Sunday, May 31, 2020

Our Program. An Entertaining Talk about Science and Space. June 1 to 7, 2020

WELCOME!!

 to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning June 1, 2020

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Greeter this week  
Rotarian Jean Michel Crepin



June focus - Rotary Fellowships

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Inspirational moment 

Friendship is one of the strongest bonds we develop in life. True friendship is based on love, respect, and care, and it helps us grow, and makes us stronger.

Our friends are the family we get to choose. We meet many people in our life, but the best ones remain by our side forever.

This was the case with Baloo the bear, Leo the lion and Shere Khan the tiger, who have been inseparable for almost two decades, living together at Noah’s Ark Animal Shelter in Georgia.


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Canadiana 
...contributed by Rotarian Elly




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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?   

Martha Manning.  Love the news about Bill Gates paying off Nigeria's loan to Japan!  John Prine.  By the time I watched this he was a victim of COVID19.  LOVE The Moth piece by Martha Manning!
-- Elizabeth Gaffney, Rotary Club of Stratford, District 6330

It just took me two weeks to get the strength to watch this video on combating sexual violence.  Too many “Whys.”  And just in quarantine getting inspiration from the E-club meetings.
-- Jean Michel Crepin, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

Nice to have a review of the history of polio.
-- David Werrett, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

Brave, not perfect.  I will definitely show this video to our girls at Creating Opportunities for Guatemalans!   Micro museums - I loved this TED Talk!  I am going to contact the speaker to see how we can collaborate to get micro museums developed for in-house at Creating Opportunities for Guatemalans and in locations in our village of San Antonio Aguas Calientes!
-- Vicki Horsfield, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

Amanda’s TED Talk.  Great diversity of material presented.  Loved being able to read, see, and hear items such as the Canadiana video (I’m a Canada-addict), the amazing bells from Banff, the greeting from Doug Dyer in Costa Rica, Amanda's TED Talk - which inspired me to become a habitat fragment gardener – the hamster humour, the food for thought info re the polio epidemic, the chance to donate, and the explanation of the Rotary four-way test by Jim Ferguson.
-- Andrea Chisholm, I am not a Rotarian

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Archived Meetings
  • For meetings before March 2020, please click here. 

  • For meetings starting March 2020, please scroll to the very bottom of this page.
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Announcements

As the 2020-21 year approaches


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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 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) 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 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. (Mountain Time) we host a casual FellowSIP Coffee Chat. 


And we've started a Thursday evening Happy Hour from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Mountain Time.  Please join us!


April 9, 2020 - Morning CoffeeSip

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

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Humour 






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New members' corner 


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Rotary minute 


Rotary Peace Fellowships are provided by The Rotary Foundation to fund either master’s degree or professional development certificate study at one of the six Rotary Peace Centers. Rotarians, Clubs and Districts support the Rotary Peace Centers through their gifts to The Rotary Foundation.
Rotary Districts can now nominate more than one Rotary Peace Fellow per year.

Rotary Peace Fellow applicants are not required to reside in your district.

  • They can be from your district and living locally or away.
  • They can be from other parts of the world. Rotarians are connected with people from other parts of the world through service, professional and education networks, and this can expand our recruitment ability greatly!
  • Candidates who have experienced living in a conflict zone are especially encouraged apply.

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Food for thought 

In the late 1970s, when Judie and Michael Bopp were a young married couple doing volunteer work in Rwanda, they were baffled by what Judie calls the “crazy things” they saw in development projects that were underway. “Bricks were being shipped all the way from Quebec by boat for one project when there was a brick factory right next door,” Judie recalls. “We really started thinking about community development and what that meant.”


What that meant for the Bopps was returning to Canada, earning advanced degrees in education and community development, and teaching and working with indigenous people in the Northwest Territories. Since that time, the couple have advised and trained people in impoverished regions in more than 20 countries, helping to establish stable, self-reliant communities.

Together they wrote Recreating the World: A Practical Guide to Building Sustainable Communities, and they co-wrote (with Lee Brown and Phil Lane Jr.) The Sacred Tree: Reflections on Native American Spirituality.

Three years ago, the Bopps joined the Rotary Club of Cochrane, Alberta, their hometown. “Joining Rotary was a way to be involved in our local community with 40 people we hadn’t known before who are trying to do good in the world,” says Judie.


To read more about the excellent work these Rotarians are doing abroad, click this link to the Rotary Canada April magazine.

