Indigenous Celebration and Pow-Wow at Stampede Park
Jennifer Lavier-Jancovic
A Big Thank you to our BBQ Volunteers who came out to support Rotary’s Reconciliation Efforts, Build Trust and Friendship with Indigenous Peoples on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Rotarians, Friends and Family donned aprons and gloves, flipped burgers, served coleslaw and beans and took part in the celebration of Aboriginal Awareness Week Calgary’s Family Day and Pow Wow on June 24, 2023 at Enmax’s Elbow River Camp on the Calgary Stampede Grounds.
The AAWC Event was co-chaired by Doreen Williams and Lori Johnstone of Circle of Wisdom Elders & Seniors Centre.
THANK YOU Greg Stevenson, Gord Graham & Steve Stein of the RCCD BBQ Committee for hauling & setting up equipment, ordering food, Diane MacDonald & Bev Graham for teaching me the ropes in coordinating volunteers, Past RCCD President Madeleine King & DG Kurt Kowalchuk for your support in Indigenous Relations, BBQ volunteers George Brookman, Farid Bedwany, Ann Haessel, Franco Savoia, Graham Drake, Gene Wasylchuk, Brad & Cheryl Wellicome, Trevor Ironside & son, Bruce Fenwick, Lori Forand, Dorothy Loucks, Manon Mitchell, Kura & Laura Sletmoen, Randy & Cathy Topolnitsky, Barb Young, Sheila Tyminski, Bob Holland, and President-elect Joe Fras for representing Rotary in the Grand Entry, dancing along with Chiefs and other Honored Guests. Thank you also to Dave Richardson for bringing the leftovers to the Calgary Dream Centre.
YOU ARE AWESOME!!!
