There are now 9 teams registered for the District 5360/5370 Curling Bonspiel which is just 7 weeks away. Since we are hoping for 32 Teams, we are now 28% full. Four of the 9 teams are from Calgary, two are from Edmonton, and one each from Grande Prairie, Fort St. John and Lethbridge.
We could certainly use a few more sponsors in order to balance the budget for this event. If you or your company are interested in advertising in the Bonspiel Program and the event signage, please reply to this message and we will provide appropriate details.
We look forward to seeing many of you at our opening Reception/Registration at the Thistle Curling Club in Edmonton at 7:00 pm on Thursday evening, February 22, 2018. Actual curling will commence on Friday morning and the four event finals will happen on Sunday afternoon. Friday night and Saturday night social events will occur at the Radisson Hotel and Convention Centre.
You can also participate in the SHUT OUT POLIO Junior Hockey Game & Rotary Mixer at Rogers Place on Sunday afternoon after the curling finals.
please note the deadline for the following awards are coming soon. Please consider nominating suitable candidates and projects and send your nominations to asha.paul@me.com
SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Recognize a club in your district whose project has addressed a significant problem or need in your community (international projects are not eligible). You can nominate one club per district each year.
This award recognizes one outstanding Rotarian or Rotaractor within the District who was inspired to demonstrate outstanding achievement in Rotary and in the community both locally and internationally and through his or her actions has been an inspiration to others to do the same.
You won’t find the Rotary Club of Calgary Sarcee at the Sheraton Eau Claire anymore. The hotel is renovating their restaurant area which prompted this nearly 20-year-old Rotary club to find a new home. And they did!
Find the RC Calgary Sarcee in the Bow Valley Club: Still on Thursday morning at 7:00 am and now located in this wonderful new facility!
Drop in and check out what the little club that can, does! Park in Bow Valley Square (entrance on 5th Avenue), take the elevators to the +30 level and validate your parking ticket at the entrance of the Bow Valley Club located near the elevators.
Yes, folks - FREE PARKING in DOWNTOWN CALGARY for a Rotary meeting!
The meetings end around 8:10 am so you can fit in a Rotary meeting before work even starts! It’s a great breakfast for $20 and wonderful company of some pretty great Rotarians.
See you at the Bow Valley Club soon!
President Janet Balfour and Rotarians Deb Hymers and Pauline Fletcher
From small disappointments to heartbreaking tragedies, unwanted change blindsides us and leaves us wondering what to do next. It might be new neighbours constantly blasting loud music late at night; it might be a technological breakthrough that leaves your business in its dust; it might be a heart attack that nearly kills you.
Whatever form it takes, unwanted change requires us to adapt to a harsher environment. Like the spiders sent into space by NASA that found ways to spin their webs without the aid of gravity, we have to find ways to overcome the pitfalls that life places in our path.
Drawing on inspiring stories of individuals, organizations and businesses, Todd will explore a selection of adaptive traits that can help us not only survive but thrive, when unwanted change comes our way.
Based on Todd's latest book with co-author Rob Roach, it's a timely topic given the unwanted change brought about by two years of recession in Alberta.
Calgary Rotaract is hosting Rotary Day on Saturday March 3rd, 2018 @ 7pm at the Calgary Hitmen Game! We invite you all out to celebrate Rotary and have all Rotarians come together for a night out!
Tickets are $15/each and proceeds from the tickets will be raised for Calgary Rotaract and Women In Need Society.
If you are unable to make the event, please consider purchasing a pair of tickets and donating them to the Women In Need Society, to allow us to send someone who otherwise would not be able to afford to go!
For tickets or any questions, please email president@calgaryrotaract.com Calgary Rotaract will also visit each Rotary Club to sell tickets!