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Edmonton Strathcona
 
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Marh 13, 2020
 
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Woodvale Facility and Golf Clubhouse
4540 - 50 Street NW
Edmonton, AB  T6L 6B6
Canada
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Youth Exchange 2019-20
The Rotary Clubs of Edmonton Strathcona and Edmonton South are partnering in the Youth Exchange program for 2019-20.
 
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Mar 21, 2020 6:00 PM
 
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Jun 08, 2020 11:30 AM
 
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ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS!
Posted by Donna Hutton on Mar 13, 2020
 
ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS AND GUESTS OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF EDMONTON STRATHCONA
 
Over the past week, the implications for group meetings as a result of the Corona Virus have changed. Some of the notifications I have recieved from national and international health advisory organizations are suggesting curtailment of group meetings.
 
Although our Rotary meetings have usually less than 50 people my concern is that our population is an at risk group because of age and predisposition to international travel.
 
As a result, our Board has decided to  cancel our weekly meetings until May 1 and reassess at that time based upon further developments. I will provide updates to all of you as we continue to monitor developments. Please let me know if anyone needs assistance during this trying time....as always we support each other! 
 
Thank you Donna
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Stories
Brent Francis, Edmonton Chamber of Commerce
Posted by Vira Hughes on Mar 12, 2020

This past Tuesday we heard from Brent Francis, the Director of Advocacy and Outreach for the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce. Brent told us that the role of the Chamber is to Advocate, Educate and Connect businesses from the greater Edmonton area. He said that they have nineteen hundred member companies in the metro Edmonton area. They help their members to grow and succeed by hosting events, providing trade workshops and providing networking opportunities. They also have partnerships with other business communities around the world. They are part of the Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition that represents more than fifty percent of the people in Canada. They also work with the Calgary Chamber of Commerce and those in more northerly communities to ensure that businesses in all of Alberta benefit.

Brent said that right now, many businesses are struggling trying to keep the doors open and to attract investment. The chamber advocates on behalf of their members to promote projects such as the trans mountain pipeline. They also advocate for regulations that will make running a business easier for their members, such as more consistency from province to province. He said that right now, when moving large loads on highways, BC only allows transport during daylight and Alberta only allows transport at night. Sizes of product allowed for sale are often different from province to province. Certification for trades is different from province to province. All of these things make it difficult for a local business to expand to other provinces. On the federal front the pipelines are a big issue right now. Eighty percent of our oil is currently exported to the US, but they are becoming a less reliable customer so we need to expand and sell our product to overseas markets.

He said that he wished he had some good news to give us, but that he was actually here to tell us the truth. We would like to thank him for his very honest and interesting presentation.

Variety Alberta, Go Baby Go Program
Posted by Vi Hughes on Mar 12, 2020

This past Tuesday we heard a short presentation from a representative of the Go Baby Go Program sponsored by Variety -the Children’s Charity of Alberta.

This charity supports children with special needs to gain greater independence and become more active members of their community. Go Baby Go program provides motorized transport in the form of a brightly colored child sized car, which they brought along for us to see, that really appeals to children and to the child in all of us. The vehicle is tailored to the needs of the individual child so that they can control it in order to get around their home and their neighborhood.

They are looking for sponsors for their upcoming Go Baby Go car give away. They will be having a car adaptation workshop on the first day, where the vehicles are modified to suit the individual recipient and the next day the presentations will be made to the recipients. The sponsorship cost of one car is three thousand dollars. They will be donating one hundred vehicles this year in Edmonton.
W.P. Wagner Rotary Interact Club Update
Posted by Vi Hughes on Mar 12, 2020
This week we welcomed several members of the W.P. Wagner Rotary Interact club to our lunch meeting.
Their president, Jasmine, gave us a short update on some of the fundraisers and events they have organized this past year.
Two of the charities they have chosen to support are Ronald McDonald House and the Grandmother’s Campaign.  
Letter of Thanks from Combined Rotary Women’s School, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 
Posted by Ken Germain on Mar 02, 2020
Dear Rotary Club of Strathcona, Mayfield, Urban Spirits, Whyte Avenue and Hinton,
 
We hope you all are well in Canada. We are fine and our school is going well. The children we are teaching are also well in good health. Their education is going well. This is our pleasure to share with you about our progress and initiatives. We het inspiration from our school to improve our life and develop our livelihood. We dream for a better future for our children and for the neighborhood children we teach.
 
