THE ORACLE The Weekly Publication of the

London North Rotary Club

Volume 41 Issue 16 Oct.18/17

2017-2018 Club Officers

President ............................................................................... Doug Burnard.…..…...471-7789 Past President ....................................................................... Margaret Cook……….762-6984 President-Elect ..................................................................... Don Langford………...432-9841 Treasurer .............................................................................. Gary Plomske ………. 660-1463 Secretary..(temp)…………………………………………….Doug Burnard….….....471-7789 Director Foundation ............................................................. Vic Vigna …..………..660-0940 Director Club Admin ............................................................ Kevin Suzuki .............. .858-2327 Club Service Projects ........................................................... Peter Hess ................... .657-7525 Chair Community Service .................................................... Colin Steele ................ .472-5716 Chair Vocational Service ..................................................... Tom Telfer.................. .851-5421 Chair International Service ................................................... Lin Ndayifukamiye…..685-2696 Public Relations and Social Events ...................................... Yvette Thornton ......... .649-0558

2017-2018 RI Officers

RI President…………...……...Ian Riseley

DG District 6330..…..……...Martin Ward

AG Area 4………...………..…Sue Storie

ROTARY INTERNET ADDRESSES

Rotary International www.rotary.org

Rotary District 6330 www.rotary6330.org

London North Rotary Club www.ClubRunner.ca/londonnorth

London North Rotary Club #607-860 Commissioners Rd. E. London, ON N6H 5C4

Mark Your Calendar

Oct. 25………………………….…Miranda Bothwell….London EMS Nov. 01…………………………………………………....Biz Meeting Nov. 08………………………..…Murray Hunter….Gardening 4 Bees Nov. 15………...…Steve Sauder…Upper Thames River Conservation

London North Rotary Club District 6330

Meets Wednesdays at 6:30PM East Side Mario’s Fanshawe Park Rd.

& North Centre

WELCOME ALL!!

A group of 13 gathered at East Side Mario’s. This time the quick cameo appearance was made by Yvette as she snuck in, left some Happy Bucks and then snuck out. Our one guest was Kelsey Nicholls.

Regrets for the evening were re-ceived from Doug (he is in Con-necticut at the Zone meeting), Kevin , Margaret and Andy.

Many Happy Bucks….$40 from Yvette…$20 as hubby is back at work after the strike and $20 for the support shown from the com-munity during the strike…$20 from Ken as he made 2 meetings this month and $3 from Lin as he is now our new club secretary! Thanks for stepping up Lin!!

Being that President Doug is away Don took the reins for the evening. Following dinner he asked Lin to propose toasts to the Queen, Canada and Rotary.

Don reminded us of the Founda-tion seminars coming up. Sign up if you are interested. The club pays the freight.

Level l for the RLI will be held in London on two consecutive Monday evenings. Great for new members!

Our December 6 meeting will be held on location at the Thames Valley Children’s Centre.

Vic advised that the dictionaries are now ready for pick up from his office. There are still a few schools needing a person to pre-sent the goods !!

Don thanking Kelsey

Oracle Staff

Publisher……………..…...Mary Margaret Patterson Photographer……...……………………….....Andy Ho

OCTOBER SET UP TEAM

Don, Lin & Mary Margaret

NOVEMBER SET UP TEAM

Gary, Arun & Colin

1793—Marie Antoinette was be-headed.

1811—Pianist/composer Franz Liszt was born.

1854— U.S. President Lincoln speaks out against slavery.

1867—USA takes possession of Alaska.

1968—John Lennon and Yoko Ono are arrested in London England for drug possession.

1973—The Sydney Opera House opened.

1976—”Disco Duck” hits #1 on the U.S. pop chart.

1989—The deadly 7.1 earth-quake hit San Francisco during the third game of the World Se-ries.

Tom took a few minutes to ad-vise of the “Operation Christmas Child” program with their shoe boxes. He had some boxes availa-ble for members to take home, fill up and bring back by Nov. 15. If you need further boxes please email Tom.

Arun introduced guest Kelsey Nicholls. Kelsey is the Communi-ty Engagement Coordinator with Reforest London. She primarily manages the relationship with thousands of volunteers so that they can plant thousands of trees. Reforest London has four pro-gram areas..1) Inspiration and Education..2) Tree Planting..3) Tree Growing and Distribu-tion..4) Tree Gifts. Another one of their projects is to plant one million trees in London, so if anyone has planted a tree on their property since 2011 you can go one their website and register your tree. They are currently over the 357,000 mark. Don thanked Kelsey and presented her with a Polio Plus certificate of a dona-tion to be made in her name.

The draw was won by Ken and he graciously gave his winnings to Kelsey.

Don’t forget the Oakbotics leaf raking fundraiser!

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