October 24, 2013 CLUB MEETING SPONSORSHIP: If you can help your Club and wish to promote your business or community interests through a month sponsorship, please contact Sergeant Bill or Clint. Here is the sponsorship line-up for 13/14 JULY Sunset Memorial Gardens JANUARY John Howard Soc. AUGUST Scotiabank FEBRUARY Valhalla Inn SEPTEMBER Beaux Daddy’s MARCH OCTOBER RFDA APRIL MS Society NOVEMBER Investors Group MAY Salvation Army DECEMBER NOSM JUNE 5 Star Rotarians

President-elect Ken Boshcoff takes the helm today and assists Membership Chairperson Sandy Lychowyd to formally welcome our newest member, CLAUDIO MONTELEONE

A crisp autumn morning with 18 Lakehead Rotarians on hand and our special guests from the LU Thunderwolves – Jason Mallon and Our sponsor this month is the RFDA Bill McDonald. Thank you Rotarian Volker Kromm We had the opportunity today to see a bit of the RFDA Kitchen P-E Ken thanked the RFDA for hosting our meeting today and being used to prepare good and nourishing food…for us. Volker providing an excellent breakfast for us. He acknowledged our and the folks at the RFDA are very passionate about their mission breakfast chefs Volker and Gail Kromm. In lieu of our usual to see that no one goes without in our community. breakfast fees, many members offered donations to the RFDA in thanks for all the great work done in our community on behalf of those in need of food.

P-E Ken also acknowledged that this is WORLD POLIO DAY [refer OUR FAMILY OF ROTARY IN THUNDER BAY to the online streaming opportunity later today- see details in this Celebrating birthdays this month Chronicle]. Clint Kuschak President Gail’s theme for our Club this year… Graham Stewart “ENGAGING THUNDER BAY IN ROTARY”

ON THE DOOR IN 2013/14: Karl was on the door today and for the rest of the month with Volker on deck for November… JULY Richard Kehrig JANUARY Mo Papich AUGUST Mo Papich FEBRUARY Graham Stewart SEPTEMBER Mo Papich MARCH OCTOBER Karl Ratz APRIL NOVEMBER Volker Kromm MAY And celebrating anniversaries this month DECEMBER Allan Kozlo JUNE Clint Kuschak Graham & Laurie Stewart Gail and Volker Kromm The “On-The-Door” schedule shows 3 months in need of an official greeter. If you can volunteer for a month, please sign on at a weekly meeting on contact Clint to confirm your month

CLUB SERVICE: CALENDAR – MEETINGS & EVENTS: JASON MALLON - Executive Director OCTOBER – VOCATIONAL SERVICE MONTH OCT 24 WORLD POLIO DAY OCT 29 ROTARY SHELTER TURKEY DINNER OCT 31 ALLAN KOZLO – TRIP TO MEXICO OCT 31 HALOWEEN

NOVEMBER – ROTARY FOUNDATION MONTH NOV 6 BOARD MEETING NOV 7 DOUG MURRARY/C.E.D.C. NOV 11 REMEMBRANCE DAY NOV 14 NU VISION NOV 21 BUSINESS MEETING NOV 28 JOHN PATEMAN – THUNDER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY

DECEMBER – FAMILY OF ROTARY MONTH DEC 4 BOARD MEETING DEC 5 MEETING CANCELLED DEC 5 CHRISTMAS SOCIAL – BEAUX DADDY’S DEC 12 LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY – REPORT TO COMUNITY DEC 19 BUSINESS MEETING & ELECTIONS DEC 25 CHRISTMAS DAY DEC 26 BOXING DAY DEC 26 MEETING CANCELLED DEC 26 OPEN DEC 31 NEW YEAR’S EVE Jason Mallon is in his ninth season as Executive Director, and is PRESENTATION: responsible for all business operations of the organization as well LU Thunderwolves were well represented today by Jason as corporate sales. Born in Thunder Bay, Mallon has been involved Mallon and Bill McDonald. in many areas of hockey. He played junior hockey for the Thunder Bay Flyers and earned a scholarship to Miami University under Thunder Bay native George Gwozdecky. After graduating, he played one year for the Richmond Renegades of the ECHL, and then returned to Thunder Bay to own and operate Play it Again Sports and played one year for the Thunder Bay Thundercats of the UHL.

Jason is married to his wife Cathy and has two daughters; Meggie and Annie.

Phone: 807-766-7286 Email: [email protected]

BILL MCDONALD - Head Coach

A native of Thunder Bay, Bill began his coaching career with the Thunder Bay Twins in 1986. From 1991 to 1995, he led the Thunder Bay Thunder Hawks and Senators to three Colonial/United League championships in four years. In 1997, McDonald guided the Fort Worth Fire to a Central Hockey League title in only his second season in the CHL.

Christmas Social: He was also the bench boss of various professional teams between Our annual Christmas social this year with Fort William 1998 and 2009, with stops in Lubbock of the WPHL, New Mexico Rotarians and friends will be held on December 5th at Beaux and Austin of the CHL, Michigan of the IHL, and Dayton of the Daddy’s. President Gail and Donna Yocom are working on ECHL. the event…the menu has been settled and a musical duo will be on hand for dinner music and Christmas carols. The cost He has been named coach of the year three times in three different will be $43 per person and promotion to members of both leagues during his career, having been awarded the honor in the Clubs will begin soon. UHL in 1993, the CHL in 1997, and the WPHL in 1998. From 2009 to 2012, McDonald was the Assistant Coach of the Allen Americans CANADA CLUB: of the CHL. In 2013, he moved into the front office in Allen, where he was the Senior Advisor of Hockey Operations. Rotary Christmas Parade: Co-Chairperson Gail Kromm reported that the Parade Committee meets again next week to work on plans and Phone: 807-766-7284 publicity. She was very pleased to report that Thunder Bay Insurance stepped up to provide parade insurance for the Email: [email protected] event as sponsor since the OPP were unable to continue as the insurance sponsor. Bill and Jason took turns at the podium to talk about their career paths in hockey and how they ended up in leadership She is still in need of one member of the Club to serve as roles with the Thunderwolves organization. We were the “parade marshal” at the Superstore site…and she will be reminded that the Thunderwolves are 13 years young and looking for many of us to help set up and supervise that new were formed by 25 local business and professional site for the start-up of the Parade. leaders… and hockey builders in our community. In 2006, the organization became a not-for-profit and Jason was brought on board to relieve much of the time commitment of the volunteers/sponsors. The organization continues to move forward under the guidance of a 9-member board consisting of 4 Directors appointed by Lakehead University and 5 Directors elected from among the original 25 sponsors.

