Whyte Ave Rotary Bulletin: October 3, 2016 (Oct 03, 2016)

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Whyte Knight Award: Marilyn Mucha

Posted by Tamara Larson on Oct 03, 2016

Rotary is defined as "Service Above Self".

Our club has created an award that honors the hard work by our members. The Whyte Knight Award recognizes exemplary service above self to our community and our club. This award is for members and chosen by members.

In September, Marilyn Mucha was given the Whyte Knight Award for her dedication to our club and Rotary. Marilyn is a Past President, is a member of the Paul Harris Society, presently in an Assistant Governor in our District and in the past two years took on the role of Membership Chair. Under her leadership and direction, our club has gone from 18 members to 30 in the past two Rotary years. She has led Fireside chats, launched our spousal membership option (and we have TWO spousal memberships in our club now!), created the foundation for corporate memberships and helped establish a mentorship program for our new members. This year, she was essential in helping our club work through all of the details of hosting our inbound exchange student Kevin from Taiwan and has taken on the role of his first host family. Her work behind the scenes and wealth of Rotary knowledge has been a big reason and contributing factor to our club's success.

Thank you Marilyn for all that you do for our club and Rotary.

Congratulations on receiving the Whyte Knight Award!

Hockey Night on Whyte 2016

Posted by Tamara Larson on Oct 03, 2016

On Saturday, September 24, our club hosted the 6th Annual Hockey Night on Whyte street hockey tournament!

Not only did we raise $4000, we had the largest crowd ever!

Thank you to our sponsors: TD Bank, Save ON Foods, Noralta Lodge, United Cycle, Insure Your Way, Dorwad & Associates, FenceLine, the Old Strathcona Farmers Market, Remedy Cafe and Driving Force.

Induction of new member - Ellie Huang

Posted by Tamara Larson on Oct 03, 2016

This past year, the Council on Legislation voted on many changes to allow clubs to flexible, grow and offer many new options for membership, meeting times and more. One of those options was to allow a Rotaractor to be a member of both a Rotaract club and a Rotary club. On September 20, our FUN FEARLESSS & FOCUSED Rotary club was one of the first to take advantage of this amazing opportunity.

Here is Ellie's amazing bio:

I have been involved with Rotary since 2012! My journey with Rotary started with the International Youth Exchange Program. I was sent to D3480 as a representative for my high school. And during the year, we started an Interact club in my school in Taiwan.

I was an exchange student in Westlock in 2012 - 2013. And, by the end of my exchange year, I also had a great opportunity to help Westlock Interact start their fundraising! The year I spend in Westlock has totally changed my life ever since. I participated in lots of Rotary events and even had a chance to join RYLE camp. Because of Rotary, I have gotten to know myself better, and determine who I really want to be. I wouldn't be where I am today without Rotary.

I acted as a host for Naoaki Murakami when the group of young people from Fukishama toured our District in the summer of 2016.

Here is a short story. I was accepted at U of A, U of C and Hawaii Pacific University (HPC). HPE seemed to be the most attractive option and they had offered me a huge amount of scholarship assistance. However, I still made my mind up for U of A because deep in my heart, I am so connected to those host families I have in Westlock and many enthusiastic Rotarians in D5370. So, I WANT to come back to this big community continuing this amazing journey with Rotary, Rotaract and Interact!

This is TRULY a story of how Rotary impacts the lives of so many.

Congratulations Ellie and welcome to our club!

Visiting a club in Austria

Posted by Marilyn Mucha on Oct 03, 2016

While on vacation, I attended a Rotary meeting September 22 in Imst, Austria (about 30 minutes outside of Innsbruck).

The Rotary Club of Imst-Landeck meets on Thursday evenings over dinner. They have 65 members (no women) and only 18 were in attendance this day.

The guest speaker for this meeting was Pierre Bischoff, the 2016 Race Across America Ultra bike race solo winner - 3,000 miles from California to Maryland that he completed in 9 days 15 hours. His nearest competitor was 7 hours behind him.

Check out his website and video … incredible journey … racing 11 hours and sleeping for half an hour.

http://www.pierrebischoff.de/race-across-america/raam-2016-pierre-bischoff-gewinnt-als-erster-deutscher-das-race-across-america/

It was a fascinating meeting to hear his story … all in German on this gruelling race and his setbacks given that he was in a car accident only 16 days prior to the race where he broke his collarbone.

We exchanged banners and I was graciously given a ride back to where I was staying by a young club member who was a former Rotaractor, and now a commercial realtor in Innsbruck.

A great experience that I highly recommend for any club member.

Fun, fearless & focused!

The fun, fearless and focused members of the Whyte Ave Rotary Club are always welcoming visitors, volunteers and community-minded citizens to meetings and events.

If you or anyone in your network might be interested in connecting with us, please get in touch! We love to work together to make our neighbourhoods better, our city greater, our country stronger, and the world a better place.