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 Tuesday we heard a very interesting talk from Charles Teeuwson, a member of the Sherwood Park Rotary club, about his love of competition aerobatics. He has been flying airplanes since 1982 and started flying aerobatics in 1983. He currently has a Class 2 Aerobic Instructor rating and also does judging for various aerobatic contests. He is a member of the Aerobatic Club of Alberta, which has between fifteen and twenty flying members.
The local members fly out of the Villeneuve airport. They host two competitions a year, one in Killam and another in Rocky Mountain House. They also attend and compete in one US competition, held in Cutbank, Montana each year. The airplanes used are small one or two seaters, with powerful engines and other modifications allowing them to perform the various aerobatic manoeuvres, such as flying upside down, without stalling.
Competition aerobatics has a large number of possible manoeuvres that are organised into families of similar moves. Each manoeuvre also has an associated symbol that represents it on paper. The sequences of manoeuvres can then be represented as a kind of map on paper that the pilot can place in front of them to help them remember the sequence when they are flying. They also have a restricted airspace that each sequence must be flown within, with a maximum one cubic kilometer box. There are five levels of difficulty to the sequences, called power categories, that are flown in competition, with the highest level of difficulty having the largest box. Judging has a strict set of rules, a point value for each manoeuvre, and with points deducted for errors. The judges have an assistant who calls out the manoeuvre just before it takes place so the judges can keep their eyes on the competitor.
Charles brought along a small model airplane and used it to demonstrate two of the sequences that are flown in competition. The sequences of rolls, loops, backward slides, turns, vertical flying and spins made most of us a little dizzy just watching the model. We could all see that this is a sport that takes a special type of person, and also how it could be a very interesting and challenging life long addiction. We would like to thank Charles for his very interesting and entertaining talk.
It was a great success. We fed around 200 people a hot meal of ravioli pasta, salad, buns, and baked goods for dessert.
It was around -22 degrees celcius outside and some of the folks who came to the old converted church were shivering so bad they had difficulty steadying their plates.
We met some real characters. I cracked up when one of the fellas (who sounded like he was from the maritimes) said jovially with a smile, “Sorry miss, I don’t eat that rabbit food” as he came up for seconds. He skipped the salad and made a B-line for a second helping of pasta and dessert. He wore a dangly trapper hat with a big grey beard and kept people laughing at his table; a real comedian!
Another fella’s glasses had a layer of frozen condensation on them and when asked to choose the dessert he wanted he said, “Oh, I have no idea, I can’t see them. Just surprise me!”
A young mom with three young kids came up and after modeling a pronounced “please and thank you” for the kiddos the oldest came up 3 more times to display his “please and thank you” just for the dessert station!
The whole of the group was well mannered and the high spirits folks had was inspiring. I heard “please”, “thank you”, “god bless you” several times. Some of the folks humbly kept their heads down too. Not everyone was able to muster good spirits. You saw the various stages of poverty in our community and the toll winter was taking on them.
After leaving the event to go home I felt a sense of sadness for I didn’t know what many of the people we just met would be going to after they left the building.
Our situations are more fragile than we think and many people in our society are only a pay cheque away from homelessness. What Rotary does makes a difference and we know there is much more to do.
A huge thanks to our super volunteers:
Vince Campbell
Donna Hutton
Dennis Hutton
Louise McNeil
Matisse Nikolopoulos
Dimitri Papanicolas
Anna Syrianou
Couldn’t have done it without them... and a big shout out to Anna’s 12 year old grand daughter Matisse, her home made sugar cookies were a hit.
The J. Percy Page High School Rotary Interact Club was again successful in obtaining the Alberta Emerald Foundation Youth Environmental Engagement Grant for 2019. We thought you would like to know.
On behalf of the Eye Institute of Alberta with support from the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation:
Please join us at the Second Annual Eye Ball Gala!
Saturday, March 2, 2019
The Westin Hotel
10135 100 Street NW, Edmonton AB
It will be an enchanting evening with live entertainment and the opportunity to participate in a special, immersive virtual reality experience through Alice in Wonderland! We are bringing together ophthalmic specialists, surgeons, business and community leaders, along with loyal friends to raise awareness and funds for the fight for sight and life-enhancing work benefiting our patients being cared for at the Eye Institute of Alberta.
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