 
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We learn in our school and do many things joyful to our life. Early of this month we celebrated marriage ceremony of one of our friends in school. We presented a flower bunch to her and a pen. Another mother of our school brought the flowers from her own flower tub. She enjoyed the day and expressed that nobody wishes her in marriage ceremony even not by her husband. But we did and she loved the event. Actually mothers of our school are now friends of each other and help each other in crisis and share our problems to get support and encouragement to overcome.
 
 
Our Library is running well and transection of books and readers have increased. We get newspaper in library from reading newspaper could know about the news of our country and abroad. In our country newspapers are full of bad news, sad news, news about corruptions but also some good and inspirational news covered. Beginning of the year we have decided to collect good news are motivational from the newspaper and share with each other in school and in community. Negative thinking and sharing of bad news demotivate people but good features motivate others to do good and we are doing that now. ‘Shirin’ is a mother of our school who is also responsible to operate the library. People take books before and after school time. She has a very bad news which is a common in the life of many poor women living in slum. Her husband has married another woman and taken her as 2nd wife at a time. There is an inequality in our religion norm that a man entitled by religion to take 3 wives together. Last few months the information was hidden but it came out suddenly. After listening the news Shirin was broken down thinking about her children. All mothers of our school encouraged her to be strong and not to bob down. We will help her if needs to live alone, involve in works that she can educate her children and maintain her livelihood on her own. 4 mothers of our school visited her housed and talked to her husband and wanted to know why she has taken such bad decision. The man is a thoughtless personality and said “sorry” to us and we could not continue our argument.
 
 
We have good news too; Rabbi is our friend study in Mother School. She is poor and struggles to maintain her livelihood with her daughter as her husband is died few years before. She works as housemaid and maintains her livelihood. A bad person lives next to our slum advised to marry off her daughter in early age but she was not convinced and shared with us in school. She wants to educate her daughter and marry her at legal age. Rabbi knows very well about the demerits of early marriage. Sometimes she sends her daughter to our teacher for higher level of math and she is doing very well.
 
In our Mother School our teacher gives us current news and information. She listens from us if anyone gets, reads anything interesting. She has shared with us about a VIRUS name ‘Corona Virus’ originated in China and mostly affected in a place of China. It is a dangerous Virus difficult to know about the infection but once could know about possibly will die. Major symptoms are cough, fever and spread through breathing and by physical touch. We also know as protections,
  • To live in cleanliness
  • Wash hand with boiled water and soaps
  • To cover mouth & nose with clothes or tissue paper during cough
  • Do not touch sick birds
  • Fish and meat to boil well during cooking
Our teacher also shared with us there are 20 countries in the world potentially at the risk of Corona Virus but our country is not in the list. However, our neighbor country India is on the possible list which is a worry for us. In our community few people work as labor in Singapore and Thailand. They are worried about their relatives. We share in our community to live safely, not to affected by cold and cough. When mothers of our school visit our community and share such information people look at us respectfully.
You will be happy to know that our slum is now cleaner than before. We clean our place, put garbage in a pot that the city corporation staff can take it easily. More importantly people do not through the dirty things here & there and that is the best achievement that people’s behavior has been changed positively to live in a clean environment. Mothers of our school teach the children about health and hygiene and share in community.
 
In this month we celebrated 21st February ‘International Language Day” in our school with the children mothers teach and with some other women of our community. This is a National Day of our country and very important for the independence of our country. Once upon a time we were ruled by Pakistan. At this day in 1952 Pakistani Military Government declared ‘Urdu’ as our national language neglecting our mother tongue ‘Bengali’. All people came out in street to protest against the decision especially the students of that time came in front as a wall against it. 21st February in 1952 Pakistani Military fired guns towards students and some students were killed by bullet. Finally, the decision of changing the state language from Bengali to Urdu was stopped but the seeds for freedom was seeded in this soil and later on 16th December 1971 we got freedom from Pakistan and a new country “Bangladesh” was born. We wanted to share the history of our country. In the day we did the following events…
  • Discussion session
  • Sing songs on patriotism
  • Poems
  • And at the end little snacks for the children.
     
    We enjoyed the day and learned a lot.
        
    With love and respect,
    Rubi, Halima, Shirin, Parveen and Morsheda
     
    (Mothers of Combined Rotary Women’s School, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
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Letter of Thanks from Karla Sarahi, Project Amigo, Colima

Dear Godparents, Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona.

 

Hello, I hope you are very well, and thank you very much for continuing to support me in my studies, I thank you very much with all my heart and I will not let you down, I am really looking forward to my studies so that you feel lucky of me and do not regret Of having supported me.

