draft program
thursday
12:00
Golf – Spruce Needles Golf Club, Timmins
Lunch, 18 holes with cart and dinner
18:00
Dinner – Spruce Needles Golf Club
Golfers and Dinner-only
18:00
Registration Desk – open (until 20:00)
friday
08:00
Registration Desk – open
08:00
Breakfast (non-first timers)
First Timers First Timers Breakfast with District Governor Steve Meadley
09:00
Opening Ceremony
“Changing Together” / “Changer Ensemble” – District Governor Steve Meadley
Elder/ Knowledge Keeper Smudge Ceremony
Flag Ceremony
Welcome – Past District Governor Margaret Walton, Conference Chair
Mayor George Pirie, City of Timmins
Chief Chad Boissoneau, Mattagami First Nation
Rotary International Rep – (tba)
Rotary International Director Valarie Wafer
10:30
Health Break
10:50
Past Rotary International Director Carolyn Jones, 1st female Trustee The Rotary Foundation – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
11:30
Silent Auction – Sharon Wallace
11:40
Life Changes – Brenda Booth
12:00
Lunch
13:00
A Flavour of the North – French Canadian Culture – Chansons à répondre, karaoke style. Small but mighty clubs share their story of change
13:40
Mining Community Speaker (tba) – Managing the Environment – Achieving Balance
14:20
Tammy Eger, VP, Research, Laurentian University and Julie Moskalyk, Science Director, Science North –
15:00
Health Break
15:20
Past District Governor Louisa Horne, Assistant Rotary Coordinator, D7820 – Learning How to Pivot, Turn Things Upside Down and Grow Rotary
16:00
District Conference Sudbury 2022 – District Governor Elect Richard Denton Registration opens!
17:30
Dinners (pre-registered) {Conference Social Activities page}
20:00
After Dinner Social – Dante Club (walking distance from hotel)
Saturday
07:00
Breakfast –
08:15
Welcome to Day 2 – Jingle Dance and Drum
08:35
Roll Call – District Governor Steve Meadley and Assistant Governors
Rotary International Rep (tba)
09:30
Rose Anne Archibald, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Taykwa Tagamou First Nation – Change
10:10
Health Break
10:30
D7010 Our Year of Change – Immediate Past District Governor Lynne Chant
District Awards – Past District Governor Susan Davidson
11:15
Rotaract Speaker (tba) – Change
11:55
Lunch
13:00
Youth Exchange Program – Wayne Harding, New Generations Director & Panel of Former Youth Exchange Students
13:40
Northern Activities (pre-registered) {Conference Social Activities page}
– Mining / Reclamation Tour
– ATV Ride
– Pontoon Boat Tour
– Target Shooting
– Indigenous Crafts – Dream Catcher
– Indigenous Crafts – Beaded Keychain
18:00
Saturday Evening Gala
Sunday
08:30
Breakfast
09:00
RI Rep (tba)
09:20
Jason Thorne, Planner – Change
10:00
Closing Ceremony
Past District Governor Margaret Walton, Conference Chair
District Governor Steve Meadley
10:30
Bag Lunch – Safe Travels!