Volume 52, Number 29 February
26, 2009
Rotary
Club of Toronto West
Rotary Grace – O Lord we stand for
every race, from every creed from every place; to give our thanks and say our
grace for food, for health. May Peace embrace the world through Rotary.
Last Week – Feb. 19, 2009
We held our
meeting at the Trillium Hospital West Wing. The meeting was well attended, and
after having breakfast at Tim Horton’s we went on a tour of the new facilities.
Mary
Sergenese organized the tour, and was assisted by Bill Donald and Paul Bauman.
Mary told us that at any given time 4-5 doctors were available for
consultation, handling 75 - 100 patients a day. They gave 40 - 50 treatments of
chemotherapy a day. Time spent in the treatment area can be anywhere from 2
minutes to 10 hours.
With the
new layout there are nice open areas for the patients.
The new
seven-storey patient wing houses 135 beds in a warm, bright, barrier-free and
easy to navigate environment. Each room features:
• A
wheelchair-accessible bath-room and ensuite shower
• Individual
room access and privacy
• A window
for every patient
• A welcoming
environment for visitors.
The West
Wing is home for the cancer, cardiac, medicine, rehabilitation and palliative
care patients.
Besides
delivering quality care, they also provide information to enable patients make
informed decisions; help them take preventative steps against disease; and
connect them with the community resources to receive the support they need at
home.
We were
shown around the Oncology department and the digitalized X-ray equipment; how
the old plates have now been done away with and the results are now
instantaneous, enabling a doctor to review the results immediately.
Most of the
large equipment is provided by Toshiba and is very expensive, not only to
purchase but also to install. Great interest was shown in the CAT scan
equipment. The CAT scan unit is used about 100 times a day, the MIR unit 50
times a day and the regular X-ray unit 600 - 700 times a day.
The
Trillium Centre provides the best health care, so that we can live the best
quality of life.
President
Nick thanked Mary, Bill and Paul for a very interesting and educational talk
and tour of the new facilities.
50/50 Draw
No draw
last week
Visitors
No
Visitors.
This Week
We are
holding a Fireside Chat at the Lambton Golf & Country Club, as a wind-up to
the Rotary Youth Impact Awards project.
Classifications
1. Banking –
Commercial.
2. Engineering
– Management.
Members News
If you have
been away or are planning to go away, please let the Spoke editor know, so that
it can be shown in the Spoke. After all, this is your weekly bulletin.
Have you
had a look at John Stevenson’s photo’s on our web-page, they are well worth
seeing.
Government & Community Fair
On Saturday
February 28, 2009, the 4th. Annual Government & Community Services Fair will
be held at Cloverdale Mall, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. MPP Donna Cansfield is
the keynote speaker.
RYIA
Mark Dawber
spoke about the finances, saying that there was still a lot of money
outstanding, at least $1500 for ticket sales alone.
Some people
still have money to be paid in for cakes etc.
Please get
it to Mark right away.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Wedding
Anniv. – Ron & Anna Manfield– Feb. 26th.
Dates to Remember
June 21-24th,
2009, The 100th. Rotary International Convention, Birmingham, England.
Water Conference
A Water
Conference is being held on Saturday February 28th. The conference is being
co-sponsored by District 7070 Clear Water Committee in conjunction with Amnesty
International.
More
information will be available at today’s meeting.
Next Meeting Mar. 5, 2009
The program
for this meeting is yet to be confirmed.
Spoke Joke
It’s
Tuesday, three in the afternoon. The police pick up a con artist on the old
Fountain of Youth scam. The con artist is selling bottles filled with a liquid
that he claims slows down the aging process.
The
detective tells his partner “Al, check his record. My gut feeling tells me our
boy’s played this game before.”
Al reports
back: “You were right, he’s got priors. He was busted for the same thing in
1815, 1887, and 1921.”
Today’s Quote
Enjoying
the journey is even better than arriving at the destination.
Canadian Achievements
The Rotary
Club of Winnipeg has the distinction of being the club that made Rotary
International.
It was,
thus, both natural and appropriate that Walter Clubb, President of the Winnipeg
club was given the honor to propose the change of name of our organization from
the National to the International Association of Rotary clubs.
The
Winnipeg club would also give Rotary its first Canadian International President
in the Rev. E. Leslie Pidgeon (1917-1918).
Canadian
Rotarians Donald McRae and Charlie Burchell were founder members of the Rotary
Club of Halifax.
As 1960-61
President-elect Nitish C. Laharry said at the Tokyo Convention, this was “The
moment we forget International in Rotary, we may as well forget Rotary itself”.
Rotary as a Canadian National movement never really took off. One explanation drives from the first ever District Conference, held on February 21st. 1914 between the Pacific North West clubs of Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and Spokane and their British Columbia neighbours of Vancouver and Victoria. These clubs had a link in that they all derived from their mother club – The Rotary Club of Seattle.
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