Welcome to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning April 22, 2019
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or
Prospective Members doing their Required Attendance
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Complete the Guest Attendance form at the end of the meeting.
Guests attending this meeting will have a chance to
WIN a CDN $100 donation to the Foundation in your name
Rotary E-Club Members
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Welcome to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning April 22, 2019
Guests wanting to do a Makeup
or
Prospective Members doing their Required Attendance
should scroll down to attend our weekly meeting and
Complete the Guest Attendance form at the end of the meeting.
Guests attending this meeting will have a chance to
WIN a CDN $100 donation to the Foundation in your name
Rotary E-Club Members
Please CLICK HERE to report a make-up or volunteer hours for qualifying activities
or scroll down to attend this meeting and submit the attendance form towards the end of the meeting.
Looking for an Archived Meeting from February 4th, 2019 and on?
Just scroll to the very bottom!!
Thanks!
Looking for an Archived Meeting from February 4th, 2019 and on?
Just scroll to the very bottom!!
Thanks!
PROGRAM
The Disarming Case to Act Right Now
on Climate Change
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Canadiana
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Comments from our guests and members
Members and guests attending our weekly meetings are very important to us. Based on your comments we are able to produce many more educational, inspiring and entertaining weekly meetings.
Following are some of the comments we have received. Would you please send us your comments?
Angelica Dass – Beauty of Human Skin in Every Colour. First of all, I like the new site format. Secondly, I like the Jukebox – so much that I had to hit Pause, go run and grab my guitar and sing/play along!! Fortunately, no one was home at the time!
The program was the real highlight. What an awesome message – and what great occasion to apply our Four-Way Test! As much as we thought we progressed, we can see that we still have a way to go. And what a great objective for Rotarians.
-- John Wojcicki – Rotary Club of Edmonton, District 5370
Angelica Dass – The Beauty of Human Skin in Every Colour. This is one of those meetings that makes you laugh and makes you cry. From Billy Crystal’s fabulous tribute to Mohammed Ali to the powerful message from Angelica Dass, I cherished every minute!
-- Robert Boyden, Rotary Club of Canmore, District 5360
Students Improving Water. Despite having lived all 66 years of my life in Canada, I realized how little I really know about our vast country and its history. The Canadiana article on Sudbury was fascinating. I look forward to the next opportunity to learn more about our great country.
-- Robert Boyden, Rotary Club of Canmore, District 5360
On a few recent meetings:
Canadiana – Excellent chronology of “Black History in Canada.” IGen – the smart-phone generation. Awesome! So true! Rotary Jukebox: Rhythms of the Dance – my toes are still tapping!
Inspirational Moment – Great work by the midwives of Haiti. Great to see Larry Reynolds from my club in the “comments from our guests and members.”
A little humour. Billy Crystal 1979 tribute to Ali. What a classic! Jukebox: Stand By Me performance. What a treat!
-- Andy Adams, Rotary Club of Campbell River, District 5030
The Library Fines talk was exceptional. Probably one of the reasons that I don’t hit the library too often, and we have an excellent one here.
-- Jim Kenyon, Rotary E-Club of Canada One
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Archived Meetings
- For meetings before February 2019, please click HERE.
- For meetings starting February 2019, scroll to the bottom of this blog screen.
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Announcements
District 5370 Conference this year
Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
October 3 to 5, 2019
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Please feel free to forward an approx. 150 - 200 word message or any material suggestions in an e-mail, or in a Word document, along with a JPeg picture or two, to E-Club Administration Chair, Jim Ferguson.
We'd love to hear from you!
The Rotary E-club of Canada One is excited to announce that all of our attending guests who make a donation to our club in lieu of a meal, fines or happy bucks, will have the opportunity to have their name entered in a quarterly draw in support of the Rotary Foundation.
For more information, please click on the READ MORE link at the top of the weekly meeting.
Real-time meetings
Each 3rd Tuesday of the month from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm (MDT) is our Fellowship Assembly, and we often invite interesting speakers or Rotary Leaders for this entertaining, educational fun event.
