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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning May 11, 2020
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to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning May 11, 2020
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Complete the form for a make-up!
Please leave a donation to assist our club do Rotary's good works!
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Thanks!
Greeter this week
Jean Michel Crepin
May focus - Youth Service
Inspirational moment
Jean Michel Crepin
May focus - Youth Service
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A 180-kilogram
turtle named Yoshi has excited scientists, who tracked her remarkable journey
halfway around the world after she was released from 20 years in captivity.
Key points:
- Scientists have tracked a loggerhead turtle from South Africa to the West Australian coast over the past two years
- Scientists think Yoshi may have been hatched in Australia, and she is returning home
- An aquarium in Cape Town believes it's the first recorded movement of a sea turtle between Africa and Australia
It's believed the
loggerhead turtle may be Australian, after she made a determined
37,000-kilometre swim across the Indian Ocean to a turtle nesting site on
Western Australia's Pilbara coastline.
Scientists, who
began tracking her journey from Cape Town two years ago, believe Yoshi may have
wanted to return to her original hatching site to breed and nest.
Sabrina Fossette,
a research scientist from WA's Department of Biodiversity, Conservation, and
Attractions said it was very exciting.
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Canadiana
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Source: Telfer, Geordie. 618 Awesome Things About Canada and 383 Pretty Cool Things. Canada: Blue Bike Books, 2013.
Butter Tarts
Canadians are surprised when they discover that not all nations have (or know about) butter tarts, which is a real shame because of their complete and utter awesomeneity (you can only write "awesome" and "awesomeness" so many times before you start making up words.)
Flavour-wise, butter tarts are similar to pecan pie but contain raisins instead of pecans. Purported to come from a Scottish town called Ecclefechan, butter tarts and their amazing taste eclipse any interest in their murky origins.
(Also, take it from me, it's impossible to spell "Ecclefeshan" the same way twice. See?)
Maple Anything
Whether it's maple syrup, maple-cured ham, or those maple-leaf-shaped candies made of maple sugar sold in stores all across the nations, maple is a favourite flavour among Canadians and is a "must-try" for many tourists first visiting our shores.
We mustn't forget maple-cured bacon, maple-smoked cheese, maple-iced doughnuts, maple-cream doughnuts, maple butter, maple coffee, maple tea, maple popcorn, maple cookies, maple bacon cake, and maple syrup on snow - the treat that first introduced the glorious phenomenon of maple to European settlers.
Maple flavour is awesome, and we hold this truth to be self-evident.
Nanaimo Bars
Known to make sensitive teeth hurt, these awesomely sweet and delicious squares comprise a foundation of cookie crumbs covered in vanilla buttercream filling and capped with a layer of chocolate.
Named for Nanaimo, British Columbia, recipes for these bars circulated for years under various names, including "Women's Institute Bars" and "Mable's Squares." The name doesn't matter, though - it is truly the taste that makes these bars awesome.
Canadians are surprised when they discover that not all nations have (or know about) butter tarts, which is a real shame because of their complete and utter awesomeneity (you can only write "awesome" and "awesomeness" so many times before you start making up words.)
Flavour-wise, butter tarts are similar to pecan pie but contain raisins instead of pecans. Purported to come from a Scottish town called Ecclefechan, butter tarts and their amazing taste eclipse any interest in their murky origins.
(Also, take it from me, it's impossible to spell "Ecclefeshan" the same way twice. See?)
Maple Anything
Whether it's maple syrup, maple-cured ham, or those maple-leaf-shaped candies made of maple sugar sold in stores all across the nations, maple is a favourite flavour among Canadians and is a "must-try" for many tourists first visiting our shores.
We mustn't forget maple-cured bacon, maple-smoked cheese, maple-iced doughnuts, maple-cream doughnuts, maple butter, maple coffee, maple tea, maple popcorn, maple cookies, maple bacon cake, and maple syrup on snow - the treat that first introduced the glorious phenomenon of maple to European settlers.
Maple flavour is awesome, and we hold this truth to be self-evident.
Nanaimo Bars
Known to make sensitive teeth hurt, these awesomely sweet and delicious squares comprise a foundation of cookie crumbs covered in vanilla buttercream filling and capped with a layer of chocolate.
Named for Nanaimo, British Columbia, recipes for these bars circulated for years under various names, including "Women's Institute Bars" and "Mable's Squares." The name doesn't matter, though - it is truly the taste that makes these bars awesome.
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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?
