e-Strathconian, Apr 5, 2019 (Apr 05, 2019)

The Rotary Club of
Edmonton Strathcona

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e-Strathconian

April 5, 2019

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Woodvale Facility and Golf Clubhouse

4540 - 50 Street NW
Edmonton, AB T6L 6B6
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Posted on Apr 05, 2019

A link to the Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona Endowment Fund is now featured in a widget on our home page.

Hockey Pool

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.

Build your own team from scratch! It’s easy!!

To register or access the 50/50 draw click here:
tinyurl.com/HockeyPool1819

AGLC Hockey Pool Licence 505230 AGLC 50/50 Licence 505241 No tax receipts issued for this event

Canada Flag Program Online Sign-up and Payment

May 01, 2015 – Dec 31, 2019

Hockey Pool 2018-19.

Aug 29, 2018 – Apr 06, 2019 11:45 PM

Lunch at the Devonian Gardens

Devonian Gardens

May 28, 2019
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Rotary International Convention Hamburg, 2019

Hamburg

Jun 01, 2019 – Jun 05, 2019

Strathcona Golf 2019

Jun 20, 2019 2:00 PM

Rotating Wheel Dinner

Faculty Club U of A

Jun 28, 2019

Zone Conference, Niagara 2019

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Sep 19, 2019 – Sep 21, 2019

District 5370 Conference 2019

Grande Prairie

Oct 03, 2019 – Oct 05, 2019

Brent Callingwood, River Valley Alliance

Posted by Vi Hughes on Apr 02, 2019

This Tuesday we heard from Brent Collingwood, a fellow Rotarian and the Executive Director of the River Valley Alliance. This is an alliance of seven municipalities in the Edmonton region formed with the goal of creating trail connectivity to the North Saskatchewan river valley from the U of A Botanic Garden in Parkland County in the west, to the mouth of the Sturgeon River east of Fort Saskatchewan. When completed the project will have created the largest metropolitan park in North America, covering eighteen thousand acres with a single trail that has a length of one hundred kilometers. Currently our river valley is used by over twelve million people a year.

Our river valley was very industrial at one time, filled with with coal mines, lumber yards, brick yards and other businesses. In the flood of 1915, this was all swept away and the businesses there never rebuilt. In 2003 a group of people with a common vision got together and they formed the River Valley Alliance. It is a non-profit organization made up of shareholders from seven municipalities, with sixteen representative members on their board. This was quite an achievement, as trying to get even some of these municipalities to agree on anything is a challenge.

The Alliance has a twenty-five year plan for connecting all of these municipalities with one continuous trail, and also helps to provide amenities and facilities that would otherwise be unaffordable for some of the smaller municipalities, such as better access to the river, cross river pedestrian bridges, boat docks and launches, and community centers. Phase one of their plan was completed in 2017 and helped to create seventy kilometers of new trails as well as a funicular, a footbridge, a community center along with several other projects. Phase two of their plan is now underway an is expected to be completed by 2025/6. The municipalities cover one hundred percent of the up front costs and the River Valley Alliance then reimburses them for sixty percent of their costs from Federal and Provincial government grants they have applied for and received. This really helps the smaller municipalities to be able to afford this type of amenity. We can see several maps of the trails and plans for the future on their website, rivervalley.ab.ca. We would like to thank Brent for coming to tell us about this very interesting and inspiring project.

Carrie Creaser, Valley Zoo Development Society

Posted by Vi Hughes on Apr 02, 2019

This Tuesday we also heard from Carrie Creaser, the Director of Fund Development for the Valley Zoo Development Society. Their mandate is to raise funds and promote awareness to ensure the continued development of the Edmonton Valley Zoo. The society is a registered charity. The Edmonton Valley Zoo has been in continuous operation for sixty years and is continually changing. The Zoo’s goal is to educate people about the natural world around them. She used quote from Baba Dioum which says: ‘We only protect what we love, We only love what we understand, We only understand what we are taught.’

