Patrick Gibson gave us a short update on planning for the Rotary Oil King’s game which is now a fundraiser for our club. In the past this game was organised by the district. Patrick presented two members of the Oil King’s organisation, Kevin and Derek, who gave us a short update on their ideas and suggestions for the game in the new year. This sounds like it will be a good fundraiser for our club and thanks to Patrick for all of his work on this so far.
Al Pierog, from the Edmonton South Rotary Club gave us a short update on progress so far for the Youth Exchange program. They will partner with our club to sponsor one high school student to be selected from our area to participate in this exchange. The exchange will take place in 2019, for ten months. Our two clubs will in turn, host a student coming from abroad. Donna Hutton is the contact for our club in this exchange.
This past Tuesday, Eric Germain reintroduced Maggi Hegan as our newest member. Maggi’s classification is Non-profit Administration. Maggi works at Arch Enterprises as Program Director. We would like to give Maggi a warm welcome to our club.
Rotary Club Of Edmonton Strathcona Golf Tourney and Barbecue
Our Rotary Club had our annual golf tournament on Friday August 24th.
We changed things up, and had a Texas Scramble at Coyote Crossing in Sherwood Park, played by 22 golfers. It was a taste of playing St. Andrews in Scotland on a summer day. The golf groups had a great time, spoiled by chasing a little white ball.
A fun Happy Hour and Putting Contest followed. Carin Van V was our putting contest hostess, again, doing a great job. The final 2 putters were Jim Peddie & Nicolle Germain. Jim clinched the putting contest, and donated all the proceeds to our charity of choice for the day , the Edmonton Food Bank.
The dinner for 40 friendly folks, was a lovely barbecue cuisine.
Ken & Eric Germain, the Blues Brothers, rolled out the program, highlighting the golf awards of the day.
Longest Ladies Drive- Barb Craig
Longest Men’s Drive- Stephan Jansen Van Vuuren
Closest to the Pin- Carin Jansen Van Vuuren
Longest Putt- Donna Hutton
The low score of the day was 36, par, by 2 teams. We cut cards for the gold medal, and the winning team was Dave Prince, Con Basaraba, Don Hughes, and Judy Brown. Special mention to our silver medalists, Donna Hutton, Gary Froleich, Dennis Freeman and Ellen Weber.
Best joke of the day was by Ken. Something about a hole in Juan (one). Thanks for everyone who made it out, and made it a special day!
A number of volunteer opportunities exists with YESS. The bingo events are listed below. Check also the one day event, YESS 2018 Gala for Youth at THIS LINK.
Hello, We are in search of volunteers to help work at a Caesars BINGO in West Edmonton Mall. YESS has been selected as one of the charities of choice. They require at least 2 volunteers at any of the following dates:
Sunday April 1st – Evening Shift
Friday May 25th - Evening Shift
Saturday September 8th – Afternoon Shift
Thursday October 4th – Evening Shift
Sunday November 25th – Evening Shift
Please let me know if you or anyone you know would be willing to volunteer a shift in support of YESS at the Caesars BINGO hall in West Edmonton Mall. Thanks you so much.
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