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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning May 25, 2020
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to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning May 25, 2020
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Please leave a donation to assist our club do Rotary's good works!
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Greeter this week
Rotarian Doug Dyer
May focus - Youth Service
Inspirational moment
Rotarian Doug Dyer
May focus - Youth Service
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Canadiana
Convivial Spirits
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.
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
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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Announcements
A Review of what's upcoming
Rotary Opens Opportunities
Rotary Opens Opportunities
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 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!
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| April 9, 2020 - Morning CoffeeSip |
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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
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.”
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.
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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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.
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