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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
!


This week -  A real treat!


And for more information about this amazing talent, click here.

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Speaker Program 

The limits of a man's physical vision turn into the view from space. Richard Garriott made history in October 2008 by becoming the first second-generation astronaut to fly to space. 

Today he's one of the world's leading experts on private/commercial space travel. Richard earned legendary status in the video game industry early in his career with his design of the Ultima role-playing games, one of the most successful computer game series ever.


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Four-way Test

To close the meeting, our club president, David Werrett, recites the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things that Rotarians think, say, or do.


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.

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Invite friends to Like our page and enjoy our posts.  Also, please take the time to Share our posts on your Facebook Page. 
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Complete the attendance/donation form to have your attendance recognized.
  • Visiting Rotarians and guests  -  Click HERE.
  • Members of Rotary E-Club of Canada One  -  Click HERE.

Confirmation of your attendance will be sent to your e-mail address promptly.


Please support our club!

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. 

  • Visiting Rotarians and guests  -  Click HERE.
  • Members of Rotary E-Club of Canada One  -  Click HERE.

Join Us!
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Sunday, May 24, 2020

Our Program. Grandma Mahembe's Farm. May 25 to 31, 2020

WELCOME!!

 to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning May 25, 2020

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 March 2020 and on?
Just scroll to the very bottom!!

Thanks!


Greeter this week  
Rotarian Doug Dyer



May focus - Youth Service

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Inspirational moment 



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Canadiana 

Convivial Spirits

Bloody Caesar

This drink was invented in the 1960s by Calgary bartender Walter Chell.  Besides its hearty, piquant taste (often described as going down more like a meal than a beverage), a Caesar is awesome for the bafflement it causes Americans if you try to order one south of the border.  

If you describe some of the contents - vodka, Worcestershire sauce, and Tabasco sauce - to your puzzled Yankee bartender, he or she will reply that you've just described a Bloody Mary minus the tomato juice.  This is where you will really blow Tex's mind, when you state that, instead of tomato juice, a Bloody Caesar has Clamato juice.  That's right - juice made from clams (and tomato juice).  

There's a reason Canadians are so good at comedy - we drink it for pleasure.



Creemore




Brewed in Creemore Springs, Ontario, this tasty lager is free of preservatives and is not pasteurized.  It is made using water exclusively from an artesian well (the "spring" in Creemore Springs) located on the brewer's property.  

Founded in 1987, the remote Springs Brewery is a highly successful example of the many micro-breweries that began to proliferate in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s.  








Maudite and La Fin du Monde


Maudite

Made by Unibroue in Chambly, Quebec, both of these beers are Belgian-style ales with strong flavours.  

"Maudite" (French for "damned") is named for the ghostly voyagers shown on the label.  According to the legend of the Chasse Galerie, voyageurs who botch a deal with the devil must paddle over the treetops for eternity.  









La Fin du Monde

The name "La Fin du Monde" may derive from European explorers' impression that, upon discovering the east coast of Canada, they had arrived at the "end of the world," or the name may stem from a frantic marketing meeting to name the beer, at which point someone said (in French), "It's not the end of the world."









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Source:  Telfer, Geordie.  618 Awesome Things About Canada and 383 Pretty Cool Things. Canada:  Blue Bike Books, 2013.

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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?   

What Can't be fixed.  During my years as a teacher, I found that one of the most valuable answers I could give to a student was, "I don't know" (when I didn't) because they realized it was okay not to know everything in the moment. (I always followed up my answer with, "So let's look it up!")

I usually watch our weekly meeting on Monday evenings. But I was only able to get to it on Tuesday, April 7. So it was apropos that John Pine's song should be our music selection, as he died on this day of coronovirus. RIP, John.
-- Vicki Horsfield, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

Martha Manning.  There are things we just cannot fix, given the limits of our understanding and knowledge.  This was my first E-club meeting.
-- Dietrich Brand, Rotary Club of Medicine Hat, District 5360


It is so unfortunate that something like the World Wide Web, that has enabled so much good in the world, has had the opposite effect by making the exchange of child pornography so much easier and made the work of Julie Cordua, in trying to eliminate child pornography, that much harder.
-- David Werrett, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

