Club Board meetings take place either in person or virtually once a month. During these meetings, we discuss the strategic activities of the club and progress towards the various objectives set for the year.

General membership attendance is welcome, while voting right only remain with members of the Board. 

This week, we are combining the fun of our socials with the importance of supporting our community by making the most of giving a tribute to one of our prominent members while enjoying attending Soupfest.

Soupfest is about coming together to empower youth by creating a fun, local and delicious experience in the heart of Hamilton. This one-day annual event attracts nearly 4,000 attendees annually at this one day event. Soupfest is an annual community celebration that showcases soup from top local restaurants. Restaurants compete for the titles of: Best Soup, Most Creative Soup, Heart Smart and Best Display.

The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM is pleased to once again sponsor The Living Rock’s 2025 Soupfest. This year the club’s members wish to publicly recognize Paul Lakin, a long-standing club member who has contributed his time, talents and money to many local charities; most recently The Living Rock, The Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair and Theatre Aquarius. Not only a great Rotarian, Paul Lakin is considered a great Hamiltonian, mentor and friend, by many who know him!

All members of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM are invited to attend our weekly meeting, during which we will discuss various club matters. Special note to visitors: visitors are most welcome to attend any of our club meetings, learning about our community through our speakers series or coming to help our numerous community events and fundraisers

Dr James MacFarlane is back as promised last year to bust a few sleep myths. Come and join us to learn a few things and improve your sleep quality, overall energy and health!

All members of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM are invited to attend our weekly meeting, during which we will discuss various club matters. 

Special note to visitors: visitors are most welcome to attend any of our club meetings. 

Details to join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81901074263?pwd=dOaeQ0C1dG3sdM2n0rZDqClz4EBcq1.1

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Let's make a bet: who can tell who are our most recent recent members  and what they have done in their carreer? Well if you want to find out, don't miss the meeting this week! We will hear from a few of our own members and will get to know them better in the process!

All members of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM are invited to attend our weekly meeting, during which we will discuss various club matters. 

Special note to visitors: visitors are most welcome to attend any of our club meetings. 

Details to join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81901074263?pwd=dOaeQ0C1dG3sdM2n0rZDqClz4EBcq1.1

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The Centre for Diverse Learners is pleased to resent its 14th annual confernce called "Solutions for Learning"..

Tuesday, March 18, Wednesday, March 19 and Thursday, March 20 there are VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS from 6 - 8 pm on each of those days.  Friday, March 21 there is an IN PERSON panel and reception at 560 Guelph Line, Burlington from 6 - 8:30 pm.

All club members will recieve the conerence poster by email and it will include a full description of the session toptics, speakers and registration.

Rotarians that register for the full conference can bring a guest to the virtual event at no charge.

Put this event in your calendar so you don't miss it

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Art Duerksen has been married for 40 years to Elaine. They have 3 children, all married, and 9 grandchildren. He is an ordained minister for 15 years. Founder of HIMC ministries since 2004. He is a homeland missionary and has been to Haiti, Africa, Bangladesh, Columbia and Nepal over the last 20 years. He has done Prison Ministry for 24 years. He's been a participant and leader with Leader Impact for 25 years. Has also been a fundraiser for missions for 25 years.

Details to join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81901074263?pwd=dOaeQ0C1dG3sdM2n0rZDqClz4EBcq1.1

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Club Board meetings take place either in person or virtually once a month. During these meetings, we discuss the strategic activities of the club and progress towards the various objectives set for the year.

General membership attendance is welcome, while voting right only remain with members of the Board. 

Save the Date, Fellow Rotarians!

Join us for an evening of camaraderie.
📍 Where: Burlington Golf and Country Club - 422 North Shore Boulevard E, Burlington, ON L7T 1W9, Canada
📅 When: Wednesday, March 26
⏰ Time: 5:30 PM

 Kindly RSVP by March 24, 2025.

This is our opportunity to collaborate with the Gore Park Outreach program. See below all the details:

Duration:

Arrive at 10-10:30 am, Ending at 2-2:30 pm – If you need to leave early, please let us know.

