The Atlanta Host Organization Committee is offering some good old-fashioned Southern hospitality at the Rotary International Convention from 10 to 14 June. It has planned a wide range of activities featuring everything from good food and music to inspiring tours of local landmarks. If it’s your first convention, these events are chances to meet fellow Rotarians from around the world, and if you’re an experienced convention goer, you can catch up with old friends.
Hall of Fame baseball player Hank Aaron will host Rotarians for a “Strike Out Polio” night at the new SunTrust Park, where you’ll...
When Teguest Yilma helped found the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa Entoto in 2002, she thought polio had already been eradicated from most of the world. But while Ethiopia had been free of the disease, Yilma was shocked to learn that new cases had started cropping up in surrounding countries such as Somalia.
“I was thinking, it’s not possible, we can’t be free if the countries around us are not free,” she says. Yilma, the managing editor of Capital, Ethiopia’s largest English weekly newspaper, has brought a journalist’s skills to the fight against polio. She became vice chair of the Ethiopia...
Battling breast cancer in 2000, Kathryn Smith found comfort pursuing her lifelong interest in Franklin D. Roosevelt. The more she read, the more intrigued she became with the 32nd U.S. president’s private secretary, Marguerite Alice “Missy” LeHand. “I thought, what a fascinating life she had because she was by his side through the polio crisis, establishing the polio rehabilitation center in Warm Springs and then after his return to politics,” she says. Smith, a past president of the Rotary Club of Greater Anderson, S.C., and a longtime newspaper journalist, turned that curiosity into a book...
One of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s earliest memories is of fleeing with his family into the mountains during the Korean War, his village burning behind him. His father and grandfather had to forage for food in the woods; his mother gave birth to his siblings away from anything remotely resembling a health facility. “I have known hunger,” he says. “I have known war, and I have known what it means to be forced to flee conflict.”
The soldiers who came to their rescue were flying the blue flag of the United Nations. The UN provided them with food and their schools with books....
Like a lot of us, I spent much of my childhood riding bikes, but fell out of the habit for a while. Forty years. Then my wife and I moved to New York, where cyclists risk their necks in a daily Thunderdome of cabs, police cars, firetrucks, double-decker buses, messengers on motorbikes, and delivery trucks backing around corners at 20 miles an hour. Not for me! At least not until my 50th birthday, when my metabolic furnace flamed out. Calories started going directly from beer bottle to beer belly. It was time to start exercising. Either that or give up Samuel Adams, and I couldn’t do that to...
Members are reminded about the UPDATED District Volunteer Security Policy, DOWNLOAD HERE.
This policy was generated from the requirement of our insurance company providing liability coverage in case of issues arising from members and non-Rotarians working with youth and other vulnerable members of our society.
The policy provides that all involved Rotarians and non-Rotarians complete a vulnerable persons police check. Click on "Read more..." or title 'Police Check' to read more about the relaxed submission procedure which has been greatly simplified.
Contact Hans Granholm, 780-466-5566 for more information.
On Tuesday, we were treated to a very interesting talk from Heather Smith, pictured, President of BBE. BBE has been supplying northern logistics services, shipping cargo into the arctic, since 1977. Their largest bonded warehouses are at the Edmonton International Airport (EIA) and the Ottawa International Airport, with transport links to Calgary, Winnipeg, Yellowknife, Fort Simpson, Norman Wells, Inuvik, Iqaluit and Baker Lake. They can ship cargo by air, ship, truck, rail, barge, or over ice roads to practically anywhere in the Canadian north.
Heather talked about how she got into the business and slowly worked her way up to where she is now. Originally, BBE was a small company owned by Heather’s father that was based in Yellowknife. As a teenager, she worked in the warehouse, sweeping floors, collecting items for shipment, and loading planes with supplies for northern exploration companies. Her first love at the time was competitive skiing, and when she finished school she went to work for a large sports retailer, Forzani Group, as a purchaser, specializing in snow sports. There she learned the basics of how a large supply chain works. She then decided she could make more money by going to Japan to teach skiing. Once she returned to Canada, she again went to work for her father helping with the dismantling of an old rig in the Beaufort Sea, shipping it south for refitting and then shipping it back. Soon afterwards her father decided to sell his company to an Inuit and Inuvialuit owned company. Heather then worked with them, in logistics, on many different projects, shipping supplies into the north. After a few years, she was offered the job of president, which she decided to take even though she had little business experience running a company. However, she expanded her knowledge through taking an MBA in business.
Eventually Heather and four other partners raised the funds to buy BBE and the company has grown to be a major supplier of goods to the arctic. They are a third part logistics company, taking on clients needing to move cargo into the north, by planning and hiring transportation to deliver the cargo, on time, to wherever it may have to go, and no matter how remote the site may be. They currently have a forty thousand square foot warehouse at the EIA, which handles freight for twelve different airlines flying into Edmonton. They also track cargo for all kinds of companies, in long chains of custody. They handle everything from puppies on their way from a breeder to a new home in the north, to helicopters, drilling rigs and mining equipment. They also take part in a fresh food for the north program, where they shop for items like milk and fresh produce and then ship it to remote northern locations along with their other cargo. She has found that it is a little more challenging to find ways to cut costs in the current downturn, as most of their business in the north supports infrastructure projects and mature businesses. She says that there is almost no exploration going on right now, however the melting sea ice has made some areas more accessible and exploration is starting to pick up. She enjoys the daily challenges, and is confident that their business will continue to thrive into the future.
