L to R: Ellen Weber, Membership; Carin Jansen van Vuuren, Youth Service; Jim Peddie, President Elect; Donna Hutton, President; Vince Campbell, Immediate Past President; Audrey Martyn, Secretary; Graham Gilchrist, Treasurer.
The 2019-20 membership dues are due. An electronic invoice was emailed on July 3, 2019. The due date is August 16, 2019.
You can pay online from the link in the invoice or you can always open and click the link in the My Billing Account Balance link in the My ClubRunner box on the Admin page after login.
If you wish to pay by cash or cheque, give the $280.00 made out to "Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona" to Graham Gilchrist at your earliest convenience.
Membership fee in the club covers District dues, CN$80.00 annually and Rotary International dues, US$55.00 semi annually or US$110.00 annually.
Thank you for your prompt attention.
If you have any questions, please contact Graham Gilchrist, Treasurer, e:grahamtg@telus.net
This past Tuesday we heard from Joanne Patterson and Jamie O’Connell from the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. They spoke about how donations can help children reach their full potential by helping to fund the hospital beyond the government supported standard level of care. Our donations make a difference through helping them to invest in the best people, programs, equipment and research.
The Stollery Hospital is one of three most specialised hospitals in Canada for children’s care. Some of the specialised services they have are pediatric intensive care, pediatric cardiac care and pediatric organ transplants. Last year the hospital served over ninety eight hundred pediatric inpatients and almost two hundred and twenty three thousand pediatric outpatients. About forty percent of those came from Northern Alberta and elsewhere, outside of Edmonton.
The Stollery Foundation invests in many different pillars. Recently they have helped to provide changes to the heart transplant unit to provide for an enlarged, better equipped and much more child friendly operating unit. They are also working on converting their three intensive care units to more child and family friendly spaces. This also includes providing for a wider range of equipment better suited to pediatric care. They are also co-funding a new pediatric mental health care facility which will open near the RAH in 2024.
They showed us a video entitled ‘Little Fighter’, which touchingly presented the story of Cameron, a premature child who has been a patient at the Stollery for several years. It documented his journey from birth to present and the ways in which the Stollery has helped him to reach his full potential.
In addition, they support neonatal care units at the Royal Alex Hospital, the Sturgeon General Hospital and the Grande Prairie Hospital. In future they hope to be able to build another tower at the U of A site, as the current Stollery Hospital is at capacity now.
The foundation has many different ways that we people can help. Through their community initiatives program they will provide signage, online support, letters of approval, donation tracking forms, event signage and even a representative speaker to groups or individuals wanting to sponsor a fundraising event. These can range from a lemonade stand or a dinner party in your home all the way up to a golf tournament or large fundraising dinner. Donors can choose to direct funding to a specific cause or into general funding.
We would like to thank our speakers for a very interesting and informative talk that clearly presented the many different ways that we can help them to support children’s care in northern Alberta.
Thanks to member hosts Stephan and Carin van Vuuren, our club’s 2nd new member BBQ brought most of us out for sheer fun and fellowship on Saturday, July 20th.
Newer members and the rest of us enjoyed a welcoming extravaganza at van Vuuren’s Ardrosan acreage. After weeks of rain, weather cooperated, members relaxed in mixed circles with delicious Alberta beef and top grade trimmings from the grill that graced plates. Premium wines were graciously donated by Leslie and Doug Milne.
Once again, this widely popular, semi-annual BBQ allowed our club’s newer members to mix with valued senior members. We especially enjoyed hearing one another’s stories over a few laughs and a refreshing glass of wine together in this warm home setting.
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