Please join your fellow Canton Rotarians on Friday May 15th via Zoom for our second 'videoconferencing' Friday meeting! Don’t miss this important virtual meeting.
We will open up the meeting room at 11:30 am to give everyone a chance to log in and socialize a bit. It will be an open forum until 12 noon when the formal meeting will kick-off.
Mayor Thomas Bernabei and the City of Canton's Planning Director, Donn Angus, will be our guest speakers for this Zoom Rotary meeting. Mayor Bernabei and Mr. Angus will update our members on the progress of the Centennial Plaza project, as well as discuss the actions that the City of Canton is taking during this pandemic.
Please check out the information below for instructions on how to join the meeting and some tips for how to participate. Hope to see you there!
Mayor Thomas Bernabei is a lifelong resident of Stark County and lives in Canton, Ohio. He is a 1964 graduate of Canton Lehman High School. He graduated from Brown University in 1968 and THE Ohio State University College of Law in 1975. Between college and law school, Mayor Bernabei served four years in the United States Army, including one tour of duty in Vietnam.
Mayor Bernabei entered public service as Assistant Prosecutor in Massillon Municipal Court. He later served as an Assistant Law Director in Canton and was elected Canton Law Director in 1989. After retiring from the Law Department in 2000, Mayor Bernabei was elected to Canton City Council and served one term as Councilman At-Large. He subsequently worked as Director of Public Service in Canton from 2008 to 2009 and as SARTA’s interim Executive Director in 2009. Mayor Bernabei was then elected Stark County Commissioner and served from 2010 to 2015.
Mayor Bernabei proudly practiced law with his father, Joseph, from 1975 to 1989. He is married to Bebe, a Canton Central Catholic High School graduate. They have three daughters and five grandchildren.
Donn Angus is an award winning designer and Planner. Educated in landscape architecture, urban design, and city/regional planning – as well as classic cultures - he has over 20 years of professional experience, specifically focused on providing design and planning services to both the private and public sectors. Donn has had a unique and rewarding career with prominent design firms, federal agencies, and local governments in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Boston, Chicago, and London, as well as the Walt Disney Company in Orlando. This experience has afforded him the opportunity to develop a diverse portfolio, having built & planned both large & small scale projects, located in 17 states, the District of Columbia, and 9 foreign nations.
Donn has been with the City of Canton since June of 2017.
We will be using the ZOOM Videoconferencing app to create our second virtual meeting this Friday. For those of you who have not used ZOOM yet, it is a SIMPLE way to connect with a group, while in the comfort of your own home. Here are some instructions for getting into the meeting and enjoying the experience.
President Mark will be sending a Zoom meeting invitation to all Canton Rotarians with email on Thursday of this week. He will be using the “Zoom Pro” version of the videoconferencing software, so the meeting will be safe and secure. When you receive the email invitation, there will be a large, blue link that says “Join Raymond James Zoom Meeting” (or something very similar to that). Simply click on this link and the software will ask you to download the app to your computer, tablet or phone and ask you to type your name as you want it to appear on the meeting room.
For best results in video-conferencing, it is ideal to use a laptop, PC, or tablet with a video cam and audio capabilities, though a smartphone can be used as well. It is important to have a good connection to the internet (using your home or work wi-fi). You will be able to log onto the meeting starting at 11:30 am.
Once you are in the meeting, you will be able to see your fellow Rotarians and have conversations with the whole group. In order to avoid excessive noise during this open forum, you should use the “Mute” audio feature once logged in. (This feature is located on the bottom left corner of your ZOOM screen, near a picture of a microphone). By muting your audio, you can still view the meeting and hear people talking, but any background noises in your home, such as dogs barking, phones ringing, televisions, etc., will not be heard by the group. To speak to the group, simply click “Unmute”. Please get comfortable with this feature of ZOOM.
We look forward to “seeing” and “hearing” you on Friday! Please join us!
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Help us stay in touch with each other by sharing your photos, happy bucks and stories of what you have been doing during this time of social distancing. Please forward any pictures, cartoons, happy bucks or stories into the office at: info@cantonrotary.org and we will post these items in our weekly Rotogram and our website.
Past President Virginia Neutzling made over 100 masks to donate to the McKinley Presidential Library and Museum staff and volunteers where she is a volunteer. Also, she gave most of her stimulus money locally to help those in need.
May 15, 2020
Mayor Thomas Bernabei is a lifelong resident of Stark County and lives in Canton, Ohio. He is a 1964 graduate of Canton Lehman High School. He graduated from Brown University in 1968 and THE Ohio State University College of Law in 1975. Between college and law school, Mayor Bernabei served four years in the United States Army, including one tour of duty in Vietnam.
We will be using the ZOOM Videoconferencing app to create our second virtual meeting this Friday. For those of you who have not used ZOOM yet, it is a SIMPLE way to connect with a group, while in the comfort of your own home. Here are some instructions for getting into the meeting and enjoying the experience.
