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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning August 29, 2022
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to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning August 29, 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
Current Club President, Sharon
Current Club President, Sharon
As September approaches, we need to think of the September theme.
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When I was seven, my family drove to the Grand Canyon. At one point, my favorite blanket flew out the window and was gone. I was devastated.
Soon after, we stopped at a service station. Moping, I found a bench and was about to eat my sandwich when a biker gang pulled into the station. “Is that your blue Ford?” a huge, frightening man with a gray-and-black beard asked.
Mom nodded reticently. The man pulled my blanket from his jacket pocket and handed it to her. He then returned to his motorcycle.
I repaid him the only way I knew how: I ran up to him and gave him my sandwich. —Zena Hamilton, United Kingdom
Source: https://www.rd.com/article/kindness-strangers/
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 future of personal energy use – Scott Sklar. Great talk on personal power, communication, and personal security are all coming together around the world. This is especially true and energy supplies and the new technologies developed from solar, wind and renewable resources.
Also, from War to Peace by Chocolate. Interesting episode about how new immigrants are mostly refugees. They are not pressured immediately and given time to adjust before having to firmly establish themselves.
-- Michael Thomas, Rotary Club of Stony Plain, District 5370
June 25. The TED talk by Scott Sklar was quite thought provoking but the return on investment of some of these "gadgets" as he calls them is very long term. A relative in Wales is building a house and putting in solar panels and the supplier estimates the payback at 13 years. With electricity prices here, I estimate the payback would be 20 years or more so you really have to be thinking long term.
-- David Werrett, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
Speaker program – Peace by Chocolate. I learned and enjoyed the knowledge and desire to succeed that new Canadians can bring to this country.
-- Martin Secker, Rotary Club of Kingston, District 7040
June 30. I've been a fan and follower of Peace by Chocolate, so it was great to finally get a chance to see the movie trailer, as well as the TV episode. I look forward to seeing the movie!
-- Brenda Race, E-club of Canada One, District 5370
July 1. Peace By Chocolate has made look at Chocolate in a whole new light. I read a book a few years ago about the history of chocolate, the involvement of child labour, and Quaker families controlled much of it for years.
-- Jim Kenyon, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
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Announcements
September is Basic Education and Literacy Month.
Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy.
We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults.
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September 8
International Literacy Day
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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.
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.
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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
- Make an Interac transfer to rotaryeclubcanada1@gmail.com
- Send a cheque to:
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
10430 135 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
Canada T5N 2C6
(780) 267 4547
Environment
Watch the video below for details.
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Humour
Points of enlightenment:
“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” – Al McGuire
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein
“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.” – Ambrose Bierce
“It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.” – Andy Borowitz
“At every party there are two kinds of people – those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.” – Ann Landers
“My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
“Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?” – Benny Hill
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” – Bill Watterson
“As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.” – Buddy Hackett
“My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.” – Caroline Rhea
“All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.” – Casey Stengel
“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.” – Dave Barry
“How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand.” – Emo Philips
“If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.” – George Burns
“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” – Benjamin Franklin
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New members' corner
The thought persisted that I was experiencing only what had happened to hundreds, perhaps thousands, in the great city…
Why not bring them together? If others were longing for fellowship as I was, something would come of it.
-- Paul P. Harris, My Road to Rotary
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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 - A Tribute to Oliva Newton-John
contributed by President Sharon
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Four-way Test
To close the meeting, PDG Jim Ferguson 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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