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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning September 13, 2021
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to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning September 13, 2021
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Complete the form for a make-up!
Please leave a donation to assist our club to do Rotary's good works!
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Thanks!
Greeter this week
Rotarian Sharon Blaker
Inspirational moment
Rotarian Sharon Blaker
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...contributed by Rotarian Nance
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Canadiana
An estimated 40,000 African-Americans followed the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada in the 19th century.
U of T alum Bryan Walls (DDS 1973) has devoted a great deal of his life to preserving a piece of this history: He has been operating the John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum in Lakeshore, Ontario, since 1985.
The site is where his great-great grandparents – John, a Black man who had been enslaved on a North Carolina tobacco plantation, and his white wife, Jane – built their home after reaching safety in Canada. The couple also used their home as a final terminal on the Underground Railroad.
It is a labour of love for Walls who, in a U of T Magazine interview in 2004, said: “We have so much to be thankful for as descendants of fugitive slaves; we know they laid a foundation that we could build on, and that’s what progress is all about.”
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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?
July 13. Way back when, I was present at the gathering of the clans at the end of the Highland Games in Montreal. All these beautifully clad bagpipers played Amazing Grace and I cried through the whole thing!
-- Vicki Horsfield, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
July 13. Power of the Introvert. The Scottish pipe bands playing together is a great example of Teamwork! I'm an extrovert married to an introvert, and it works quite well as my husband calls me his “social convenor.”
-- Sharon Blaker, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
July 16. The Power of Introverts. Thank you for this one.
-- Doug Dyer, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
Ethan Hawke, Permission to be creative. Good meeting!
-- Lynne Ternosky, Rotary Club of D6330 Passport
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Announcements
RECCO YFF – YOUTH FOCUS FUNDRAISER
10km x 10 Location Sponsored Walk
September 25 – October 9, 2021
10 Members of the Rotary E-Club of Canada One (“RECCO”) will each be walking 10 kilometers in 10 different locations at a date they choose in the last week of September or first week of October, 2021.
Funds raised will be used to support the Club’s involvement from 2021-2024 with the following projects, all of which focus specifically on youth:
- Project Amigo (Mexico)
- Creating Opportunities for Guatemalans
- Himalayan Life (Nepal)
- Rotary’s RYLE and RYPEN
Pictures of start locations and end locations for the walkers will be posted on the RECCO website/home page.
If you want to sponsor a walker, please contact Keith Evans (keithevans@stepoiltools.com) with details of your sponsorship commitment, and he will assign it to a walker. NO AMOUNT OF SPONSORSHIP IS TOO SMALL OR TOO BIG.
Please indicate walk sponsorship on any direct bank transfers. Click the “Special Fundraiser” drop-down box for payments via PayPal (if you add a penny “.01” after the dollar amount of your contribution for PayPal it will be clear code to our Treasurer that this is for the sponsored walk fundraiser), or you can use the QR code to facilitate payment.
Thank you!
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September 30 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time
Support RI President Shekhar Mehta when he speaks, September 30, at an International Summit on Nuclear Weapons.
Register now: www.ippnw.org/eliminating-the-threat
Join the one-hour high-level discussion on September 30 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
Topic - Eliminating the Existential Threat of Nuclear Weapons
As experts warn that we are closer to nuclear war than we have ever been, UN Under Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu and the heads of the two NGO’s with official UN status, Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Shekhar Mehta, President of Rotary International discuss the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and other steps that we can take to eliminate the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons.
Join the one-hour high-level discussion on September 30 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
Topic - Eliminating the Existential Threat of Nuclear Weapons
As experts warn that we are closer to nuclear war than we have ever been, UN Under Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu and the heads of the two NGO’s with official UN status, Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Shekhar Mehta, President of Rotary International discuss the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and other steps that we can take to eliminate the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons.
Join the one-hour high-level discussion on September 30 at 11:00am Eastern Time.
Register now: www.ippnw.org/eliminating-the-threat
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
Register now: www.ippnw.org/eliminating-the-threat
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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 is our Fellowship Assembly, and we often invite interesting speakers or Rotary Leaders for this entertaining, educational fun event.
