Toronto Kiwanis

Join your fellow Kiwanis members for fellowship and learn about Frontier College’s history and programs at the next lunch meeting, and bring your friends and colleagues.

Location: The National Club, 303 Bay Street, Toronto

Speakers:

Larissa Parriag

 Toronto Regional Manager, Frontier College

and

Abby Robins

Director of Communications, Frontier College

Larissa Parriag has been working forFrontierCollege for five years and manages an array of over 30 different literacy programs in theGTA.  Prior to working withFrontierCollege she managed employment programs for persons with disabilities.  Larissa completed her Masters degree in Forest Conservation in 2002.

Abby Robins has been the Director of Communications at Frontier College since May 2011.  Her previous experience includes 7 years as the Manager of Communications at Second Harvest, and many years of working in television, on shows including Air Farce, Street Legal, North of 60 and Side Effects.

Kiwanis Club of Toronto Past President’s Dinner to honour Michael Currie.

Friday, February 10th, 2012      6:15 pm – Cocktails    7:00 pm – Dinner

York Reception Centre, 1100 Millwood Avenue, Toronto

Please contact the office at 416.285.7903 or torontokiwanis@baystco.com to confirm your spot by February 3, 2012.

After two years of construction the Toronto Kiwanis Boys and Girls Clubs and Miles & Kelly Nadal Youth Centre is proud to announce the reopening of our doors at 101 Spruce St on January 26, 2012. 

Please join us as we celebrate the grand reopening of the Toronto Kiwanis Boys and Girls Clubs and Miles and Kelly Nadal Youth Centre! You are cordially invited to attend a celebratory breakfast, participate in our ribbon cutting event, help us recognize those who made this dream a reality and take a tour of our incredible new program space.

Date: Thursday, January 26th

Time:

7:30 am – 9:00 am – Breakfast

3:00 pm – Reception    

4:00 pm – Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Location: 101 Spruce Street

Limited parking is available.

Please RSVP to Lesley at 416.925.2243 x 25 or lhawley@believeinkids.ca by January 20th.

For more information please go to www.believeinkids.ca/grandopening

Join your fellow Kiwanians for fellowship and fun at the next lunch meeting, and bring your friends and colleagues!

Location: The National Club, 303 Bay Street, Toronto

Speaker: TBA

Join your fellow Kiwanians for fellowship and fun at the next lunch meeting, and bring your friends and colleagues!

Location: The National Club, 303 Bay Street, Toronto

Speakers: Gail Picco, Chair – Board of Directors, Regent Park Film Festival and Richard Fung, Program Director, Regent Park Film Festival

Gail Picco is chair of the Board of Directors of the Regent Park Film Festival.  Former President of Gail Picco Associates, Gail is an award-winning fundraiser, communications consultant and video producer.   The Festival, celebrating its 10^th anniversary in 2012, is held in early November.  Year around workshops and community screenings bring togetherRegentPark youth helping them to find their voice and their confidence through film.   In June, the Festival will take its place as an anchor tenant in the Regent Park Arts and Culture Centre enabling it to expand programming to hundreds more young people.

In 2011, the Kiwanis Club ofTorontodonated $10,000 to the Festival.  That funding enabled the Festival to undertake ground-breaking new programming in partnership with theYonge StreetMissionwhere 24 youth learned how to put together a small film.  For the luncheon meeting, Gail will be bringing Richard Fung, the Festival’s award-winning Program Director who conducted those workshops.  Richard will introduce and screen those films for you.

Gail is very active in the Regent Park Community and is extremely well informed on local initiatives. Please consider bringing a guest to this luncheon who might benefit from such knowledge.

Join your fellow Kiwanis members for fellowship and fun at the next lunch meeting, and bring your friends and colleagues.

 Location: The National Club, 303 Bay Street, Toronto

 Speaker: Jeff Silverman, President of Yuk Yuk’s

More information to come.

Join your fellow Kiwanis members for fellowship and fun to celebrate the New Year! This is an INTERCLUB EVENT. Registration is capped at 40. Please email torontokiwanis@baystco.com or call the office at 416-285-7903 to reserve your spot.

Location: The National Club, 303 Bay Street, Toronto

Speaker: Rahul Bhardwaj, President & CEO of the Toronto Community Foundation

In his role as the President & CEO of the Toronto Community Foundation, Rahul Bhardwaj has been working to engage philanthropy in Toronto to address challenges facing the city. Formerly a corporate lawyer with a leading Canadian law firm, he was also Vice President of the Toronto 2008 Olympic Bid.

As part of the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Fiscal review panel in 2008 Rahul, was involved in identifying efficiencies for the City of Toronto. A year later the Province of Ontario appointed him to the Board of Metrolinx, an organization developing and implementing an overall transit strategy for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. More recently, Rahul became Chair of the 2012 Ontario Summer Games Organizing Committee and was appointed to the Board of Directors for Upper Canada College. He is the past Chair of the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival  and his board commitments, past and present, include George Brown College, Community Foundations of Canada, Stratford Festival of Canada and United Way Toronto, among many others.

Rahul’s dedication to our communities led him to be named one of the “Next Generation of Toronto Civic Leaders” by The National Post and his vision for Toronto have made him a popular presenter and speaker, particularly on issues relating to the city, community and leadership as well as Toronto’s Vital Signs®. Rahul has been featured in the local Toronto press, on CBC News Network, and internationally on CNN and China’s National Daily News.