This past Tuesday we heard from Andreas Lybecker Larsen, a Rotary Exchange student from Copenhagen, Denmark. Andreas is one of four Rotary exchange students in the Edmonton area and one of thirteen in our Rotary District. He is being hosted by the Edmonton Downtown Rotary club. Andreas is sixteen years old and is currently attending grade ten at McNally High School. He is also keeping very busy with many different Rotary related activities. He regularly attends the Edmonton Downtown club meetings and the Victoria School of Fine Arts Interact club meetings. He arrived in Edmonton in mid August and will be living with four different Rotary host families over the course of his exchange year.
He has had the chance to travel, see and do many different things in his past few months in Alberta and told us about some of them. He gave am interesting presentation complemented by many pictures of the places and things he has done so far, and people he has met. His first truly Canadian experience was the trip here with Air Canada. His flight from Copenhagen to San Francisco, and overnite stay there went smoothly, but getting from there to Edmonton required him to spend many long hours in airports waiting for multiple delayed flights, resulting in having to rebook missed connections three times, and then was capped off with a long delay at Customs in Calgary. He feels that he is now a pro at dealing with Air Canada booking agents.
His has spent time with his host family at their lake lot and has also been on trips to Banff and Lake Louise to go skiing and snowboarding, attended an Eskimos Football game, an Oilers Hockey game, several concerts, experienced West Ed Mall Galaxyland, and done lots of walking around Edmonton. He even got to try out playing hockey. His school life has been busy as he is playing school volleyball whenever he can. He also has made many visits to Tim Hortons, and says he has bought something there forty two times already this year.
With the Rotary exchange students group he has been to the District Conference in Ft McMurray, a high light of which was a helicopter ride over the oil sands. The group also went canoeing down the North Saskatchewan river near Edmonton, where he quickly found out it was not possible to paddle upstream. He and his canoe partner had to climb out into the rocks and water to carry their canoe upstream. The exchange student group also helped to package food for Rise Against Hunger, helped out with building homes for Habitat for Humanity and worked at the Edmonton Food Bank.
His goal for this exchange was to experience as many new things as possible. He has already surpassed his bucket list, and is looking forward to many more new adventures and opportunities.
Please join us for the annual Christmas Party of the Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona on Tuesday December 5, 2017.
It will be held once again at the Edmonton Golf and Country Club. This is an event not to be missed.
We are doing the Shoebox project again this year. We will explain in more details later, but starting Tuesday November 7th, we will have the appropriate box available for you to pick up at our meeting. The cost is $2.25 per box.
Open this Link to see more details about the Shoebox Project.
Bring your significant other, family and friends, your singing voices and Christmas Spirit and enjoy a relaxed evening among Rotary friends.
Dress: Professional Dress – no denim allowed in the Club
Cocktails are at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served at 7p.m.. Please register as soon as possible.
Registration deadline¨December 2nd, payable in advance to Rose Marie or Graham or on-line
Need technical assistance? Contact Hans Granholm, 780-466-5566
The first trading week is the first week of January
Welcome to the Rotary Hockey Pool For Polio Eradication, Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona
Here’s some interesting facts about THIS hockey pool!!
Pool is limited to 330 participants, Entry fee is $30, Every entry automatically make a donation of $15 to PolioPlus, Every entry automatically adds $15 to the prize pool, Each team will consist of 3 goalies, 8 defenceman and 12 forwards for a total of 23 players, get rid of those underperforming or injured players during the 2 trade weeks incorporated into the schedule.
Test your hockey knowledge by building your own team from scratch!
To register click here: http://tinyurl.com/HockeyPool1718CLOSED
After registering you will receive an email with a link to the online pool.
Hockey Pool Rules are as follows:
Pool is limited to 330 participants
Entry fee is $30 Registration closes November 30th 2017 11:50 pm
Every entry automatically make a donation of $15 to PolioPlus
Every entry automatically adds $15 to the prize pool
Each team will be made up of 3 goalies, 8 defenceman and 12 forwards for a total of 23 players
** Teams that exceed the above player allocations will be deleted by Admin**
January 1-7th 2018 is a trade week, teams can trade up to 3 players
March 1-7th 2018 is a trade week, teams can trade up to 3 players
Prize Pool is allocated as follows:
40% of accumulated prize pool is paid to the participant with highest overall team score
20% of accumulated prize pool is paid to the participant with the highest performing group of 12 forwards
20% of accumulated prize pool is paid to the participant with the highest performing group of 8 defenceman
10% of accumulated prize pool is paid to the participant with the highest performing group of 3 goalies
10% of accumulated prize pool is paid to online transaction fees.
**Ties in any of the above categories will be split evenly among winners**
We made a lovely lasagna dinner for 100 people. Many of the RMH residents young and old, enjoyed our dinner and good company. Thanks to all of our Interact Club members who came out, and our Rotary Club drivers who provided the rides from Percy Page to RMH. We received many compliments from the guests and staff at RMH for providing their “Home For Dinner” meal this evening. Myself and Carin had a nice conversation with a Mom and her 2 year old son ( who liked Carin very much!) from Drayton Valley, who are taking their 6 week baby girl/sister home tomorrow after a medical procedure to help the baby survive. It makes our problems and challenges in life considerably smaller. The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Our Rotary group has partnered in a joint venture with the Rotary Club of Pretoria to help raise funds for the New Hope School in Pretoria. Patrick Gibson has put together a presentation that he will be making to the other rotary clubs in our area to encourage them to help us with this venture. Our goal is to put enough funding in place for us to be able to apply for a Rotary International matching grant.
Patrick gave us the same presentation he will be making to other local rotary groups. It included a short introduction on the New Hope School, followed by a video that has been prepared by the New Hope School. The New Hope School has been one of the projects of our club for some years now, and most of our members are well aware of the work they do in schooling for handicapped children in the Pretoria area. They provide many services above and beyond the usual schooling activities, such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and many others, as needed by their students.
They receive only basic funding from the local government, so must fundraise to provide these other services. Some of the specific projects our funds could be used for would be a specialised playground, or programs to provide technical skills such as kitchen skills, nail and hair salon skills and sewing skills. Patrick has also put together a ‘Go Fund Me’ page on the web, on which people can get more information, view the video and make contributions. We will also be adding a link on our Rotary web page to this site.
As you may know RI President Ian Riseley is holding six peacebuilding conferences around the world. The first of these international conferences is close for your members to attend. On February 9-11, 2018 in Vancouver, BC. The presidential peacebuilding conference will examine sustainable global and local environmental practices, and their contributions to peacebuilding and peacemaking.
Participants will discuss the impact of environmental issues on health, fresh air, clean water, vegetation, and food production – and how improved environmental conditions are a fundamental condition of building peace within communities. The conference will bring together community leaders, youth, and representatives from the public, private, and government sectors. Attendees also can participate in a hands-on service project the morning after the conference.
There will be a focus on how Rotary clubs can involve their local community in sustainable projects and peacebuilding.
Members of any Rotary club are to encouraged to attend this important international Rotary event.
The conference website has a list of keynote speakers, link to book a hotel room, draft program and a link to the registration. Please visit: www.EnvironmentandPeace.com.
Rotarians from the US, Canada and around the world will come together at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver for this conference. Will your club be represented?
Thank you for all you do for Rotary and your community,
Chris Offer, PDG for Rotary Peacebuilding Conference Vancouver
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