Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) Upcoming Meetings
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Our Club is Located in Windsor Ontario
Canada
Welcome to the Upcoming Meetings Page. This page is designed to show a long term view of details about planned regular
Monday Meetings. Some meeting speakers, for longer term dates, may have not yet confirmed their availability. From time to time
changes may take place in the schedule due to unavoidable circumstances. References to outside web sites are provided as a
means for members to come up to speed on topics presented by guest speakers. Links are not always reliable.
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Rotary Club of Windsor (1918)
Upcoming Speakers at Regular Monday Meetings
We are in need of individuals who will serve as meeting reporters for our weekly "Wheel".
Monday, March 15, 2010
Windsor Spitfires
Memorial Cup winners
Guest Speaker: President and Head Coach, Bob Boughner
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 will hear about how this has happened and what the management is doing to maintain the momentum.
Our Rotary Club is hosting 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 Mickey Renaud.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Dr.G. Allen Heimann
Medical Officer of Health
Emergency Health Response
Health Hazard Investigation
Monday, March 29, 2010
Larry Horowitz
Downtown Business Association
"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, Pitsburg PA..
Monday, April 5, 2010
Easter Monday, No Meeting
Easter is a time of springtime festivals. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But the celebrations of Easter have many customs and legends that are pagan in origin and have nothing to do with Christianity.
Scholars, accepting the derivation proposed by the 8th-century English scholar St. Bede, believe the name Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian "Ostra" and the Teutonic "Ostern" or "Eastre," both Goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility whose festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox.
Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in coloured Easter eggs, originally painted with bright colours to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts.
Ref: http://www.holidays.net/easter/story.htm
Monday, April 12, 2010
Stu Sutton
Subject: GPS Technology
"Using GPS technology and dispatch software, all of our customers share the same dispatch tool which allows them to share access to a much larger trucking fleet," said Sutton.
"When one trucking company doesn't have the capacity or a truck in the vicinity of a potential customer, the technology allows them to find another trucking company which can accommodate that customer.
"In effect, we've taken small regional trucking companies across North America and made them into one huge company," said Sutton. "By subscribing to our service, they're able to say 'yes' to more customers, cut down on empty loads and become more efficient by running full more often."
Ref: http://www2.canada.com/windsorstar/news/business/story.html?id=f45657a8-1443-4277-ab07-06b12e417f3e
Online and in real time, the transportation technology manages several key components of the trucking industry including customer management, fleet management, order entry, street level routing and directions, automatic ETA (estimated time of arrival) calculations, GPS cell phone tracking and communication, rating, billing, driver pay, integration with accounting software, to name a few. An order entered into the system, for example, will automatically calculate trip mileage, the cost to the customer based on a rate structure and provide real time updates on the truck’s location and ETA. If the truck is running late, customers are automatically notified. Even the smallest trucking companies associated with the system have access to state-of-the-art technology.
Ref:
http://www.busexec.com/april08/index.php?link=Techno
System-Human Integration:
... In the course of this technology transfer however it is vital that we keep in mind the importance of the information that exists in the minds of the human dispatchers and controllers and the effect on the quality of the lives of the drivers of the long haul equipment. These people communicate intensively with the customers and base their decisions on a more "nuanced" status of the system, taking into account un-written traditions and preferences, in expressing instructions... many systems built on "assist" decision making rather that "directly decide" are a partial answer to these issues
Ref: https://www.cirrelt.ca/DocumentsTravail/CIRRELT-2008-40.pdf
Monday, April 19, 2010
Pierre Boulos
Ethics of the Four Way Test
Monday, April 26, 2010
Marty Komsa
WFCU President and Chief Executive Officer
"WFCU and the Community"
Discussion Points:
- the story of WFCU
- Photos of people, retail locations, etc.
- Where WFCU came from and how WFCU did it
- Numbers and statistics
- Growth
- Community Involvement
- Service Excellence is a key to our success
- Key messages from our upcoming Image Campaign
- "what comes next?"
Monday, May 3, 2010
10th Annual Dr. Clare R. MacLeod
Secondary School Volunteer Awards
The Youth Services Committee
Scholarship awards are presented annually by our Club to top volunteers from each of the local high schools.
It is amazing to hear about the community service activities that these students have performed while they carry on with their studies.
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 He gave this talk on January 15th, 2001.
Education - The Core Of Society He gave this talk on November 5th, 2001.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Speaker: John Nabben,
Drama Teacher
Walkerville Collegiate Institute
Not Confirmed
Last Revised: March 11, 2010
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