Welcome to "The Friendly Club" and our Web Site. How to contact the site administrator. Click on 'More...' below.

Strathcona members and Other Users, if you are unsure how to log in, click online HELP, or contact the site administrator Hans Granholm; 
phone: 780-466-5566 any time.

For more information about our club, click HERE

For full information on our upcoming Speakers, click on the speaker's name.

Members can access the Club Constitution and By-Laws from ADMIN | CLUB DOCUMENTS after login.

Apr 9; Leslie & Doug Milne, Anniversary
Apr 10; Bill Skelly, Birthday (BIG 3/4 century)

Tuesday noon belongs to Rotary!

Look in "Upcoming Events" for other activities taking place in the near future.

A young, energetic woman who biked to our meeting, Wanda shared her passion and her compassion with us. Traveling to this remote, beautiful and harsh corner of the earth twice a year as guide and now philanthropist, she was able to present as accurate a picture of daily life in Nepal for us as possible. And pictures are what she used in abundance. Beautiful photos of breathtaking scenery and especially of the locals. These were the quality seen only in National Geographic. The clothing, the wrinkles, the teeth, the eyes, cute kids, the poverty and of course the mountain vistas and goat trails brought us to the place she wanted to bring us to.

Wanda's enthusiasm to help the Nepalese never strayed past "unbridled". Her mentors in Nepal have built a two story hospital with their hands recently and have opened the possibilities for the citizens of the area to receive treatment for malnutrition and especially visually impairing cataracts. Her "Caps for Cataract" hat collection and distribution network has caught the attention of the media and Wanda will be handing out thousands of peaked hats to the children of the Humla area within two months with eye protection in mind. A school library was her first successful project and her positiveness has resulted from these endeavours.

Wanda owns and operates Hi Himalayas Treks and Tours. We wish her success.

We are delighted to welcome our District Governor, Ross Tyson on July 8 at our regular meeting place, the German Canadian Cultural Assoc.

This is the District Governor's official annual visit to our club. Traditionally, the DG will meet with the club Board earlier in the day.

Please invite your 'Significant Other' to hear the Governor's address to the club.

see EVENTS

Please note that due to other activities at the Mayfair on the Tuesday, we are moving our event to Wednesday.

This is our principal social event of the year and a must for all members, new and seasoned.

President Peter will tell us what the club has accomplished this past year and Ted Griffiths will indicate our direction for next year.

It has become a tradition that we invite the current and future District Governor and we are delighted that DG David Taylor and Elaine will attend with DGE Ross Tyson and Brenda.

From a secure area, you as club members can read all about the new board's questionaire results.  Some issues that the new board will discuss and hopefully change for the better were identified.

To gain access you must log-in.  Then on the Administratin page click view club documents in "club runner" box.  Select #88 for Questionaire Results and click view.

This time of year we hear enough complaints about how ugly it is as the snow disappears. Here we have an opportunity to actually do something constructive about it.

Rotary Clubs have participated in this program before and we should support our Board's decision to provide some funding and manpower to the project.

One week-end has been identified as 'Edmonton Strathcona' day. May 3 & 4. The collection spot is at 5404-59 Ave.

This LINK will open the site page on the City of Edmonton web site. Here you can read more about the program.

Sign up and VOLUNTEER AT THIS LINK

TIP: Click on image to enlarge.

Dear Strathcona Rotary club,

It has been a while since I contacted you the last time. Despite the break, I have been reading the club e-newsletter frequently and keeping my self updated on how you are continuing your great work in the Rotary organization. There are also plenty of new members, who I haven't had the chance to meet yet. For those, who I haven't been introduced to: My name is Heidi, 24 years old, and I was the club's exchange student from Finland during the year 2000-2001.

The camp program is designed for self-development, encouraging young people to form their own values and moral standards, to broaden their horizons culturally and socially and to help them acheive there potential both as leaders and team members through both outdoor activities and through group discussions.

The camp caters to the person who shows qualities of courage, perseverance and steadfastness in everyday life. It is not designed for the academic student nor for youth who are recognized by their disruptive or criminal behaviour.

The RYPEN (South) program is organized by LaVerne Quennell and our club liaison is Bruce Flesher.

LINK TO DISTRICT EVENT PAGES

RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) is part of Rotary's ongoing commitment to supporting youth.

Club RYLA liaison: Bruce Flesher

LINK TO DISTRICT RYLA PAGE

Awards are based not only on academic standing but on demonstrated contribution and leadership benefiting the community, school, or other organizations.

RYLA winners attend an annually organized conference where they spend close to four days in intensive interaction with other award winners, session leaders, speakers from businesses, the professions, the arts, or simply with remarkable individuals who have had unique experiences which provide insight into the broadest meaning of what it is to be a leader.

