Rotary International World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, will be closed Friday, 4 November, so staff may attend the parade and rally for the Chicago Cubs baseball team. The Cubs won their first World Series Championship in 108 years. The office will reopen for normal hours on Monday, 7 November.
While the picturesque Valley of 1,000 Hills outside Durban, South Africa, offers stunning scenery to visitors, job prospects for the Zulu people who live on tribal land there are bleak. Three years ago, the nearby Rotary Club of Hillcrest addressed the unemployment rate by partnering with Embocraft, a skills training group serving the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The group offers classes in sewing, computers, textiles, welding, and woodwork, with the goal of alleviating poverty.
Hillcrest Rotarians have co-sponsored four sewing courses, each lasting 15 sessions, for Zulu seniors or others who...
Rotary clubs in District 7020 (Caribbean) and the Disaster Network of Assistance Rotarian Action Group are collecting donations to replace the roofs of 1,000 homes in Haiti and the Bahamas after Hurricane Matthew devastated the Caribbean on 4 October. The funds will also provide 1,000 water filtration systems to combat the cholera outbreak.
To use a wire transfer to donate to the disaster fund, please use the following bank account information:
Correspondent bank: Wells Fargo, N.A., New York, USA Swift code: PNBPUS3NNYC ABA code: 026005092
Beneficiary bank: First Caribbean International...
While the fight to eradicate polio suffered a blow this year when the virus re-emerged in Nigeria, Rotary leaders and top health experts focused Monday on the big picture: the global presence of the paralyzing disease has never been smaller.
The headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, served as the site of Rotary’s fourth annual World Polio Day event. Some of the biggest names in the polio eradication campaign were there to reflect on the year’s progress and discuss what’s needed to end the disease for good.
More than 200 people...
At this year’s World Polio Day celebration in Atlanta, Rotary is harnessing the power of virtual reality technology to build empathy and inspire action in our fight to eradicate polio.
Rotary, with support from the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, produced a virtual reality film that tells the story of Alokita, a young adult who suffered paralysis from polio as a child growing up in India, which has been polio-free since 2011.
“When you open your eyes and see a different environment around you, you relate to the subject on a visceral, personal level,” says Vincent Vernet, direct of digital and...
Tuesday was ‘bring a prospective member day’ so our program presentations featured an overview of what Rotary is and four current Rotarians talking about why they joined Rotary.
Eric Germain started by saying that he is a second-generation Rotarian, and that his father was a founding member and charter president of the Strathcona Rotary Club in 1974. He said that Rotary is a community of friends committed to creating change in the world. There are about twenty clubs in the local Edmonton area, and the first club in Edmonton was founded in 1916. He also spoke of how the common thing that binds us together is our community and international service. He then went on to describe several of the initiatives that Rotary, as a whole, supports, and also some of the projects that our local club supports. He gave a short description of how our meetings are organised, the types of speakers we bring in and the yearly social events that we hold. He ended his talk with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson on Success in Life, and how it applies to Rotary.
We then heard from four current Rotarians who spoke about how they came to join Rotary and what it has meant to them.
Rick Harcourt spoke of how he was new to Edmonton, didn’t know anyone here and joined to meet people and make business contacts. He also mentioned that he later met his wife in Rotary. He said that rotary has given him a chance to meet people from around the world, and made many new friends. He spoke of how the service opportunities give ordinary people a chance to be part of something much bigger than they could simply on their own.
Rose Marie Basaraba spoke of how she had taken early retirement from her job and was looking for a purpose in her life when she found Rotary. She came to a meeting with a friend and found a very friendly group of people with a common purpose. She now considers the member of this group to be a part of her extended family.
Ron Brown joined to network and surround himself with people who have similar goals in life- they want to help others. He grew up in poverty himself and told himself that if he ever got out of that situation, he would do his best to give back to others. Rotary gives you an opportunity to meet people anywhere around the world and immediately be considered a friend with common goals. It also offers an excellent leadership training program for its members. The best part of all was he met his current wife through Rotary, so Rotary has changed his life in many ways.