Clothing: 

For those who have confirmed their participation above, please ensure they come dressed for the weather as this will be happening Snow, Wind, Rain, Shine, Thunderstorms, Hail, etc. You will also be standing for the full duration of the volunteering so please bring comfortable footwear. Seating for any individuals is pending confirmation from Gore Park.

Attendance:

If any of you cannot attend, please text or call me before the day of so we can try and find a replacement. If you are sick or have a medical emergency, you will obviously be excused from attending.

Please note that all attendees should make the best effort to attend, if you do not show up or if there are no shows, there will be no one to replace that person and Gore Park will be short-staffed which we want to avoid. 

𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀:

Our role with Gore Park can be a wide range of options but for Saturday, March 29th, we will be assisting the Hot Food, Dairy, Non-Perishables, Grain, and Produce Tables with prepping, packaging hot meals and food for close to 800-1000+ people on that Saturday. 

Available Parking:

Parking will be available at the Indigo Lot at 32 James St S Parking Indigo Hamilton next to the CIBC – Parking will be compensated for this lot via parking passes provided by Gore Park (Jeff or Linda). Parking passes will be given to you during or at your departure.

PLEASE REPLY TO ELIZABETH WARD at eward5@cogeco.ca. If you have any questions, please reach out to Ryan or Elizabeth.

Mark McNeil is a retired, award-winning Hamilton Spectator journalist, author, playwright, singer-songwriter, speaker, and former Cable 14 television host. He has a keen interest in Hamilton-area history and was recently honoured with a King Charles III Coronation Medal for his many ventures in telling stories about it.  Mark is especially known for his popular weekly freelance history column, Flashbacks, which appears Tuesdays in The Spectator. 

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You are cordially invited to attend

Our Big Italian Wedding 

You will enjoy a homemade Italian Feast and Wine 

Music and entertainment by

Hamilton’s Wedding Singer, Tony Sciara

$150 pp, $1350 table 10

  PURCHASE TICKET HERE 

 https://bit.ly/BigItalianWedding

For Sponsorship information

https://bit.ly/BIWSponsorships

Contact Marta for more information 

We have quite a few things on the agenda this week! We will go over some of the major changes from the last update in our governance policies, we will also hear from a variety of committees, including from the community comittee about our collaboration with Doors Open this year. And fianlly, the Hamilton Tonic Rotary Club will come tell us about their major success working with the Hamilton Foundation.

All members of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM are invited to attend our weekly meeting, during which we will discuss various club matters. 

Special note to visitors: visitors are most welcome to attend any of our club meetings. 

Details to join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81901074263?pwd=dOaeQ0C1dG3sdM2n0rZDqClz4EBcq1.1

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This week our Rotary club members are invited to attend the 1st of 3 performance from Jayne Eastwood and her accolytes in the terrific play titled Women fully Clothed, hosted by theatre Aquarius. There won't be a morning meeting on Wednesday morning to make room in our busy schedule for this once in a lifetime experience. 

You can purchase your tickets in the section reserved to our club by calling 905-522-7529 and mentioning that you are joining the Rotary club of Hamilton AM. Tickets are under $60 per seat.

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All members of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM are invited to attend our weekly meeting, during which we will discuss various club matters. 

Special note to visitors: visitors are most welcome to attend any of our club meetings. 

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Bio,

Marvin Ryder has taught for 40 years and has mentored more than 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students.

In 2000, Marvin was named as Chair of the Transition Board for the new City of Hamilton. During the Board’s one-year life, it organized the municipal election, created a new Hamilton Hydro corporation, and set service levels and budgets for a new, larger City of Hamilton. The Board identified more than $25 million in operational savings within the billion dollar City budget and developed a plan to reduce industrial and commercial property taxes by five percent – the first reduction in over a decade. This municipal work built on his earlier experience serving from 1990 to 1996 on the Board of Directors for Copps Coliseum, Hamilton Place, and the Hamilton Convention Centre (HECFI).

