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Our guest speaker this morning is a fellow Rotarian.  She has been a member of the RC of Belleville since 2009, was on their board from 2013 to 2017 and has been the chair of their Indigenous Peoples Partnerships Committee, which is the equivalent of our National Committee since 2012.  In 2017 she established the IPP cluster bringing together like-minded Rotary Clubs from Belleville, Trenton, Wellington and Palgrave…and most recently the RC of Cataraqui-Kingston, realizing the importance and the impact of working together to support more indigenous communities.      
She also looks after the KIVA micro loans for the Belleville club.
Aside from Rotary, she has a diploma as a Chemical Laboratory Technician, worked 10 years for Du Pont and became manager of the laboratory for non asbestos products at Akzo Nobel and was the first female in the company with a Forklift Driver License.
 
For the last ten years her company Wartenberg Business Consulting has been working with different Indigenous communities, providing workshops for start-ups and existing businesses, and helping with business and marketing plans.  
 
On a personal note, it has been a true pleasure to work with our guest speaker this last year as part of Indigenous Peoples Partnership Cluster…she is a delight.   
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Remember DINAH - The Service Dog Puppy?
 
In the Fall of 2020, our Cataraqui-Kingston Rotary Club awarded a Community Service Project Grant to KINGSTON 4 PAWS SERVICE DOGS in order to assist in acquiring and training a service dog to be placed eventually with a person with Autism, PTSD, seizures, other health issues, or mobility challenges.
 
Today, almost 18 months later, we received an update and photos from Dinah’s Foster Family describing how Dinah has grown into a wonderful companion and enriched their lives as she prepares for her placement with a special needs individual.  It is a heartwarming story which we thought everyone would love to read.  Their letter follows, so please continue…
 
“Kingston 4 Paws Dinah”
  February 2022
 
 
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Smiles and Stuffies!
 
Tipi Moza and More!
 
Thank you Pet Smart!
 
Together, we brought Smiles and Stuffies to 650 children in the Kingston area!
 
Our Cataraqui-Kingston Rotary Club loves to be involved in “hands on” community activities!  And one of our favourites is assembling Christmas Gift Bags for the children of Tipi Moza, an organization that provides affordable and subsidized housing for Aboriginal, Métis, and Inuit people in Kingston.
 
Since 2019, club members have shopped, wrapped, and packaged an array of gifts, all geared to the age and gender of each child living in a Tipi Moza home.  And each year Toys R Us has helped to make our efforts a success with their generous donations of toys, gift cards, and discounts!  Thank youToys R Us for your continued support!
 
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Cataraqui-Kingston Rotary Club 2021 Fall Community Service Grants

Congratulations to these grant recipients:

Loughborough Public School - $500 for a Perennial Food Forest
 
This was our first School-Based Mini-Grant and it was awarded to the Grade 7 Challenge North Class and Grace Foodbank Garden led by Master Gardener and Teacher Alan Macdonald.  The goal of this group is to plant twenty-two fruit trees that will help to improve food security in their community by increasing the availability of affordable fresh fruit for those with limited income.  The students will learn more about environmentally friendly ways of growing food and  producing a local supply of fruit with a carbon neutral or negative footprint.  The Mini-Grant will help fund the purchase of the fruit trees.
www.loughborough.limestone.on.ca

 
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BREAST CANCER SCREENING PROJECT
 
The Cataraqui Kingston Rotary Club is partnering with the Madras Chenna Patna Rotary Club in an exciting Global Grant project intended to detect breast cancer in its early stages using innovative technology (the iBreastExam screening device) developed in India approximately a decade ago.  Already this technology has been successfully used approximately 250,000 times in pilot projects around the world.  This current project will demonstrate that using this new technology, a widespread, clinically effective program for the noninvasive and painless detection of early stage breast cancer is feasible financially, both for women clients and in terms of the medical infrastructure currently in place in India.  The project will be delivered in the state of Tamil Nadu, in southern India. There the incidence of breast cancer is rising drastically at a rate of approximately 4% per annum compounded.
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RECENT SPEAKERS
Speaker May 10th - Birgit Wartenberg
 
