RoTell - June 15, 2016 (Jun 15, 2016)

RoTELL June 15, 2016

We were graced with intelligence and youth — the recipients of our High School bursaries joined us today.

RCOS eBulletin – June 15, 2016

Lunch meeting was held at the Ottawa Golf & Hunt Club Scribe: Scott Vetter

Guests

We were graced with intelligence and youth — the recipients of our High School bursaries joined us today as did Rotaract member Jeff Parkerhouse.

Announcements

Nabil Oudeh (DG Elect) has invited everyone to his changeover night at St. Elias on Wednesday June 22. Cost is $35.
Strawberry Social – Saturday June 18 at Emerald Links 3 – 5pm: fundraiser for our refugee family
Changeover Night will be held at Sam’s, June 29 at 6pm. Club will pay for a steak and potato meal. BYOB
Changeover Night. We are preparing a slideshow for the evening. Please send photos that you have of meetings and events over the past year to Scott. (scottv@prosar.com). Now.
Check our website homepage for upcoming meetings and events.

Happy Bucks
Joan collected our loonies and happy news.

50/50

Hector took charge of the cards and dealt Julia a King, not the Joker (good if she was dating, not so good for winning the pot).

Presentation of High School Bursaries

The following students and school representatives joined us for lunch today:

Durba Deb / Brookfield; Alisa Hanrahan, Guidance Counsellor
Simar Dhindsa and Thivakar Saravanamuthu / Hillcrest; Nicole Charron, Teacher
Nadia Allen / Immaculata; Stephanie Byrne, Teacher
David Giroux / St. Francis Xavier; Mrs.Barbara Giroux, Mother
Julia Bernard / St. Joseph’s Catholic; Sylvain Lamarche, Teacher
Cherlene Eloria / St. Patrick’s. Christine Khan-Tayler, Counsellor

They all presented a little information about themselves and their academic plans. They are truly an impressive group; in addition to achieving well academically, all of them are very involved in volunteering and community giving. We wish them well in realizing their goals and dreams, and hope that Rotary plays a role in their future.

President Dawn Cooper ended the meeting promptly at 1:30pm.

RoTELL June 1, 2016

Posted by Scott Vetter on Jun 01, 2016

Paul Leduc of Survivor Society spoke at Rotary Club of Ottawa South June 1, 2016 lunch meeting.

Guests

Our speaker Paul Leduc, CEO of Survivor-Society.ca

Announcements

If you haven’t already brought in a bottle of wine for the golf silent auction, you can drop it off to John Murphy at Kelly Funeral Home, 1255 Walkley Road, Ottawa, ON K1V 6P9
Nabil Oudeh (DG Elect) has invited everyone to his changeover night at St. Elias on Wednesday June 22. Cost is $35.
Strawberry Social – Saturday June 18 at Emerald Links 3 – 5pm: fundraiser for our refugee family
Changeover Night will be held at Sam’s, June 29 at 6pm. Club will pay for a steak and potato meal. BYOB
Changeover Night. We are preparing a slideshow for the evening. Please send photos that you have of meetings and events over the past year to Scott. (scottv@prosar.com). Now.
NO MEETING NEXT WEEK. Next meeting is June 15, with our student bursary awardees.
Check our website homepage for upcoming meetings and events.

Happy Bucks
Ori collected loonies and happy thoughts from our members with great style and aplomb.

50/50

Rosemary dealt the deck for the 50/50 draw. Patrick had bought the winning ticket, but the buck stopped short of the winning card. The pot thickens.

Presentation on Survivor-Society.ca

Paul Leduc works for LiveWorkPlay, assisting mentally disabled people find jobs, but he was here today to tell us about the Survivor Society which he formed to help men who had suffered sexual abused as children. The startling statistics are 1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men will be sexually abused before they are 18.

Paul was abused when he was young and suffered from PTSD, depression, anxiety, insomnia and had trouble finding reliable counselling and help due to lack of funds. After finding a counsellor to work with him pro bono, Paul spent 3 years finding himself and healing. He then set about helping others and started the Survivor Society.

It provides access and resources to therapy and teaches coping techniques as well as self-compassion. It is modeled on a simple 3-step process:

- we believe you / you have value

- we listen

- mentoring

It was a very informative, insightful and even inspiring presentation from an impressive individual.

Scott thanked our speaker.

President-elect Peter ended the meeting promptly at 1:30pm.