What a wonderful  blustery snowy day it is for Lakehead Rotary despite the wish for an early spring! Lakehead Rotary members gathered at the Valhalla Inn, SKAL lounge for today's meeting. Gail Brescia opened the meeting by welcoming all club members present. Paul provided club members with an overview of the boil water advisory situation on First Nation Reserves and spoke about how one reserve Northwest Angle 33 will complete a project worth $12.2 million to provide fresh water to the community of 200 people. The community has been under a boil water advisory for 5 years. Paul noted that the federal government has committed to upgrading water systems and eliminating the need for bottled water on reserve for approximately 50 First Nation reserves by 2021. It is hopeful that progress towards that goal will be achieved.

 

Gail Brescia then welcomed Kerry Wirkkunen who presented information to club members on CAA. 

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation works with Rotary to Eradicate Polio.

In the March issue of  The Rotarian, you can find a short interview with Bill Gates.  The article discusses the reasons the Foundation decided to work with Rotary, and provides some history of the success of polio eradication over the years.  The Gates Foundation matches Rotary Funding 2-to-1, and recently announced that they will continue the funds matching through 2023.  

"In November, government and philanthropic leaders from around the world gathered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to affirm their commitment to eradicating polio and announced $2.6 billion to help fund the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's Polio Endgame Strategy.  Rotary pledged to continue raising $50 million annually."

With the efforts of both organizations, this adds up to $150 million each year.  

You can donate individually at rotary.org/donate.

You could also attend the Rotary Anniversary Dinner to be held this Saturday at the DaVinci Centre.  All proceeds are donated to Polio Plus.

 

Our guest speaker for our meeting on January 30, 2020 was Albert Brule, the CEO of United Way Thunder Bay.  We have always known the United Way as an umbrella fundraising organization, but what do we know about the impact the United Way has on our community.  Albert introduced us to the new 2020 Campaign - #UNIGNORABLE.  The goal of the campaign is to eliminate poverty in Thunder Bay.  This may sound like an ambitious goal, but every small win moves us closer to that goal.

 

 

What a wonderful  blustery snowy day it is for Lakehead Rotary despite the wish for an early spring! Lakehead Rotary members gathered at the Valhalla Inn, SKAL lounge for today's meeting. Gail Brescia opened the meeting by welcoming all club members present. Paul provided club members with an overview of the boil water advisory situation on First Nation Reserves and spoke about how one reserve Northwest Angle 33 will complete a project worth $12.2 million to provide fresh water to the community of 200 people. The community has been under a boil water advisory for 5 years. Paul noted that the federal government has committed to upgrading water systems and eliminating the need for bottled water on reserve for approximately 50 First Nation reserves by 2021. It is hopeful that progress towards that goal will be achieved.

 

Gail Brescia then welcomed Kerry Wirkkunen who presented information to club members on CAA. 

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation works with Rotary to Eradicate Polio.

In the March issue of  The Rotarian, you can find a short interview with Bill Gates.  The article discusses the reasons the Foundation decided to work with Rotary, and provides some history of the success of polio eradication over the years.  The Gates Foundation matches Rotary Funding 2-to-1, and recently announced that they will continue the funds matching through 2023.  

"In November, government and philanthropic leaders from around the world gathered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to affirm their commitment to eradicating polio and announced $2.6 billion to help fund the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's Polio Endgame Strategy.  Rotary pledged to continue raising $50 million annually."

With the efforts of both organizations, this adds up to $150 million each year.  

You can donate individually at rotary.org/donate.

You could also attend the Rotary Anniversary Dinner to be held this Saturday at the DaVinci Centre.  All proceeds are donated to Polio Plus.

 

Our guest speaker for our meeting on January 30, 2020 was Albert Brule, the CEO of United Way Thunder Bay.  We have always known the United Way as an umbrella fundraising organization, but what do we know about the impact the United Way has on our community.  Albert introduced us to the new 2020 Campaign - #UNIGNORABLE.  The goal of the campaign is to eliminate poverty in Thunder Bay.  This may sound like an ambitious goal, but every small win moves us closer to that goal.

 

 

What a wonderful  blustery snowy day it is for Lakehead Rotary despite the wish for an early spring! Lakehead Rotary members gathered at the Valhalla Inn, SKAL lounge for today's meeting. Gail Brescia opened the meeting by welcoming all club members present. Paul provided club members with an overview of the boil water advisory situation on First Nation Reserves and spoke about how one reserve Northwest Angle 33 will complete a project worth $12.2 million to provide fresh water to the community of 200 people. The community has been under a boil water advisory for 5 years. Paul noted that the federal government has committed to upgrading water systems and eliminating the need for bottled water on reserve for approximately 50 First Nation reserves by 2021. It is hopeful that progress towards that goal will be achieved.

 

Gail Brescia then welcomed Kerry Wirkkunen who presented information to club members on CAA. 

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation works with Rotary to Eradicate Polio.

In the March issue of  The Rotarian, you can find a short interview with Bill Gates.  The article discusses the reasons the Foundation decided to work with Rotary, and provides some history of the success of polio eradication over the years.  The Gates Foundation matches Rotary Funding 2-to-1, and recently announced that they will continue the funds matching through 2023.  

"In November, government and philanthropic leaders from around the world gathered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to affirm their commitment to eradicating polio and announced $2.6 billion to help fund the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's Polio Endgame Strategy.  Rotary pledged to continue raising $50 million annually."

With the efforts of both organizations, this adds up to $150 million each year.  

You can donate individually at rotary.org/donate.

You could also attend the Rotary Anniversary Dinner to be held this Saturday at the DaVinci Centre.  All proceeds are donated to Polio Plus.

 

Our guest speaker for our meeting on January 30, 2020 was Albert Brule, the CEO of United Way Thunder Bay.  We have always known the United Way as an umbrella fundraising organization, but what do we know about the impact the United Way has on our community.  Albert introduced us to the new 2020 Campaign - #UNIGNORABLE.  The goal of the campaign is to eliminate poverty in Thunder Bay.  This may sound like an ambitious goal, but every small win moves us closer to that goal.