2019-04-26 12:00 Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club
No guests please.
Kiwanis Luncheon - Kelly Raymond - Children’s Aid Society
12:00 Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club
Kelly Raymond from the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa will be our guest speaker.
Partners in Caring Games with the Ottawa Senators
The Kiwanis Club of Ottawa, with the Ottawa Senators, will be selling tickets for the Senators games against Minnesota and Florida games with part of the proceeds going to support the children and youth programs supported by the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa. Dates are:
November 4 vs Tampa
November 15 vs Detroit
January 2 vs Vancouver
January 6 vs Carolina (1:00pm)
February 7 vs Anaheim
February 22 vs Columbus
March 7 vs NY Islanders
March 14 vs St Louis
March 28 vs Florida
April 1 vs Tampa
To buy tickets please contact Tom Spence at (613) 828-2516 or ttspence@bell.net
Kiwanis Breakfast Meeting - ** Cancelled ** Rodney Wilts - Zibi Project - will be rescheduled
** Cancelled ** 7:30 a.m. Breakfast buffet at the Lord Elgin Hotel ** Cancelled **
Our guest speaker will be Rodney Wilts, Co-owner of Theia Partners, who will be speaking about the Zibi Project. Zibi is a world-class sustainable community and redevelopment project by
Dream Unlimited Corp and Theia Partners. Zibi is where nature, culture, heritage and the joys of life culminate.
Come and hear what’s happening at the location between Gatineau and Ottawa!
Price Change for TV Bingo cards
Starting April 1, 2019, TV Bingo cards will be raised to $4.
The price has remained the same since the bingo began in 2010, and the change is due to an increase in the cost of TV production and other related operating costs to run the weekly TV Bingo show, therefore it is necessary for Kiwanis to raise the cost of a bingo card to $4.00 effective the April 1st game.
The prize board will remain the same. Thank you for playing every week – your continued patronage allows Kiwanis to provide financial support to the Ottawa Community. Please pass this message along to your family and friends who play our TV Bingo.
Kiwanis Luncheon - Circle K – Angie Kelly - Interval House
12:00 at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club
A great presentation by Angie Kelly from Interval House Ottawa which provides shelter for woman and children living with abuse.
Founded in 1973, as Canada’s first center, Interval House takes a holistic approach to helping women and children leave abuse behind and start new lives, free of violence. They hold the dignity of their residents and clients in high importance. Everyone deserves a life of peace and safety and their goal is to help break the cycle of violence.
We were shocked to hear that a woman is killed by an abuser every 5 days in Canada, and 70% of woman in Ontario are in an abusive relationship right now. Abuse can be verbal, physical, emotional, financial, sexual and now cyber bullying, all based on the abuser asserting control. This has serious long-term affects on the children. Interval House offers accommodation as well as counselling and a 24-hour crisis line, and they are at full capacity with 200-300 women per year, turning away 800 women per year. They are only partially funded and hold fundraisers and seek donations. Men are encouraged to become aware and talk about it. More information can be found at Interval House Ottawa.
The Circle K students who hosted the meeting did a great job running the agenda. Georgie Adams was very clear as the Chair. The Heart of the City Piano program teachers played a few pieces on the piano and we can see why this program is doing well.
For more about the Heart of the City Piano program see the script that was presented at the luncheon. This was a program initiated with our club’s help as we applied for the $25,000 grant from the Trillium Foundation.
Kiwanis Trivia Night
Thursday, February 21, 2019, 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
“What is the smallest mammal on earth – the bumblebee bat” who knew?!
Well the Bed Race’s team were the top winners with 29/40 trivia questions answered correctly. Their team of 6 players each get a 3rd level ticket to a Senators hockey game. What a fun event.
Walter Noble put a variety of questions together which baffled some of us and a few controversial questions (tough bunch!) were solved. Thank you to Gary Coulombe, President of the Kiwanis Club of Manotick, who was the emcee for the night and everyone was happy with their dinner at Robbie’s Restaurant.
A fun event that we should continue to include in our lunch or dinner programs.
Thank you Walter and Gary!
2019 Accora Village Bed Race for Kiwanis
The weather was great, and the new location on York Street worked out wonderfully.
The results of day include:
Fastest Bed
Myers Motors
International Union of Elevator Constructors
Gloucester Key Club
La Cite
Best Fund Raisers
International Union of Elevator Constructors
Trane
WSP
Best Corporate Fund Raisers
Myers Motors
Best Costumes, Decorations and Enthusiasm
Accora Village team 3
Les Suites Hotel
WSP
Best Team Spirit
Marriott Hotel Ottawa
Funds raised goes to support the Aktion Club (a program for developmentally delayed adults), other Kiwanis Club of Ottawa's projects and the Queensway Carleton Hospital Foundation.
Here are a few images from the day, and lots of photos from over the years available here ->
Bed Testing
Testing the beds for next week’s #AccoraVillage Bed Race for #Kiwanis. The race is on Feb 16th during #Winterlude in the #ByWardMarket. www.ottawakiwanis.org/bedrace
Kiwanis Luncheon - Canadian Mental Health Association
12:00 at the Ottawa Hunt Club.
Dania Versailles and Nancy Rousselle, from the Canadian Mental Health Association, explained that their services focus on ages 16-64. Services include outreach, case management, housing, concurrent disorders treatment program, health promotion, and vocational support services for clients. They also offer training and community development to respond to the needs of individuals with serious mental illness, education, training and distribution of materials.
Talking about mental illness helps everyone and raises awareness about and reduces the stigma attached to mental illness. We all need good balance in our life – social/ physical/spiritual/economic/health and it can be traumatic when you tip the balance. Signs to watch for in thinking and mood behaviours, crying, depression, alcohol or drugs, social anxiety, declining school or work performance. Talk to them, show you care.
CAMH also provides workshops:
SafeTALK * Understanding the Unspoken Pain (assisting survivors of war and trauma)
Myths & Realities of Mental Illness
Integrated Treatment for Concurrent Disorders
Mental Health Works (for employers and employees in the workplace)
Living Life to the Full * Motivational Interviewing. www.camh.ca
Membership
We welcomed three new Corporate Members:
1) Ottawa-Carleton Mortgage Inc. was introduced a few weeks ago with Bill Gosewitz and today we were pleased to welcome their second Corporate member, Bill’s wife, Joanne Mazerolle-Gosewitz, who has been in the mortgage industry for over 35 years;
2) Apollo Property Management was introduced as a new Corporate Member with President Pat Charbonneau who has been a member of our club for 22 years, and Pat introduced their second member, Kandas Miller, Vice-President of Apollo Property Management;
3) Dan Charbonneau, Account Manager at the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club and second member of their Corporate Membership, was introduced by his father Pat Charbonneau.