Speakers

The club will be attending the YMCA's Peace Medallion ceremony on Monday, November 18th, 12 pm. (in place of the regular noon lunch at The Grande Event Centre).

The Shelterbox will be on display in the lobby for the week.

Learn more about YMCA Peace Week here.

Ghislaine and Yvonne, Co-Chairs, Rotary Foundation Committee, will be providing an update.

For more about The Rotary Foundation...read here.

Dean Decaire will be the noon speaker.

 

 

The club will be conducting the election of the 2020-2021 Board.

More details to be provided prior.

Stan French, President, BAYSAR Air Search and Rescue will be the guest speaker at the noon meeting. Stan will also be talking about Project Lifesaver (PL) and the efforts to bring the technology to North Bay and area.

The local CTV news, Sudbury police and North Shore Search and Rescue (who put on the demo for BAYSAR Sep 25) recently did an exercise involving PL. You can read the story and see the video here: https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/mock-search-and-rescue-training-exercise-1.4656910 

BAYSAR has the same type of collaboration in North Bay between BAYSAR and the North Bay Police Service.

David Blevins will be talking about the SS Kewatin. 

The Keewatin now stands not only as the last remaining Great Lakes Passenger liner, but as the last of the Edwardian built passenger liner steamships in the world. Representative of a bygone era and an attention to craftsmanship and opulence we won’t soon see again, the “Kee” is a true symbol of growth and development in North America and a treasured piece of Canadian history.

Kate Merritt-Dupelle, Executive Director, NBACF, will be providing an update about the foundation at the noon meeting. 

It is the goal of the NBACF to be a philanthropic leader, catalyst and resource in enabling North Bay and Area to grow and flourish into a model community. 

 

 

The Rotary Club's motto is "Service Above Self". The Rotary Club of North Bay instills this philosophy of unselfish volunteer service in both its members and the community at large through the implementation and promotion of various projects.

The Club wants to ensure the youth of North Bay become aware of the benefits of volunteerism. Although we promote youth leadership through International Youth exchanges, we have not specifically promoted the values inherent in our motto with the youth of North Bay.

As part of our promotion of volunteerism, we will once again be honouring a grade ten or eleven student from each secondary school in North Bay that best exemplifies "Service Above Self".

The FIRST Team 1305, Near North Student Robotics Initiative (NNSRI), Ice Cubed, a competitive student robotics team from North Bay, will be speaking at the noon meeting.

The team competes with FIRST (For Inspiration of Science and Technology), a robotics competition dedicated to promoting science and technology to youth. The Team's mission is to provide real world leadership, scientific, entrepreneurial and technological challenges for our students.