Our guest speaker this morning is a fellow Rotarian.  She has been a member of the RC of Belleville since 2009, was on their board from 2013 to 2017 and has been the chair of their Indigenous Peoples Partnerships Committee, which is the equivalent of our National Committee since 2012.  In 2017 she established the IPP cluster bringing together like-minded Rotary Clubs from Belleville, Trenton, Wellington and Palgrave…and most recently the RC of Cataraqui-Kingston, realizing the importance and the impact of working together to support more indigenous communities.      
She also looks after the KIVA micro loans for the Belleville club.
Aside from Rotary, she has a diploma as a Chemical Laboratory Technician, worked 10 years for Du Pont and became manager of the laboratory for non asbestos products at Akzo Nobel and was the first female in the company with a Forklift Driver License.
 
For the last ten years her company Wartenberg Business Consulting has been working with different Indigenous communities, providing workshops for start-ups and existing businesses, and helping with business and marketing plans.  
 
On a personal note, it has been a true pleasure to work with our guest speaker this last year as part of Indigenous Peoples Partnership Cluster…she is a delight.   
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Speaker April 12th Kimberly Sutherland Mills - Your Local Library: Services Today and Tomorrow
 
Michelle introduced our speaker, Kimberly Sutherland Mills, Director, Service Design and Delivery at Kingston Frontenac Public Library.  Kim came today to speak at new happenings at our local libraries.
 
Kimberly spoke about the history and resources of the library. There are 16 branches with a 30% increase in digital checkouts. New for 2022 are 9,000 eBooks in French, and more intercultural events.The Kanopy service allows streaming for critically acclaimed movies. The library offers 16,000 courses in 7 languages for business, creative and technology skills. They also have unique programs and services to meet identified community needs. They are removing overdue fines to remove barriers to access. The library is involved in a 20 year master plan. Kimberly discussed the characteristics of a modern library that they are aiming for.
 
Bill Egnatoff asked about the connection to storytelling. Kimberly expanded on their indigenous programming expansion.
Joyce Yee asked about reaching out to immigrants. Kimberly has been working with KEYS with tours and workshops. An example is typing classes being offered to entrepreneurs wanting to build a website for a new business.
John Farrow thanked Kimberly who received our loaf of bread. John fondly recalled his daughter working as a library Page.
 
To get the full story on all the programs our local libraries provide, go to https://www.kfpl.ca/
Speaker April 5th - Joyce Hostyn - Little Forests Kingston
Heather Nogrady introduced today's speaker.
 
Joyce is a co-founder of Little Forests Kingston, a member of the 1000 Islands Master Gardeners, and is an Adjunct Professor at Queen’s University in the Master of Earth and Energy Resources Leadership program.  Recently, NATURE CANADA recognized Little Forests Kingston with its Conservation Partner Award.
Aside from Little Forests Kingston – and when not giving talks - Joyce enjoys writing short essays in which she includes photographs of the plants and wildlife she encounters during her walks on local trails and conservation lands in Kingston.  She also advocates for people in Ontario who are fighting unconstitutional bylaw citations for naturalizing their residential property AND working with communities to create bylaws favouring biodiversity.
Little Forests Kingston is embarking on an ambitious program to increase the forest canopy in our city, thereby making a significant contribution to increasing climate resilience.
Her plan to create a City in a Forest is well timed as it converges with the City of Kingston’s recent declaration of a Climate Crisis and its adoption of the Kingston Climate Leadership Plan.  It also fits with the recent addition - by Rotary International - of “Protecting the Environment” as a new Area of Focus.  Rotary is committed to supporting projects and activities that strengthen the conservation and protection of natural resources, advance ecological sustainability, and foster harmony between communities and the environment.
As Rotarians in Kingston, we see a perfect opportunity to be of service to our community by becoming involved and sharing in the delivery of this project to help transform Kingston into a City in a Forest.  It is Joyce’s dream that in the future, every child will be able to see 3 trees from their window, live in a neighborhood with a minimum of 30% quality canopy cover, and live within 300 meters of a quality green space. 
Joyce talked about our biodiversity crisis, and pointed out that we have much to learn from our First Nations in moving from an egotistic world view to one that is ecotistic.  We need to think of ourselves as “good ancestors”.  Each little forest will provide an island of coherence, and the goal is to make Kingston a city in a forest.  https://rideau1000islandsmastergardeners.com/little-forests-kingston/
 