This is a social program of the Edmonton Strathcona Rotary Club. It is an opportunity for club members and spouses/companions to meet other club members in an informal, social, small group setting. Dates are all Saturday nights at 7:00 PM. The most important part of this program is the fellowship and the opportunity to get to know each other better. 

Full details are explained and are available for viewing and printing at THIS LINK. Need more info on the event?...

From the keyboard of your Editor:

The second visit of the season was another huge success, from the perspective of this participant.

Linda and I, together with Joyce and Bruce Flesher, Libby and Bob Sandercock, were very pleased to visit Heather Platt and Eric Dekok who had done a marvelous job preparing a Dutch/Indonesian feast.


It cannot be over-emphasized how wonderful this program is, especially for newer members to the club, but I think our more seasoned members, not participating, are missing out on the equal opportunity to meet our new members and partners in a small setting.

Thank You to   Peter Denooy   for arranging and managing the event this year.

Canadian Blood Services needs our help at its permanent donor clinic (8249-114 Street)

All eligible donors are encouraged to take an hour or so out of their schedule to save the lives of others.
Not sure if you can donate? Why not make an appointment and find out. Call 1-888-2 DONATE (236-6283

No Child Should Die Hungry and Alone.

Imagine a modern country where nearly 40 per cent of children under six die of starvation. Severe famine has hit North Korea , and its people are suffering in silence . North Korea's 23 million people need 6 million tones of food to eat well, but they have been able to produce barely half that much. People are chronically malnourished, and many die-especially the children (always the most vulnerable in any society). Without your help-immediately-an entire generation may perish. You can save three children's lives this year for about what you pay for the daily newspaper! Think about that.

I became involved two years ago, when I was invited to lecture on "Nutrition for Health" at the Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST) in Yanji, China, near North Korean border. Since 2003, this university has gathered hungry children and housed and fed them-gave them a chance a future, in short. With them, I help procure food in China and made weekly delivers by trucks to those hungry children in Rajin City, North Korea-with no overhead costs!

In another border city, a once-rich potato production area is now completely isolated without food and fuel. YUST received a desperate plea to help some 10,000 starving children, who simply will not survive another harsh cold winter unless without immediate help. You can save these children with a donation of only 30 cents per child per day. That is all it takes. I am thrilled to report that to date, we have managed to raise $8,000 and $30,000 in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Thanks to all of the donnors who helped to make Feed NK Children project possible. Please know that you have been a part of something that is making a direct impact on the lives of the most vulnerable and helpless children in North Korea. Not only are they given food, keep them alive, but many of them are given a chance to recover from almost near-death malnutrition to a normal status for development as long as their bellies are filled with foods.

The Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona has adopted "Feed NK Children" as its international project. Please help by sending your cheques made payable to "Rotary Project of Feed NK Children" to the Rotary Club of Edmonton Strathcona, 8310 Roper Rd. N.W., Edmonton, AB T6E 6E3. OR  you may send checks endorsing Jeong Sim's NK Children project to, NEAFoundation-Canada (North East Asia Foundation), 67 Scarsdale Rd, North York, Ontario M3B 2R2 (1-647-999-9160).

You are welcome to visit Harald, but phone him first, 780-464-5309. He is anxious to come to a meeting, but I told him to slow down and concentrate on getting his strength back.

Yours in Rotary.

Hans Granholm
p: 780-466-5566
e: hgrdane@telusplanet.net

>>> PLEASE LOOK AT THIS ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITY <<<

With the number of members in this club either owning or operating a business, we are getting a very poor interest in this nice little generator of funds for the club.
Are the rates too steep? I don't think so, but if you do, please let us know.
If you have any bright ideas on how to promote this little initiative, please speak up.

A web site and bulletin advertising feature is available to dedicated members who wish to sponsor an ad and support the club's endeavors.

It is an opportunity to go out in the community and solicit ads from businesses, and who knows, in the process of soliciting ads you may also find prospective new Rotarians.

Be sure to visit these sponsors by clicking on their ad

The fee is for members $20.00 for one month or $50.00 for three months or $150.00 for one year.
 
For non-members $30.00 per month or $70.00 for a quarter or $250.00 for one year.


The ad can be text or a logo. Either way it becomes a link and upon clicking will take the visitor to the sponsor's website or e-mail address.

Please have a look at the complimentary ads in the right column of any site pages and in the left column of the e-Strathconian.

NOTE: You will notice a link in the bottom of the right column of a site page "Interested in being a Website Sponsor?". This link opens a page with all the information.

Feedback and comments are very much appreciated. You can post comments on the FORUMS | CLUB WEB SITE | ADVERTISING. Or you can e-mail you-know-who.

Cheers!

Lets go to a Rotary Convention......

2008                   Los Angeles
2009                   Birmingham, England
2010                   Montreal
2011                   New Orleans