Please note the change - for July, August, and September
The monthly RECCO Fellowship Assemblies will be held at 10:00 a.m. (MST) on the third Tuesday of each month. The change was made to include more RECCO members in different time zones.
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
Environment
supporting-the-environment-is-a-new-area-of-focus-what-are-the-implications (1) from ESRAG on Vimeo.
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Humour
When I was a high school senior, I saw an inspirational ad on TV about becoming a teacher. I called the number shown: 800-45TEACH. After a woman answered, I babbled on about how I thought I had found my life’s calling and could she send me information. She asked what number I was calling.
After I told her, there was a long pause. Then she said, “You misspelled teach.”
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I was having a drink at a local restaurant with my friend, Justin, when he spotted an attractive woman sitting at the bar. After an hour of gathering his courage, he approached her and asked, “Would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?”
She responded by yelling at the top of her lungs “No, I won’t come over to your place tonight!”
With everyone in the restaurant staring, Justin crept back to our table, puzzled and humiliated.
A few minutes later, the woman walked over to us and apologized.
“I’m sorry if I embarrassed you,” she said, “but I’m a graduate student in psychology and I’m studying human reaction to embarrassing situations.”
At the top of his lungs, Justin responded, “What do you mean, two hundred dollars?”
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I have a cousin who was on a plane that had taken off and was approaching cruising altitude when one of the flight attendants came on the public-address system. She announced that she was sorry, but the plane’s restroom was out of order. The flight attendant went on to apologize to the passengers for the inconvenience.
But then she finished cheerily with: “So, as compensation, free drinks will be served.”
Source: All from Reader’s Digest, Dumb and Dumber
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New members' corner
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
There has been progress over the last decades: More girls are going to school, fewer girls are forced into early marriage, more women are serving in parliament and positions of leadership, and laws are being reformed to advance gender equality.
Despite these gains, many challenges remain: discriminatory laws and social norms remain pervasive, women continue to be underrepresented at all levels of political leadership, and 1 in 5 women and girls between the ages of 15 and 49 report experiencing physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner within a 12-month period.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could reverse the limited progress that has been made on gender equality and women’s rights. The coronavirus outbreak exacerbates existing inequalities for women and girls across every sphere – from health and the economy, to security and social protection.
Click here to learn more.
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Rotary minute
Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rose to new records in 2019.
Climate change is affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives. Weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising, and weather events are becoming more extreme.
Although greenhouse gas emissions are projected to drop about 6 per cent in 2020 due to travel bans and economic slowdowns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, this improvement is only temporary. Climate change is not on pause. Once the global economy begins to recover from the pandemic, emissions are expected to return to higher levels.
Saving lives and livelihoods requires urgent action to address both the pandemic and the climate emergency.
The Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The agreement also aims to strengthen the ability of countries to deal with the impacts of climate change, through appropriate financial flows, a new technology framework, and an enhanced capacity-building framework.
Click here to read more.
Food for thought
The summer after college graduation, I was living at home, fishing in the daytime, spending nights with my friends – generally just hanging out. One afternoon, my grandfather, who never went to college, stopped by.
Concerned with how I was spending my time, he asked about my future plans. I told him I was in no hurry to tie myself down to a career.
“Well,” he replied, “you better start thinking about it. You’ll be thirty before you know it.”
“But I’m closer to twenty than to thirty,” I protested. “I won’t be thirty for eight more years.”
“I see,” he said, smiling. “And when will you be twenty again?”
Concerned with how I was spending my time, he asked about my future plans. I told him I was in no hurry to tie myself down to a career.
“Well,” he replied, “you better start thinking about it. You’ll be thirty before you know it.”
“But I’m closer to twenty than to thirty,” I protested. “I won’t be thirty for eight more years.”
“I see,” he said, smiling. “And when will you be twenty again?”
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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!
He lives in Holland, has a family and two children, is an amazing father, and is a musician.
Meet my nephew Igor Vermeulen:
I will make a donation towards RECCO.
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The Underground Railway - from both perspectives
The Underground Railway – from the U.S. perspective -
And the Canadian side of the story -
And the Canadian side of the story -
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Four-way Test
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To close the meeting, PDG Jim Ferguson (aka Pandemic District Governor) recites the Four-Way Test of the things that Rotarians think, say, or do.
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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.
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