Today's speaker was proposed by our Past President and past member, Art Baird and we were delighted to have Art join us for lunch.
Tickets are going fast to the 2017 YESS Gala for Youth! Guests will enjoy elegant entertainment, sumptuous décor, and a decadent feast worthy of the gods. Dive in with us to discover the timeless secrets and hidden treasures of the lost city of Atlantis!
It all takes place on April 28, 2017, in the luxury of the SHAW Conference Centre.
Location - Hall D, Shaw Conference Centre (9797 Jasper Avenue)
Cocktails - 6:30PM
Program & Gala Dinner Begins, Cash Bar - 7:30PM
Parking - Parking options include the Impark Underground Lot at Canada Place, Impark Surface Lot at the Courtyard by Marriott, and the Grierson Hill Surface Lot
Additional Activities include a Live and Silent Auction
Dress - Cocktail or in Theme (Atlantis)
Last year's Gala for Youth was one of the most successful fundraisers in YESS history. Be a part of the life-changing programs and resources that help youth who are in crisis and experience homelessness on their way to brighter futures.
On 24 Feb, our President, Dmitri Papanicolas, was honored at the Consulting Engineers of Alberta 2017 Awards Ceremony, where he received the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Distinguished Service.
The award was given in recognition of his thirty years of service with Thurber Engineering Ltd, and also his twenty-four years of service to the community through the Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona.
Campbell Chow gave a short presentation accompanied by a video on his many achievements with Thurber Engineering, and more specifically in his field of geotechnical engineering.
Read Dimitri's success story and view the Lieutenant Governor's citation. CLICK HERE
He helped to expand the services that Thurber provides through the years to incorporate geo-environmental engineering, and construction materials engineering. For the last four years, Dmitri has been a specialist consultant with Thurber, acting as a mentor for younger engineers, helping them with their technical and business management skills.
We would like to congratulate him on receiving this very prestigious honour.
We are delighted that you have chosen The Mustard Seed for your volunteer opportunity and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you sincerely for your kindness and generosity.
Volunteers have to be at least 13 years of age to serve meals at the church and must be accompanied by an adult
Volunteers must be at least 18 years old to volunteer on their own
The Meal group must be no larger than 12 people
The Meal group are required to prepare, cook, serve, assist with other related tasks, and clean up after the meal
The Meal group should arrive (together) at the church by 5 pm and available until 9 pmMonday to Friday
The Meal group should arrive (together) at the church by 3 pm and available until 7 pmon Saturday
The meal group is encouraged to car pool; parking is available at the back, on the street in front and the north side of the building
The food coordinator will help the group get settled and give the group members their tasks for the evening
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Come dressed in fairly casual, comfortable loose fitting clothing that can get dirty
NO open toed shoes or sandals will be permitted
No bandanas as their meaning can be misinterpreted
No clothing with profanity or inappropriate messages and / or graphics
We require that all people working in the kitchen wear a hair net which will be provided
Please dress modestly (no short skirts, halter tops or midriff bearing clothing) Shirts with sleeves (short or long) must be worn in the kitchen – no tank tops
The group must have a designated leader and all group members must sign in and out on the sign in sheets. Please contact The Food Coordinator when you arrive at the church. We hope this experience will be a blessing to you as well as the community we serve.
A man rushes his limp dog to the veterinarian. The doctor pronounces the dog dead. The agitated man demands a second opinion.
The vet goes into the back room and comes out with a cat. The cat sniffs the body and meows. The vet says, "I'm sorry, but the cat thinks that your dog is dead, too."
The man is still unwilling to accept that his dog is dead.
The vet brings in a black Labrador. The lab sniffs the body and barks. The vet says, "I'm sorry, but the lab thinks your dog is dead, too."
The man finally resigns to the diagnosis and asks how much he owes. The vet answers, "$650."
"$650 to tell me my dog is dead?" exclaims the man.
"Well," the vet replies, "I would only have charged you $50 for my initial diagnosis. The additional $600 is for the cat scan and lab tests."
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. Benjamin Franklin
Rtn. Jerry Kelly from Victoria, formerly with the RC Edmonton, joined us at the zoo and gave us an invitation to join other golfers from around the world to their 54th golf tournament in Victoria BC. The "International Golfing Fellowship of Rotary" is one of the oldest Rotary Fellowships.
INQUIRY FOR INTEREST FOR A TRIP TO GREECE IN SEPTEMBER 2017
After the 2016 successful Tour of Greece there has been an interest in a repeat. If you or acquaintances of yours are interested in participating in an 8 to 10 days bus tour of Greece please send an e-mail to Dimitri Papanicolas at dpapanicolas@outlook.com in order to receive more information. The number of participants should not exceed 20, on first come first saved basis. We will also connect with a few Rotary Clubs during the trip and see if we can organize a visit. The tour is open to non-Rotarian too.
The tour will take place in the mainland visiting archeological sites, religious sites, overall site seeing (see map) and of course some local food, wine, ouzo and shopping. Island and cruise tours can be organized separately before or after the tour.
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