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• Culture of Ghana History and Ethnic Relations
  
  
• Ghana Districts
  
  
• Ghana in Pictures
  
  
• Jirapa Primary Schools Hold Classes Under Trees - DCE
  
  
• About Ghana
  
  
• Some Festivals in Ghana
  
  

Our guest speaker Hector Clouthier has a varied career in business, politics, community affairs and sports.

Along with other endeavours, Mr. Clouthier is a former Vice-President of Hec Clouthier & Sons Inc. a well known lumbering company in the Upper Ottawa Valley. He is a former Federal Member of Parliament, a former Special Advisor in the Prime Minister’s Office, a former Campaign Chair for the United Way Upper Ottawa Valley and currently holds a professional harness horse driver’s licence.

Hector has run 18 marathons and 3 half-marathons in the last 7 years including the Boston marathon in 2005. In 2007 he ran the Disney, Ottawa and New York City marathons. This year in 2008 Hector ran the New Zealand Marathon.

Mr. Clouthier spoke to us as the Executive-Director of OHRIA.

The Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association (OHRIA) is an umbrella association that represents all segments of the horse racing industry. OHRIA seeks to further promote the horse racing industry as a vital part of Ontario's lifestyle, heritage, and agricultural economy.

http://www.ohria.com/

• History of OHRIA
  
  
• OHHA Comments On Windsor Meeting - April 18, 2008
  
  
• Board of Directors (OHRIA)
  
  

Victoria Day, The Sovereign's Birthday, and sometimes referred to as Firecracker Day, has been celebrated in Canada since the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
In recent years, fireworks displays have migrated from Victoria Day to Canada Day (July 1).
May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday, was declared a holiday by the Legislature of the Province of Canada in 1845. Canada observes Victoria Day according to a 1952 amendment to the Statutes of Canada which established the celebration of Victoria Day on the Monday preceding May 25.

• Victoria Day - Canada A Page From the KIDPROJ Multi-Cultural Calendar
  
  
• Queen Victoria
  
  
• Celebrating Victoria Day
  
  

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A florist is a professional who specializes in the selection and arrangement of flowers for the purpose of decoration.
People call upon the services of a florist when they want to wish someone well, express a specific sentiment, or make someone feel special.
What does it take to become a florist?
What skills should you have to operate a successful business?

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Todd described the modern day flower business with its' high technological communication aspects through a world-wide flower delivery network and ever changing sources of supply, styles, designs and packaging.
He also led us through a history of Janette Florists Inc. showing old photos and emphasizing the family orientation in the business and personal touches needed.
He talked about his travels to other countries, design shows and conferences as he sought out new ideas to enhance his business and "keep up the edge".
He was very professional in his presentation as he explained the details of cut flower purchasing and preservation of freshness through chemical treatment.
He said that he liked the self employed aspect of the business and is still invigorated as he delivers flowers for special occasions and is greeted with huge smiles from the recipients of the gifts.




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• Windsor Florists
  
  
• Janette Florists Inc Manta Company Intelligence
  
  
• how-can-i-become-a-florist?
  
  

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Each year scholarship awards are presented to top volunteers from each of the local high schools. It is amazing to hear about the good works that these students have performed while they carry on with their studies.

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Director of Education, Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board, Joseph Berthiaume, spoke about the requirements to complete the Ontario Secondary School Diploma, one of which is community involvement. He thanked all the students for making a difference and Rotary for being world leaders in volunteerism.

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The late Clare Macleod, our resident philosopher, spoke to us many times during his Rotary tenure. Mr. MacLeod joined the Windsor Rotary (1918) Club in 1951. He spent a distinguished career in education.
He was always insightful and amazingly forward thinking. Here is a summary of one of his talks given on May 31, 1999.

"People and Progress"

Clare spoke about some of the changes that had taken place throughout the 20th century, pondering on whether they represented "real progress". His talk was saluted with a standing ovation.
He defined true progress in his own unique set of terms:

• it must be related to happiness - a feeling of well being, empowerment and freedom encased in a framework of responsibility and accountability
• it suggests an improved standard of living that is not just an accumulation of goods and services
• it requires that value and judgmental changes shape our entrepreneurial spirit to create harmony with nature and the environment
• it is imperative that we increase our productivity to pay for society's protective institutions
• it is enhanced by technological improvements affecting both science and medicine
• there must be adequate opportunity to enjoy leisure time for pursuit of the needs of the philosophical side of humankind
• there needs to be a recognition of the true worth of individuals that is not just based on hero or celebrity worship
• we must develop an understanding to accompany our exploding knowledge database
• society must pay due attention to the values and discipline of the family unit in order to control the social problems that a civilization generates in the decline of these basic values

Other Clare McLeod Talks

Travelling in the Ditch

Education - The Core Of Society

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A capacity audience of Rotarians and high school student volunteers with their families and friends packed our Monday meeting room to hear about the work of these young people and watch as they were each awarded bursaries for either the University of Windsor or St. Clair College.








