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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning December 6, 2021
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to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning December 6, 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!
Greeter this week
Season's Greetings
Inspirational moment
Season's Greetings
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Claims to be in Canada, but it's only the polite demeanour that is similar...
Plus...
Canadiana
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HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s fall lobster fishing season opened early today in the two most lucrative fishing areas in Canada.
The annual event off southwestern Nova Scotia is known as “dumping day,” as thousands of lobster traps will be dumped into the water in the days ahead.
Hundreds of boats set sail for the lobster fishing areas known as LFA 33 and LFA 34, which extend from Halifax on the Atlantic coast to Digby, N.S., along the Bay of Fundy.
Nova Scotia generated more than half of the $1.5-billion landed value of Canada’s lobster harvest in 2019.
As well, more than half of the 3,000 commercial lobster fishing licences in the Maritimes are held by fishing enterprises in southwestern Nova Scotia.
Lobster fishing has been the backbone of the Maritimes’ inshore fishing industry for the past 20 years, supporting about 7,500 direct jobs.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 1, 2021.
Click here to read more about Dumping Day in Nova Scotia.
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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?
Restoring earth’s biodiversity Global Movement. Always great to see progress in practical lessons learned. So good to hear Canadians’ assessment of strengths in Canada’s free trade efforts and how this can develop markets of Canadian products globally. I definitely will read more about this. I also loved the kids and Jann Arden’s music. So uplifting a way to do fundraising. Does Rotary have a choir?
-- Lynne Ternosky, Rotary Club of D6330 Passport
October 11. Tree planting - something we can all do. Our Rotary Interact students have planted about 50 macadamia nut trees - the most carbon-absorbing species of trees.
-- Vicki Horsfield, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
October 16. A very interesting TED talk on the need for bio-diversity by Thomas Crowther, making the point that it is important to plant trees that do so much to capture carbon but it is also important for nature that various species are planted that in turn attract a large variety of insects, birds and animals.
-- David Werrett, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
October 18. Another great meeting! Love the “Try a little kindness” video.
-- Nance Macleod, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
October 17. Enjoyed Alberta Impact presentation on GRENGINE. So nice to see our RECCO member, Bryce, at work! Love Jann Arden and all she does! Another engaging meeting!
-- Sharon Blaker, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
Green Energy for a sustainable future. It is wonderful and exciting to see how we have entrepreneurs that are stepping and becoming world leaders in technology. The critical needs our planet is having are bringing people like this to the forefront.
-- Michael Thomas, Rotary Club of Stony Plain, District 5370
The Green Energy for a sustainable future. I liked the WREN interview. I have already shared the Grengine talk with colleagues.
-- Kimberley Dominguez, Rotary Club of Millennium, District 5360
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A post from Rotary District 5495
https://rotary5495.org/Stories/past-ri-president-cliff-dochterman-passes-away
We are extremely sad to inform that Past RI President Cliff Dochterman (1992 - 93) has passed away.
He had a 45-year career as an administrator at University of California at Berkeley and the University of the Pacific in Stockton. He has had a lifetime association with the Boy Scouts of America, and is a former president of the local Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the county Parks and Recreation Commission. Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge has recognized his speeches with the George Washington Honor Medal.
His RI theme was 'Real Happiness Is Helping Others'
He and his wife, Mary Elena belong to the Rotary Club of Moraga, near San Francisco, California.
RIP Cliff Dochterman.
Source: RI Director Julio Silva-Santisteban
Below is a link to a video of Cliff Dochterman educating incoming District Governors about how to effectively lead Rotary volunteers. It is a good lesson for any leader. CLICK HERE to view a classic presentation titled "You Are The Conductor."
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Announcements
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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. Plan to join us.
Everyone is welcome to attend and we encourage your participation.
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In order for our club to continue its much-needed projects helping others, your contributions are critical. You may use either:
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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
13119 208 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
Canada T5S 0L5
Humour
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New members' corner
Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.
Solving real problems takes real commitment and vision.
For more than 110 years, Rotary's people of action have used their passion, energy, and intelligence to take action on sustainable projects. From literacy and peace to water and health, we are always working to better our world, and we stay committed to the end.
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Rotary minute
It's 1955, and let's say the young boy pictured below made the mistake of drinking out of an unclean glass, or shook the hand of another boy who did not wash after using the toilet. Unknowingly, he exposed himself to poliomyelitis, the virus that causes polio.
The infection set in slowly. At first, it probably felt like a cold with fever, congestion, and achy joints. But maybe a week later, the boy's legs started to give out from under him, and his fever spiked above 100. The virus that first settled in the intestines had multiplied thousands-fold and moved on to attack its prized target -- his nervous system. The infection overtook crucial nerves of his respiratory system and the boy lost his ability to breathe on his own.
The infection set in slowly. At first, it probably felt like a cold with fever, congestion, and achy joints. But maybe a week later, the boy's legs started to give out from under him, and his fever spiked above 100. The virus that first settled in the intestines had multiplied thousands-fold and moved on to attack its prized target -- his nervous system. The infection overtook crucial nerves of his respiratory system and the boy lost his ability to breathe on his own.
At its peak in 1952, more than 21,000 Americans contracted a paralyzing form of polio, and 3,000 died from it. Once infected, there was no treatment besides time and tending to the symptoms.
Unable to breathe, patients entered iron lungs, which made use of negative pressure ventilation -- a continual displacing and replacing the air inside of the machine -- to compress and depress the chest, simulating respiration. Although the patient could breathe in the machine, he could do little else besides look up at a mirror reflecting the room behind him (upside-down and backwards, of course). Typically, the children would spend two weeks inside while recovering. A 1930 Popular Mechanics article explains how the patient enters the iron lung in terms that sound more medieval than medical.
Click here to read more.
Unable to breathe, patients entered iron lungs, which made use of negative pressure ventilation -- a continual displacing and replacing the air inside of the machine -- to compress and depress the chest, simulating respiration. Although the patient could breathe in the machine, he could do little else besides look up at a mirror reflecting the room behind him (upside-down and backwards, of course). Typically, the children would spend two weeks inside while recovering. A 1930 Popular Mechanics article explains how the patient enters the iron lung in terms that sound more medieval than medical.
Click here to read more.
Food for thought
...contributed by Rotarian Vicki
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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!
And because it’s Christmas, try this. It will provide you hours of Christmas music!
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Museum dedicated to Slavery
...submitted by Rotarian Vicki
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Four-way Test
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To close the meeting, Rotarian Nance MacLeod recites the Four-Way Test of the things that Rotarians think, say, or do.
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