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 week we head from Mike Brecken, a Wealth Planning Director with BMO and also Nesbitt Burns. Mike said that he helps clients to develop comprehensive wealth plans in conjunction with a team that includes an estate planner, a tax planner, an insurance specialist, a business succession planner and a cross-border tax specialist. The first things they look at are the family members, corporate organisation, estimates of returns (using conservative estimates), tax planning, insurance planning, philanthropy, disability planning, family law issues and estate planning.
They determine the client’s goals and objectives in order to customize the best plan for them. Financial planning is then used to develop a current net worth and work forwards taking into consideration things like business partnerships, transition from a business ownership, the impact of capital gains, sale of assets and the possible use of an estate freeze to make the transition easier for your heirs in the future.
He then discussed each of these items in more detail and the pros and cons of each, using examples of how common situations such as the ownership of a second home, or a home in the US can affect your plans. He said that we should all ensure that we have a will, a power of attorney and a personal directive in place to ensure we can be looked after if we become incapacitated and to ensure the smooth passage of our estate to our heirs after death. He discussed the use of a Henson trust to ensure income for any handicapped family members and then talked about some ways to make probate easier and ways to include philanthropy in your plan. In particular, he said that if you wish to leave money to a charity on your death it is best to state an actual number rather than a percentage value, as this can greatly complicate matters for your executor. He also said that you should be careful when choosing your executor as this can be a very complicated job. If you do not have anyone you think can handle it, the bank can also serve as an executor and that they charge the same fees that an independent executor is entitled to charge.
In closing, he said that they tie all of these things together to set up the best plan for you and that any advisor you have should also be doing the same, with a focus on things such as family, business and legacies.
Dear Members of The Rotary Clubs of Strathcona, Mayfield, Urban Spirits, Whyte Avenue, Grand Prairie and Hinton,
We hope you all are fine and here we are doing well too. In this letter we will tell you more about us and about our School. Our school is located in Dhaka. The school is in a slum of ‘Uttar Badda’ area. One of the rooms in our slum is our School. 25 mothers from our community come here to learn and we 25 mothers teach 125 community children. Our school starts in the afternoon for two hours. Many mothers of our school work as part-time housemaid. We enjoy our schooltime as this is the only time, we are free from work and live in happiness. Our school is our meeting place for learning and sharing our topics with one another. We take help from each other, share problems & ask for suggestions from our friends.
Our teacher teaches us through various types of activities like games, song, story and role play. Same process we follow to teach our neighborhood children. Here we mainly learn English, Bengali & Math. Our teacher also discusses many other relevant issues to our life like mothers’ health, child development, food & nutrition, health & hygiene, bad effect of dowry and household conflict. Now we understand our mistakes that had already done and we want to correct them for our better future. Even, we also aware our community people by discussing with them about our learning.
This month our teacher took a session about ‘Puberty Stage’ for the teengae girls of our community. On that session some of us were present there too. From that session the gilrs came to know
The definition of ‘Puberty’
The changes that take place during puberty ( physical, social & mental).
Our teacher asked them what happened in their earlier life. They shared with us
They felt lonely and confused.
Anxiety and stress.
Mood swings problems.
The physical changes.
Getting unexpected behavior from their family members and relatives.
More interested in being with friends.
Some have more conflicts with their parents.
Most of them thought, these puberty things are so humiliating.
To overcome from these feelings our teacher suggested to all that,
Take everything normal as the changes are natural.
Instead of suffering from inferiority, anxiety and stress the teenager can involve in various kinds of social activities and accelerate their hobbies and creativities.
The teenagers should more open with their parents and discuss everything has happen with them.
Parents should be more tolerant towards their children and become friends of them.
Take nutritious food and lots of water.
Now we are going to tell you about our friend 'karima'. She is very keen to learn and doing well among all of us. She helps our teacher for making materials and exercise cards. She has a daughter of 1 and a half. She takes her daughter in our school. Her family also supports her. But the earlier time things were not easy. Karima's husband didn't like that she attended in school. He had doubt on her wife and didn't allow her to go out alone. He used to quarrel with her. One day she came to school and told us about her problem and thought that might be her last day in school. We became surprised and asked her more about the issue. After hearing the whole thing, we decided to talk with her husband. Our teacher and some of us went to her home and tried to convince Karima’s husband. He thought learning at this age for her wife was meaningless. Then our teacher gave some example of differences between an educated mother and an illiterate mother. How an educate mother helps her family by empowering herself. She gave examples of some of our friends who were doing very well being educated. After talking with him for an hour, he became little convinced to send his wife in Amarok Mother School. Later on, we visited several times to their home and talked to her husband. Now Karima is very happy to come at school and teaching her neighbor's children and her husband fully supports her.
Our friend Panna has shared in our school that her younger daughter ‘Fateha' is doing very well in study. Because Fateha is now in 8th grade, so it become difficult for Panna to teach her. Now one of the girls in our slum who studies in college helps her. Fateha teaches her youngest brother, two of her cousins at home. This year she will attend in Junior School Certificate Exam. Panna says, "I don’t know how much we will able to support her but we will give our maximum effort to continue her education." We wish her prosperity in life.
Wish for us too that we can be the pioneers of changes of life of women live in our slum.
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