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For the week beginning April 15, 2024
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to this week's meeting of
The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
For the week beginning April 15, 2024
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Greeter this week
Rotarian Angel
Rotarian Angel
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Inspirational moment
My daughter was starting middle school. Tonight, just before bed, we did a pre-middle school task that is far more important than a few other preparations.
I gave her a tube of toothpaste and asked her to squirt it out onto a plate. When she finished, I calmly asked her to put all the toothpaste back in the tube. She began exclaiming things like "But I can't!" and "It won't be like it was before!" I quietly waited for her to finish and then said the following:
"You will remember this plate of toothpaste for the rest of your life. Your words have the power of life or death. As you go into middle school, you are about to see just how much weight your words carry.
"You are going to have the opportunity to use your words to hurt, demean, slander, and wound others.
"You are also going to have the opportunity to use your words to heal, encourage, inspire and love others. You will occasionally make the wrong choice; I can think of three times this week I have used my own words carelessly and caused harm.
"Use your words carefully. When others are misusing their words, guard your words. Make the choice every morning that life-giving words will come out of your mouth.
"Decide tonight that you are going to be a life-giver in middle school. Be known for your gentleness and compassion. Use your life to give life to a world that so desperately needs it. You will never, ever regret choosing kindness."
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?
February 20. As usual, informative and humorous.
-- Patrick Gibson, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
February 20. Toilets: Something we, in our culture, don't give much thought to, but without it, can derail a girl's future. I'm thankful that this man has stepped up to the challenge (bad jokes and all!)
-- Vicki Horsfield, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
February 22. Having just come from India, I can really relate to this video on toilets and sanitation. Thank you.
-- Doug Dyer, E-Club of Canada One, District 5370
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Announcements
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Monday, 13 May 2024 – Sunday, 19 May 2024
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!
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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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The Rotary E-Club of Canada One
10430 135 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
Canada T5N 2C6
(780) 267 4547
Environment
Humour
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New members' corner
2023 Interact Award Winners
Best Video:
Interact Club of Kuen Cheng High School, Malaysia
Rotary minute
Story about first Indigenous Arctic pilot
‘Freddie the Flyer’
added to Dolly Parton library
February 20, 2024
Youth across the region do ‘wisdom fest’ projects on legendary pilot Fred Carmichael, living in Inuvik.
A children’s book by and about local Gwitch’in pilot Freddy Carmichael has caught the eye of the Dolly Parton Children’s Imagination Library.
Freddie The Flyer has been added to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, a free monthly book subscription for children ages five and under.
Carmichael was the first Indigenous commercial pilot to come from the Arctic.
The book, co-authored by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail with artwork from Audrea Loreen-Wulf originally from the Arctic Ocean community of Tuktoyaktuk, was published in October 2023 in both the region’s Gwich’in and Inuvialuktun languages.
“Fred, you’re a very humble guy,” says his wife Miki O’Kane sitting next to Carmichael as they share the adventures of the past. “Your story can help kids and that’s the whole idea is to help kids follow their dreams.”
br> Children like Cooper Lennie, 10 of the Western Arctic town of Inuvik who adds that airplanes are important in the Arctic. “It’s really cool,” he says of the book, “because is like a lot of water and since there’s a lot that ice and snow that can block up the roads, you need, like planes to get to places.
“I enjoyed the book because it has pictures of like planes and he made the top-secret radar base.”
To pay for his aviation dream, Carmichael, 88, worked on the Distant Early Warning system – a system of radar stations across the Arctic watching for Russian encroachment on North America.
Carmichael was born and raised in the bush and in the neighbouring remote delta community of Aklavik. His mother was Gwich’in. His father was Irish and Scottish. He attended the Immaculate Conception Residential and Day School in Aklavik until he was 10 but didn’t return to school after his family’s cabin burned down.
Inspired at a young age by planes, Carmichael received his pilot’s license at age 20 in 1955 in Edmonton after encouragement from mentors and returned to serve the Western Arctic. He co-founded Reindeer Service in part to help manage the reindeer herds.
Known for many search and rescues, he’d hire Indigenous pilots and crews. He went on to found other flying services including Antler Aviation, Western Arctic Air, and Western Arctic Nature Tours.
Over the decades, Freddie has been honoured by the Order of Canada, an Indspire Award, and Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame, as well as an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan.
(and to view a short video)
...contributed by Rotarian David
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Food for thought
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!
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The Four-way Test
To close the meeting, Rotarian David recites the Four-Way Test of the things that Rotarians think, say, or do.
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