Zoos and aquariums attract more visitors each year than all of the major sporting franchises combined. This provides a get opportunity to educate people about becoming strong towards of our environment and to promote the preservation of species. Our zoo alone saw half a million visitors last year.

In 2007 the Edmonton Valley Zoo began an ambitious plan to transform the zoo. The first phase, Arctic Shores, opened in 2012. The second phase, The Urban Farm, opened this spring. The next phase, called ‘Nature’s Wild Backyard’, will include an ‘Over Zone’, to show off the animals that live above us in the tees, a ‘Between Zone’ to show off animals that live on land and in water and an ‘Under Zone’ to show off animals that live underground. The highlight of this phase will be a new Red Panda habitat. This phase also includes an area called ‘The Yard’, which provides plenty of space for adults and children to rest, have an ice cream or lunch and run off some energy playing.

The society receives some funding form the City of Edmonton, but also does a lot of fundraising throughout the year through various activities. Some of these include behind the scenes animal experiences, special events such as the Christmas light display, ‘Zoominescence’, a food vendor and zoo visit in June entitled’ Zoofest’, a fashion show, entitled ‘Zoolander’ and an event in August called ‘Zoobrew’, where you can sample brews from fifty different vendors. Another of their fundraisers is the ‘Adopt and Exhibit’ program, which our club has done. There are many ways that we can help to support our zoo that are both entertaining and educational at the same time.

Lunch at the Devonian Gardens

Posted by Audrey Martyn on Mar 29, 2019

On Tuesday May 28, 2019 Strathcona Rotary will hold its regular meeting at the Devonian Gardens followed by a tour of the gardens. [MAP]

Lunch is $20.00 but, you must sign up online.

You can pay online for you and your guest(s) [CLICK HERE]

Come and join us for a fun luncheon and bring guests.

An elegant evening of Scotch Mist

Posted on Apr 05, 2019

Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona Golf and Barbecue, Thursday , June 20th

Posted by Eric Germain on Apr 04, 2019

You are cordially invited to the Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona Golf & Barbecue Dinner on Thursday June 20^th, 2019.

The golf will start at 2 PM at the Millwoods Golf Course in Edmonton. [MAP] The 9 hole golf tournament will be a 4 player Texas Scramble. No previous golf experience or skill required. An experienced golfer will be the Team Captain, and the team plays the best ball on each shot. The golf package includes your nine hole green fees, shared power golf cart, practice range balls to warm up, use of the practice putting green, a tee gift which includes 3 Taylor Made golf balls, golf tees, ball marker, divot repair tool and a bottle of water. The golf package cost is $55 per player.

The Barbecue Dinner will start at 5 PM at the Woodvale Community Center at the Millwoods Golf Course. We will have the prime rib burger dinner with buns, fixings & condiments, fries, Caesar salad, coleslaw, vegetable pasta salad, dessert squares, fruit, coffee & tea. The barbecue dinner package cost is $25 per person.

The combined Golf & Barbecue package cost is $75 per person

Please RSVP to Eric Germain to attend or register and pay online. E-mail: egermain@is2.ca or telephone 780-991-0417. All Rotarians, family and friends are welcome to attend.

Inspiring Peace Event for Members and Exchange Students

Posted on Mar 29, 2019

This would be a great event to have youth exchange student participate in! It will be interactive and very inspirational. The $25 fee covers the workshop and lunch!

Saturday April 6 at 0900-1400 (includes lunch)

Here is the EventBrite Link to purchase tickets and the poster is attached!
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/inspire-peace-a-new-peace-paradigm-and-skill-set-tickets-58689049527

Paul K. Chappell is an international peace educator and serves as the Peace Literacy Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He graduated from West Point, was deployed to Iraq, and left active duty as a Captain.

Realizing that humanity is facing new challenges that require us to become as well-trained in waging peace as soldiers are in waging war, Chappell created Peace Literacy to help students and adults from all backgrounds work toward their full potential and a more peaceful world.