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• Catch the Spirit
  
  
• Youth volunteerism
  
  
• Information on Volunteering
  
  
• Volunteering
  
  

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Our Rotary Peace Scholar, William Payne, appropriately spoke to us after attending the Rotary International Peace Conference held in Windsor over the previous weekend.
Bill brought us information about the Rotary World Peace Scholars program, as well as the work of Peacemakers Teams operating in conflict zones and generally talked about the concept of nonviolent intervention in conflict situations.

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Rotary's Mission:

"Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that:

• provides humanitarian service,
• encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and
• helps build goodwill and peace in the world."

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"The world is dangerous not because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything."
Albert Einstein

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• Peace-Education.ca
  
  
• Seven Paths to Peace Rotary International
  by Robert Stewart, Rotary Club of Okotoks, Alberta , Canada (D5360) and Director of Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace
  
  
• Seven Paths to Peace Discussion Guide
  
  

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"The city of Windsor, just across the river border from Detroit, Michigan, incorporates seven smaller communities interspersed with the remnants of market gardens and abandoned farmlands. Before the municipality hired its first urban forester in 1970, the area's tree cover, predominantly elm and maple, was poorly managed and vulnerable to disease and insect attack. Now, however, Windsor has a carefully planned, well-managed urban forestry system with 600 ha of municipal parks and a closed canopy of mature trees along 1000 km of streets. Trees occupy almost 20 percent of the total space.

Perhaps the major problem faced initially by the municipal Parks Department was tree disease control. Like most of North America, Canada was hard hit by the Dutch elm disease. Since the outbreak of the disease in 1957, Windsor has lost over 10000 elms. Injections of M.B.C. phosphate, supplemented by trunk spraying with methoxchlor, has now slowed the mortality rate of the 900 remaining elms to about 2 percent per year. However, insects and diseases still periodically threaten other species. Since a preventive spray programme for all trees in the city is both financially prohibitive and environmentally unsound, minor infestations are left untreated; serious ones of a local nature are sprayed with a portable sprayer mounted on an aerial tower. But the best defence has proved to be planting a wide variety of species.

In fact, one of the notable features of Windsor's green cover today is the diversity of trees, some local, others exotic. They include, in addition to the fine remaining white elms, a variety of maples (silver, sugar, red, Manitoba and Norway), black locust and cultivars of honey locust, red and green ash, tree, of heaven, horse-chestnut, white mulberry, cottonwood, crab apple, blue spruce, a number of varieties of oak (pine, swamp, white, red, black and bur), and shellbark and shagbark hickory.

Tree planting has been a major activity. Since 1968 over 20000 street trees alone have been established. Most municipalities in Ontario use the common "bare root" planting of trees 2 or 3 m in height. Although this method allows a large number of street trees to be introduced inexpensively, Windsor found that poor establishment and vandalism caused an estimated 30 percent loss. The alternative of balled and bur-lapped trees or tree-spade planting is used only in special areas because of the expense of balled stock and the slow process of locating underground utility lines before tree-spade planting can be done. A novel approach has been to buy trees 1-2 m high which are then set out in temporary nurseries on vacant city lots. In two to four years, their value doubles or quadruples. Careful tending allows damaged roots to recover before transplanting on streets, and a ready supply of trees is always available for spring planting.

The Parks Department has made a concerted effort in public relations and forestry education, and it has paid off. Arbor Day has been expanded into Arbor Month, both as a response to and a vehicle for heightened citizen awareness of the value of trees for an urban environment."

ref: Urban forestry: cities, trees and people - Thirteen city profiles FAO Corporate Document Repository

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• City of Windsor Parks Wikipedia reference
  
  
• Urban forestry: cities, trees and people - Thirteen city profiles
  
  
• United Nations Forum on Forests
  
  

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Matt and Ken spoke about a more aggressive marketing of our fund raising projects through the use of modern Internet tools. They presented a plan whereby the club could increase its' fund raising capacity. They called on a united effort by all club members to reach more ambitious goals.






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• 2008 Rotary Art in the Park Page
  
  
• Art in the Park Committee Page
  
  
• Art in the Park 2007 pictures
  
  

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The 24-word code of ethics governing the things we think, say, or do, The Four-Way Test was adopted by Rotary in 1943. Om's project provides awards to students who write essays on subjects embodying lessons learned through the 4-way code of conduct.

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"Dr. Om Chandna gave an outstanding presentation on human values, in honour of the late Lloyd Morgan, who believed passionately in the 4-Way Test, as does Om. He talked about values being well documented in ‘man’s living bible’ and how important values are in fighting for all mankind. ‘Humans are divine’, he said, ‘it is the absolute truth’. ‘Children who see hate, learn hate. Children who see love, learn love. We must treat people with respect."
Om received a standing ovation after his presentation of the values represented in the Four-Way Test and how he and his team members brought the message to District 6400 schools through an essay contest.






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• Rotary International 4-Way test based project
  
  
• District 6400 - The Four Way Test Essay Contest
  
  
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Last Revised: July 2, 2008