Events

Sunday Agyekum, is a Rotarian from Ghana, West Africa. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Cape Coast Central, District 9102. He was born in Ghana on 18^th March, 1983 and he is the oldest of six. He has a wife, Ellen and they’re expecting to welcome their first child in October this year. He is actually a boy and his name is Amiyine which means “He knows God”

Sunday migrated to Canada, January this year as a Permanent Resident to join his wife who is a Licensed Practical Nurse at the Moncton City Hospital. Prior to his coming to Canada, he worked as the Corporate Affairs Manager of Groupe Nduom, a multi-national company with over 50 companies in Ghana, Togo, Liberia, UK and the United States.

Sunday holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Management Studies from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana but for a fresh and humble beginning with his new life in Canada, he decided to go back to school to attain some Canadian Education. He is currently reading two programs; Supply Chain and Logistics at Eastern College and a Master’s Degree in Organizational Management at Crandall University, both in Moncton.

Sunday has been a Rotarian for the past 4 years and for 3 consecutive years, he was the Director of Public Image for the Rotary Club of Cape Coast Central from 2015 to 2018. He is a Paul Harris Fellow and has attended 4 District Conferences and two International Conventions; South Korea 2016 in Seoul and Toronto, 2018.

Leslie Wilson is President and General Manager of Ski Wentworth. She’s also co-chair of Kerr Controls and on the management team at Wilsons Fuel. She sits on the boards of the Atlantic Snow Resorts Association and the Canadian Ski Council.

Leslie graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in physical and health education, and followed that up with a journalism degree from Humber College. Before hitting the slopes, she established her journalism career at the Truro Daily News before moving on to positions at CBC, Global, the National Sport Centre in Calgary and the Calgary Sun.

Leslie has been inducted into the Colchester County Sport Hall of Fame, for her achievements in Track and Field. She’s also in the University of Toronto Sport Hall of Fame and was Nova Scotia female athlete of the year in 1986. 

Lesley’s father Dave is recipient of the Rotary Club’s 2014-2015 Community Service Award. The Wilson family has always been great supporters of Rotary.

Warren and Andrea Manthorne will tell us about the wooden ships and boats they are bulding in Upper Onslow at the Eye and Batten Wooden Boatworks. Warren and Andrea have lived in Truro for about 27 years. Warren is from the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia (Seal Harbour, Guys. Co) and  Andrea is from St. John's NL. They have been building boats together for about 28 years and Warren has been building them since the young age of 13. Boat building has been in his family for at least 7 generations. 

You'll be surprised about the size of their operation right in our community.  Using traditional medhods, they are working on 2 schooners presently, their largest project is the 23-metre schooner Lena Blanche.

Terry Thorsen is a mathematics teacher retired from Cobequid Educational Center who now has the time to revisit his youthful pursuits of hiking, biking, canoeing and skiing. Since retiring he has walked the Camino Santiago, hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to rim, learned how to skate ski, walked Hadrian's Wall with his wife Patricia, and most recently completed a roadtrip across North America in a van that he converted himself.