Sunday, December 26, 2021

Our Program. Rotary - People of Action. December 27, 2021 to January 3, 2022.

 

WELCOME!!

 to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning December 27, 2021

Scroll down to enjoy the content!

Complete the form for a make-up!


Please leave a donation to assist our club to do Rotary's good works!


Greeter this week 
Rotarian David Werrett


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Inspirational moment 


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Canadiana 

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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?   

The unheard story of David and Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell. We have been told the story of David and Goliath; however, some important details have been left out, one of which that David was most likely a part of the artillery because he was armed with a sling. The men were trained and experienced to the point in which they could hit a bird in flight. Another thing is that the projectile could be travelling 35m/sec. The stones, most likely being basalt with its density, the end result would be deadly.
Goliath could have suffered from giantism which comes with slow movement and, in most cases, vision problems such as double vision and nearsightedness. The combination of all of this would put David at an actual advantage.
-- Michael Thomas, Rotary Club of Stony Plain, District 5370

Malcolm Gladwell – David and Goliath. I found it interesting the interpretation and thought about David and Goliath. Sometimes, giants are not as strong as they seem. In life, we all meet obstacles; and how we deal with them makes a huge difference in the outcome.
-- Lynne Ternosky, Rotary Club of D6330 Passport

November 8. I enjoyed the history of the 4 Way Test and the piece on the World's Greatest Meal. I think both are worth sharing with my friends and family.
-- Margaret Shane, Rotary Club of Saint City St. Albert, District 5370

November 1 and 8. A few weeks ago we learnt about the underground railroad with slaves escaping to freedom in Canada, and then on this week's TED talk learning that today there still 45 million people in slavery throughout the world.
-- David Werrett, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

November 2 and 8. Interesting to learn more about Goliath. One thing the speaker omitted was that David was willing to fight because the Philistines had insulted God, and David believed God would protect him.
Human trafficking. When my daughter was 4 years old (blonde, adorable), we had just reached the top of the escalator in a department store when a man approached me and said, "I'll give your $10,000 for her." I laughed it off and said, "She's worth a million," and walked away. It wasn't until a few years later that I realized what that encounter was about. 
I often replay the scene in my mind, thinking about what I should have done and would do now - screamed for help, kicked him in the knee so he couldn't get away, whatever was necessary to ensure that he was captured and charged. It is so hard to understand the cruelty that people will carry out, just for the sake of money!

-- Vicki Horsfield, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

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Archived Meetings
  • For meetings before November 2021, please click here. 
  • All meetings are archived.  For meetings after November 2021, please scroll to the very bottom of this page.

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Announcements 


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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 is our Fellowship Assembly, and we often invite interesting speakers or Rotary Leaders for this entertaining, educational fun event.  Plan to join us.  



Each Thursday Morning from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. (Mountain Time) 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.
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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 Rotary E-Club of Canada One
13119 208 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
Canada   T5S 0L5

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Environment 

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Humour 

Would I Lie to You is/was a British comedy panel quiz show that premiered in 2007. This is one humourous segment.


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New members' corner 



A History of Rotary’s Vocational Service – PDG Haresh Ramchandani, District 7020, Rotary Club of Montego Bay, Jamaica

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Rotary minute


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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 - Auld Lang Syne


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Speaker Program

Rotary - People of Action


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Four-way Test  

To close the meeting, Rotarian Nance MacLeod recites the 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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Our Facebook page.  Please remember to check out our posts on the Rotary 

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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Sunday, December 19, 2021

Our Program. What made you smile today? December 20 to 26 2021.

 

WELCOME!!

 to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning December 20, 2021

Scroll down to enjoy the content!

Complete the form for a make-up!


Please leave a donation to assist our club to do Rotary's good works!


Greeter this week 
Greetings of the Season


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Inspirational moment

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Canadiana 
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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?   

