Sunday, August 25, 2019

Our Program - Grief and Love in the Animal Kingdom. August 26 to September 1, 2019

WELCOME!!

 to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning August 26, 2019

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Greeter this week 
Rotarian Elly Contreras


Theme for August - Membership and
New Club Development

Theme for September - Basic Education 
and Literacy

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Inspirational moment 



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Canadiana 

Tucked away on the picturesque shores of Georgian Bay, the Festival of the Sound (FOTS) marks its 40th anniversary with a three-week birthday bash that runs between July 19 through August 10.

And the reason for its success as one of the country’s premier chamber music festivals is simple, according to artistic director, renowned Canadian-American clarinettist James Campbell who has helmed FOTS for an equally astonishing 34 years.

“Because Parry Sound wants it,” the artist says modestly from Bloomington, Indiana, where he recently retired from his 40-year faculty teaching position at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. “A lot of people ask, how can this all happen in this small northern Ontario town? But it’s the community, as well as the strength of the Board and volunteers that continues to support it. 
The local residents really do feel they own it, and it’s part of their DNA now. It’s not my festival. I work for them.”

Read more here.




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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?   


Sleep, the super power.  Matt Walker is s phenomenal and engaging speaker.  It is terrifying to hear the harmful effects of sleep deprivation, as I am incredibly guilty of this.  Matt shared the statistics involved in sleep deprivation related to daylight savings time, and I could see how the loss of sleep could cause 24% increase in cardiovascular incidents, car accidents and suicide.  I was shocked to learn that sleep deprivation also affects DNA function, and increases the risk of cancer.  I guess I better start sleeping!

I really like how you have this set up on here!  Thank you so much for the effort you have brought forward to create such high-quality programming!
-- Angela Koch, Rotary Club of Lloydminster, District 5370

Wonderful discussion on Sleep deprivation.  Went right to bed with my sleep-assist bulldog, Puddle.  …Seriously, this explains a lot of what most of us have probably seen over the years.
-- Jim Kenyon, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

Nature is everywhere.  Great content!  Thank you!
-- Doug Dyer, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

Very timely story about 50 years of Rotaract.  The Rotaract Club of San Juan de la Maguana in the Dominican Republic (the city where I spend most of my time these days) is celebrating their 50th birthday this Rotary year!  They are working on a special project that will have a long-lasting effect on the community.
-- Peter Denooy, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

Nature is all around us.  Emma Harris discusses how nature that is around us should be protected - not just areas inclusive to national parks.  Everything should be protected as well. We need to protect plants and species of animals within our own living environment.
-- Michael Thomas, Rotary Club of Stony Plain, District 5370.

Emma Harris presents her idea of nature in a challenging way.  Agree or disagree, a nature equilibrium is only a temporal matter affected by a multitude of internal and external pressures. 
Also, good educational video about British Columbia. I would have liked to know how we lost part of the coastline that is now Alaska.
-- Jean-Michel Crepin, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

E-Club Water Project, Subriana, Honduras.    West El Paso Rotary Club is on a border city with Mexico.  Juarez, Chih, Mexico.  Through the grants program, we have participated in water projects.   It will change people’s lives.  We congratulate your club for a very important project. 
-- Salvador Gonzalez-Barney, West El Paso Rotary Club, District 5520

Really appreciated the Food for Thought segment, not only inspirational but educational; an initiative that really deserves support.  

This week’s program was a great reminder of Mother Nature’s role in our lives.  Many years ago, my brother went on an expedition to the Amazon Rain Forest ((Peru, Ecuador) with the Royal Alberta Museum to go “bug collecting” and he came back with similar perspectives in terms of appreciating nature, celebrating it and protecting it.  I’ve passed that on to my children.  

On a lighter note, that still has not excused me from mowing MY lawn, as much as I’ve tried!
--John Wojcicki, Rotary Club of Edmonton, District 5370

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Archived Meeting



  • For meetings before February 2019, please click here.
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Announcements

District 5370 Conference this year

Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
October 3 to 5, 2019

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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION 2020
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A Bagged Lunch ZOOM FellowSIP

A new event!!

A bagged lunch Zoom FellowSIP is scheduled every first Wednesday of the month at 12:00 pm (Mountain Time). 

The first meeting will be September 4 using the same ZOOM link as other Fellowship Events for a 30-minute chat.  

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/709771987.  

This is an opportunity to invite guests to share lunch with you electronically, and we hope that the guests will get to know us better.

An incentive:  The first 5 Active or Associate Members of our Club who invite, and propose, a candidate which results in Active or Associate Membership will receive 100 PH points from the E-club account.  This program expires June 30, 2020.


We look forward to you joining us on September 4!

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Contribution from Rotarian Jim Kenyon

20+ years providing the halfway checkpoint and water station for the Yukon River Trail Marathon.  Terra club has always done this and it was a joint effort this year.  4 hours of providing support, water, first aid, etc.  Mike Barwell from Whitehorse Rendezvous RC (right) and I having way too much fun.

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Material Suggestions and Greeter Messages Always Needed!

Do you have a Rotary story that you'd like to share with the Rotary World?

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, Kitty Bucsko.

We'd love to hear from you!


Your attendance could earn you Paul Harris Points

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.

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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:
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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
Apt. 1708
1108 6th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB
Canada   T2P 5K1

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Humour 



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New members' corner 

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Rotary minute 


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Food for thought


Why are we afraid of new food? 
Submitted by David Werrett


How does the brain influence the way we taste things? Why some new food become a landmark recipe while others are forgotten? A new collaboration between neuroscientists and chefs reveals how the brain influence the way we taste food.

Learn more here:



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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
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This Week - Contributed and Donated by Rotarian Vicki!


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Speaker Program 
...contributed by Rotarian Peter

From mourning orcas to distressed elephants, biological anthropologist Barbara J. King has witnessed grief and love across the animal kingdom. 

In this eye-opening talk, she explains the evidence behind her belief that many animals experience complex emotions, and suggests ways all of us can treat them more ethically -- including every time we eat. "Animals don't grieve exactly like we do, but this doesn't mean that their grief isn't real," she says. "It is real, and it's searing, and we can see it if we choose." 


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Four-way Test

To close the meeting, our District 5370 Governor-elect, Jim Ferguson, recites the Rotary Four-Way Test.


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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. 

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