Ruth Chang:How to make hard choices June 30-July6, 2014
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- Speaker Program-Ruth Chang:How to make hard choices
- E-Club Canada One RYLA Story
- Dolly Parton Imagination Library Update
Plus our regular weekly features...
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Picture from l.t.r. PDGs Judy Harcourt, Elly Contreras, Jackie Hobal, Betty Screpnek and DG Linda Robertson, missing is DGN Laura Morie. 5370, may very well be the District with the largest number of female Governors.
An e-club Canada One RYLA Story
This story was submitted by Chris Langley for the D5370 Newsletter
Picture from l.t.r. PDGs Judy Harcourt, Elly Contreras, Jackie Hobal, Betty Screpnek and DG Linda Robertson, missing is DGN Laura Morie. 5370, may very well be the District with the largest number of female Governors.
One of the nicest things about Rotary, is the opportunities we have to attend a Rotary meeting, event or celebrations in any part of the world.
After 18 years in Rotary, Ramiro and I have visited many clubs worldwide, and during my term as DG, we traveled through our entire district, getting to know many Rotarians, many of which we call our friends.
Some of those friends are past District Governors, with whom we stay in contact and enjoy Rotary Fellowship whenever possible. One such occasion was on Thursday, June 19, when 2013-14 Governor Betty presented 2014-15 Governor Linda with her Governor’s pin.
With their speeches, they both inspired the audience, gathered at Northlands in Edmonton. The room was filled, with members from the host - Edmonton Northeast - club, home club of Governor Linda. Other guests where from the Edmonton Glenora Club home of Governor Betty, and several members of the G string (Governors past, current and future). DGE Tim Schilds and Sally even drove in from Dawson Creek. It was a pleasure seeing so many other guests, including Assistant Governors.
I am very proud of our District and was happy to share this occasion with so many of my Rotary friends.
After 18 years in Rotary, Ramiro and I have visited many clubs worldwide, and during my term as DG, we traveled through our entire district, getting to know many Rotarians, many of which we call our friends.
Some of those friends are past District Governors, with whom we stay in contact and enjoy Rotary Fellowship whenever possible. One such occasion was on Thursday, June 19, when 2013-14 Governor Betty presented 2014-15 Governor Linda with her Governor’s pin.
With their speeches, they both inspired the audience, gathered at Northlands in Edmonton. The room was filled, with members from the host - Edmonton Northeast - club, home club of Governor Linda. Other guests where from the Edmonton Glenora Club home of Governor Betty, and several members of the G string (Governors past, current and future). DGE Tim Schilds and Sally even drove in from Dawson Creek. It was a pleasure seeing so many other guests, including Assistant Governors.
I am very proud of our District and was happy to share this occasion with so many of my Rotary friends.
Visit your District website and find out where you can attend a meeting or special event and encourage others to attend our e-meeting while away from home.
Comments from our Guests and Members
We love to hear from our guests and members. Following are some of the things they tell us on the attendance form. Please send us your comments on the attendance form.
We love to hear from our guests and members. Following are some of the things they tell us on the attendance form. Please send us your comments on the attendance form.
“I really enjoyed being greeted by incoming District Governor Linda Robertson. She will be my District Governor for the coming Rotary year.
I enjoyed the Canada song played at the beginning of the meeting. It was stirring!!
As I listened to the Fellowship Scholars talk about their Peace Conference that they went to, I especially enjoyed the one Rotarian who sang her comments: "I dreamed of those... who put an end to war."
Harold Witte, RC Edmonton Northern Lights – D5370
Harold Witte, RC Edmonton Northern Lights – D5370
“The Prime Minister of Australia gave not only a warm welcoming speech, but also, a major pledge for Polio Plus; Well done.
Archie Skirving, Rotary E-club Canada One
Archie Skirving, Rotary E-club Canada One
“(This e-club site is) easy to use, nice flow”.
Jeff Barrett, RC Catskill –D7210
Jeff Barrett, RC Catskill –D7210
“Suggestions for future speaker programs: More speaking and less "flash".
Craig Fowler, Rotary Club of Barrie – D7010
Craig Fowler, Rotary Club of Barrie – D7010
“(I like) the ease of navigating the site, humor component and convenience of site”.
