - MADD Canada Training
  
  
• Breaking Bad News By Telephone
  
  
• Victim Services of Waterloo Region
  
  
• COMBINED EMERGENCY SERVICES LEARNING NETWORK Provides a consistency of maintenance-training material, a sharing of training ideas, and assist in developing partnerships within police communications training organizations.
  
  

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Monday, March 12, 2007
This is Your Life program
DON SPAFFORD

These programs have always been most entertaining and informing as we learn about the lives of our fellow rotarians.

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Monday, March 5, 2007
Dr Albert Schumacher
Topic: New Vaccines

Dr. Schumacher gave a very succinct analysis of the vaccine situation as it affects Canadians living in Ontario. He spoke of the efficacy of each product, costs involved, goverment coverage of those costs and future products on the immediate horizon. His talk was followed by a question period during which he dealt with many of the common fears of the general public in using vaccines. His audience was well informed so many important issues were expertly explained.

• Government Measures
  The Allertech Group
  
  
• New Vaccines
  
  
• new AIDS vaccines Feds, Gates join forces on new AIDS vaccines
  
  

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Monday, February 26, 2007
Chris Edwards
Publisher of Walkerville Times

Chris Edwards and Elaine Weeks have co-owned three advertising/marketing businesses over the past 13 years and have been involved in the production of several community newspapers. In 1986-87, they spent a year searching for paradise in a backpacking trip around the world.

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• the Walkerville Publishing Company
  
  
• about the Times magazine
  
  
• The Times magazine home page
  
  

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Monday, February 19, 2007
Bill Carter
District Representative to:
The Canadian Rotary Collaboration for International Development (CRCID).
Bill will be speaking on:
Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Africa

The CRCID champions sustainable international development initiatives that foster the alleviation of poverty and improve the quality of life in partner countries.

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Bill Carter is a member of the Kitchener Conestoga Rotary Club, and our own Jim Moore's counterpart as District Representative to The Canadian Rotary Collaboration For International Development (CRCID).

Bill was instrumental in helping Stephen Lewis form his Foundation and is very involved in working with orphans and vulnerable children in Africa.

CRCID is composed of Rotarians from across Canada working with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to undertake worthwhile development programs throughout the world.

CRCID is a supplementary funding source available for World Community Service (WCS) projects in which Canadian Rotary clubs are participating and raising funds.
CRCID consists of a body of Canadian Rotarians representing each Rotary District in Canada, a board of Directors, and the CRCID Chairman, who represents both CRCID and Rotary International.

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Bill Carter brought us a message of "progress through collaboration" in the fight against polio, aids and other pandemics that are currently facing nations in Africa and other continents. He spoke of Rotary's "advocacy power" as a unique tool for exerting political influence. He said that we must use our fund raising ability to assist other groups through well constructed programs aimed at specific problems.

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• The Canadian Rotary Collaboration For International Development (CRCID)
  
  
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
  
  
• Canadian Rotary Committee for International Development March 2006 Newsletter
  
  
• Stephen Lewis Foundation
  
  
• Shelter Box Canada
  
  
• Zone 22
  
  
• Tele-health and Tele-occupational therapy
  
  
• HIV/AIDS in Africa
  
  

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Monday, February 12, 2007
Bill McRae
Literacy

Bill chose to focus his literacy talk on the subject of reading. He described the process of learning to read as "compex an activity as a human faces". He said that it was vitally important that this learning experience take place in a positive atmosphere - one in which the individual is able to develop the skill as an enjoyable event. Only then is the individual likely to open a door to a lifetime enjoyment of this stimulating learning tool. He stressed the importance of the use of proper assistive tools such as testing for possible hearing and sight deficiencies and photo visual picture cards as a stimulus to the learning process. He said that the role of parents in providing a positive, non-punishment atmosphere during a child's attempts to learn to read was tremendously important and suggested that grandparents should make an effort to read to their grandchildren at an early age. Bill described the first time a child begins to read as a "magic moment" - one in which those squiggly characters have begun to make sense. Bill concluded his talk by describing the role of teachers in teaching a child to read as supportive, observing and above all, consistent.

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• The Tri-County Literacy Network
  
  
• National Literacy Program
  
  
• CanSpell website!
  
  
• Raise-A-Reader Raise-A-Reader is a nationally recognized fundraising event that creates awareness of children's literacy in our city, province and country
  
  
• Books for Kids Canada
  
  

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Monday, February 5, 2007
"Auction of Unwanted Christmas Gifts"
Proceeds to our Youth Exchange
Auctioneer: Rotarian Fred Sorrell

An auction of previously gifted items

We Rotarians are natural re-gifters ... our focus is on service work where we take the opportunity to give back "ourselves" in repayment for what we recognize others have given to us in our advantaged lives.

Re-gifting is becoming a more acceptable idea to talk about openly in our affluent Western world
e.g. Have you ever received a gift that you never used? or a gift that was received as a duplicate?
Re-gifting isn't a bad idea... but you have to make sure you remove the original gift tag

Here is your chance to re-gift with a clear concience and with a minimum chance of offending the person who originally gave you the gift.