Martha Manning:  What can’t be fixed.  A conventional therapist, Martha Manning, related her experience of a client dying of cancer after the disease coming back three times to sometimes just not having data for answers. At the same time as this experience with the client, her car was being looked at by a mechanic.  There were no answers to what the car’s problem was so nothing could be done. Later, Martha discovered that the same mechanic was visiting a patient in hospice down the hall from her client. When her client – now friend – passed away, she found out the mechanic was in a similar situation.  Oddly, her car never had problems again.  The car miraculously returned to its own good health, but the human beings could not be fixed. All with no answers. It’s just the way it is sometimes.    
-- Michael Thomas, Rotary Club of Stony Plain, District 5370

I will miss John Prine.  Angel from Montgomery was the first song my husband and I danced to. RIP
-- Sharon Blaker, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

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Archived Meetings
  • For meetings before March 2020, please click here.

  • For meetings starting March 2020, please scroll to the very bottom of this page.
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Announcements

A Review of what's upcoming
Rotary Opens Opportunities

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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 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) 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 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. (Mountain Time) we host a casual FellowSIP Coffee Chat. 


And we've started a Thursday evening Happy Hour from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Mountain Time.  Please join us!


April 9, 2020 - Morning CoffeeSip

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

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Humour 


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New members' corner 


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Rotary minute 



Ludovic Grosjean wants to get the plastic out off our oceans - starting with our rivers
by Stephen Yafa

From his home in southeastern Australia, Ludovic Grosjean is sounding the alarm. “There are 8.8 million tons of plastic dumped into our oceans every year,” he says. “By 2050, there will be more plastics than fish in our oceans if we do not reverse the situation. 

Removal is critical, but the solutions start elsewhere.”

That’s because, as a 2017 study revealed, a substantial portion of the plastic that ends up in oceans travels there via rivers — up to 3 million tons annually. Shut down that plastic highway and you’ve made a significant contribution to cleaning up the oceans.

That’s where Grosjean, 31, proves himself more than a mere alarmist. An oceanographer with multiple advanced degrees, he was named one of Australia’s most innovative engineers in 2019. In November 2018, when Rotary Day at the United Nations was held in Nairobi, Kenya — the headquarters of UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme — Rotary honored Grosjean, a member of the Rotaract Club of Melbourne City, as one of six young innovators.


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Food for thought
...contributed by Rotarian David Werrett



For this year’s graduating class, the COVID-19 outbreak has meant the cancellation of long-awaited commencement ceremonies. Graduation is about more than walking across the stage to collect a diploma, though. It marks the beginning of the next phase of your life, which is something worth celebrating even in these difficult times. The Wall Street Journal asked Melinda and me to share some thoughts about that transition. Here is what we wrote.
- Bill



Most commencement addresses do not change the course of history. On a sunny afternoon in 1947, then-Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave one that did.



Speaking at Harvard University, the former general reminded his audience that a few thousand miles away from where they gathered that day, the aftermath of World War II had plunged Europe into poverty, hunger and despair. The American people, he explained, had a responsibility to come to Europe’s aid despite being themselves so “distant from the troubled areas of the earth.” Even if you’ve never heard that speech, you are probably familiar with the policy agenda it proposed: the Marshall Plan, which helped speed Western Europe’s recovery and usher in a new era of peace and prosperity.


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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
!


This week -  New York Memories


To give us a little lift – and a remembrance of pre-COVID-19.


Yes, it’s New York, but the music is transcendent!  Take the time to listen – to lift your soul – and stay positive and hopeful through this pandemic crisis.  It's a long presentation - but you can save it for later!




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Speaker Program


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Four-way Test

To close the meeting, our club president, David Werrett, recites the Rotary Four-Way Test of the things that Rotarians think, say, or do.


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. 

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E-Club’s Facebook page.  We work hard to post something every second day, sometimes more often.  

Invite friends to Like our page and enjoy our posts.  Also, please take the time to Share our posts on your Facebook Page. 
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Attendance Links 

Complete the attendance/donation form to have your attendance recognized.
  • Visiting Rotarians and guests  -  Click HERE.
  • Members of Rotary E-Club of Canada One  -  Click HERE.

Confirmation of your attendance will be sent to your e-mail address promptly.


Please support our club!

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. 

  • Visiting Rotarians and guests  -  Click HERE.
  • Members of Rotary E-Club of Canada One  -  Click HERE.

Join Us!
Interested in providing Rotary Service? Unable to attend terra club meetings? 

Contact our membership chair for information or
click HERE for e-club Active Membership application.
or HERE to learn about Associate Membership
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