WELCOME!!
to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning September 23, 2019
Scroll down to enjoy the content!
Complete the form for a make-up!
Please leave a donation to assist our club do Rotary's good works!
to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning September 23, 2019
Scroll down to enjoy the content!
Complete the form for a make-up!
Please leave a donation to assist our club do Rotary's good works!
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!
Greeter this week
Rotarian Jeff MacFarlane
***
Rotarian Jeff MacFarlane
Theme for September
Basic Education and Literacy
Inspirational moment Basic Education and Literacy
September is
Basic Education and Literacy Month
What better way
to support this theme than to promote reading in pre-school children?
At this moment,
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One is supporting ten communities in the Northwest
Territories – ensuring that children aged 0-5 years receive age-appropriate
books.
Participation in
the Dolly Parton Imagination Library helps to ensure that children have
exposure to reading at a young age. The importance of reading cannot be
emphasized enough in young children. Regular reading to preschool children
needs to be a high priority. The Dolly Parton Imagination Library’s reading
program helps make that happen.
READ MORE HERE:
***
***
Canadiana
Off the coast of
the picturesque town of Witless Bay in Newfoundland sits a four-island
ecological reserve home to over 600,000 pairs of puffins. The locals love these
seabirds—so much so that they run a Puffin Patrol to protect lost chicks who
get stranded on shore.
Puffin Patrol
launches for 14th season
in Irish Loop community
Juergen Schau
demonstrates how to rescue a baby puffin with nine-year-old Eamon Carrigan. The
boy says he's excited to start patrolling. (Andrew Sampson/CBC)
A rescue
group at a Newfoundland bird sanctuary has turned into something of a
tourist attraction, with people from all over looking for the chance to rescue
baby puffins — or "pufflings."
The Witless Bay
Puffin & Petrel Patrol was founded by Juergen and
Elfie Schau, who travel from Berlin every summer to help save the
birds.
It was something
they started doing after first visiting the area in 2004.
"We were
walking down the roads and we saw several dead birds in the morning, and
we wondered what happened," said Juergen Schau, recalling his
first encounter with the puffins.
Pufflings, on
their first trip away from their parents' nests, will venture out toward
the ocean in search of food.
The night-blind
birds will follow the light of the moon, but with increasing amounts of
artificial lights in the area — like streetlights and headlights
— they end up in lethal danger, often being hit by vehicles.
After much
research, Juergen says he found that if the puffins were collected at night and
released the next day, they'd have a much better chance of survival.
The reserve contains North America's largest Atlantic puffin colony. More than 260,000 pairs of the province's official bird nest here during the late spring and summer.
Notably, Witless Bay Ecological Reserve also hosts the second-largest (after Baccalieu Island Ecological Reserve) Leach's storm-petrel colony in the world-more than 620,000 pairs come here to nest.
In addition, black-legged kittiwakes and common murres appear in the thousands.
The islands lie just a few kilometres off the east coast of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula, between the communities of Bay Bulls and Bauline East, half an hour south of St. John's. The reserve area takes in 31 km2 - 29 km2 of this is a marine area around the islands. Regulations govern the operation of boats inside the reserve during the sensitive nesting season (April 1-September 1).
Seabirds generally spend most of the year at sea and only return to land from May to August to breed and raise their young. For the most part, public observation of their activities must be done from boats-landing on the islands themselves requires a scientific research or special access permit.
Several licenced tour-boat companies operate out of the communities near the islands (see Services). Running spring through fall, these boat tours also provide opportunities to spot icebergs, whales, and other wildlife.
The Canadian Wildlife Service and Memorial University of Newfoundland carry out extensive research programs in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve. Their studies of the birds' behaviour and population trends, as well as the area's ecology, help guide the management of all the province's seabird reserves.
The Witless Bay Islands are part of the Maritime Barrens-Southeastern Barrens subregion 
(1.1 MB). The Islands were originally designated a wildlife reserve in 1964. They became the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve in 1983, three years after the Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act was passed.
