We're taking a break for the summer! We'll be back for a social evening on Thursday August 27, 2026. Email urbanspirits.rotary@gmail.com if you have questions.

This is a story about investing in the future of local youth.

As you're most likely aware, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted the development of essential life skills in students, leading to widespread challenges in self-confidence, social collaboration, and emotional regulation. For students of all ages, these gaps translate into real struggles with speaking up, problem-solving, and managing everyday conflicts.

To directly address these deficits and focus on the whole student, our club has provided crucial funding for a school-year long Rapid Fire Theatre Improv School Residency at awâsis waciston School. This powerful program uses the art of improvisation to rebuild the foundational confidence and connection points students need, ensuring they gain skills that extend far beyond academic subjects.

 

individuals to share their stories and perspectives

Are you interested in presenting to the Urban Spirits Rotary Club?  We are always looking for people to share their story and perspective with us.  Click here for more information.

OUR LEADERSHIP AWARD!

 We provided access to clean drinking water with our partner organization the Bolivian-Canadian Clean Water Network

Our member, Richard Korbyl and his business associate Terry Syvenky, were featured in the April-May 2011 district newsletter.

In December 2013, surgical theatre lights were installed in a major hospital in Lviv thanks to approximatately $65,000 of funding from the Rotary Club (RC) of Edmonton South, RC of Sakai-East (Japan), RC Lviv Ratusha, RC Lviv Leopolis (Ukraine), Rotary District 5370 (Canada), Rotary District 2230 (Ukraine), the Alberta Lottery Fund through the Community Initiatives Program, the Rotary Foundation, and, of course, our club the RC of Edmonton-Urban Spirits.  Over the lifetime of the lights 30,000 - 40,000 patients will benefit from optimum lighting conditions during their surgery leading to better health outcomes.

Thanks to everyone who makes our club tick so funding can be available for projects like this.  Big thanks also to RC Lviv Ratusha for coordinating the installation of the surgical theatre lights, the RC of Edmonton South for setting up the project for us, as well as the Alberta Lottery Fund, both District 5370 and 2230, and the Rotary Foundation for matching funds.

 

State of the Art Surgery Theatre Lighting Installation

 

Television Interview Relating to the Lighting Installation

Did you know you can do online make up meetings 14 days before or after the meeting you missed?  Just go to http://www.rotaryeclubone.org and read three articles or watch three movies.  When you are done log onto our website and enter in your makeup meeting.   Note you can't enter in make ups for meetings that have not yet occured.

Our 2009-2010 Annual report is now available, click here. This document provides a summary of the activities of the club during the 2009-2010 Rotary year, as well as how we raised and disbursed funds to the charities we support.

VSDAS has now finished building the Chalabana School and is moving on to building the teacher's residence. Here are pictures taken in June 2010.

With a new Rotary year starting on July 1, we are welcoming a new Rotary board. Thank you to Past-President Kirsten and her 2009-2010 board members for a very successful Rotary year.

We've thought about it...talked about it...and even joked about it, but we never did anything about it...until now. For the longest time, members of the Urban Spirits Rotary Club have always wanted to visit a Las Vegas Rotary Club meeting. Here's the story...

Our club has provided funds for the past two years to the Agape Orphanage in Malawi Africa to help provide a safe and healthy environment for orphaned children. Click here to read their 2009 Christmas Message.

Together, Rotary Clubs from Canada, USA, and Belize are furthering the educational goals of youth.  The awarding of scholarships is described in an article from a local Belizean newspaper, the San Ignacio Star.

VSDAS is on their way to building the Chalabana School in Zambia and our club dollars are helping them provide elementary education and opportunity for Zambian children.

View the latest newsletter from the Bolivian-Canadian Clean (BCC) Water Network who we support as part of our International Services projects.

Dianne Block, the President and Founder of the Apage Orphanage touched us all with her story and the plight of her orphans in Malawi, Africa. The Agape Orphanage Foundation brings hope through donations to children without hope.

Cole Nychka wrote an article for APEGGA about his GSE trip. Our Club sponsored his GSE application. Read his article...

Peruvian Canadian Cultural Centre (ACULPECA) Thanks the Urban Spirits for Help with Earthquake Relief

Save the world, one kid at a time! Be sure to check out our Membership Page and become a Friend of the Urban Spirits Rotary Club...

The Rotary Foundation is Our Foundation

In an attempt to capture all those wonderful Urban Spirits' moments and memories for years to come, we've been slowly saving photos to the website. Visit the Photo Journals section to view the photo collections we have posted so far and if you have photos that we can add, please email them to Carolyn Gregson.

Members and supporters work hard all year long to raise funds to support worthwhile projects. Donations have always been generous. Learn what projects we supported in the 2009-2010 Rotary year!