Events

On September 15, we will have the pleasure of the company of our 2025-2026 District Governor, Manon Mitchell.

Please make every attempt to attend this important meeting, during which DG Manon will get to know our Club first hand and will share information about District 5360 and about what she hopes to achieve during her year in the 'hot seat'.

Tee times are 2:00 and 2:08....

Tarek Williams will be introducing himself to our members (= 'classification' talk).

Following Tarek, Myrna Stark (Executive Director) will be raising awareness about the South East Alberta Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (SEAFASD).network.

Both presentations will be interesting, so please BRING GUESTS!

Tee times at 1:45 and 1:52

We are delighted that Superintendent (Prairie Rose School Division) has agreed to be our guest speaker on Monday 29 September! She will update us on all the exciting developments in her school division, academies included! 

Bring family and friends to this meeting! It should be interesting and fun!

This is our last golf after Rotary Monday golf event

Tee times are 1:45 and 1:52 pm

Need 8 volunteers

All members of the Rotary Club of Medicine Hat are automatically members of the Music Festival Society, so please feel free to attend.

Our usual monthly Business Meeting.

A great opportunity to hear from each Director, what they have been up to, and to pose questions and have discussions about Club matters.

No meeting today as it's THANKSGIVING!

Both members of the Board and the Special Committee are invited.

Need 9 volunteers

New member Brian Andjelic will do his 'classification' talk, introducing himself to us. We look forward to this, Brian!

Jace Anderson will then share information on tourism in our city - and open the floor for questions and discussion.

You would be so welcome to bring guests with you! It promises to be a lively and interesting meeting!

On this day, we will be visiting the Root Cellar (Food Bank) on Maple Ave, Medicine Hat, starting at noon.

Please bring family and friends for what promises to be an interesting visit to an important resource in our city.

The Director, Melissa Mullis, will welcome us. She will make a presentation and we will be shown around and will have the opportunity to ask questions.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH!

Need 8 volunteers

This will likely be our last Business Meeting of 2025! Other plans for December!

Please invite family and friends to join us on Monday 10 November at noon in the usual venue - the CORE meeting room.

The guest speaker will be Yusef Mohammed. He heads up a non-profit called COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS.

Yusef will share with us all the activities and events this organization undertakes, to make newcomers to Medicine Hat and College students from abroad, feel welcome and part of the community of Medicine Hat.

We invite ED Lisa Dressler to come to a Club Meeting once every year - to update us on Chamber of Commerce developments, challenges, plans.

Lisa is always warmly welcomed and her presentation greatly appreciated. 

Please invite family and friends to join you on Monday 17 November for what promises to be an informative and lively meeting!

We are looking forward to welcoming Delynne Lorentzen to our meeting on 24 November.

Delynne is ED of the Rotary Music Festival.

This will be an important opportunity to hear about the 2026 Rotary Music Festival and to ask questions and have a discussion about many other festival-related matters.

Need 8 volunteers

The Rotary Club has two separate dates to "ring the bells" for the Salvation Army this year and mind the Christmas kettles.  Both doors at Walmart are available and there are five shifts for each day.

Please use the following link to sign up...the page will automatically save your information

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11joGHvA4ju-Cl7JNiE2Kp-21UBCczVO_BAAyhsOyPKQ/edit?usp=sharing  

President Milan and Board member Stan Sakamoto, together with Gwen Dirk, Peter Mueller, Sharon Hayward, Susan Sakamoto and Margie Booyens, are cooking up a storm of a Christmas Party, to be held in the Grandstand Banquet Room, Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede Grounds (same venue as for the Why Rotary event) on Monday 1 December!

The doors and cash bar will open at 5:30pm and dinner will be served shortly after 6pm, after the opening and welcome by President Milan.

The ticket price is $35 pp.

Please book the date and think about who you would like to bring with you!

Our guest speaker from Habitat for Humanity will be Melina Kane, who serves on the local HforH board.

This will likely be an interesting presentation, so please bring anyone who may be interested in what this organization does and is planning to do, locally and further afield.

It'd be great if any 'hands-on' opportunities were mentioned, that we, as a club, could consider!

Barry (403) 504-9164

Program Committee member Sharon H has organized with the Veiner Centre that we stuff Christmas stockings for vulnerable people, once again this year.

Planning is still underway, but we're hoping to have our regular club meeting at noon in a meeting room at the Veiner Centre, after which we can do the stocking stuffing.

Somewhere in between, we can descend on the Bistro for something to eat!

Details will be firmed up nearer the time - but please put Monday 15 December in your schedules - noon meeting followed by an hour or two of stocking stuffing.

It will be fun - bring friends to help!

Need 8 volunteers

This signup is for Day 2 of the Salvation Army Christmas kettles.

Please use the attached link to sign up.  The form will automatically save your information show just close the page once you are done.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pARyfXud12-MzJtZLoL_UlcxqQvIOOuidwV4AxD4_94/edit?usp=sharing

Need 8 volunteers

On January 5, we will have our usual monthly Business Meeting.

Also on the agenda: the introductory talk of new member Brad Shave.

Cori Fischer is Director of the Veiner Centre.

Do come to hear Cori speak about the Veiner Centre, including the programs that enhance the quality of life of older adults in our community.

You are welcome to bring FAMIILY AND FRIENDS to this meeting!

On this date, we will have a Police Officer giving a talk on aspects of FRAUD.

Sergeant Adam Gregory is in the Community Support Unit.

He will speak on Fraud trends and tips.

Thanks to Rotarian Tarek Williams for organizing this!

Please invite family and friends to attend this meeting with you!

Nina will be showing a movie called "Bridging the Gap".

More details to follow.

P.S. Nina is Ian and Phyllis McLaughlin's daughter-in-law!

Need 8 volunteers

Isadora Brum Nesi (from District 4640 in Brazili) will attend our February Business Meeting and will give a brief talk on herself, her family, Brazil, and her New Generations Service Exchange Program.

We'll be visiting the Downtown Library on Monday 9 February.

Chief Librarian Ken Feser and various staff members will address us on library programs, challenges etc.

Do invite family and friends to accompany you - it will be an interesting visit to a very important resource in our community.

Need 9 volunteers

February is Rotary International's Peace Building and Conflict Resolution month.

We have made arrangements to have Lorelei Higgins as guest speaker - online or, if we are lucky, she and her partner Doug Webb (RC of Calgary Downtown) may attend in person.

Her topic: " How Does Peace Grow?"

We will have a Business Meeting on Monday 2 March.

Added to the agenda will ble the 'classification' / introductory talk by one of our new members.

Details to follow!

Need 8 volunteers