Monday, March 29, 2010
Larry Horowitz
Downtown Business Association
"The State of Downtown Windsor:
Safety, Security & Diversification"
Larry Horwitz, the Past Chair of the
Downtown BIA, spoke on the state of
downtown Windsor - Safety, Security
and Diversification. He made a number of proposals that he thought might improve the downtown atmosphere.
"The biggest hurdle isn't really the job losses -- it's the mentality. You have to start believing in yourself again" says U.S. filmmaker Carl Kurlander who visited the Capitol Theatre on February 26th for a free public screening of his movie, My Tale of Two Cities, a personal and quirky take on the comeback of his hometown, Pittsburgh PA..
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Dr.G. Allen Heimann
Medical Officer of Health
Emergency Health Response
Health Hazard Investigation
Topic: The History of Influenza, Past and Present
Dr. Allen Heimann, of the Windsor,
Essex County Health Unit, spoke to us
on the H1N1 Flu Virus and regular flu during this past season.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Windsor Spitfires
Memorial Cup winners
Guest Speaker: President and Head Coach, Bob Boughner
The meeting was casual, so some guests wore Spitfires sweaters or other hockey paraphernalia they owned.
Our Local Junior A Hockey Team has been riding high for many months now with a talent laden lineup playing in a new "state of the art" facility that is routinely jammed with excited fans. We heard about how this has happened and what the management is doing to maintain the momentum.
Our Rotary Club hosted this special event to honour the Spitfires' management and coaches and encourages members to invite guests.
The Spitfire organization has been instrumental in supporting Rotary's charitable efforts by hosting numerous can food drives and most recently the "Toonies for Haiti" fundraiser where we brought in close to $5,500.00 for the purpose of providing Shelter Boxes for Haiti. The canned goods food drives have contributed close to 15,000 pounds of food for Essex County food banks.
Our Governor, Neil McBeth has stepped up to personally cover the cost of four Paul Harris Fellowships to be presented to the three owners of the Spits and a special award in memory of the late Mickey Renaud.
The sum of $730 was raised from an auction of Spitfire’s items held at the conclusion of our meeting. This money was given to the Spitfire Foundation.
Thank-you to everyone who contributed.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
International Water Programs
Arvi Kadmin
Avri Kadman, Director of Water and
River Rehabilitation, Jewish National
Fund, spoke about the problems with potable
water in Israel and how they are
handling it.
Not only is there very little fresh
water in Israel but not much is added in the form of
rainfall. Local engineers are desalinating the sea
water and making inroads with that type of production.
It is expected that current methodologies will double production by 2013.
Planners are also planting more trees and making artificial lakes,
along with treating waste water to use in
agriculture. Israel is building reservoirs to
hold this treated waste water.
With this two-fold attack, it is expected the country will produce enough water for its' projected needs by 2020.
Reporter: Neil Bear
Desalination is energy-intensive. Most desalination today uses fossil fuels, and thus contributes to increased levels of greenhouse gases.
Other CO2-free desalination
Small and medium sized nuclear reactors are suitable for driving the desalination process.
Renewable energy sources are able to be used for desalination more readily than for most electricity supply, since the product (potable water) can be stored on any scale, unlike electricity.
One obvious cost cutting strategy is to use power reactors which run at full capacity, but with all the electricity applied to meeting grid load when that is high and part of it to drive pumps for desalination when the grid demand is low.
Much relevant experience comes from nuclear plants in Russia, Eastern Europe and Canada where district heating is a by-product.
The major desalination technology in use and being built today is reverse osmosis (RO) driven by electric pumps which pressurize water and force it through a membrane against its osmotic pressure.
Reverse Osmosis needs up to 6 kWh of electricity per cubic metre of water (depending on its original salt content).
Total world capacity is approaching 40 million m³/day of potable water, in some 15,000 plants. Most of these are in the Middle East and north Africa, using distillation processes. The largest plant produces 454,000 m³/day. Two thirds of the world capacity is processing seawater, and one third uses brackish artesian water.
Some 10% of Israel's water is desalinated, and one large RO plant provides water at 50 cents per cubic metre.
Information adapted from: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf71.html
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Joe Berthiaume
Board of Education
A native of Essex County, Mr. Berthiaume began his teaching career 30 years ago with the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board. He has been an administrator with the Board for 19 years. During his tenure with the Board, he has been an elementary and secondary classroom teacher, special education consultant and department head, vice-principal and principal of high schools as well as principal of alternate education programs. In 1998, Mr. Berthiaume was appointed superintendent of education with responsibilities in human resources and elementary and secondary schools. He was appointed the new Director of Education, effective May 1, 2006.
Mr. Berthiaume has a Master of Education in Special Education from the University of Windsor, a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Windsor and Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Western Ontario. He has additional designations in Religious Education, Special Education, Program Development and Implementation, and Program Supervision and Assessment.
ref: http://www.wecdsb.on.ca/board-director.asp
Joe did not dodge any of the educational issues that face administrators today in the Canadian Catholic school system. He seemed forthright in his assessment of the issues. He spoke eloquently about the plans being made to correct past inadequacies while bringing forth the positive aspects of today's approach. He made no attempt to minimize the future problems as enrolment declines and cultural issues bring new demands. He talked about the cooperative efforts between the four school systems and the University of Windsor. The audience was left with the feeling that he is an administrator who understands the issues and is willing to work with his environment in order to bring about the most sensible solutions.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Spike Bell - Photographer/Author
"The former navy photographer and photojournalist has documented many of the most important events in late-20th century local history. But he also has an artist's eye for the beauty and heritage of the region."
credit - Ted Shaw, The Windsor Star
www/retirehere.ca
Spike offered his audience a PowerPoint presentation featuring Windsor then and now. He captioned each picture with a remarkable memory of the names and settings shown in each photo. His love of photography shone through as he traded comments with the audience.
