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 past week we welcomed a visit from our current District Governor, Ingrid Neitsch. Ingrid has been travelling round our large district visiting with each club. Our district has fifty-seven clubs, with over two thousand members and stretches from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories and Ft. Nelson in northern BC, south to include Jasper, Camrose and east to Battleford, Saskatchewan. So far Ingrid has put forty-two thousand kilometers on her vehicle travelling to visit various clubs.
Her message to our club, and to all of the clubs in our district, follows this year’s Rotary International’s theme of ‘Be the Inspiration’. It also includes a heavy emphasis on taking care of our family of members and growing our membership so that we an continue to make a change both in our community and beyond. We need to remember that the change we bring will endure beyond us and will continue to spread outwards. We are like the members of an orchestra that starts playing one at a time but when all of the members have joined in the message is overwhelming. She also asked us to think of a moment when we were inspired and then asked us what we did in response. Then she reminded us that we can be the vehicle that helps other people’s dreams of a better education, a better life, and many other hopes and dreams come true.
She then talked about how our support of the Rotary Foundation is a key in this goal. She then presented our club Foundation chair, Patrick Gibson, with a banner, as every member of our club made a donation to the Foundation over the past year. She also talked about how our support of Polio Plus has helped to eliminate polio around the world and stressed the need for us to continue our support for this program as the fight is not over yet.
Ingrid has also been working together with other people in our district to create a strategic plan to support our current members and to increase our membership. Their goal is to establish three new clubs and to attain a net increase of fifty members. This would mean that each club would have a goal of retaining their current membership and also adding three new members this year. In order to do this she reminded us that we are the best advertisement to bring in new members for our clubs.
She also spoke about the role that Rotary can play in peace and conflict resolution. This is something we can work with and teach our children about. Rotary supports Peace Scholars through the Peacebuilder District Fund who work in many places around the world to promote peace in many different ways. Our District has not sponsored an applicant for this in several years, but this year we will. Our district would need to raise the equivalent of sixty-one dollars per member each year in order to support this.
Vince Campbell then presented Ingrid with a cheque for thirty-four hundred fifteen dollars, which works out to sixty-one dollars per member towards the Rotary International Peacebuilder District program from our club. Ingrid thanked us and said that we were the first club to make a contribution for each member in this way.
She closed by have everyone stand and hold hands as we repeated the Rotary theme for this year, that we will ‘Be the Inspiration’.
Today, fields of brilliant poppies still grow in France.
A writer first made the connection between the poppy and battlefield deaths during the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century, remarking that fields that were barren before battle exploded with the blood-red flowers after the fighting ended.
During the tremendous bombardments of the First World War the chalk soils became rich in lime from rubble, allowing 'popaver rhoeas' to thrive. When the war ended the lime was quickly absorbed, and the poppy began to disappear again.
After John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields was published in 1915 the poppy became a popular symbol for soldiers who died in battle.
Three years later an American, Moina Michael, was working in a New York City YMCA canteen when she started wearing a poppy in memory of the millions who died on the battlefield.
During a 1920 visit to the United States a French woman, Madame Guerin, learned of the custom. On her return to France she decided to use handmade poppies to raise money for the destitute children in war-torn areas of the country. In November, 1921, the first poppies were distributed in Canada.
Thanks to the millions of Canadians who wear flowers each November, the little red plant has never died. And neither have Canadian's memories for 116,031 of their countrymen who died in battle.
InFlanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
A dollar for dollar match for your donation to my favourite Canadian charity, Amarok,is being offered! Only 4 Weeks! Please read the article and decide if your family has a desire to positively impact the lives of Mothers and Daughters in Bangladesh. They become teachers in the slums by the hundreds!
Ostensibly, democracy is one of the chief exports of the western world. It’s conflated with freedom and is seen as inherently valuable for its own sake. There’s also a belief that once democracy is introduced to a country, the citizens will use it to resolve all the country’s problems.
But Democracy isn’t a pizza: we can’t just deliver it to a society’s doorstep, never giving a thought to what’s on the other side of that door. Democracy, rather, is a tree that we’re transplanting: it requires numerous other factors to help it thrive. An uninformed public, for instance, can’t exercise an effective democracy. Likewise, a corrupt government can stand in the way of fair processes and accessibility. It takes more than the advent of an election to realize the democratic ideal.
Rupa never used to leave her slum. This isn’t strange; none of the women there felt comfortable venturing far from their home. Mobility was just one more privilege of men. She couldn’t read, either. I know that her city, Dhaka, has municipal elections, but how on earth that practically functions in the slums is beyond me, where most people can’t read, almost half of the voting-age population feels repressed by the other half, and even something as simple as going for a walk can be problematic. How does unbiased information find its way into such a place? How does an informed, representative vote come out?
There are a hundred ways in which education has transformed Rupa’s sense of herself. She and her classmates are now leaders in their community. So, when a group of them went to speak to a city counsellor to discuss an unfulfilled campaign promise, that marked a huge shift in the community. Democracy wasn’t achieved when Bangladesh got the vote. But when Rupa marches freely with her fellow students to hold local government accountable, they are taking an admirable step in democracy’s direction.
Strike a Match, Light the way
Really want to make your donation go far? For any donation received before December 5th, Haulover Investments will match your donation! Just make sure you include the word ‘Match’ in your message when you donate. Click here to make your stand for peace and education.
We would like to acknowledge our gratitude to the Rotary Club of Spruce Grove, the Callista Fund, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation for their generosity in supporting our operations. We are also extremely grateful to all the individuals, Rotary Clubs, and corporations who are supporting us. As Amarok Society donors, you recognize that the world’s education crisis is destructive and inhumane, and that education is a basic human right. Your generous support is leading the path to global education and sustainable peace.
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