(1.1 MB). The Islands were originally designated a wildlife reserve in 1964. They became the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve in 1983, three years after the Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act was passed.
***
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?
TED on windmill
and DG message. Enjoyed the article on
polio and the fellow with the windmill.
Tells me we can do anything we put our mind to.
-- Tom Vesely,
Rotary Club of Westlock Alberta, District 5370
August 27. I learned about neophobia and the meaning of
anthropomorphism. As a farm boy, I observed animal grief within a breed but
also between animal and human. Great meeting!
-- Jean Michel
Crepin, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
The narrative on
Project Fairs brought back memories. I
would recommend this activity to any Rotarian who likes to (and can) travel to
do very satisfying humanitarian service to consider this activity.
It is always good
to hear from new leaders. DGE Jim
reminded us of the value of the Four-way test.
Thanks, Jim.
-- John J. Eberhard,
Rotary Club of London, District 6330
The Power of
Vulnerability. I have seen Brene Brown’s
TED talks before, but it was lovely to reconnect with this talk after an
intense week – both professionally and personally. I also really ENJOYED the David Foster
video! This is my first e-meeting and I
found it such a lovely way to connect with the values of Rotary when life
interfered with getting to one in 3-D. Thank
you!
I look forward to
attending other meetings (just to see what this is like – whether or not I
“need” a make-up meeting)!
-- Judith Pinto,
Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona
***
|
- For meetings before February 2019, please click here.
- For meetings starting February 2019, please scroll to the very bottom of this page.
***
Announcements
***
District 5370 Conference this year
Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
October 3 to 5, 2019
***
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION 2020
***
A Bagged Lunch ZOOM FellowSIP
First Wednesday of every month!!
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 the first Wednesday of every month!
The next get-together is Wednesday, October 2!
The next get-together is Wednesday, October 2!
Submission from E-Club Rotarian Doug Dyer
Trash heroes
Doug, our local travelling Rotarian is currently in Thailand for a couple of months where he and his wife are getting involved by helping keep the shoreline pristine.
Doug's short video below:
***
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!
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.
***
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
Humour for literacy month
A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus
crashed yesterday losing its entire load.
Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback,
stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralysed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up,
surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed,
confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and
perplexed.
***
New members' corner
Rotary’s global network provides a great opportunity to expand your contacts and friendships to other countries while creating a foundation of support with communities around the world.
Explore Rotary’s global opportunities:
- Attend Rotary’s annual convention
- Connect with Rotarians around the world who share your hobbies and personal interests or your service interests
- Join a Discussion Group to exchange ideas on topics you're interested in
- Get involved with your club’s international service projects
- Participate in a vocational training team
- Join the Cadre of Technical Advisers
***
Rotary minute
Food for thought
***
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!
This Week - Karen Carpenter - Sing
This cover by The Carpenters was released in 1973. The song was written by Joe Raposo for the children's TV show "Sesame Street."
Attendance Links
Complete the attendance/donation form to have your attendance recognized.
Confirmation of your attendance will be sent to your e-mail address promptly.
- Comment - Click HERE to leave us a comment or send a message.
- Return to ClubRunner home page - CLICK HERE to return to our ClubRunner Home Page.
***
Four-way Test
To close the meeting, our E-Club President, Peter Denooy, recites the Rotary Four-Way Test.
To close the meeting, our E-Club President, Peter Denooy, recites the Rotary Four-Way Test.
Thank you for joining us. We appreciate your feedback and hope you will return and invite a guest.
Please Click HERE to leave us a comment or send a message.
Scroll down for Program Donations and Attendance links.
Donate For the Meeting You Have Attended.
Please consider making a small donation in lieu of a meal
to help us help those in need.
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?
Contact our membership chair for information or
or HERE to learn about Associate Membership
java hosting vpn norway
No comments:
Post a Comment