rcm general meeting may 15, 2013

Rotaract Mississauga

General MeetingMay 15, 2013

Agenda

Member of the Week (1 min)

Happy Quarters (5 min)

Singfest Update (3 min)

Festival of Lights (3 min)

Club Business & Committee Updates (15 min)

Activity (15 min)

Member of the Week

Lorraine Menezes

Organizing Adopt-a-Road

Good job!

Happy Quarters! “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…it’s

about learning how to dance in the rain!”

- Vivian Greene

• Audition on Youtube before May 25th

• www.singfest.ca

Next Meeting:

Thursday May 16th - 7pm

@ the Clubhouse

Call for Auditions!!!

We need 14 to 24 year olds who want to sing!!

Have any brothers or sisters

in high school?

In-laws who are teachers??

Rotary Rotaract

Festival of Lights

Festival of Lights

For 9 years, Rotary has lit up downtown Mississauga during the holidays

Companies sponsor a tree and Rotary lights it up and hangs a

plaque for approx. 8 weeks

There are 13 indoor trees and a handful of outdoor trees to be placed around the Living Arts Centre

They have raised up to $10,000 for their club!

Festival of Lights - Timeline

Sponsorship: get corporate sponsors, many that

will come on again from previous years

Set up: light all the trees in late November – need

a team of 20-30

Reception: for the sponsors around the holidays in

December

Take down: in mid-January

Festival of Lights - Next Steps

Put together a team

Plan what we want to offer

Put together the sponsorship package

Outreach to companies

Interested in getting involved?

Talk to Himali

What: A gala to celebrate

an awesome year!

Where: Maple Banquet Hall

When: Friday, June 14,

6 pm - 12 am

How much: $40

Send us your prom photos!

Purchase tickets at:

rotaractmississaugaprom.ev

entbrite.ca

or at the next general

meeting

Club Business &

Committee Updates

Induction Ceremony!

May 29, 2013

We’ll contact you if you’re eligible

International

Service

International Meeting

Pot-Luck!

Save the date: Wednesday, June 12th @ 7:30pm

(during regular general meeting)

Join us for games, music and good food while

we recap our club’s international impact over the last year!

Pot luck sign-up sheet

coming around

Local Service

JOIN OUR TEAM!

RECRUITING MEMBERS for 12-hour overnight relay!!

When: JUNE 21

TEAM GOAL: $1200

Each person: $100

Contact: Wendy

Local Service

LOCAL IN A NUTSHELL…

Relay for Life – June 21

Questions? Come see Wendy or email me at: wendy.li@rotaractmississauga.com

Social

IT’S SOCIAL TIME!!!

TRIP TO NIAGARA!!!!

IT’S GOING DOWN!!

THE DEETS:

That’s right baby – we got the HOOK UP!!

FREE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS!!!

Saturday, May 25th

Departing tentatively at 12:30pm

ITINERARY & COST

Arrive in Niagara and go to:

Maid of the mist - ($20) OR a Wine Tour ($20);

Casino and Buffet ($20 and up); then

A Club (optional) - $20; then

The Hotel Party!

Gas is $10 each - we can all carpool

TOTAL = Approximately $80

Well worth an OVERNIGHT TRIP

SIGN UP TODAY

ONLY 12 SPOTS AVAILABLE!! Contact Jackie by Sunday, May 19

jackie.ankomah@rotaractmississauga.com

for more information

Professional

Development

Professional

Development

Retreat2013

YLCC Youth Leadership Camps Canada –

Orillia

10am – 8pm – Full day of FUN!

Included lunch AND dinner!

Various challenging outdoor team

building activities

A great indoor reflective and intellectual

workshop!

Learning Activities

Lava! Spider Web!

PD Retreat 2013

Memorial Park for Camper Lake Simcoe - NBD

Learning Activities

Towers of Hanoi! AKA – Patience is a Virtue!

Great Day of Learning and

Memories

Reasons to Be Jacked for

Next Year!

Many workshops and events to look forward to this year

We’ve built a relationship with YLCC and can

tailor their programs to our needs- throughout the

year

FUN!!

Sweet Sixteen Activity – A lot of self-learning, and

discovering new things about each other

Exercise and enjoy the outdoors!

RYLA 2013Ecology Retreat Centre – Rotary Youth

Leadership Awards

Intensive Week of Pure

Awesomeness.

What is it?

Week long conference and retreat for progressive, high potential youth: 18-24 yrs

District 7080 – sponsored by a Rotary Club

Live with 35 other young professionals

Learn and develop new skills, and make connections

Great Outdoors

GREAT food

GREAT FUN/MEMORIES

What Did You Do?

Workshops, Speakers, Presentations

Everyday was jam packed with guest speakers and activities

Personality mapping, presentation skills, project management etc.

Wake up @ 6am – Sleep... HA!

Fitness every morning

Speakouts

Rotary Meeting Tuesday Night

How did you Develop

Committees

PR -Welcomes

Marketing - PPT

Yearbook - Memories

Fitness – EVERY morning

Social – Awesome scavenger hunt & campfire

Leisure – AWESOME activities

Super fun, we will all do!

RYLA Wrap Up

Great to meet other Rotaractors from other regions

Successful young people

Made great contacts for our club – and PD!

So rewarding in so many ways.

Learn about myself and others.

Fun time in a safe environment

DO IT!

The rest of the year….

Event Date

Singfest audition deadline May 25 – see Jodie

International themed

general meeting

June 12

Year end gala – Prom 2.0 June 14

Singfest semi-finals June 15

Relay for Life June 21 – see Wendy

Ribfest July 18 to 21

Singfest 2013 July 20

Next meetingWednesday, May 29th, 2013

@ 7:30 p.m.

Rotaract Mississauga Clubhouse

780 Burnhamthorpe Rd West

Guess the Movie

Rotaract

Milestone

Unscramble names

Guess the picture

Riddle Fiddle

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QUESTION:

•This is the name of a very, very successful Rotaract fundraising event that happened in February at the Failte pub.

ANSWER:

•Catch a Match! Not Your Average Dating Event

QUESTION:

•In 1988, Rotary clubs take on a project that helped more

than six million children in the Philippines.

ANSWER:

•End Polio Campaign

QUESTION:

•This event helped us raise over $400 alone, and $1200 with matched funding!

ANSWER:

•Pennies for Polio

QUESTION:

•These 3 Rotaracters have been part of the executive team for two consecutive years

ANSWER:

• Jodie Merrill, Christian Ocampo, Larah Opena

QUESTION:

•These are the only three polio-epidemic countries left.

ANSWER:

•Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan

QUESTION:

•DARK GAMERANSWER:

• Mark Garde

QUESTION:

•TILTED AREAANSWER:

•Reela Ditta

QUESTION:

•Just Loan LostANSWER:

•Jason Loustel

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•REALIZE MEN SNOREANSWER:

•Lorraine Menezes

QUESTION:

•DRASTIC MUSKY HORN ZIT

ANSWER:

•Christina Dmytruszko

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•It has a face and two hands, but no arms or legs.

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•Clock

QUESTION:

•By adding two letters to this five letter word, the word will be shorter.

ANSWER:

•Short

QUESTION:

•This letter of the alphabet has the most water.

ANSWER:

•C

QUESTION:

•This belongs to you, but others use it more often than you do.

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•Your name

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•It holds water yet it’s full of holes.

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•A Sponge

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•Devil wears Prada

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•Terminator

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•Silence of the Lambs

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•Inception

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•Da Vinci’s Code