Bring your donation to the Monday, February 5th meeting and bring a few extra dollars to allow yourself some fun in the auction.

You know your money will be well spent on our Rotary projects.
At last year's auction, over $800 was collected for the benefit of our youth exchange program.

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• The Regift Network
  
  
• Unwanted Christmas gifts - what do you do?
  
  

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Monday, January 29, 2007
Rona Warsh
General Manager of social and health services for the city of Windsor
"Social Help is Everyones Business"

"To put it in a nutshell, Social Help can be comprehended as that job in the services sector that refers to human beings, that is, as a professional answer to social problems which cannot, or only insufficiently, be solved with the help of administrative programmes alone.
According to traditional understanding, Social Help deals with the solutions of, the coping with, such social problems as dyssocial, deficitary, or conspicuous behaviour, poverty, discrimination, marginality, excessive demands, risking, and so forth".
Social Help definition

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• The Mcgill Report rich-poor gap
  
  
• What Should a Billionaire Give and What Should You?
  
  
• Social Problems
  
  

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Monday, January 22, 2007
Jane Galbraith
"Baby Boomers Face Grief"

"Ninety million baby boomers will, in the next 20 years, face the loss of one or both parents. This book discusses society's lack of acceptance of grief in general and the way past generations have taught us to deal with this life event. "Time will heal.", "They had a good life" are some examples of empty phrases so often used when dealing with loss. The reader is taken on a journey in this book by providing support and understanding of the grieving process. In this writer's opinion this generation, known as the baby boomers, through the sheer force of their numbers, has the ability to make positive changes in the way this and succeeding generations handle grief.

Jane Galbraith holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing and has worked in the community health care field since 1976. Her work has included dealing with palliative clients and their bereaved families for the past two decades and also has assisted facilitating grief support groups. The grief she experienced after the death of her mother in 1993 had an enormous impact on her. This event created the realization that in the next few years all her friends would be facing this same life experience. Her main concern is that this generation is not prepared and will be going through this together in numbers never seen before. "
Quotes taken from Amazon site

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• Bereavement
  
  
• Grieving and Healing: 5 Steps to Help You Through the Grieving Process
  
  
• Grieving: Grieving Process
  
  

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Monday, January 15, 2007
Gary Switzer, CEO
Erie St. Clair
Local Health Integration Network

This LHIN is one of 14 Local Health Integration Networks that have been established and launched in Ontario.
The Ontario government is changing the delivery of health care service through the creation of Local Health Integration Networks - community-based organizations that will plan, coordinate, integrate and fund health care services at the local level.
A web site has been set up to keep you up to date on developments as we recruit additional board members, consult with our communities and begin planning for our region. To understand the geographic area, communities and services that are included in the Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network

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• Local Health System Integration Act, 2006
  
  
• Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network Myths and facts
  
  
• Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Agency Directory
  
  
• Erie St. Clair LHIN Provider Communications News Bulletin No. 4
  
  

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Monday, January 8, 2007
Sally Bennett, Executive Director
Alzheimer Society of Windsor and Essex County

"About Alzheimer"

What is Alzheimer Disease?
Imagine, your precious memories of life, family and your accomplishments, are slowly being erased from your mind. Eventually, even the most basic of your skills, feeding and dressing yourself, or completing a simple sentence, become next to impossible tasks.... You are experiencing changes in your day to day activities, your relationships and how you feel at times. The world is a frightening, confusing jumble of unfamiliar places and faces ... this is the world of a person with Alzheimer Disease.

Over 100,000 people in Ontario have Alzheimer Disease or other dementia's (1 in 13 over the age of 65). By the year 2031, it is estimated that the number of people with the disease or other dementia will triple. Dementia is an umbrella term used to describe a group of symptoms that include the loss of intellectual function. Examples of other dementia's include vascular dementia, Picks Disease and Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease.

There is no known cause or cure for the disease at present. Alzheimer is the fourth leading cause of death among seniors.

Quote from the Alzheimer Society of Windsor and Essex County web site.

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• Canadian Alzheimer Society
  
  
• A Report on Alzheimer’s Disease and Current Research
  
  
• Memory Problems? Find out how these problems affect people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease & Related Dementias
  
  

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Monday, January 1, 2007
New Year's Day - No Meeting

"Auld Lang Syne"
the first and last verses (in the original)

"Should Auld Acquaintance be forgot

And never brought to mind?

Should Auld Acquaintance be forgot,

And Auld Lang Syne!



...And there's a hand, my trusty fiere!

And gie's a hand o' thine!

And we'll tak a right gude-willie-waught,

For Auld Lang Syne"

From primitive man to today, ... New Year´s Day ... has been recognized as a day in which rites were done to abolished the past so there could be a rejuvenation for the new year. Rituals included purgations, purifications, exorcisms, extinguishing and rekindling fires, masked processions (masks representing the dead), and other similar activities.

• New Year's Superstitions
  
  
• New Years Holiday Insights
  
  

Last Revised: March 27, 2007