Amanda Reimer, RC Grande Prairie Swan City – D5370
Amanda Reimer, RC Grande Prairie Swan City – D5370
Announcements
E-club Auction
We are happy to announce, that through our Rotary E-club auction we raised a total of $1,600.
Items on the block, where a Gift Certificate for Home Depot, 3 nights and 3 days for TWO in a wonderful condo at the beach of Manzanillo, A day aboard a 28 ft. sailboat in on of the worlds most scenic harbours and registration for a Volunteer Workweek at Project Amigo, Mexico.
If you missed out, there is a opportunity for your to
take part in an extraordinary week in Mexico.
Read how you can Change Lives in Mexico HERE
We are happy to announce, that through our Rotary E-club auction we raised a total of $1,600.
Items on the block, where a Gift Certificate for Home Depot, 3 nights and 3 days for TWO in a wonderful condo at the beach of Manzanillo, A day aboard a 28 ft. sailboat in on of the worlds most scenic harbours and registration for a Volunteer Workweek at Project Amigo, Mexico.
If you missed out, there is a opportunity for your to
take part in an extraordinary week in Mexico.
Read how you can Change Lives in Mexico HERE
The Dolly Parton Imagination Library Project
All parents who have a registered an E-mail address in the DPIL database received the following e-mail message:
“We are excited to get to offer you a free Dolly children’s song to download and enjoy with your Imagination Library books! We hope that you are spending time reading the specially selected Imagination Library books with your child, and now you can enjoy singing along together as well. We’re thrilled to give you ‘I Believe in You’, a song Dolly wrote to accompany her favorite welcome book that every child receives, The Little Engine That Could.
All parents who have a registered an E-mail address in the DPIL database received the following e-mail message:
“We are excited to get to offer you a free Dolly children’s song to download and enjoy with your Imagination Library books! We hope that you are spending time reading the specially selected Imagination Library books with your child, and now you can enjoy singing along together as well. We’re thrilled to give you ‘I Believe in You’, a song Dolly wrote to accompany her favorite welcome book that every child receives, The Little Engine That Could.
To listen to and/or download a free MP3 of ‘I Believe in You’, visit our website and click the (blue) play button to the left or the download button (arrow) to the right.”
An e-club Canada One RYLA Story
This story was submitted by Chris Langley for the D5370 Newsletter
PDG Betty and DG Linda to Join E-Club Celebration July 7
Join us at our special July 7 meeting to see both incoming and outgoing District Governors as DG Betty presents the Rotary Champion Award to our e-club! Attend and learn more.
Join us at our special July 7 meeting to see both incoming and outgoing District Governors as DG Betty presents the Rotary Champion Award to our e-club! Attend and learn more.
At this same event the keys to the executive office get handed over.
We are encouraging you to join us by coming together with other members and join us to celebrate our achievements and encourage our new executive in it's new role.
Click on THIS LINK at 5:30 Mountain, 4:30 Pacific, 7:30 Eastern:
There will be gatherings in British Columbia and in Alberta.
For more information please contact Doug Dyer <dougdyer52@gmail.com>
Support our E-Club
Your contribution for this meeting may be made on line via the Paypal Button on the side bar, from the attendance form, or by sending a cheque to:
The Rotary E-club of Canada One
Box 9 Site 10, RR#2, Cochrane, Alberta, Canada T4C 1A2
We are encouraging you to join us by coming together with other members and join us to celebrate our achievements and encourage our new executive in it's new role.
Click on THIS LINK at 5:30 Mountain, 4:30 Pacific, 7:30 Eastern:
There will be gatherings in British Columbia and in Alberta.
For more information please contact Doug Dyer <dougdyer52@gmail.com>
Support our E-Club
Your contribution for this meeting may be made on line via the Paypal Button on the side bar, from the attendance form, or by sending a cheque to:
The Rotary E-club of Canada One
Box 9 Site 10, RR#2, Cochrane, Alberta, Canada T4C 1A2
We thank you for your donation.
A Little Humor
Don't wash your hair in the shower!!
It's so good to finally get a health warning that is useful!!!
Shampoo Warning!
Don't wash your hair in the shower!!
It's so good to finally get a health warning that is useful!!!
Shampoo Warning!
I don't know WHY I didn't figure this out sooner!
When I wash my hair, the shampoo runs down my whole body, and printed very clearly on the shampoo label is this warning, "FOR EXTRA BODY AND VOLUME."