In 2001, Marvin was announced as Chair for the Hamilton Health Sciences Board of Directors responsible for operating the second largest hospital in Ontario with an annual budget over $1.0 billion. The seven sites (Henderson, General, McMaster, McMaster Children’s, Chedoke, St. Peter’s, and the Juravinski Cancer Centre) not only served as community hospitals but had regional specializations in geriatric care, cardiac care, oncology, and women’s and children’s health. He became Past Chair of the Board in 2003 and retired from the Board on June 30, 2010. Marvin serves on the Hamilton Health Sciences Research Institute Board of Directors and has served as Chair for the past four years. The Board oversees an endowment of $450 million with the proceeds of investment activities going to fund over $25 million of research at Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University.

In 2011, Marvin retired from the Boards of the Bay Area Health Trust (nine years) and the Desjardins Credit Union (three years). The latter coincided with the amalgamation of Desjardins with Meridian Credit Union on June 1, 2011.

He has written more than seventy case studies illustrating marketing, business strategy, and entrepreneurship problems Half of them have been published in leading Canadian marketing texts including case studies on Porsche, Union Gas, Crayola, and Molson Breweries.

Today, Marvin is most recognized for nearly 250 appearances annually on television (CTV, CBC, and Global), radio (Newstalk 1010, CKTB 610AM, CFRA 580AM and CFPL 980AM), and in newspapers (National Post, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and the Hamilton Spectator) commenting on business issues of the day.

Special note to visitors: visitors are most welcome to attend any of our club meetings. 

Details to join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81901074263?pwd=dOaeQ0C1dG3sdM2n0rZDqClz4EBcq1.1

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Club Board meetings take place either in person or virtually once a month. During these meetings, we discuss the strategic activities of the club and progress towards the various objectives set for the year.

General membership attendance is welcome, while voting right only remain with members of the Board. 

Meet in Bayfront parking lot
Dress for the weather
Please bring signed waiver to be downloaded from https://rotary7090.org/page/great-lakes-watershed-cleanup-1

Rotarians, families and friends are all welcome

Karen Mossman, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. Dr. Mossman is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health
Sciences, was recognized by the Women’s Executive Network as a Top 100 – Canada’s Most Powerful Women and received the 2024 Honorary Lifetime Membership Award from the International Cytokine and Interferon Society. Dr. Mossman has published over 160 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has contributed as author and editor to numerous books, including virology textbooks.

Dr. Mossman joined McMaster University in 2001, with a research focus on understanding the interactions between viruses and their hosts, both in normal healthy
cells and in cancer cells, with the goal of developing novel therapy approaches for emerging viral infections and cancer. She is currently working with industry to develop Bovine herpesvirus type I as a clinical oncolytic viral cancer immunotherapy. She will tell us about the latest research in her field, and explain how at the start
of the pandemic, her group helped isolate SARS-CoV-2 from Canadian patients which enabled COVID-related studies across the country. 

All members of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM are invited to attend our weekly meeting, during which we will discuss various club matters. 

Special note to visitors: visitors are most welcome to attend any of our club meetings. 

Details to join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81901074263?pwd=dOaeQ0C1dG3sdM2n0rZDqClz4EBcq1.1

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During this month's club assembly, we will go over a few initiatives driven by a variety of committees, including the membership committee and the grants committee.

All members of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM are invited to attend our weekly meeting, during which we will discuss various club matters. 

Special note to visitors: visitors are most welcome to attend any of our club meetings. 

Details to join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81901074263?pwd=dOaeQ0C1dG3sdM2n0rZDqClz4EBcq1.1

In case the link is not working for you, please enter the below meeting coordinates in zoom : Meeting ID: 819 0107 4263
Passcode: 603729

Club Board meetings take place either in person or virtually once a month. During these meetings, we discuss the strategic activities of the club and progress towards the various objectives set for the year.

General membership attendance is welcome, while voting right only remain with members of the Board. 

Ever heard of micro plastics? Well if you want to know more, now is the time. Come join our meeting featuring Dan Gorski, a passionate individual who has gathered all the research on this topic for you!