Jason Trieu. We
never really know what someone else has suffered. So glad to hear his happy
ending!
-- Vicki Horsfield,
E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
Attended regular
weekly RECCO meeting featuring presentation by Kristie Ebi on how Climate
Change could make our food less nutritious. Great program. The easy car-bicycle
is such a great idea - and would be a great funding opportunity for small clubs
to make an impact on many lives!
-- Keith Evans,
E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
Climate
Change/Nutrition of Food. Liked the
bicycle ambulances in Malawi. Makes us appreciate how nice we have it
here!
-- Elizabeth
Gaffney, Rotary Club of Stratford, District 6330
The talk by Jason
Trieu about escaping from Vietnam brought back memories for me as I visited
Vietnam as a tourist in 1971 and went with the YMCA to visit an orphanage and
since wondered about the fate of those children as the country was overrun by
the communists.
-- David Werrett,
E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
Jason Trieu was
the oldest in his family and became responsible to look after his brothers in
an orphanage in Vietnam. When it was arranged for them to go to America, he was
held back by the South Vietnamese police because he was of age to help fight. Jason was separated from his brothers at that
instance, but later he was able to have a second chance through American
efforts. He was almost detained again,
but at the last minute was able to leave the country for America.
This was a great
story of human suffering that people have had to overcome that most of us can
never imagine.
-- Michael Thomas,
Rotary Club of Stony Plain, District 5370
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Announcements
DISTRICT 5370 CONFERENCE 2020
The Next District Conference is hosted by OUR E-Club of Canada One!
Support our District Governor-Elect, Jim, and his Team
Register now!
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In order to
provide more privacy for the university students, Project Amigo’s University
Student housing was in dire need of new curtains for each of its nine dorm
rooms, the House Mom quarters, and the lounge area.
Long-time
volunteer, Elly Contreras, who spends her winters in Mexico, happens to have a
sewing machine there, and went to buy 25 meters of colourful fabric, just
before COVID made us all stay at home.
With not much
else to do, the self-isolation period was the perfect time to tackle the first
stage of this huge project.
In total 12
panels ranging from 1.40 Meters to 2.60 Meters in length are now ready to go to
Casa Amiga. Once the schools open again
and the students return to the Dorm, several will have brand-new curtains plus
more privacy. The rest will be done next winter season when Elly returns to
Mexico with her husband.
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Laura and Project
Amigo
RECCO* and several other Rotary Clubs support Project Amigo and Laura is one of the students in the program.
Like most of the world right now, Laura is continuing
her studies at home and helping to look after family members including an aunt
recovering from lung cancer.
Laura sends hugs to our club members for the support received.
Our best wishes to Laura and her family!
Photo: Laura and RECCO Member Judy Brown taken at Project Amigo in Mexico.
*Rotary E-Club of Canada One (RECCO)
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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, 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 |
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:
- The Paypal button on our ClubRunner Home Page
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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
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Calgary, AB
Canada T2P 5K1
Humour
Church Ladies
With Typewriters
The Fasting &
Prayer Conference includes meals.
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Scouts are
saving aluminum cans, bottles, and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be
used to cripple children.
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The sermon this
morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."
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Ladies, don't
forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth
keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
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Don't let worry
kill you off - let the Church help.
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Miss Charlene
Mason sang "I will not pass this way again," giving obvious pleasure to the
congregation.
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For those of you
who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
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Next Thursday
there will be try-outs for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
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Irving Benson and
Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship
that began in their school days.
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A bean supper
will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.
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At the evening
service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What Is Hell?" Come early and listen
to our choir practice.
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Eight new choir
robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to
the deterioration of some older ones.
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Please place your
donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
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The church will
host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment, and gracious hostility.
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Pot-luck supper
Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
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The ladies of the
Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement
on Friday afternoon.
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This evening at 7
PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a
blanket and come prepared to sin.
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The pastor would
appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric
girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
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Low Self Esteem
Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.
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Weight Watchers
will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double
door at the side entrance.
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The Associate
Minister unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My
Pledge - Up Yours."
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New members' corner
Rotary minute
Food for thought
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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 - The Cremation of Sam McGee
Listen to Johnny Cash read the famous poem.
Click here to read the truth behind the fiction.
At a recent Thursday morning CoffeeSip, the cold weather in Canada's Yukon Territory was a hot topic. "The Creation of Sam McGee" was mentioned.
Listen to Johnny Cash read the famous poem.
Click here to read the truth behind the fiction.
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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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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.
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