Thursday, October 17, 2019
12:00 Golf – at your leisure. Highlands $75 or Lakeside $55 plus tax, includes cart. For tee time: 1-800-461-4393 [Subject to course being open – check here.]
18:00 Maple Pub & Patio – Catch up with your fellow attendees
18:00 Past District Governor’s Dinner – Boston Pizza PDG Ron Strickland for details
Friday, October 18, 2019
Hallway of Friendship – Conference Floor Hallway
08:00 District Advisory Council Breakfast – Lawren Harris Room
08:30 – 10:30 District Advisory Council meeting – Lawren Harris Room
10:00 – 20:00 Registration – To the right of the Lobby
10:30 – 11:30 Council on Resolution – Lawren Harris Room
11:30 – 13:00 First Timers lunch – Waterhouse Ballroom 1-3
** Please note all other registrants are responsible for their own lunch – hotel or local restaurants. **
13:30 – 14:55 Plenary Session 1 – Peninsula Room
Masters of Ceremonies – Amélie Dion
Opening Ceremonies
– Flag Ceremony
– Conference Chair – Ghislaine Cȏte & Yvonne Weir
– DG Bill Hagborg
Ashley Hales, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards – How RYLA Changed My Life
District Conference 2020 – DGE Lynne Chant
15:00 – 15:20 Break activity – outside Peninsula Room
15:20 – 16:05 Plenary Session 2 – Peninsula Room
Melissa Toupin-Laforge, Rotary Peace Fellow 2011-2013 – How Rotary Changed My Life
Explanation of Assistant Governor Hub Crawl
16:15 – 18:15 Assistant Governor Hub Crawl – Summit Building #51 – Hosted by Areas 2, 3, 5, 7
18:30 Indoor BBQ – Peninsula Room
DJ – Midnight Express
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Hallway of Friendship – Conference Floor Hallway
07:00 – 12:00 Registration – To the right of the Lobby
07:00 – 08:00 “It’s What We Do!” Breakfast Buffet – Peninsula Room
07:00 – 08:00 Rotaractors Breakfast Buffet – Waterhouse Ballroom 5
08:15 – 10:15 Plenary Session 3 – Peninsula Room
Roll Call – Assistant Governors
Paul Chappell, Peace Literacy Director & Rotarian – Peace Literacy: Healing Trauma, Navigating Technology, and Protecting Humanity’s Future
Heydi Chancho, Cooperative for Education, Guatemala Literacy Project RISE Program Graduate – How my Scholarship Transformed my Life
10:15 – 10:30 Celebration of Life – Peninsula Room – Louise Thomson
10:30 – 10:40 Break – on the move to Breakout Sessions
10:40 – 11:25 Breakout Sessions
- Tips and Tricks for Growing your club and for Reflecting Diversity in Rotary – PDG Lise Dutrisac – Waterhouse Ballroom 1
- Fabulous Big and Small Fundraising Ideas to Help Fund your Projects – Panel Discussion – Waterhouse Ballroom 5 Moderator: Bob Cunningham, Rotary Club of North Bay
- “It’s What We Do!” – How to Start an International Project – Panel Discussion – Peninsula Room Moderator: PDG Margaret Walton, District Rotary Foundation Director
11:30 – 12:15 Plenary Session 4 – Peninsula Room
Waubgeshig Rice, Former Youth Exchange Student, Writer & Journalist – From Germany to Journalism
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch – Peninsula Room
– District Awards – PDG Susan Davidson, DG Bill Hagborg
13:20 – 14:15 Plenary Session 5 – Peninsula Room
Youth Exchange Program
“It’s What We Do!” Rotary Moment [French] – Luc Tessier, Chapleau Club
Explanation of Service Projects, Wellness Activities, Assistant Governor Hub Crawl
14:20 – 16:05 Service Projects & Wellness Activities & Membership and Margaritas (concurrent)
– Sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of tba
Service Project 1 – Helping Honduran Women – Waterhouse Ballroom 1
Service Project 2 – Guatemala Literacy Project – Waterhouse Ballroom 2
Service Project 3 – Local Women’s Shelters – Waterhouse Ballroom 3
Wellness Activity 1 – Painting 101 – with PDG Jack Lockhart, Internationally acclaimed Canadian Artist – Waterhouse Ballroom 5
Wellness Activity 2 – Deerhurst Fall Colours Walk – meet up at main entrance – Allison Brownlee
Membership & Margaritas – Summit Building #51 – PDG Lise Dutrisac
16:30 – 18:30 Assistant Governor Hub Crawl – Summit Building #52 – Hosted by Areas 1, 4, 6, 8 and Rotaract clubs
19:00 “District Poutine Pints & Plaid Shindig“ – Peninsula Room – Hosted by North Bay’s Family of Rotary. Come dressed in your favourite plaid! **Live Band – Freedom Train**
Sunday, October 20, 2019
08:00 – 08:30 Coffee & Tea – hallway outside of the Peninsula Room
08:30 – 9:40 Plenary Session 6 – Peninsula Room
Nicole Lavigne, Former Youth Exchange Student, Rotaractor – Rotary in the millennial generation
District Conference 2020 – DGE Lynne Chant
RI Convention 2020 – Honolulu, Hawaii – DGN Steve Meadley
“It’s What We Do!” Rotary Moment [English] – Brandy Van Gelder, Huntsville Club
Concluding Remarks
-Conference Co-Chairs – Ghislaine Côté & Yvonne Weir
-DG Bill Hagborg
9:40 Breakfast – Peninsula Room
Printed copies of the Program are available at the Registration Desk (next to Resort Main Entrance). |