All members of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM are invited to attend our weekly meeting, during which we will discuss various club matters. 

Special note to visitors: visitors are most welcome to attend any of our club meetings. 

Details to join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81901074263?pwd=dOaeQ0C1dG3sdM2n0rZDqClz4EBcq1.1

In case the link is not working for you, please enter the below meeting coordinates in zoom : Meeting ID: 819 0107 4263
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The June 19, 5:30 pm Club Social will be held at Megalomaniac at 3930 Cherry Ave, Vineland, ON L0R 2C0 (parking is available on location).

There will be no morning meeting on May 28th.

Club Board meetings take place either in person or virtually once a month. During these meetings, we discuss the strategic activities of the club and progress towards the various objectives set for the year.

General membership attendance is welcome, while voting rights only remain with members of the Board. 

This week, we will be hearing the results of our membership survey and work together/brainstorm in making the changes that the club members expressed would be beneficial to increase each person's enjoyment of their membership experience. 

All members of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM are invited to attend our weekly meeting, during which we will discuss various club matters. 

Special note to visitors: visitors are most welcome to attend any of our club meetings. 

Details to join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81901074263?pwd=dOaeQ0C1dG3sdM2n0rZDqClz4EBcq1.1

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As end of June is approaching, it is time to conclude and celebrate all our achievements this Rotary year! The torch will be passed on to the new board as we will be enjoying this special moment over an evening social at Architect Hair Design (Ringside). There will be many food options to choose from, pay as you choose format. Come with your guests!

The Speaker today is Jay Dworsky and he will talk about Skateboarding.

All members of the Rotary Club of Hamilton AM are invited to attend our weekly meeting, during which we will discuss various club matters. 

Special note to visitors: visitors are most welcome to attend any of our club meetings. 

Details to join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81901074263?pwd=dOaeQ0C1dG3sdM2n0rZDqClz4EBcq1.1

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Today's guest speaker is Vicki Gruber, Director of Safety & Security/Harbour Master for the Hamilton/Oshawa Port Authority.

Speaker's Bio

Vicki is one of only two female Harbour Masters among the 17 Canadian Port Authorities.

She joined the Harbour Master's Office/Port Patrol team in Hamilton in 2006. In 2014, she assumed the role of Patrol Supervisor and was subsequently promoted to Manager of Port Security and Harbour Master later that year. 

In 2021, she advanced to the position of Director of Safety & Security/Harbour Master where she oversees port security, harbour operations, emergency management, and health and safety portfolios for the Ports of Hamilton and Oshawa. 

With over 30 years of experience in the security industry, Vicki actively participates in numerous community and professional organizations. 

She had served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Mission to Seafarers Southern Ontario and holds the position of Chair for the Association of Canadian Port Authorities Port Security Committee. 

Additionally, she is a member of the National Port Security Committee. 

Vicki graduated with honours from Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology’s Emergency Management program.

At this regualr Wednesday morning club meeting, our guest speakers will be Sgt. Kim Walker and Bruce Moffat

Stories Beyond the Spotlight, and a Glimpse ‘Below Deck’!

At the club's Wednesday moring meeting, our guest speaker will be Daniel Allan.

Join us for an inspiring and entertaining talk with Daniel Allain, a powerhouse vocalist, acclaimed musical theatre performer, and globe-trotting guest entertainer.

Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Daniel has taken the stage from coast to coast and around the world performing with some of the world’s most prestigious theatre companies, orchestras, and luxury cruise lines. From Theatre Aquarius to Crystal Cruises, his journey through the performing arts is as captivating as his voice.

A proud graduate of Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Performance program and holder of a Graduate Diploma in Arts Management from Queen’s University, Daniel brings a unique lens to life on stage, blending artistry, business savvy, and bold career choices.

Don’t miss this behind-the-scenes glimpse into the exhilarating life of a modern performer.

Visiting us online?

Please use the following coordinates to access the weekly Rotary Club of Hamilton AM meeting: 
Details to join the meeting via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81901074263?pwd=dOaeQ0C1dG3sdM2n0rZDqClz4EBcq1.1
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