Update on Eric Solash as per Friday, February 1 - 1300hrs
Eric was discharged from the Grey Nuns on Wednesday for a short recuperation at home.
He and Val attended a consultation with a plastic surgeon at the Royal Alex on Friday, Feb 1st. Reconstructive surgery will most likely commence within the next two weeks
Updates will be distributed as they become available.
Welcome to the Rotary Hockey Pool For Polio Eradication
You are invited to enter the 2nd annual Rotary Hockey Pool For Polio Eradication sponsored by the Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona.
Here’s some interesting facts about THIS hockey pool!!
You could win up to $1750, 4 prize pools, Pool is limited to 500 participants, Entry fee is $20, Every entry automatically makes a donation of $10 to PolioPlus, Every entry automatically adds $10 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 3 trade weeks incorporated into the schedule.
You will also be able to add 50/50 tickets to your purchase with or without entering the hockey pool.
This Tuesday we heard from long time member Heather de Kok, who spoke about her life’s passion of flowers and floral art design. Heather has been a rotarian for eighteen years and a florist for many years more.
She bought her florist shop from her father at age twenty-one and has never looked back. She is very passionate about showcasing floral art and either sponsors or takes part in many different competitions and displays. She is a member of the American Institute of Floral Designers, which is an elite group of designers who must pass a rigorous competition to become a member.
In the past few years she has had the opportunity to spend a week designing flowers at the White House for a visit from the Chinese president and more recently, to travel to Brazil to take part in an International competition as a representative for Canada, where she came in third. More recently Heather helped to put together two floats for the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California. Part of this entailed working non-stop for thirty-six hours straight, with one float having forty one thousand roses that each needed to be placed in a water pic. One of the two floats she worked on won the Sweepstakes Award. Last year she was honored to be invited by the Hawaiian government to help promote the use of their flowers, especially orchids, in Canada.
Heather also has two more competitions coming up in the near future. She is sponsoring the Canadian Maple Leaf Cup of Floral design, which will take place on April 5 at the Ice Arena in west Edmonton Mall. It is a cross Canada competition where twenty to twenty-five designers will each compete when given the same materials and theme. She has also been asked to be a technical advisor for the FTD World Cup of Flowers, to take place in Philadelphia at the end of February. It is an International Expo with hundreds of booths and there will be twenty-five floral designers from around the world competing.
Heather is always looking for ways to pass along her passion for floral design and is starting work on a pilot for a television program to be called The Flower Seekers to be aired on NetFlix. It was inspiring to hear from Heather about her most recent achievements and her plans for the future.
Harald was kind enough to treat our club to an open bar at this week’s meeting, as an opportunity to share the honor he was given by the government of Germany and to show us the medal that he received in recognition of his many years of service as the Honourary Consul of Germany to the German community in Edmonton, Alberta and Canada.
Ambassador Sabine Sparwasser, Harald Kuckertz, Irene Hoch, Sabrina Kuckertz
This Tuesday, January 29th, we were pleased to induct our latest member, Richard Karlsson. Richard’s classification is Medical Research. He was introduced to us by his sponsor, Ellen Weber. We look forward to getting to know Richard better over the coming months.
Club Membership Chair, Ellen Weber and Richard Karlsson
On behalf of the Eye Institute of Alberta with support from the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation:
Please join us at the Second Annual Eye Ball Gala!
Saturday, March 2, 2019
The Westin Hotel
10135 100 Street NW, Edmonton AB
It will be an enchanting evening with live entertainment and the opportunity to participate in a special, immersive virtual reality experience through Alice in Wonderland! We are bringing together ophthalmic specialists, surgeons, business and community leaders, along with loyal friends to raise awareness and funds for the fight for sight and life-enhancing work benefiting our patients being cared for at the Eye Institute of Alberta.
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