In this month I had a great time, they have already left me homework, I already entered the school again and beginning the first week they left me homework, but for my part it is fine to be able to understand new topics that we will see , they are still the same teachers, I already know them all and also how is their way of teaching, but more than anything I have to feel like it because it is the last semester, about to end this stage.

 

I feel very happy but at the same time very nervous because we have to see the races which one we like the most, it catches our attention, I really feel very stressed about all this we have to do, apart from all the tasks that leave us and projects, but I know that I can get ahead, I know that all I am achieving is for all the effort and dedication to my studies and because I want a nice future and be a graduate, work on something that I like, but All this is worth it, so I have more courage to move on and it doesn't matter if I reveal myself, stress, cry. But I know that everything I am doing will be worth it.
These days are the Professional Days, which we have the opportunity to attend the careers that interest us and give information about the one that catches our attention or that we like. I already attended one of them, I went to the Special Education Bachelor's degree, I thought it was very good and I liked how they drive there, how is their work plan and also how to work with disabled people, it was a type of talk about That race, I really liked that race, but I'm still going to attend other races so that I can decide which one to go to.
In the holidays I had a great time, since it was many days, rather two months, it was a very long break, but we are already back in school, but time goes by quickly and in less than I imagine it will come day in which I will leave the bachi and some time later enter the race that I chose.
 
On the Day of Love and Friendship I went out with friends and friends, we went to the pools, I had a great time because we were all and more because it was on that date, we went to celebrate the friendship we have and will continue forever.
 
My family is very well thanks to God, my parents are super good and I like the three of us together, there we are all healthy.
In my work I am doing very well, I am still working there where I am, I have not really been angry, I like my work, although many things have already changed, but in the same way I get along very well with the staff there from work.
 
I was very happy to tell you about what is happening and what I have lived, since only this can I tell you and especially something so extensive.
Good that God takes care of me very much, see you until next time and with more new things, Until next time!
 
Greets you, Karla Sarahí.
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Letter of Thanks from Yoselin Ramirez, Amigo Project Fellow
Posted by Ken Germain on Mar 02, 2020

Dear godparents of Rotary club of Edmonton Strathcona!

 

Hello dear godparents, how have you been ?, I hope you are in very good health and have a nice day, I send you this letter that I wrote with love to you to thank you for all the support you give me day by day to continue with my studies and future plans, because thanks to your support I have more possibilities to meet my goals and achieve my goals.

 

It is a pleasure for me to greet you once again, I tell you that this month of February began a new semester and like all other times I am putting a lot of effort into the school to be able to get good grades, these days have been very tired since in Some subjects I am learning very difficult subjects, but the truth I have learned a lot and although the topics are difficult I have managed to understand them and even when a partner or friend finds it very difficult I explain the subject.

 

With my family I am very well every day we get along better and support each other when there is a very complicated situation.

On February 14, Valentine's Day I had a lot of fun. I went out with my friends for a meal and at night we had a delicious dinner at home, and you, how did you spend Valentine's Day? I hope you have a good time and have fun a lot.

 

I hope you are having a nice month and that the work you do every day is good, that you are in very good health and that you have beautiful, pleasant days and a lot of living with your families.

 

I say goodbye to you, wishing you a beautiful day full of blessings to

You and your families.

 

With a lot of love and thanks, Yoselin Méndez Ramírez, Amigo Project Fellow.
“Personal Story of the Day” or “Getting to Know You”
Posted by Donna Hutton on Nov 01, 2019
 

Our "Staying Connected" committee, chaired by Rose Marie Basaraba, in response to my request to recommend an alternative to our Story of the Week, has suggested that we rename the weekly opportunity as:

“Personal Story of the Day” or “Getting to Know You”.

This would  enable fellow members to get to better know the speaker whether it be interests, experiences (Rotary or otherwise), life happenings learned through experiences, etc. (humorous or otherwise). 

 As of November 12, I would request that individuals scheduled to share their stories, keep these guidelines in mind and manage this sharing within a two minute time frame.  I look forward to learning more about each member of our club and thank you to Rose Marie and the Staying Connected Committee for their suggestion.

Donna
Link to District Membership Survey
Posted by Hans Granholm on Jul 26, 2019
A separate notice was dispatched earlier in reference to the district membership survey.
 
If you missed it or accidentally deleted it, here is the URL to the notice:
 
 
I believe our Friendly Club is healthy and vibrant, but we should be willing to share and not keep our success to ourselves. Please complete the survey at your earliest convenience.
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