Here are some selected slides from Joyce's presentation;
 
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Speakers March 29th, 2022 - Update from Two More Grant Recipients
This week we heard updates from two more of our Fall Grant recipients - Napanee Rotarian Mandy Stapeley from Autism Network Lennox and Addington County, and Tara Bauer from Turtles Kingston.
 
Mandy spoke about the mission of ANLAC - to support individuals and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and provide education to the community. One in 59 Canadians is affected by ASD, which covers a wide range of conditions (hence 'spectrum'). Autism Network LAC won the 2021 Social Impact Award from the Napanee District Chamber of Commerce for it's work. They received a grant to provide 14 sensory support kits for kids in schools. These kits include tactile items (shown below). The items can be comforting, allow self regulation, help reduce stress, and avoid meltdowns or shutdowns for kids with ASD.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In cooperation with the Limestone District School Board, kits were distributed to kids needing them the most. The LDSB has 4 special Autism support classes and a further 10 referral/support school sites. The kits help foster learning and inclusion, benefiting all kids. With each kit distributed, Autism Canada sned out a package to help families and teachers make best use of the kit.
 
Other work by ANLAC includes; providing kits to first responders to help kids in stressful emergency situations (which they were very pleased to receive); providing communication tablets to schools; and spreading awareness, especially for World Autism Day (April 2nd) and Autism Awareness Month in Canada (September).
 
 
Our other speaker was Tara Bauer, new Director at Turtles Kingston. Tara is an Environmental Scientist with a B.Sc. and M.Sc., and a background in Hydrogeology. Turtles Kingston is dedicated to protecting and educating the public about turtles in the Kingston area. Kingston is home to five of eight turtle species in Ontario, all of which are at risk. Only 1 % of turtle eggs ever reach reproductive adulthood. They are considered a 'keystone' species - their loss indicates severe breakdown in the ecosystem. Turtles help clean the ecosystem and are a conduit between land and water. They help keep fish populations healthy as well.
 
Our grant provides materials for nest protection boxes. Nest predation is one of three big dangers to turtles (traffic and habitat destruction are the others). The boxes are simple constructions anchored with spikes that help protect turtle nests and allow every egg to hatch. Part of the grant also went to instruction cards and turtle crossing signs.
 
Boxes are currently being constructed, and an army of volunteers are ready to install them for the nesting season in May. In response to questions, Tara told us they are attempting to expand the science side of their operation, trying to do turtle counts, especially in the inner harbour. They are also working with the city to install more turtle protection fencing like is being done now along Collins Creek. Tara noted that turtle fencing helps others species as well.
 
Both of our wonderful speakers were thanked by Joyce Yee.  Thanks to the Service Projects Committee for selecting such amazing recipients, including Interval House and The Mess, who spoke two weeks ago.
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Apple Tree Planting at #9 Gardens
Apple Tree Planting at #9 Gardens
Friendship exchange to India
Friendship exchange to India
First Baby in the Maternity - Rushooka Maternal Health Clinic - Uganda
Rushooka Maternal Health Clinic - Uganda
FAR announcement
announcing the FAR project - a Pathways and Rotary partnership - September 2020
Canadian-Rotarians-in-South-Africa
Hosting South Africans - Friendship Exchange
Carving Christmas turkeys for Lunch by George - 2019
Carving Christmas turkeys for Lunch by George - 2019
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Cataraqui-Kingston

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P.O. Box 1964
Kingston, ON K7L 5J7
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EarlyAct at Vanier Elementary School in Brockville
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Our club was founded April 22, 1985. Our members are dedicated people who share a passion for both community service and friendship. Becoming a Rotarian connects you with a diverse group of professionals who share your drive to give back.

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