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.
We were very pleased to have the Honorable Betty Unger speak to us this past Tuesday. She told us that she was very pleased to be asked to speak, and that she has never attended a Rotary meeting before.
Betty is the first woman ever to be elected and then appointed to serve on the Senate. She was elected to represent Alberta in 2005, but was not appointed until a Conservative government, under Stephen Harper, came into power in Ottawa in 2012. She served as one of the six senators representing Alberta, until her retirement last year at age seventy-five.
Betty was born and raised in Sexsmith, Alberta. She went on to take her nursing training at the Misericordia in Edmonton, and then worked as a nurse for some years before she founded her own nursing services company. She is a strong Catholic Women’s League supporter and has served on many different boards across Edmonton and Alberta.
During her time as a senator she thought it was her duty to be present for the full time that the senate was sitting. She maintained a residence in Ottawa and only returned to Alberta for short visits. She said that the senate is known for it’s in depth study of each bill that comes before them, as most senators spend much more time in Ottawa than the Commons representatives. She attended the Alberta conservative party caucus meetings in order to stay up to date on all local Alberta issues and the national Conservative Party caucus meetings as well. Betty said that sometimes she had very long days, where the meetings or sessions would start in early morning and go until after midnight.
Betty served on several different senate committees during her time as a senator. The first committee she served on was the Transportation and Communications committee, which during her time, had to deal with the Lac Megantic rail disaster. The second committee she worked on was the Agriculture committee, which was dealing with the honeybee disease issue. The last committee she served on was the Banking committee. She said that she greatly enjoyed her committee work as the people and speakers she came in contact with were so knowledgeable and the work was very interesting. One other thing that she greatly enjoyed was the public speaking and information sessions that she had the opportunity to do with so many of the grade nine (the grade when they study Canadian government) students across Alberta. Betty said that she truly enjoyed her time in office and was very thankful that that she had the opportunity to represent all Albertans in this way.
This Tuesday we were introduced to Stephanie Leach, the Rotary Exchange student that our club is co-sponsoring along with the Edmonton South Rotary club.
Stephanie is sixteen and a student at Vimy Ridge Academy in Edmonton. She told us that she will be following in her father’s footsteps, as he was also a Rotary Exchange student to Japan many years ago.
Stephanie will be going to France for her exchange. She told us that she is really looking forward to this experience. Her mother Maritsa also spoke and thanked us very much for giving their daughter this wonderful opportunity.
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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