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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning August 1, 2022
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to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning August 1, 2022
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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
Rotarian Brenda Race
Inspirational moment
Rotarian Brenda Race
What would it take to change the world?
Rotary's 1.2 million members believe it starts with a commitment to Service Above Self.
In more than 34,000 clubs worldwide, you'll find members volunteering in communities at home and abroad to support education and job training, provide clean water, combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, and eradicate polio.
Explore the Rotary International website to learn more about Rotary and how you can join your local Rotary club.
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INSPIRED LIFE
Classmates wouldn’t sign his yearbook. So older students stepped in.
An impromptu swarm of upperclassmen filed into the sixth-grade class to sign his yearbook.
Classmates wouldn’t sign his yearbook. So older students stepped in.
An impromptu swarm of upperclassmen filed into the sixth-grade class to sign his yearbook.
By Sydney Page
June 2, 2022 at
6:00 a.m. EDT
Eleventh-graders at the Academy of Charter Schools in
Westminster, Colo., with Brody Ridder, center, a sixth-grader at the school.
After classmates declined to sign his yearbook, older students stepped in.
(Courtesy of Simone Lightfoot)
Cassandra Ridder was crushed when her 12-year-old son Brody came home from school last week with only a few signatures in his yearbook — including his own.
“Hope you make some more friends. — Brody Ridder,” the rising seventh-grader wrote in his own yearbook, which was signed by only two classmates, two teachers, and himself.
“It broke my heart,” Ridder said.
Brody has been a student at the Academy of Charter Schools in Westminster, Colo., a public prekindergarten-to-grade-12 school, since fifth grade. He had several friends at his previous school, but over the past two years, he has struggled socially and has been repeatedly bullied, his mother said.
“There’s kids that have pushed him and called him names,” said Ridder, adding that she decided to switch her son’s school before fifth grade to give him more academic support. “Brody has been through a lot.”
Although the bullying somewhat subsided after she addressed her concerns with school administrators in February, she could tell “the teasing was still there,” Ridder said. When Brody asked his classmates to sign his yearbook on May 24, “they told me no,” he said in a phone interview with The Washington Post. “It made me sad.” Ridder was devastated for her child.
“We try to teach kindness in our family, and not seeing any kindness from students in his class was appalling to me,” Ridder said.
She shared a photo of her son’s yearbook note in a private Facebook group for parents at the school. She felt angry and helpless, and while she did not ask for her son’s permission before posting, “I knew he would be completely okay with it,” she said. “Brody has always told me he wants to be part of the solution.”
Her primary objective in posting the photo, Ridder explained, was to encourage parents to talk to their children about bullying. She said she’s aware that some parents prefer to keep such matters private, but she thought that being forthright about it might help prevent her son and others from being targeted further.
She hoped people would sympathize with her son’s struggle, but she did not anticipate the outpouring of support that swiftly surfaced after her post — particularly from older students at the school.
As dozens of compassionate comments poured in, several older students — none of whom previously knew Brody — heard about Ridder’s post from their parents. They stepped up to show their support.
Read more here and view the photos.
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?
Why does this lady have a fly on her head? National Gallery. The curator explains the nameless painting donated to the National Art gallery by Queen Victoria. She gives insight on how artists love to keep us on our toes with their works, and that the fly on the woman’s head dress is most likely a joke. Why else would it be there in the painting most likely from the 1400's.
-- Michael Thomas, Rotary Club of Stony Plain, District 5370
June 3. Enjoyed reading about the Peace Centers. The painted portrait of the lady was so detailed, and the fly was a surprising touch to include.
-- Brenda Race, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
Why does this lady have a fly on her head? I enjoyed the very detailed description of the painting of a lady with a fly on her head.
-- Martin Secker, Rotary Club of Kingston, District 7040
June 5. I found the item on Rotary Peace Centres informative, and it brought to mind Rotary’s involvement in writing the charter for the United Nations in 1945 following World War II.
-- David Werrett, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
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Announcements
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Material Suggestions and Greeter Messages Always Needed!
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.
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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
10430 135 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
Canada T5N 2C6
(780) 267 4547
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Humour
You had one job!
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New members' corner
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Rotary minute
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Food for thought
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Just Food for interest
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Rotary Jukebox
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Every week we'll have a draw and the lucky person will see their song featured!
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Speaker Program ***
Four-way Test
To close the meeting, Rotarian Nance recites the Four-Way Test of the things that Rotarians think, say, or do.
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