President Bill MacArthur thanks three non members
who contributed substantially to our Haiti Fund Raising Project.
President Bill reported that we sent $19,499 to Shelter-Box Canada and
this amount was matched by CIDA
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Family Day - No Meeting
Ontario Family Day [third Monday of February]
QUEEN'S PARK, Ontario Canada: - The Government of Ontario created a new statutory holiday in 2008 called Family Day saying
"There is nothing more valuable to families than time together. And yet it seems tougher than ever to find, with so many of us living such busy lives - That's why, on the third Monday of this coming February (2008) - and every February thereafter - Ontarians will celebrate a new statutory holiday - Family Day."
Adding Family Day to the calendar gives Ontario workers and families a total of nine statutory holidays per year, putting the province on par with Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
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Members brought "re-gifted" or other surprise packages to the meeting. They took the opportunity to clear their homes of items they had grown tired of???
Here is a sample of the auction items.
The auction generated over $800 for our Rotary Youth Exchange Program from the enthusiastic bidders.
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The World Community Service Committee members
shared with us reports on the amazing international work that is being
done through the efforts of this Club, and it’s
partners around the world. Janet Kelly, Chair of the World Community
Service Committee, presented a ‘trip around the world’ PowerPoint presentation of all the wonderful projects that our Club is involved with. Rotarian Rick Caron was responsible for the PowerPoint design .
Attached is the script Janet Kelly used for her World Community Service presentation. For those of you who were unable to attend the meeting, you will see how informative this script is in talking about the projects our Club is sponsoring and/or involved in.
World Community Service presentation script
World Community Service presentation PDF file This file contains pictures and may take a little time to download.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Speaker: Reza Shahbazi, Executive Director
New Canadians Centre of Excellence
Services for newcomers to Canada
* provides integration into the community
* citizenship preparation courses
* English language instruction classes
* child minding to parents in program
* Social Services Job Club
* employment services
* settlement services
* settlement workers in school programs
* translation services
* youth leadership program
* youth summer programs
* basic and intermediate computer training
Our speaker, Reza Shahbazi, told us about the state of immigration policy here in Canada and used a PowerPoint presentation to back up his talk with relevant statistics. He outlined the importance of organizations such as the one he represented in not only welcoming new arrivals to Canada but in providing ongoing services to assure that immigrants were smoothly integrated into our cultural landscape.
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Speaker: Keith Andrews,
V.P. Corporate Affairs & Administration,
Caesars Windsor
Topic: "Weathering The Perfect Storm"
Keith Andrews joined Windsor Casino Limited in 1994 and was promoted to Vice President Corporate Affairs & Administration in 1996. He has also held various regulatory management and policy positions with the government of Ontario, federal government and a crown corporation. His position is representative of the Tourism and Gaming Industry within the downtown core of Windsor.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
"How To Position Yourself Positively To Face
Challenges Of The Economy As Opportunity"
Speaker: Therese Boldt, Career Coach on Fox 2
and
Author of
‘Yes! You can land a job (even) in a
crummy economy’
Therese Marie Boldt has been helping people develop their careers for nearly 20 years. She founded her company in 2000, and since then has provided an extremely personalized service to both hiring executives who are in need of talented assistants and executive secretaries who want to advance their careers.
Theresa brought an inspirational message of hope to those who have become unemployed as a result of a hurting economy. She spoke of collaboration, a circle of reciprocity and networking - of ways to change yourself in a new culture which demands self awareness, personal adaptability and willingness to move in new directions. She talked about a new career world in which one could expect to have many different jobs over a lifetime. She emphasized the importance of perception and the need to look for employment in new ways using new research strategies with a constant view on personal targets. She talked of change as a process, not an event.
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Monday, January 4, 2010
"Using Internet social networking systems for matching people to available jobs "
Speaker: Todd Hohauser
Harvey Hohauser and Associates
"job seekers aren't afraid to use technology; however, if they don't have such skills, they build them. If you are over 40, and you have not looked for a job in the last 15 years, you'll be amazed at the resources that are now available to you with just a click of the mouse. From conducting Internet research on firms you'd like to work for, to online networking, to learning about resume writing and interviewing there are resources free for the asking if you just look for them. It’s no longer the norm to send a hard copy of your resume with a carefully written cover letter to a prospective employer. You will be expected to navigate a host of posting sites using a variety of formats, and your technology skills will make this task manageable."
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Todd brought his Rotary audience a message about how modern social networking systems were being used to perform efficient and wide ranging job searches. He claimed that today over 60% of job seekers find employment through networks. He said that although it is sometimes a difficult process to move people away from their traditional thinking about job searches and into the more effective Internet methodologies, once they have seen the results they are convinced.
Use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas and opportunities
Social Networking is being used throughout our Rotary world. Click on this Web Site to see how Rotary is involved.
Rotarian Bill Howitt eulogized recently deceased club member, George White
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