President Uwe welcomed everyone to the meeting at 12:20pm, and commented that it is finally beginning to feel like winter.
Rotary Information and Presentations
PDG Sandy Mackay, our Rotary Foundation chairperson was very happy to present Major Donor level 3 pins to Dieter and Kitt Brand. Congratulations on this tremendous accomplishment.
Major Donor Level 3 Presentation to Kitt and Dieter Brand
Meeting Reminder:
As many in the club know, we recently had a couple of members resign, due to extreme hearing loss. Because hearing difficulties are experienced by a number of Rotarians and guests, one of our members put together a list of helpful reminders to ensure we do our best to accommodate those with auditory challenges.
- Speak slowly and distinctly. Slow, concise speech can be learned and become habit-forming.
- Use the "4 P's" - persistent,patient, practice with a positive attitude. Emphasize each key word in a sentence with a slight pause.
- USE the handheld microphone, both for comments and during club activities.
- Keep table conversation to a minimum, out of respect for those speaking and to avoid background noise that is distracting.
With a little practice, we can help everyone in the club both hear and understand, both as a courtesy and to help engage all members in the club.
Up Coming Events:
The AGM for the Music Festival Society will occur after the regular club meeting on Dec 5th.
The Christmas evening has been moved to Monday evening, Dec 12th.
The next club board meeting is Wed evening, Dec 14th.
For more Club activities, to keep up with events and stay in touch, check the Club website at: www.medicinehatrotary.com
Sean Blewet, AYEC and Joel Higgins, our guest speakers.
Johan Booyens, spouse of Margie
Attendance Draw
# 45 was drawn, which is Gerry Nadeau, who was not present to win a free meal.
Birthdays:
none this week
Club Anniversaries:
Theresa Eisenbarth Dec 2, 2013 3 years
Doug Thorson Dec 2, 2013 3 years
Nadia Deenen Dec 3, 2001 15 years
Weekly Draw:
Wayne Chesley donated two "airplane" sized bottles of Schnapps, which were won by Adolf Seiler and guest Joel Higgins.
The lucky draw winner was Jim White, who won a pair of holiday themed wall plaques.
Club 500
No draws today, the last 2016 draws will be in two weeks.
Chris Perret and Allan O'Bryne aree looking after this years Club 500 draw. Please sell the remainder of your tickets and get the stubs and money in as soon as possible. This is a very important fundraiser of the Music Festival, so please make every efforts to sell all your tickets. If you sell any out of province, put your own address or an Alberta address on the ticket. Any unsold tickets are to be returned by December 5th.
Make Ups
none reported.
Family of Rotary
Former Rotarian Garth Vallely is now at home and if you have time, Garth would appreciate visitors.
Bob Mutschler has been struggling with back issues and is off to Lethbridge for a consultation.
Marg Mazerolle's husband Peter will be returning to the hospital in Calgary for ongoing tests.
Joan Sauve continues to improve and hopes to be back at a meeting soon.
Future Programs
If you have any future program ideas, please e-mail Heather at heather.bach@ahs.ca.
Minute People:
Chris Perrett did a quick update on Club 500 tickets and their sales. If you have unsold tickets, please get them dealt with soon and return the stubs at the next meeting.
Dave Panabaker did a couple of minutes
The bingo for Friday Dec 9th is fully staffed, thanks to all those who volunteered.
The club AGM will be scheduled as soon as possible, and the next executive for 2017-2018 will be introduced.
The need for a number of volunteers for the planned Music and Art Gala in April have been identified, and an email will be going out this week
Jenny Hetherington thanked all those Rotarians who brought a guest to a club meeting over the last six weeks. All those names have been entered into a draw for a bottle of Chateauneuf-de-Pape, generously donated by Sandy Mackay. The lucky winner was Mark Sorenson, who wouldn't share the wine with his table mates.
On behalf of the house committee, headed by John John, Jenny also requested Rotarians to remember that we are always looking for donation items for the weekly club draw. Please consider that in your shopping over the next few weeks.
Dick Bide is looking for dinner club hosts, for dinners prior to Christmas.
Adolf Seiler thanked those members of the club who are participating in the bell ringing for the Salvation Army on Saturday Dec 3rd. There are still two shifts available if anyone else can be free to participate.
ALSO, President Uwe received a note from Anne Carrier, who is enjoying the sunny south, but obviously is not idle.
"Greetings. I attended this K to 8 Back to Basics Mesa Public school last
Thursday, Nov. 17 and presented Dictionaries to five Grade 3 classes. This
Rotary club is dedicated to literacy in the schools and provides books from
time to time. It was very interesting for Ric and I to help with this
project and see a lovely school of 1100 students. Prior to giving out the
135 dictionaries, a work party was held at our home to place name stickers,
Rotary logo and a book Marks with the four way test in each book
This Rotary Club also helps packs hampers at the food bank and provides
refurbished computers to a children's home. Very few members, but dedicated
and active in the community.
Hello to all and best wishes to all. See you in December."
Happy Dollars & Fines: Today'sSgt-at-Arms was Bruce Shepard.
Fines:
All those who supported the Ottawa Redblacks in Sunday's Grey Cup were fined.
All those who supported the Calgary Stampeders, were NOT fined, they had suffered enough.
All those who support the Saskatchewan Roughriders were fined, probably for "wasting" their support.
President Uwe was fined for swiping an extra ticket.
Mark Sorenson was fined for winning the wine.
Happy Dollars:
Jim White was happy to be meeting a former exchange student, and his spouse this upcoming weekend.
Jenna Raimbault was happy to belong to Rotary, for the invitation to Ye Old Jar Bar, for the support in renting her basement suite and just being a member of the club.
Dieter Brand was happy to celebrate his daughter's birthday.
Marg Mazerolle was happy to attend a dinner at Kitt and Dieters last week.
Ted Cowtan was very happy with a favorable prognosis in a health issue involving his granddaughter in Australia.
Uwe Krickhahn was happy that his daughters family was safely returned from Hawaii last night.
Adolf Seiler was happy to deliver a winning Club 500 check to Jim White last week.
Kitt Brand was happy and grateful to be "backed up" in her greeter duties by Margie Booyens today.
The Rotary Club was pleased to receive a presentation from Sean Blewett, Manager of Community Futures Entre-Corp who is the acting camp manager for the Alberta Youth Entrepreneurship Camp. The camp has just celebrated their 20th anniversary and Sean presented a short video on the Impact of the program on the participants. Sean was joined by Joel Higgins in providing the information. The camp was started by the late Les Erickson of the Sunrise Club, and is principly used to introduce business development concept and entrepreneurial skills to young people.
In the twenty years since the camp was started, more than 1,300 participants have attended the week long event at Eagles Nest Ranch. Over the past few years, this Rotary District has sponsored over 40 kids to attend, and there is work going on to determine a more permanent role for Rotary, much like RYPEN or RYLA.
The Economic Assessment showed that the impact on communities where the participants return to is significant. 30% of the graduates start their own business and over 75% obtain a post secondary degree (over double the provincial average). As well, over 90% of the graduates went back to their communities and took on Leadership roles.
After the video presentation, there were a number of questions. Thanks to Sean and Joel for the informative presentation and their work with youth.