We also learned that the Thunderwolves leads its league in community support in the form of attendance at games…proving once again that this is very much a “hockey town”.

We are fortunate to have a team and leadership of this caliber to sustain and grow our Thunderwolves team.

CLUB SERVICE: COMMUNITY SERVICE: Membership: Rotary Shelter Dinner: Chairperson Sandy presided over the official welcome of Our annual turkey dinner at the Rotary Shelter will be this new member Claudio Monteleone. Claudio is sponsored by coming Tuesday, October 29th and a large gathering is Ken Boshcoff and joins our Club with the classification expected. Our members donate all the food for this dinner, “media advisor”. prepare and cook, and serve the meal. Devon is our leader for the event this year and the sign-up sheet is full...all food items are now covered. We are still looking for more hands to help in the kitchen to prepare and serve the meal.

Rotarians, family and friends pause for a photo during the heat of preparing last year’s dinner

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE: WORLD POLIO DAY  Add a World Polio Day: Making World Polio Day Live History photo to your Facebook page. Global Update Share your support on Twitter:

 Join @Rotary on World Polio Day for a live global update on polio eradication. #endpolio Share  What is the status of polio eradication? Find out during a live event on World Polio Day. #endpolio Share

Join Rotary for a special Livestream event Karl reported that our Club and Membership contributions to the Foundation and Polio Plus continue to grow and he expects that our weekly contributions and 50/50 “wins” will Where are we in the fight to end polio? What have amount to $600 by December when those donations are we accomplished? How can we make history sent to the Foundation. He encouraged more of us to together? Find out on World Polio Day. become involved with the Foundation and take advantage of the 2:1 matching challenge presented by the Gates

Foundation. They will match Rotarians’ donations up to $35 million until 2017. Karl sweetened the challenge by offering PHF points on a 1:1 match up to $200 using our Club’s own points account. The Club account holds approx. 2,000 To mark World Polio Day on October 24, Rotary points so it’s first-come first-served until the points run out. and Northwestern University’s Center for Global

Health will host a live-streamed global update on the status of the fight to end polio. If you are a FELLOWSHIP FINES: supporter of Rotary’s effort to eradicate polio – or Karl worked the room opening with tribute for various slips simply want to learn more about it – you won’t this morning as he chaired our meeting for the first time in World Polio Day: Making History his role as President-Elect. Those who have made it to a want to miss . Thunderwolves game were invited to pay tribute for this fine hockey organization. And in true Rotary fashion, those who Featured guests include: have never attended a game were also invited to pay…ensuring another sweep. Volker gave a happy dollar  Dr. Bruce Aylward, World Health for the opportunity to have us visit the RFDA and to prepare breakfast for us. Gail Kromm gave her happy dollar with the Organization, assistant director-general for news that Thunder Bay Insurance will sponsor the parade polio, emergencies and country insurance. Ken offered a happy dollar to welcome new collaboration. member Claudio Monteleone.  Dr. Robert Murphy, director of the Center for Global Health at Northwestern 50/50: Allan was the winner today and his $9 will be added to the University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. funds to be forwarded to Polio Plus later this year.  Polio survivor and world-class paralympian Dennis Ogbe.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how you can NEXT MEETING: become a part of history by helping Rotary and its THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31st partners End Polio Now. DAVID BAXTER, THUNDER BAY INSURANCE E&O INSURANCE Q & A  Visit the World Polio Day: Making

History Livestream page to add the event to your calendar.  Embed the Livestream video player on your

website or Facebook page.  Download a World Polio Day toolkit for sample social media posts and graphics.

Welcome regular contributor to your weekly Club Chronicle – Bill FINAL WORDS: Butuk with his “Bill’s Stuff Column”

go a long way!

Colin James

Colin James (born Colin James Munn, August 17, 1964 in Regina ) is a Canadian guitarist, singer- songwriter, and record producer who plays in the blues, rock and swing genres. Colin Munn grew up in Saskatchewan listening to blues and folk music and learning to play the mandolin. He then quit school and worked with a succession of bands among them the Hoo Doo Men.

At 19, he moved to and took over the Hoo Doo Men and began playing under his new name Colin James. James and his band opened for for several tour dates in the U.S. In 1988, following his association with Stevie Ray Vaughan, he was noticed by Tickets are $20 each and Clint has a book of tickets to Virgin Records, who subsequently signed him. He then sell at our weekly meetings. released his self-titled debut album which became the fastest selling album in Canadian music history. He followed that release in 1990 with Sudden Stop and in 1993 with Colin James and His Little Big Band.

In the late 1990's his world-wide popularity diminished somewhat but he continued to record and release blues, rock and acoustic styles. In 2005 he gave a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II when she visited Saskatchewan. In 2007, his album Limelight received a Gold Record for sales in Canada. In 2008, he received three Toronto Blues Society .

Watch and listen to Colin James at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUaDepB_gJQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUaDepB_gJQ