Connor Pilz, Manager, Major Giving with CNIB, was smartly introduced at our Feb 2nd meeting by his dad and club member, Hans.
Connor gave an excellent presentation on the subject of a 3-D printer CNIB has been longing for, and with some assistance of this club and one of our members in particular, Fritz Koenig, they now have the major equipment on order.
His talk went into a detailed description of the functionality of a 3-D printer and it is absolutely amazing. Talk about technology on the edge! Read more about 3 D printing.
In the fall of 2015, a Southgate Centre exhibition of original 3-D paintings of dutch master Vincent van Gogh was on display. What was unique about the exhibition was that the public was encouraged to touch and feel the painting, something you could never do on the original canvas. Connor explained that the 3-D reproduction was so precise it actually included the natural cracks in the old paint.
Clients of CNIB were encouraged to 'feel' the 'paintings' and in a relatively short order they were able to comment on the scene and make comparisons with personal encounters of similar scenes.
This is truly an eye opener for the sight challenged members of our society.
Click on image to play a short video aired on Global News in November 2015
Brad Smid, P.Eng., our speaker on January 26th, pictured above, is the City of Edmonton's Project Director for Edmonton's Valley Line Stage 1; a 13 km urban-style, low-floor LRT system which will run from downtown to southeast Edmonton. The Valley Line is the City's largest infrastructure project to date, and its first project to be delivered as a Public-Private-Partnership (P3).
Brad has been involved in the implementation of Edmonton's recent LRT expansion projects, including the South LRT (Capital Line), North LRT (Metro Line), and Southeast LRT (Valley Line).
Construction is scheduled to start here in 2016 and we were given an inauguration date of December 15th 2020. Put a mark in your calendar!
We are very excited to announce our new website, made possible by a generous grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, launches today and we wanted you to be the first to know! Click here to check out the new site.
To see what we’ve been up to for the past few months, Click here to see our latest edition of Quarter Notes, our quarterly YONA newsletter.
Thank you to everyone who came to our OPUS fundraiser last week and helped us raise $20,000!
The YONA students were thrilled to take the main stage of the Winspear and play for you with Tommy Banks and our ESO musician ambassadors.
Erin Mulcair, Patron Relations Manager Winspear Centre
INQUIRY FOR INTEREST FOR A TRIP TO GREECE IN SEPTEMBER 2016
If you are interested in participating in a 7 to 8 days bus tour of Greece please send an e-mail to Dimitri Papanicolas at dpapanicolas@outlook.com in order to receive more information. The number of participants should not exceed 20, on first come first saved basis. We will also connect with a few Rotary Clubs during the trip.
The tour will take place in the mainland visiting archeological sites, religious sites, overall site seeing (see map) and of course some beach time and shopping. No island tours, but cruise tours can be organized separately.
We need chaperones to facilitate interact Club members from Victoria School and Lillian Osborne School to go to Belize City for a playground build project.
We need 2 chaperones for this trip, and if we cannot find 2 chaperones the Interactors will not be able to participate in this project.
The group will leave on February 19th and return on February 27th. There are 6 to 8 students, all female, that are planning to go.
This is an opportunity to participate in an international service project as well as mentor these young people as ambassadors for Rotary and for Canada.. They are in the final stages of planning for this trip.
For anyone who has never been, Belize is a beautiful country. English is the main language so it's easy to get around.
Please consider this project, if you are able to be a chaperone please let me know as soon as possible.
I can provide more detailed information for anyone who would be interested. Lets make this happen for the Interactors
We would like to take this opportunity as the new year starts, to remind you about Rotary Global Rewards, our member benefit program featuring special offers that allow you to do a lot more for a lot less—no matter what you’re doing.
Whether you’re working on your club’s community projects, enjoying a night out with friends or sharing your Rotary story with someone new, you can take advantage of discounts and special offers on airfare, hotels, vehicle rentals, and entertainment.
Would you like to offer discounts from your business to other Rotarians? Help build the program by adding special offers from your own company to the growing portfolio of Rotary Global Rewards. To learn more, visit Rotary.org/GlobalRewards.
Please share this exciting news with your members. You’ll find promotional tools on the Rotary Global Rewards website that will help you introduce your Rotarian friends to the program.
We want to thank Ken Germain for his tremendous contribution to keep members posted about news items, opportunities, stories and light entertainment for the last several years.
I am not trying to fill his shoes, I never could, but we can't ignore the power of information sharing and as most of you know, communication is my bag, so I'm plugging along, but I need your help.
Please forward stories, information and news you would like to share. I like to publish Friday morning, so call it Thursday evening as the deadline for submissions.
You can submit material in just about any format, but try and avoid PDF documents as it is very difficult to re-format. Pictures: any format. (Publ.)
Ken:
Having had fun for 4 or 5 years as Editor of the Strathconian Newsletter, I feel it's time for someone else to enjoy the job.
Beginning the New Year, you can be creative and be an active part of the club's information network.
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