The last speaker was Nicole Germain, a third-generation Rotarian. She spoke of how she grew up in attending many different Rotary service and social functions. She said that the wisdom of some people she met in Rotary has changed her focus in life and she now happily works in a community service related occupation. She enjoys the fact that Rotary gives us a chance to be an active part of our community, and to make friends and have fun along the way.
Here is the newest edition of Quarter Notes, our quarterly YONA newsletter. Inside you’ll see pictures from our most recent instrument graduation ceremony, always an exciting affair! You’ll also read about the updates we’ve made to the program for our fourth year, thanks to the recommendations arrived at in the pilot program evaluation project we undertook last year.
Thank you for your support of the program; each of you has contributed in one way or another to help us get to where we are today, and your help is greatly appreciated.
Two upcoming events not to be missed:
November 14, an evening tour of the program's facilities at St. Alphonsus School. OPEN INVITATION
November 24, a fundraising evening at the Winspear Centre. OPEN INVITATION
All the best,
Alyssa
Alyssa Paterson
Associate Director, Department of Musical Creativity
Youth Orchestra of Northern Alberta (YONA-Sistema) Manager
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra | Francis Winspear Centre for Music
It is time to set back your time pieces one hour and replace the batteries in your smoke alarms on November 6 at 0200 local time (2:00 am for you metrically challenged)
As we head Into our 18th year of service in Ukraine, we would like to say thank you for your continued support over the years.
Thank you for your support last year as we raised funds for a newer vehicle so that we could continue to bring humanitarian aid and food to isolated villages north of Kiev.
Ukraine continues to struggle with the conflict in Eastern Ukraine as Russia continues to support the rebels who are fighting the Ukrainian army. The Russian army has also congregated along the Crimean/Ukrainian Border. Our concerns are with the many families who are being displaced due to this conflict in Ukraine.
We would like to take this time to say thank you for the help Rotary provided with Mercy House Children's Camp in Crimea. Since the spring of 2014 after Russia occupied Crimea we have had no access to our property. This past summer we were able to register our land and house under the Russian Government. As we are not able to sell the property, we are now in the process of looking to trade our property with someone in Kiev or west of Kiev.
We will then start to plan to purchase property west of Kiev to hold Summer camp for children.
As winter approaches, more help will be needed to supply aid, food, medical supplies and warm clothing for families in need.
Thank you again for your support and consideration of these needs.
The 2016-17 membership dues are due. An electronic invoice was emailed on July 21, 2016. The due date is August 31, 2016.
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 $225.00 made out to "Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona" to Donna Hutton 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 Donna Hutton, Treasurer, e:donnahut@telus.net
Members are reminded about the District Volunteer Security Policy, DOWNLOAD HERE.
This policy was generated from the requirement of our insurance company providing liability coverage in case of issues arising from members and non-Rotarians working with youth and other vulnerable members of our society.
The policy provides that all involved Rotarians and non-Rotarians complete a vulnerable persons police check. See below or click 'Read more...'
Contact Hans Granholm, 780-466-5566 for more information.
District 5370 Police Record Check Process
The procedure applies to both Rotarians and non-Rotarians involved in any Rotary sponsored vulnerable person activity.
Have a vulnerable persons record check completed.
Submit your application with the Club’s letter of introduction (obtained by Hans Granholm) to the local police service.
After you receive the certificate, submit the original (photocopies are not accepted) to the address in my signature below or alternately deliver to the District office.
Original is reviewed by Youth Protection Chair, Staff Sergeant Brian Scott.
Original and letter of certification are returned to volunteer directly.
Provide a photocopy to the club.
Certification lasts for a period of three years.
Police procedure:
RCMP
Certification is free of charge and sometimes they will complete the certification while you wait (if you have time to wait).
Edmonton Police Service (EPS)
EPS charges $15 for the certification and be aware that they accept cheque or money order ONLY. No cash or plastic. Cheque or money order should be made out to “City of Edmonton”.
The certificate will be mailed to you, usually within a week.
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