Stephen Covey on Paradigms: The "7 Habits of Highly Effective People"

Greeter this week: Herky Cutler

Greetings and welcome to the Rotary E-Club of Western Canada’s weekly meeting!

E-clubs are a great alternative to face-to-face clubs as they allow for tremendous flexibility in terms of how one gets involved in Rotary. So, for example, our Club is in District 5370, but this fall I will be coordinating District 5360’s RYPEN (Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment) Camp for my 14th year. If your Rotary District has a RYPEN program and you haven’t been involved in it yet, I HIGHLY recommend it! RYPEN is a program that teaches leadership and teamwork skills with an emphasis on experiential learning and fun! We have countless testimonials from students over the years that RYPEN has changed their lives...And if you do get involved, it will change yours!

Enjoy the meeting!

Herky Cutler

Inspirational Moment
As Rotarians, we are generally blessed with lives of relative luxury, and opportunities unknown to many.
Let us review our checkbooks, and, indeed, the registers of our lives with honesty as we consider our priorities, and our opportunity to help others. Open our hearts, and our accounts, to those in need, while still being provided with appropriate fruits of our own labors. Let us share not only our tangible wealth, but also our intangible riches of knowledge, leadership, and creativity to make our city, our nation, and our world, a better place filled with the peace and love that is brought through us.

Please stand for the National Anthem
With which this meeting is officially opened.
O Canada Children's Choir - Con Moto Singers

 Comments from our Guests
“I really enjoyed the National Anthem during this meeting - nice to see the mix up with Classified. I also enjoyed the video during the speaker portion”.
Lloyd Fischer – Grande Prairie after 5, D5370

Announcements
Earn attendance Credit, by participating in the Rotary Training Talk Webinar on Sept 18, 19 or 20. More details in Rotary minute.

E-Members are getting together! You are invited to a fellowship event on Sunday, September 30, from 3-6 pm at 1700 Lakeside Drive, Spring Lake.
An opportunity to meet fellow E-club members and prospective members. Please bring a guest.  For more details please contact Elly Contreras

On Wednesday, October 3rd, our sponsoring club; the Rotary Club of Stony Plain is hosting a joint meeting at 7:30 am (MDT). You are invited to be part of the presentation via GoToMeeting. Details have been sent to all members.
If you wish to be part of this meeting, please let Elly know.

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 any future projects our club will participate in.
Your donation may be made on line via the DONATE NOW , or by sending a cheque to:
The Rotary E-club of Western Canada
Box 1959, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta T4T 1B5

A Little Humor
Alzheimer or HIV
Phone rings. The lady of the house, Mrs Sanders, answers.
“Mrs Sanders - this is Dr Jones from St Agnes Laboratory. When your husband’s doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week, a biopsy from another Mr Sanders arrived as well… We are now uncertain which one belongs to your husband. Frankly, either way the results are not too good”.
“What do you mean?” Mrs Sanders asks nervously.
“Well, one of the specimens tested positive to Alzheimer’s and the other one tested positive for HIV. We can’t tell which is which”.
“That’s dreadful! Can you do the test again?” asked Mrs Sanders.
“Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests once”
“Well, what am I supposed to do?”
“The Medicare Help Desk recommended that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don’t sleep with him”.

ROTARY Minute
Learn and Earn Attendance Credit by registering and participating in the Rotary Training Talk Webinar! Sept 18, 19 or 20, connect with the Family of Rotary
Join Rotarian and Rotaractor experts at this upcoming webinar to learn how New Generations programs can engage your current members and attract young people to Rotary. We’ll discuss the following topics:
• Benefits of New Generations programs
• How to involve young people in service projects and professional development activities
• Attracting New Generations alumni to Rotary clubs
• Best practices for supporting New Generations clubs
Click on a date below to register.
Listings are Central Time; check for your local time.
18 September 07:30-08:30, 19 September 13:00-14:00 or 20 September 18:00-19:00

Food for Thought
There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick there are two things to worry about, either you will get better or you will die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you die, there are only two things to worry about, either you will go to heaven or to hell. If you go to heaven, then there is nothing to worry about. And if you go to hell, you’ll be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends you won’t have time to worry.

Speaker Program
(Introduction by Bruce Kleeberger)
Stephen Covey, a motivational speaker famous for his "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" recently passed away at the age of 79. His message, applicable to personal life, business and young people is highly inspirational but speaks to levels of integrity Rotarians will recognize from the 4 way test. This man deserves to be honoured. We want to remember him as the thought leader he was.

This officially ends this week’s meeting
If you have an interesting topic, or project to share please contact our Program Chair

Thank you for joining us, we appreciate your feedback, hope you will return and invite a guest.