No wonder I have been gaining weight! Well! I got rid of that shampoo and I am going to start showering with Dishwashing Soap. Its label reads, "DISSOLVES FAT THAT IS OTHERWISE DIFFICULT TO REMOVE."
Problem solved!
No wonder I have been gaining weight! Well! I got rid of that shampoo and I am going to start showering with Dishwashing Soap. Its label reads, "DISSOLVES FAT THAT IS OTHERWISE DIFFICULT TO REMOVE."
Problem solved!
New Members Corner
New members make Rotary stronger. By adding their skills, experience, and enthusiasm to the club, they can advance communities at home and on a global scale. Together, we can eradicate polio, train more skilled peacemakers, and provide lasting solutions for communities fighting disease, hunger, illiteracy, and poverty.
Find out what you can do by clicking HERE
New members make Rotary stronger. By adding their skills, experience, and enthusiasm to the club, they can advance communities at home and on a global scale. Together, we can eradicate polio, train more skilled peacemakers, and provide lasting solutions for communities fighting disease, hunger, illiteracy, and poverty.
Find out what you can do by clicking HERE
Rotary Minute
Submitted by Chris Langley
Today I am moved by the news of the death of one of my mentors at the age of 88, to contemplate the power, both in our lives and in the lives of others, of mentoring.
Bill was a collector with a truly remarkable collection of military aviation badges. I had the same hobby, but I heard that Bill had an Alladin's Cave and that he too lived in Vancouver. It took me a while to track him down, a bit longer to get him to talk to me, but once he saw my enthusiasm for the subject he opened his collection, his home and his mind to allow me in.
He both gave me access to the material knowledge, the material artifacts and to much of his aging network and this allowed me to continue to grow the knowledge base, providing an exciting springboard from which to continue beyond his fading years. I am lucky in that my Grandfather was also like this and I suppose set the trend I have noticed in my life of being mentored by older men. In retrospect there have been many men in my life who have given me their wisdom and their opinions around which to build my own.
Mentoring only works if it is offered and if it is paid attention to, but without offering it can never work. We all have things to offer to mentor in. We probably underestimate how many people would be happy to have a mentor.
As Rotarians we like to give help and assistance. Help and assistance is always easier to give when you can see what grows from it, but sometimes you cannot expect to see the results. There is a well known saying that a great person plants acorns so that their great-great-grandchildren can relax in the shade of a mighty oak. Great scientists who have changed our understanding are on record as saying "Don't give me all the praise. I didn't understand all this by myself. I have stood on the shoulders of great men and seen further" (Sir Isaac Newton).
Offer to mentor, in no matter what small way, because when a person dies, their assembled knowledge dies with them, unless it has been passed along, and that is surely a waste.
Submitted by Chris Langley
Today I am moved by the news of the death of one of my mentors at the age of 88, to contemplate the power, both in our lives and in the lives of others, of mentoring.
Bill was a collector with a truly remarkable collection of military aviation badges. I had the same hobby, but I heard that Bill had an Alladin's Cave and that he too lived in Vancouver. It took me a while to track him down, a bit longer to get him to talk to me, but once he saw my enthusiasm for the subject he opened his collection, his home and his mind to allow me in.
He both gave me access to the material knowledge, the material artifacts and to much of his aging network and this allowed me to continue to grow the knowledge base, providing an exciting springboard from which to continue beyond his fading years. I am lucky in that my Grandfather was also like this and I suppose set the trend I have noticed in my life of being mentored by older men. In retrospect there have been many men in my life who have given me their wisdom and their opinions around which to build my own.
Mentoring only works if it is offered and if it is paid attention to, but without offering it can never work. We all have things to offer to mentor in. We probably underestimate how many people would be happy to have a mentor.
As Rotarians we like to give help and assistance. Help and assistance is always easier to give when you can see what grows from it, but sometimes you cannot expect to see the results. There is a well known saying that a great person plants acorns so that their great-great-grandchildren can relax in the shade of a mighty oak. Great scientists who have changed our understanding are on record as saying "Don't give me all the praise. I didn't understand all this by myself. I have stood on the shoulders of great men and seen further" (Sir Isaac Newton).
Offer to mentor, in no matter what small way, because when a person dies, their assembled knowledge dies with them, unless it has been passed along, and that is surely a waste.
Food for Thought
This officially ends this week’s meeting
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