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)
On the evening of Monday, October 30th, President Vince and our Club will host an informal reception to welcome DG Frank Reitz and his wife, Barbara, who will be in Edmonton for club visits later that week.
Please join us from 7 to 9 pm in the Bordeaux Room at the Moose Factory, 4810Calgary Trail. Your spouse/partner is most welcome.
The club will provide appetizers. There will be a cash bar. No tickets are required but please RSVP by October 24th. Reply to e-mail or phone 780-446-2629.
This past Tuesday was our ’bring a prospective new member’ day. Eric Germain, Club Membership Director, gave a short presentation on what Rotary is, and how to become a Rotarian. He explained that Rotary is all about ‘Service Above Self’ and how the purpose of life should be a life of purpose.
He also spoke about the activities that our club supports and the service opportunities that we have as Rotarians. He gave a short history of Rotary, founded in 1905, and Rotary in Edmonton, which started in 1916. Our club was founded forty-three years ago. He spoke about how he grew up in a Rotary family, with his father John, and how that led to him becoming a Rotarian along with his brother Ken, and now his daughter Nicole,. He explained that Rotary is a social group of people who are committed to making their communities and the world, as a whole, a better place for everyone.
There are one point two million Rotarians around the world in thirty-four thousand clubs, of all types. The twenty-two clubs in the greater Edmonton region range in membership from twelve members to over a hundred and twenty members. It is possible to find a club that meets on a day and time that is convenient for just about anyone. He also spoke about some of our local club activities throughout the year and some of the charities, both local and international, that we support, as well as the J Percy Page Interact high school club that we mentor.
We also heard from three Rotarians, Loida Lumanlan, Rose Marie Basaraba and Dimitri Papanicolas on what Rotary has meant to them as individuals. Loida spoke of how she enjoys being surrounded by like minded people who want to serve their community. Rotary has allowed her to meet a lot of amazing people that she would otherwise not have met. She also spoke of how much she enjoyed the weekly array of speakers, the apple strudel with whipped cream, and the joke of the week, which she can relate to her husband later, to gain points at home. Rose Marie spoke of how she had retired from a very busy and engaging work life, but had no plan for what to do next, and had an invitation from a friend who brought her to Rotary. Joining Rotary gave her life purpose, and she has not looked back since, being busier than ever, with all kinds of Rotary activities. She spoke of how Rotary allows you to bring your skills with you when you volunteer. Dimitri talked about how he had joined Rotary at a time in his life when he was totally immersed in his work, and it gave him an opportunity to get to know people from other walks of life and helped to broaden his horizons. He has enjoyed being a part of the many volunteer opportunities it has presented, and is especially thankful that it is also flexible enough to recognise that working people may not always be available to help, but that they very much welcome the opportunity to help when they can. He also enjoys the variety of local speakers, on many diverse and interesting topics. Additionally, he appreciates the opportunity it gives for people to travel to other places and almost always be able to find a group of welcoming, like minded, people to socialize with.
Every year the Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona gives out six (6) scholarships to students who are all-round achievers, has shown leadership qualities by being involved in the life of the school and provided service in the community while overcoming significant challenges.
These funds are raised by our club members who place a high value on education.
In talking to her teachers, Emily Meyer is admired for her tenacity and resilience. She has been involved in many activities, including being part of the concert ensemble, festival of trees, playing in school pit band, to name a few.
She’s also partook in many volunteering opportunities and had to deal with many personal and family issues. A young lady to be admired for what she has overcome and achieved. Together with the $1000 scholarship she received a token with the Rotary 4-way test on it.
For the last 20 years or so, our club has offered the chance to win a bottle of wine, a lottery ticket, or a Wheel of Fortune opportunity for a prize. A bit of fun in the middle of the meeting. Members pay $1. for the chance. We have made about $800.00 profit for the general revenue each year.
As this has recently been deemed a game of chance rather than a game of skill, the activity becomes an event that must be licensed by Alberta's Gaming Commission.
That sounds like a lot of unnecessary work.
Tickets at the door are therefore now FREE of charge to everyone. No one pays for the opportunity to win the prizes, so it is not gambling.
We would like to continue The Wheel of Fortune and encourage members to help keep it rewarding and exciting by donating in one of three ways:
1) Donate prizes. Fun prizes always show up. Thanks folks!
Maybe sponsor a whole wedge! Consider the dozen roses spot. Great! Thanks Heather.
2) Sponsor the wine prize. Otherwise the club will pay for it. I can store it. No, really.
3) Donate cash! (a lot like sponsoring the wine prize but I buy the wine. Thanks Campbell C).
Regrettably, Arch Enterprises is forced to cancel this much anticipated event due to a mechanical maintenance situation being necessary to perform that will render the building without heat.
Thank you for your understanding.
Arch would like to invite all Strathcona Rotarians to attend this free event . We hope many Rotarians will decide to support Arch by becoming a “Friend of Arch”. Anyone who wishes to support us can contact me and I will add their name to the Friends list.
As you may know RI President Ian Riseley is holding six peacebuilding conferences around the world. The first of these international conferences is close for your members to attend. On February 9-11, 2018 in Vancouver, BC. The presidential peacebuilding conference will examine sustainable global and local environmental practices, and their contributions to peacebuilding and peacemaking.
Participants will discuss the impact of environmental issues on health, fresh air, clean water, vegetation, and food production – and how improved environmental conditions are a fundamental condition of building peace within communities. The conference will bring together community leaders, youth, and representatives from the public, private, and government sectors. Attendees also can participate in a hands-on service project the morning after the conference.
There will be a focus on how Rotary clubs can involve their local community in sustainable projects and peacebuilding.
Members of any Rotary club are to encouraged to attend this important international Rotary event.
The conference website has a list of keynote speakers, link to book a hotel room, draft program and a link to the registration. Please visit: www.EnvironmentandPeace.com.
Rotarians from the US, Canada and around the world will come together at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver for this conference. Will your club be represented?
Thank you for all you do for Rotary and your community,
Chris Offer, PDG for Rotary Peacebuilding Conference Vancouver
Our Rotary group has partnered in a joint venture with the Rotary Club of Pretoria to help raise funds for the New Hope School in Pretoria. Patrick Gibson has put together a presentation that he will be making to the other rotary clubs in our area to encourage them to help us with this venture. Our goal is to put enough funding in place for us to be able to apply for a Rotary International matching grant.
Patrick gave us the same presentation he will be making to other local rotary groups. It included a short introduction on the New Hope School, followed by a video that has been prepared by the New Hope School. The New Hope School has been one of the projects of our club for some years now, and most of our members are well aware of the work they do in schooling for handicapped children in the Pretoria area. They provide many services above and beyond the usual schooling activities, such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and many others, as needed by their students.
They receive only basic funding from the local government, so must fundraise to provide these other services. Some of the specific projects our funds could be used for would be a specialised playground, or programs to provide technical skills such as kitchen skills, nail and hair salon skills and sewing skills. Patrick has also put together a ‘Go Fund Me’ page on the web, on which people can get more information, view the video and make contributions. We will also be adding a link on our Rotary web page to this site.
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Every year the Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona gives out six (6) scholarships to students who are all-round achievers, has shown leadership qualities by being involved in the life of the school and provided service in the community while overcoming significant challenges.
For the last 20 years or so, our club has offered the chance to win a bottle of wine, a lottery ticket, or a Wheel of Fortune opportunity for a prize. A bit of fun in the middle of the meeting. Members pay $1. for the chance. We have made about $800.00 profit for the general revenue each year.
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