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"The Friendly Club"
Tuesdays at 12:15 p.m.
Woodvale Facility and Golf Clubhouse
4540 - 50 Street NW
Edmonton, AB T6L 6B6 Canada
Our Club meets every Tuesday at the Woodvale Club except for the last Tuesday of the month. A Meeting With A Twist is a meeting and social at a location, date and time to be determined. Members will be notified by email of the details.
Wendy Cooper with Rotarians Vi Hughes and Ivan Docker
This week we heard from Wendy Cooper President of the Focus on Fibre Art Association. Wendy told us that the association was founded in Edmonton in 1998 to encourage, foster and develop excellence and appreciation of fibre as an art form. She said it is a non-profit assocation which includes individual members and nine member guilds from many different areas of fibre art in the Edmonton region. These include Quilting, Ukrainian Arts, Needlecraft, Rug Hooking, Weaving and Latchet Machine Knitting which also encompass such things as lace making, felting, paper making, tapestry, wearables, doll making and much, much more. They promote these arts by sponsoring workshops throughout theyear featuring well known local, national and international artists, presenting events and providing a showcase for these arts through a biennial juried competition and exhibition of these works of art. They accept submissions from all ages, including youth.
The upcoming competition in 2024 will be the first one since 2020, when COVID restrictions forced them to shut down. The theme for this competition is ‘Keeping it Local” and there are many different categories that can be entered. The show will take place in August at their Focus on Fibre Art Studio at 10554-110 St. Wendy said that they are supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts but also welcome donations to help defray the costs of their workshops and competition. More information on their organization, workshops and upcoming competition can be found on their website www.focusonfibreart.org.
The Germain family has been a mainstay of our club from the beginning. John Germain was instrumental in the founding of our club and also our first Club President. His dedication and commitment to the Object of Rotary ‘Service above Self’ have helped our club to thrive. John’s wife Betty was the mainstay of our associated Rotary Ann group, which did most of the organizing for the many dinners and social functions in the early years. Betty was made an honorary member of our club in 2014.
John and Betty Germain
Their sons Ken and Eric were raised in this Rotary family and both have been long time members as well. Eric joined in 1990 and was Club President 1992-93 and Ken joined in 1999 and was Club President in 2009-10. Eric’s daughter Nicolle joined in 2013 and remained a member until 2019 when she became a busy new mom. There were three generations of Germains in our club during those years, a rare feat for any club.
Three Generations of Rotarians, Eric, John, Nicolle and Ken Germain
Our club has greatly benefitted from their time, talents and commitment. Eric and Ken tag teamed as Hosts for the Rotary Wheel of Fortune game at our weekly meetings over many years. Their seemingly unending font of corny jokes makes many of our meetings enjoyable, but it is their dedication and commitment of time and talents, their involvement in many of the tougher jobs such as membership building, fundraising, organizing social functions, mentoring new members, supporting our youth activities and always being willing to do the many small things it takes to help our club do good things for our community and for the world, that makes this family so special.
The Germain family has always found ways to be an inspiration to others, to challenge other members to improve and above all to have a joyful positive attitude while doing it.
For our May "Meeting With A Twist" we are golfing!
We have booked the MillWoods Golf Course for Tuesday May 28th for twenty golfers for 18 holes of golf.
This is a Fun Golf Day.
If you can ride in a golf cart and can putt, you can play. Inexperienced golfers can take as many or as few shots as they want during the game. The idea is to get Club Members and friends out on the golf course to enjoy a nice spring day and Rotary friendship. Everyone is welcome.
We will have 5 teams of 4 golfers each. Each team will play the Texas Scramble style. That is the team uses the best drive, chip or putt from all four players as their best ball, and the next shot by all team players is from the best ball location.
We will randomly choose the players for each team the morning before we tee off. Or enter your own team up to four players, so you can golf with friends or other Rotary Club members. Each team will have a Captain who is an experienced golfer. Each team can use as many shots by each player as they like. That takes the pressure off of inexperienced golfers who are out for a Fun Golf Day.
We will meet at the Millwoods Golf Course Club House between 10 AM to 10:30 AM. The first tee time is 11 AM. All golfers should be finished their golf games around 4 PM.
We will have space reserved at the Woodvale restaurant upstairs from the Pro Shop and our regular Rotary meetings, starting at 4 PM for golfers and friends to order food and beverage from the menu as they like and pay individually.
The price per player is our direct cost from the Millwoods Golf Course of $89 per player plus GST.
This includes the green fee, power cart, warm up range basket of golf balls, and a $10/player pro shop credit. Golf club rentals are available at the pro shop.
For further information or to register for our Fun Golf Day please contact:
We are desperately in need of more donations for our Wheel of Fortune. Please bring your donations to the meeting with you and give them to either Ken or Eric Germain. Small, new items such as wine, small gadgets, candy, books and any other small non-perishable items are welcome, in particular something you yourself would be happy to win!
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