WELCOME!!
to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning March 28, 2022
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!
to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning March 28, 2022
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
PDG Jim Ferguson
Inspirational moment
PDG Jim Ferguson
***
Canadiana
***
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?
February 6. A very moving and appropriate story about Freedom and the people who actually fought and died so that we may be free.
-- David Werrett, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
February 6. It's been a while since I have been able to "attend" a meeting, but I felt I owed it to Kitty (in particular) who works so hard to provide an interesting meeting. I enjoyed the Inspirational Moment about the Race of life.
-- Elly Contreras, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
February 7. I always learn so much from these meetings. Wow! The video on Thiafushi Island was really interesting and scary at the same time. I also loved to see a video on Shelter box. I did a first Shelter box training in Florida many years ago, and I believe Shelter Box is essential to support, and one of Rotary's amazing programs to service above self.
-- Nance MacLeod, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
Elli Lee – Lost. Really enjoyed the peace-building story of the disappearing highway.
-- Lynne Ternosky, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
February 7. Having been a Director of the local transition house for a number of years, Elli Lee's story really resonated with me. I also loved Jerry and Jordan's story. Thank you RECCO member, Kim, for sharing your Walking for Pleasure!
-- Sharon Blaker, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
***
|
- 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
***
***
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.
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 Paypal button on our ClubRunner Home Page
- The donation button on the attendance form, or
- Make an Interac transfer to rotaryeclubcanada1@gmail.com
- Send a cheque to:
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
13119 208 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
Canada T5S 0L5
Environment
All Rotarians need to review these few short films
produced by the
Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group
Please take the time to review each short film as they are presented in the next weeks to learn about why the climate is changing and how we can address it. Click the link below.
***
Humour
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day he retired, he received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and, in particular, the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, (based upon completed years of service) he would receive in addition to his monthly service pension.
The letter read,
Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren,
We write to confirm you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366. Accordingly, your lump-sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. Accordingly, you will receive a cheque for this amount in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Army Paymaster
Noting the discrepancy in the date mentioned, on a mischievous whim Lt Col Maclaren duly replied:
Dear Paymaster,
Thank you for your recent letter confirming I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month. I note however, you have calculated my tax-free lump sum award to be £68,500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III.
By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations over the past 635 years, my lump sum award should actually be £6,427,586,619.47p.
I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)
A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Lt Col Maclaren’s letterbox. The letter it contained read:
Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren,
We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst. We do indeed confirm you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month. We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming the lump sum award payment due to you is indeed £6,427,586, 619.47p.
However, we also note according to our records, you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles: The Wars of the Roses 1455-1485 (including the battles of Bosworth Field, Barnet and Towton), The Civil War 1642-1651 (Including the battles Edge Hill, Naseby and the conquest of Ireland), The Napoleonic War 1803–1815 (including the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War), The Crimean War 1853–1856 (including the battle of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade) and The Boer War of 1899-1902.
We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Stores by you on completion of the abovementioned operations:
9,765 Cannon
26,785 Swords
12,889 Pikes
127,345 Rifles (with bayonets)
28,987 horses (fully kitted)
Plus 3 complete military marching bands with instruments and banners.
We have calculated the total replacement cost of these items amounts to £6,427,518.119.47p. We have therefore subtracted this sum from your recalculated lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course.
Yours sincerely . . .
The letter read,
Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren,
We write to confirm you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366. Accordingly, your lump-sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. Accordingly, you will receive a cheque for this amount in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Army Paymaster
Noting the discrepancy in the date mentioned, on a mischievous whim Lt Col Maclaren duly replied:
Dear Paymaster,
Thank you for your recent letter confirming I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month. I note however, you have calculated my tax-free lump sum award to be £68,500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III.
By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations over the past 635 years, my lump sum award should actually be £6,427,586,619.47p.
I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)
A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Lt Col Maclaren’s letterbox. The letter it contained read:
Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren,
We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst. We do indeed confirm you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month. We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming the lump sum award payment due to you is indeed £6,427,586, 619.47p.
However, we also note according to our records, you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles: The Wars of the Roses 1455-1485 (including the battles of Bosworth Field, Barnet and Towton), The Civil War 1642-1651 (Including the battles Edge Hill, Naseby and the conquest of Ireland), The Napoleonic War 1803–1815 (including the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War), The Crimean War 1853–1856 (including the battle of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade) and The Boer War of 1899-1902.
We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Stores by you on completion of the abovementioned operations:
9,765 Cannon
26,785 Swords
12,889 Pikes
127,345 Rifles (with bayonets)
28,987 horses (fully kitted)
Plus 3 complete military marching bands with instruments and banners.
We have calculated the total replacement cost of these items amounts to £6,427,518.119.47p. We have therefore subtracted this sum from your recalculated lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course.
Yours sincerely . . .
***
New members' corner
***
Rotary minute
***
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!
***
...contributed by Rotarian Vicki
And a short video showing the Imagine Project at Vicki’s school
***
Four-way Test
java hosting vpn norway
To close the meeting, the Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do - recited by three club members.
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.
- CLICK HERE to return to our ClubRunner Home Page.
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.
Interested in providing Rotary Service? Unable to attend terra club meetings?
Contact our membership chair for information or
or HERE to learn about Associate Membership
java hosting vpn norway