Peace Literacy frames peace not merely as a goal, but as a practical skill-set that allows us to increase realistic peace in our lives, communities, nations, and the world. Peace Literacy also helps us fully develop our human capacity for empathy, conscience, reason, and realistic hope.

Chappell is the author of the seven-book Road to Peace series about ending war, waging peace, the art of living, and our shared humanity. The first six published books in this series are Will War Ever End?, The End of War, Peaceful Revolution, The Art of Waging Peace, The Cosmic Ocean, and Soldiers of Peace.

Lecturing across the country and internationally, he also teaches college courses and workshops on Peace Literacy and Peace Leadership and leads a Peace Literacy curricular development team for k-12 and higher education.

Chappell was raised in Alabama, the son of a Korean mother and a half-black and half-white father who was a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars. Having grown up in a violent household, Chappell has forged a new understanding of war and peace, rage and trauma, and vision, purpose, and hope.

His website is www.peacefulrevolution.com; for more information about the Peace Literacy curricular project, visit www.peaceliteracy.org.

Rotating Wheel Dinner 2019

Posted by Audrey Martyn on Mar 29, 2019

Annual ROTATING WHEEL DINNER

Please join the Board of Strathcona Rotary at the Rotating Wheel Dinner on June 28 at the Faculty Club.

We have a wonderful BBQ dinner with a chance to visit and meet the new Executuve for 2091-2020. Bring a spouce or friend for a great night.

[CLICK HERE]

Free Footie Volunteers Needed: 2019 Spring Season

Posted on Mar 12, 2019

I am reaching out to your Rotary/Interact Club in efforts to find volunteers for the upcoming Spring Soccer Season.

Our organization is called Free Footie, and we provide an afterschool free soccer program. This upcoming season, we have 11 different game locations located throughout Edmonton with 60 schools participating and close to 2,000 kids playing.

Game Days are Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday from 3:45/4:00 PM – 4:45/5:00 PM.

Season runs from May 6 – June 21^st.

The roles that we have available are Field Marshal, Referees, and Coaches.

The Field Marshal responsibilities include:

Arriving 15-20 minutes before first assigned game.
Inspect field before play to ensure it is free of objects that might be a hazard.
Direct teams to appropriate game field.
Inspect field after play and address teams to clean up before leaving.
Be emergency evacuation lead.
Report any incidents or hazards to Volunteer Manager.

The Referee responsibilities include:

Watch over the game and enforce fair play.
Inspect player equipment and field equipment for safety hazards.
Referee certification would be an asset but not required.

This is a perfect role for someone who is new to refereeing and looking to learn in a less-pressured environment. This position is paid.

The Coaches role is seen as mentor for the kids. Soccer experience isn’t necessary but we do look for volunteers who are looking to be a positive role model/mentor and have had experience with kids.

All volunteers will require a vulnerable sector check from the EPS.

It would be fantastic if you can share this with your members.

If anyone is interested, they can sign up HERE.

(If the link does not work, copy and paste this URL into a web browser: https://goo.gl/forms/KI18EAn74oYk2A662)

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.

Thank you for all your help,

Adriana Martinez

Volunteer Manager

Free Footie YEG

www.freefootie.ca

She's All That

Posted by Vi Hughes on Mar 13, 2019

District 5370 Governor, Ingrid Nietsch invites all Rotarians and their guests to celebrate the dynamics of Women leaders in Rotary.

4-Way Test

RI link: 4-Way Test

Vince Campbell

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Sam Lilly, Classification Talk

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Dr. Michelle Fuko, U of A

May 07, 2019

Dr. Eleni Stroulia, Professor at UoA

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May 14, 2019

Dr. Ioanis Nikolais, Ph. D.

Wireless Communication and Privacy (or not)

May 21, 2019

Lynne and Jim Washington

Pet Therapy Society of Northern Alberta. Pets helping people.

May 28, 2019

Lee Foote

U of A Botanic Gardens - Special Visit

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Peddie, Jim

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