Sowing Hope: Keeping Mongolia Green, July 22 - 28, 2013
Greeter this week: Frank Yakimchuk
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Welcome to the weekly meeting of the E-Rotary Club, Canada One. I have decided to give my views and thoughts of the Rotary Greeter from my own experience. The role of the Rotary Club Greeter is important to both our own members and those who find themselves at our weekly meetings as visiting Rotarians or guests.
President, Bruce Kleeberger
Welcome to the weekly meeting of the E-Rotary Club, Canada One. I have decided to give my views and thoughts of the Rotary Greeter from my own experience. The role of the Rotary Club Greeter is important to both our own members and those who find themselves at our weekly meetings as visiting Rotarians or guests.
I have always thought that as the Rotary Greeter for either an E-Club or Terra Club that you must remember this, "first impressions are very important". The other notion that seems to be out of style these days is this, "make your guests feel comfortable" and at home with your group.
When I travelled to other places, away from my home, I usually look for a Rotary Club that I can visit for my "make up" or sometimes primarily for the fellowship, often to learn from their style of meeting and finally to share a meal with other members of the "Rotary Family”.
As a Greeter we try our best to treat everybody with respect, support our own members with a smile, learn their names in the spirit of "Dale Carnegie" and give that warm handshake to all.
Please continue with the E-Rotary Club, Canada One meeting. Please follow this Rotary Year's slogan, "Engage Rotary, Change Lives".
Francis (Frank) Yakimchuk
Member of the Rotary E- club of Canada One
Inspirational Moment
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Let’s hear from our Guests
Each week we receive comments from guests and members, who attend our e-meetings. We like to share some of these comments with you.
“I did enjoy the convience of the site, and the content is good!”
Mark McBride, RC Nelson - D5080
“The thank you from the Rotary Foundation is valuable and in fact includes a member of my GSE team of 2010 and Peace scholar Gord Hughes.
As Foundation chair of my club I want to share this video with my club.”
Marilyn Mucha, RC Edmonton Whyte Avenue – D5370
“I liked the Foundation video. It is succinct”.
Fran Leggett, RC Lethbridge East – D5360
Announcements
How we can make a difference
Sir Richard Branson and I invite you to visit the Choice Point Movement website and learn more about what it means, to understand what happens in the world is up to us individually and what we do with our own "choice point".
View the movie trailer in our weekly speaker program, and take a step into more than the issues of our time, begin to understand how we all, individually can make a difference. And in an e-club how that difference is multiplied by the number of our members friends and acquaintances; Rotarians all over the world.
President, Bruce Kleeberger
Greeter
If you have not yet had an opportunity to tell our members and guests about what Rotary means to you or why you are a Rotarian, this is your chance.
Send in your greeter message and a photo for our weekly greeter feature to miselly2@platinum.ca
Deadine for material for the next weekly meeting is Wednesday at Noon, prior to the next meeting.
Special Board Meeting
At the time usually reserved for our Committee Chairs meeting, this month we will have a Special Board Meeting to consider the projects our e-club will undertake this year and the continued membership of some members. Your GoToMeeting invitation is included in this weeks eBulletin!
"You make donations to support your terra club through fines, happy bucks and meals surplus.
How would you like to donate to support our e-club?".
We kindly ask, that all members and visitors joining us for a meeting, will consider making a contribution in lieu of the cost of a meal. You contribution will help us with projects our club participates in.
Your donation may be made on line via the Paypal button at the end of the meeting, the “Donate Now Paypal” button in the sidebar, or by sending a cheque to:
The Rotary E-club of Canada One
Box 9 Site 10, RR#2, Cochrane, Alberta, Canada T4C 1A2
A Little Humor
Dont' worry - IT'S THE DOOR!
Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget why you came that way in the first place?
Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses. Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what's known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next.
Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.
So it's not aging, it's the door!
Thank goodness for studies like this, I was really getting concerned!
New Members Corner
Service Above Self
Paul H. Harris had it all, in some ways. He was a respected, successful businessman, in a city bursting with opportunity.
But that wasn’t enough.
Harris had grown up in small-town New England. But after completing law school he had moved to Chicago, opening a legal practice there in 1896. Although he found Chicago’s brash “I will” spirit (as he described it) invigorating, he found that it could also be a lonely place.
He missed the simpler, quieter charms, personal connections and friendly camaraderie he had grown up with in the small towns of his youth. So he resolved to do something about it.
On February 23, 1905, he invited three of his business acquaintances to a very special dinner. It was to be the first meeting of a unique, non-denominational club for professional and businessmen based on increasing “friendship and fellowship”.
Rotary Minute
Submitted by David Werrett
Welcome to the official trailer for Choice Point: Align Your Purpose. Choice Point is a powerful new documentary film featuring world leading visionaries including Sir Richard Branson, Archbishop
Food for Thought
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
Speaker Program
Sowing Hope
Keep Mongolia Green
, a partnership between Rotarians in Korea and Mongolia, is fighting dust storms from the Gobi by planting trees and creating community farms.
This officially ends this week’s meeting
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