Each Thursday Morning from 8:00 am to 8:30 am (MDT) we host a casual FellowSIP Coffee Chat.
Everyone is welcome to attend and we encourage your participation.
Please click our Event Calendar for details and access Link.
For further inquiries or suggestions please contact: info@rotaryeclubcanada.ca
All our videos can be viewed on our YouTube channel:
Anyone can subscribe to our channel so that you will be automatically notified when a new video is posted.
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How do you support our club?
In order for our club to continue its much-needed projects helping others, your contributions are critical. You may use either:
- The Paypal button on our ClubRunner Home Page
- The donation button on the attendance form, or
- Send a cheque to:
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
Apt. 1708
1108 6th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB
Canada T2P 5K1
A little humour
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News from our Rotary family
A message from Rotarian Vicki
I just finished listening
to an awesome TedTalk on our club's Weekly Meeting, entitled "Dawn
Wacek: A librarian's case against overdue book fines". To learn statistics
about how people living in poverty are underachievers because they don't have
access to books resonated strongly with me.
From the time my children were 6
months old, we as parents read to them every single night even up into their
teen years. When they were able to read on their own, we had family reading
times, where we each had our own book. Other times we would read one book
collectively, all listening to whichever reader was taking their turn.
I live in a poor
community, a small village in Guatemala, where there is no public
library. So even if someone has the means to pay fines for overdue
library books, it is irrelevant because there are no books.
One of my dreams as
director of Creating Opportunities for Guatemalans organization is to one
day build a community library. We currently have a small library in our
organization's facility that we use for our reading program for our sponsored
students.
We are about to embark on a lending system which we have been advised
against because, even in communities in Guatemala that do have libraries,
they don't allow library visitors to take out books because they think people
with destroy them, use them as firewood, or in some other way be
irresponsible.
Dawn Wacek's talk was
very empowering. She emphasized that every child, regardless of socio-economic
circumstances, had the right to have access to books in order to improve
learning.
I will take her suggestions to heart with our current students, and
with our community when the day comes that we will have a library for our
village. In May, I have a date with a volunteer with Librarians without
Borders. I am excited to show her Dawn Wacek's TedTalk and I discuss the
content of it with her.
Vicki Horsfield, Executive Director
Creating Opportunities for
Guatemalans
Website: www.creatingopportunitiesforguatemalans.org/ and
www.facebook.com/CreatingOpportunitiesforGuatemalans
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Rotary minute
In this video, Rotarians visit Dr. Paul R. Alexander and his
Iron Lung Machine, as he discusses his life and fight against Polio. Video is
brought to you by The Rotary E-Club of District 5810. With more help, Rotary
can finally end the fight, and eradicate Polio once and for all.
ENDPOLIONOW.ORG
Food for thought
“If the adults don’t care about my future, why should I?” ~ Greta Thunberg
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Rotary Jukebox
For a small donation, your favorite musician will be featured on one of our next e-meetings for everyone to enjoy.
Every week we'll have a draw and the lucky person will see their song featured!
Attendance Links
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Confirmation of your attendance will be sent to your e-mail address promptly.
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Four-way Test
To close the meeting, Rotarian Jeff MacFarlane leads us in the Rotary Four-way Test of the things we think, say, or do:
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This officially ends this week's meeting.
Thank you for joining us. We appreciate your feedback and hope you will return and invite a guest.
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We thank you very much!
Program Donations
Our E-Club is a dynamic club comprised of ordinary working and retired people who acknowledge that Rotarians are people who are generous with their time and their resources.
Our club and the program you have just enjoyed, either as a member or a visitor, is funded only by donations.
We are developing ideas for fundraising with our members who are scattered across Canada, USA, Central America, and Europe, but we do need your help.
As you have not had to buy lunch or travel to attend this program, please make a donation of a minimum of $10.00, considering you're saving in time and cost in appreciation for the experience you have enjoyed.
Interested in providing Rotary Service? Unable to attend terra club meetings?
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