May 12 (May 14, 2021)

May 12 speaker

May 12 Rotary Speaker

Our speaker this week was Dale Glenhow from Wild North. Wildlife center

Wild North is a wild animal rescue and rehabilation Center. It’s mission is “to provide compassionate care for injured wildlife”

Along with the Raptor rescue center they are the only wildlife rehabilitaion centers north of Red DeerWild Life North is, by far, the larger and more diversified of the two. The rehabilitate approximately 3,000 (250 different species) animals a year. They deal with all”wild” animals (including pigeons) for moles to coyotes. Because of the danger they do not deal with adult large carnivores or Ungulates.

For more informatin check out their website at https://wildnorth.ca/

Numbers are up dramatically since Covid

May 12 Notes

I observed while enjoying our meeting this week that;

- we used to greet members with “Good Morning” at our in person meetings. Now we say “Hey, you are muted”.

- we used to talk about the weather or the latest Oiler loss. Now we talk about Covid numbers and Covid restrictions

We had an interesting discussion about Rotary history and it’s positions on gender parity. Elizabeth assured us that significant progress in that regard is made by Rotary. Polio vaccines are largely administered by females in order to recognise cultural taboos in some of the countries. The majority of new members to Rotary are women. (I would want to see a geographical breakdown on this one)

Youth director, Jamie Pallet reported that Harry Ainley and Louis St Laurent are both nominating candidates for scholarship. He is having trouble finding an organization involved with adult literacy education to nominate a candidate. If you have a suggestion please contact Jamie.