Cindy Mewhinney

Guest speaker Cindy Mewhinney
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Cindy began by making if very clear that she doesn't like to follow rules, but prefers to bend them.Her catch phrase is, ,I've got an idea", she can't cook or judge time, her family and friends are most important and she lives by a work hard, play hard philosophy.

Cindy Mewhinney

She grew up in Midland, Ontario with her parents, an older brother and younger sister.
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It was during her time in South Africa that Cindy decided to study music full-time.Music has always played an integral part of her and her family's life.She started playing the piano at age 6 (she certainly proved she could tickle the ivories at one of our meetings!), but stopped in early teens.Upon her return from her exchange, Cindy attended the University of Western Ontario and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music.One of her first jobs was a fundraising position with the Toronto Symphony.

At university, Cindy also took a computer science course.This interesting course became more so as Derek, her instructor would go on to become her husband!They lived in Mississauga for five years, but with Derek's family living in Niagara, they decided to move here to start their own family.Son Ethan and daughter Abbey complete the Mewhinney family.

After her maternity leave with Ethan, Cindy became Campaign Director for the United Way, enjoying the variety of the job.Major Gifts is her focus and the area of the campaign that is growing the fastest.She enjoys being able to create a connection between the donor, their interests and the need within the community.

Cindy was formerly a member of the Rotary Club of Mississauga and was pleased when Walter Sendzik invited her to join our club, which she did in September, 2007.

Liz Palmieri thanked Cindy for her joyful classification talk.
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Cindy Mewhinney & President Tom Arkell

Tom thanked Cindy Mewhinney for entertaining us on the piano prior to the meeting.
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Cindy is an excellent pianist, and played a lovely repertoire of love songs.

"President" Cindy Mewhinney called the meeting to order today at 12:35 pm at the St. Catharines Golf & Country Club.
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"President": Cindy Mewhinney
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Cindy Mewhinney
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"President" Cindy added her thanks and presented Serge with the dictionary which will be donated to an inner city school.
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Cindy then thanked the club for the opportunity to host the meeting today, and reiterated the value of actually becoming a Rotarian, rather than just being a member of Rotary.

Walter Sendzik and Cindy Mewhinney
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Cindy is the Director of Resource Development for the St. Catharines and District United Way.She grew up in Midland and became involved in Rotary as a Youth Exchange student who traveled to South Africa in 1992 , 1993.She went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Western Ontario.Her initial career in music as a professional pianist quickly changed to fundraising for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.She has a 5-year old son Ethan and a 2-year old daughter Abby.Cindy is the music director at Christ Lutheran Church.Please welcome our newest Rotarian, Cindy Mewhinney.

Cindy MewhinneyCampaign Director

Cindy MewhinneyDirector of Resource Developmentcmewhinney@stcatharines.unitedway.caExt. 114