October 31. So much in the meeting today but the informational video by Bryce about the Alberta company developing new testing for prostate cancer was really good.
-- David Werrett, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

Modern-Day Slavery. Very good awakening to what modern-day slavery looks like.
-- Lynne Ternosky, Rotary Club of D6330 Passport

October 31. Rotary minute was very well done.
-- Kimberley Dominguez, Millennium Rotary Club, District 5260

Modern Day Slavery. The modern day slavery was most enlightening and frightening. Hard to believe.
-- Martin Secker, Rotary Club of Kingston, District 7040

November 3. Found the modern-day slavery talk very distressing but glad we had it on our meeting. It was an eye-opener.
-- Sharon Blaker, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370

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Archived Meetings
  • For meetings before November 2021, please click here. 
  • All meetings are archived.  For meetings after November 2021, please scroll to the very bottom of this page.

***
Announcements 

***


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 is our Fellowship Assembly, and we often invite interesting speakers or Rotary Leaders for this entertaining, educational fun event.  Plan to join us.  



Each Thursday Morning from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. (Mountain Time) 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 Rotary E-Club of Canada One
13119 208 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
Canada   T5S 0L5

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Environment 



Sharon has sent photos of her wintry yard!  Thank you, Sharon!  ...in Chilliwack!  :)

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Humour 


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New members' corner 
     & Rotary Minute (combined this week)


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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 - Susan Boyle



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Speaker Program 

What made you smile today?


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…and for your Christmas pleasure -


'Twas the night before Christmas, but Covid was here,
So we all had to stay extra cautious this year.
Our masks were all hung by the chimney with care
In case Santa forgot his and needed a spare.
With Covid, we couldn't leave cookies or cake
So we left Santa hand sanitizer to take.
The children were sleeping, the brave little tots
The ones over 5 had just had their first shots,
And mom in her kerchief and me in my cap
Had just settled in for a long winter's nap.
But we tossed and we turned all night in our beds
As visions of variants danced in our heads.
Gamma and Delta and now Omicron
These Covid mutations that go on and on
I thought to myself, "If this doesn't get better,
I'll soon be familiar with every Greek letter."


Then just as I started to drift off and doze
A clatter of noise from the front lawn arose.
I leapt from my bed and ran straight down the stair
I opened the door, and an old gent stood there.
His N 95 made him look pretty weird
But I knew who he was by his red suit and beard.
I kept six feet away but blurted out quick
"What are you doing here, jolly Saint Nick?"


Then I said, "Where's your presents, your reindeer and sleigh?
Don't you know that tomorrow will be Christmas Day? "
And Santa stood there looking sad in the snow
As he started to tell me a long tale of woe.
He said he'd been stuck at the North Pole alone
All his white collar elves had been working from home,
And most of the others said "Santa, don't hire us!
We can live off the CERB now, thanks to the virus."
Those left in the toyshop had little to do.
With supply chain disruptions, they could make nothing new.
And as for the reindeer, they'd all gone away.
None of them left to pull on his sleigh.
He said Dasher and Dancer were in quarantine,
Prancer and Vixen refused the vaccine,
Comet and Cupid were in ICU,
So were Donner and Blitzen, they may not pull through.
And Rudolph's career can't be resurrected.
With his shiny red nose, they all think he's infected.
Even with his old sleigh, Santa couldn't go far.
Every border to cross needs a new PCR.


Santa sighed as he told me how nice it would be
If children could once again sit on his knee.
He couldn't care less if they're naughty or nice
But they'd have to show proof that they'd had their shot twice.


But then the old twinkle returned to his eyes.
And he said that he'd brought me a Christmas surprise.
When I unwrapped the box and opened it wide,
Starlight and rainbows streamed out from inside.
Some letters whirled round and flew up to the sky
And they spelled out a word that was 40 feet high.
There first was an H, then an O, then a P,
Then I saw it spelled HOPE when it added the E.


"Christmas magic" said Santa as he smiled through his beard.
Then suddenly all of the reindeer appeared.
He jumped into his sleigh and he waved me good-bye,
Then he soared o'er the rooftops and into the sky.
I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight
"Get your vaccines my friends, Merry Christmas, good-night."


Then I went back to bed and came a sweet Christmas dream
Of a world when we'd finished with Covid 19.
....Author unknown


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Four-way Test 

To close the meeting, Rotarian Nance MacLeod recites the 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. 

***
Our Facebook page.  Please remember to check out our posts on the Rotary 

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. 
***
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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