Our speaker on Tuesday, Jan 19th, was Mother Teresa Elementary School Principal Dean Sullivan.
Principal Dean Sullivan
Dean is a school administrator for 12 years running and an inner-city high-needs school Principal at Mother Teresa Catholic School for 8 years wherein lies his passion.
Dean is a professional musician who seeks to bring music to students whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Three years ago the YONA Sistema (Youth Orchestra Northern Alberta) program started at Mother Teresa with twenty young students. The program has now grown to sixty and in doing so has outgrown the physical capacity of Mother Teresa, hence the bulk of the program moved to St. Alphonsus School close by.
The young students, from grades 1-2 and up started out with violins and they have now moved on to violas, cellos and bases. In late 2015 a percussion section was added.
The YONA program is sponsored by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and member musicians take an active role in teaching and mentoring the young students. The program is a full social activity program with music as the main focus and it operates every weekday afternoon after regular school hours.
We need chaperones to facilitate interact Club members from Victoria School and Lillian Osborne School to go to Belize City for a playground build project.
We need 2 chaperones for this trip, and if we cannot find 2 chaperones the Interactors will not be able to participate in this project.
The group will leave on February 19th and return on February 27th. There are 6 to 8 students, all female, that are planning to go.
This is an opportunity to participate in an international service project as well as mentor these young people as ambassadors for Rotary and for Canada.. They are in the final stages of planning for this trip.
For anyone who has never been, Belize is a beautiful country. English is the main language so it's easy to get around.
Please consider this project, if you are able to be a chaperone please let me know as soon as possible.
I can provide more detailed information for anyone who would be interested. Lets make this happen for the Interactors
Pooja Dutta, alumni of the J Percy Page Interact Club and fresh member of the Rotaract Club of University of Alberta, sends us an invitation to participate in one of their annual fundraisers, 'A Night for Nicaragua'.
Event is taking place Friday January 29th at 1800 hrs.
We would like to take this opportunity as the new year starts, to remind you about Rotary Global Rewards, our member benefit program featuring special offers that allow you to do a lot more for a lot less—no matter what you’re doing.
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Please share this exciting news with your members. You’ll find promotional tools on the Rotary Global Rewards website that will help you introduce your Rotarian friends to the program.
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