Social Media Online Workshop - April 15th, 2015 - Learning About FaceBook, Twitter and YouTube
Breaking barriers with technology seems quite important nowadays in order to engage with new tools and techniques emerging in our life everyday. Please join me in this online workshop that will take place on April 15th, 2015 from 7 to 9 P.M.. The goal will be to introduce you to FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Join us for the 17th Rotary Art from the Heart event hosted by the Rotary Club of Calgary Sarcee, on May 1st, 2015 at the Red and White Club. It’s a great opportunity for fellowship around the table with a plated dinner and then lots of fun participating in both the silent as well as live auctions. This year the proceeds will go to resurfacing the outdoor playground at Providence Children’s Centre. The surface no longer meets requirements as laid out by Albert Health Services.
The Unofficial First Party of the Stampeding Season
Rotary Centennial is hosting this fund raiser from
6:30 pm to 10:30 pm on Saturday June 6, 2015 at the Calgary Curling Club, located at 720-3rd Street NW.
We are featuring the Shannon Smith Band (www.shannonsmith.ca) and Siksika
Youth Dancers, Cocktail Party, silent auction and dancing.
During our club visitations Ann and I heard that clubs have people associated with them, that we could call “Friends of Rotary”. These are people who join in with the Club when it needs extra person power to get a job done. Since there are many hands-on projects throughout the District, there is a need for helpers because often the Club can’t do it with their members alone.
The Rotary Employment Partnership is a unique opportunity for businesses to tap into a large and motivated workforce that is unemployed and underemployed in Alberta: job seekers with developmental disabilities.
The Hike of Your Life: The Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage
Wednesday, April 15 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Rosedale Community Hall, 901-11 Avenue NW.
Although the hike across northern Spain is 1,200 years old, its popularity has dramatically increased over the past decade, tripling to over 300,000 pilgrims/year.
Anil Jain calls it the “WASH” project, with the acronym standing for “water and sanitation hygiene.” Whatever you call it, this initiative illustrates the power Rotarians can harness when clubs work together.
“The Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) is undoubtedly one of the best programs to engage, educate and retain our members.” Monty Audenart, deceased, was Past Rotary International Vice President and Trustee of the Rotary Foundation, and chaired the RI Membership and Retention Committee. To see why Monty felt this way and to learn more about the Rotary Leadership Institute, please read on
Social media matters more for Rotary than you might think!
Are you ready for the plunge? It's not "if" but "when.." This post answers "why!" But your club experience can also be disappointing if not thought through.
The Interact club at Tom Baines Junior High in Calgary was formally chartered on March 3rd 2015. Garth Toombs presented the charter to Dominic the president of this 20th Interact Club in District 5360; the Rotary Club of Calgary Sarcee is very proud of this vibrant group of young people, some of which attended RYPEN last year.
How Can We Help Our Young People Sort Out Their Careers?
CAREER PLANNING WITH 12 – 20 YEARS OLDS IS VITAL, yet often not carried out. Often parents, who previously were job and role models for their children, as doctors, lawyers, accountants, farmers, carpenters and business people, find that their children are not interested in these traditional professions. They want to become web designers, techies of one kind or another, or go into specialty services areas - unknown occupations to their parents.
This award is made by Rotary Zone 24 & 32. Every District in the Zone is encouraged to make an application for the Donald MacRae Peace Award and the award will be presented at the next Zone Institute in Providence in the fall of 2015. The candidates for this annual award must have demonstrated the advancement of international goodwill, understanding and peace through peace-making efforts or humanitarian activity of international significance. The award is open to Rotarians and non-Rotarians.
Please see the letter below from Martha McManus, a Peace Fellow from District 5360, regarding Rotary’s Peace Fellowship. If you know of any people working in a peace-related field who might be interested in applying for a Peace Fellowship, please share this letter with them. The application deadline for study in 2016-17 is May 31, 2015.
Now is the time to make sure all your club stats are up to date and accurate. Need to polish up your website with pictures, links or more accurate information? Please read on...
“They” are after our money. There are so many causes, appeals, world emergencies, and desperate people that sometimes we feel numb to, or maybe supersensitive to the need. Too many organizations depend on our donations.
The Rotary Foundation and Polio campaigns are important causes for Rotarians. Our funds are helping eliminate polio world-wide, and ensure the success of local Rotary projects and the major Global projects. But we also compete with ourselves, by adding other local Rotary needs such as for the local food bank, special youth causes, a local park, a unique international project and the list goes on and on.
Edmonton, AB - This past weekend on March 21st and 22nd, 30 Rotaractors and Rotarians from Districts 5360 and 5370 gathered at the University of Alberta for the 4th annual All Alberta Rotaract Forum.
University of Lethbridge Rotaract team Sees Music Transforming Slum into Fine (Arts) Community
La Carpio, Costa Rica is being transformed by Rotaract partner Sifais*
Just over a year ago, U of L Rotaract raised funds to benefit Sistema
Integral de Formación Artística para la Inclusión Social (Sifais). Six
months later three members of Rotaract visited the location to see first
hand how Sifais is transforming an impoverished slum known previously for
gang violence into a community rich in arts and volunteerism. Now, their
investigative inquiry is available for interactive exploration on-line here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh_lzTGuQfQ
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