RC Willowdale – 27 October to 2 November 2010
Chartered 1 May 1952 – 39 members
We travelled from Belleville, driven in the van by Rotarian Karen Baker, through the most scenic country to Cobourg and met AG Michael Parker, who owns a building company, Dalren.
See below for more about Michael, when we are in Cobourg.
See below for more about Michael, when we are in Cobourg.
We attended a special presentation by Bill McPhee who was diagnosed at age 24 with schizophrenia. Bill presented a very powerful message about the challenges he has confronted, what he has achieved, his highs, lows and now the successes he has achieved in his own Business.
Following the presentation, Mike drove us to meet our host families at Willowdale, President PJ and District Chair VTT/GSE Hilary Richards.
We spent the evening with our host families and began a very tight and informative program organised for our visit.
What we did...
Presentation to the Rotary Club at lunch on Thursday – it was a great, fun meeting, lots of laughter, jokes, energy.
Travelled on the subway – many times
Visit to the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre in Toronto – see separate vocational report
CNN Tower – even Stuart (Stuart walked on the glass floor – wow!) and Matthew managed to make it to the top and back down again
Dinner in the city prior to...
Canadian Football match – this is quite something to understand and follow
Some Free time – Saturday 30 October
Painting of 2 rooms at the Stacey Centred an Aged Care facility where AG Sherri Auger consults – the photo tells the story...
Halloween was celebrated at AG Sherri and Alex’s home – Mel and Alyssa got into the spirit, mastered the techniques and skills of ‘Trick or Treating’ - did well on collecting the sweets, brought them back to the home where the GSE Boys managed to sample the spoils
CAMH – Toronto, the 2nd vocational visit, was also very informative – see separate notes
Monday evening we were hosted for a farewell dinner at the Willowdale Country Club. The majority of members, host families were joined by DG Ted and his wife, Sharron. DG Ted presented each member of the team with a banner from his club, Oshawa Parkwood.
The location, menu, wines, program were specially organised to send our team off from our visit with a bunch of so very special and treasured memories.
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