Golfers:  time to put together your foursome
Sponsors:  we are open to more sponsors joining us
Volunteers:  contact Don McFarlane to get on board
 
Our Rotary Club continues to support the Food Bank!
Community Service by our club member Anna in Warsaw
Anna Wieczorek is showing amazing community service helping those leaving and remaining in Ukraine with financial support by Rotary Club of Edmonton.  Below are some stories from Anna.  
 
March 29th:
Łukasz delivered supplies to Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine.  Items purchased in Poland with financial support by our club.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                         
March 20th:
I have just completed the new shipment to Ukraine. 
It’s always a lot of driving and visiting a big warehouse outside Warsaw where I can get stuff cheaply & good quality plus other shopping centres for instant food and toiletries, then sorting out and packing and preparing the parcels, labelling them with our logo etc.
Most of the times it’s a challenging job but always making me feel happy that we can still provide help for Ukraine when most of the people around seem to be forgetting about the war.
 
Whenever I do the shopping for Ukrainians, the shop assistants ask me why we still keep helping Ukraine. I always have very interesting chats with them and tell them about Rotary. Last time a shop owner asked me if we are a religious organization! I had to explain and tell them what we do and how we provide help all over the world etc. Working for our project is a great occasion to spread more information about Rotary here in Poland and I must admit, people seem to be very interested and always greet me with a big smile and even offer a cup of coffee in a shop. I think this is great! 
 
Thank you so much for your constant financial support for our Ukrainian project! This means a lot to the people who have to live in the country occupied by nasty Russians and it means a lot to me! I always ask guys who are not very open to cultural and language diversity if they would swap with one Ukrainian family and went there right now to live! Then, they stop complaining about Ukrainians coming over and taking working posts in Poland. We are so lucky to have a safe place to live and enough food and access to education and so called ‘normal life’. And this is our obligation to remember that the war is still there. So close. So real. So horrid.
 
I think our club is showing a perfect example of persistence in providing help. This is not easy but I hope many people might follow our example. So thank you, thank you, thank you for remembering about Ukraine all the time and providing finances that let me buy stuff the people there need right now.
 
Yesterday, Łukasz picked the goods from my place yesterday morning and off he went straight to the border.  Łukasz will be driving there again in May. Who knows? Maybe this time I’ll go with him.
 
As always, all our goods that we had bought will be delivered straight to the Ukrainians who really need them.
 
I’m so proud to be a member of our Club! I have given Łukasz our emblem and he has hung it in his truck on the mirror so it proudly travels now through the roads of Ukraine.  Thank you for having me among this wonderful family of RC Edmonton!
Anna
 
 
                                                                                                                                                    
 
 
 
Donations are welcome.   If you would like to contribute to help our club support Ukrainian Refugees donate to the Community Service Trust Fund thru ATB Cares https://atb.benevity.org/community/cause/124-888824448RR0001    Tax receipt provided by ATB Cares.   Please include a comment like "Support for Ukraine" by clicking on Share my name and comments  before entering your donation details. Thanks for your support in helping to  purchase 30 suitcases, backpacks, womens shoes and help find emergency housing for refugees.
 
 
Our club acknowledges we are on Amiskwacîwâskahikan Treaty 6 land. We are all Treaty People.  
We respectfully acknowledge the land upon which our club operates is located on Treaty 6 Territory and has served a purpose as a traditional meeting ground for many First Nations groups. This territory has provided a traveling route and home to the Nakoda Sioux, and later, Blackfoot and Cree peoples, followed by Saulteaux and Métis and other Indigenous peoples.
 
 
Edmonton is also in Metis Zone 4.  The Metis flag is the white infinity symbol on a blue background recognizing a mixture of two distinct cultures.
 
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Donate to the Rotary Club of Edmonton - Community Service Trust via ATB Cares. You will receive a tax receipt right away and 100% of your donation goes to the Rotary Club of Edmonton.  PLUS: for donations made in the first couple of days of the month, ATB may match a certain percentage of your donation.
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Donating to The Edmonton Rotary Club Foundation (TERCF) is possible through Canada Helps.   Donate to TERCF
We meet Mondays at Noon, Chateau Lacombe Hotel for our hybrid club meeting.  Check out the Speakers List on this page for more details including registration.  $10 fee for those connecting online thru Zoom.
Based on the number of hospitalizations, ICU bed utilization, deaths and other considerations, the Board voted to require people attending our regular meetings to be fully vaccinated and symptom free.  Attendees are also asked to wear masks when not eating or drinking.
 
It is important to keep our members as safe as possible while enjoying the fellowship of in-person attendance at our meetings at the Chateau Lacombe on Mondays.  The meetings are hybrid and on line attendance will continue to be available.
 
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Chateau Lacombe Hotel
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Edmonton, AB T5J 1N7
(office only open Mondays at a limited time)
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The Rotary Club of Edmonton is part of Rotary International District 5370 (Central/Northern Alberta and parts of SK, BC, Yukon and NWT). Click below to find out more about the district, including contacts:
Big cheque presentation Mar 27th to Ziad, coach for Start 2 Finish Running & Reading program.  This organization offers after school programming for the following local schools:
Belvedere
Delton
McDougall
Norwood
Volunteers needed for this weekly program leading to a 4 Km run for the elementary students in May.
 
Photo of the first four Rotarians who met in 1905 in Chicago to start the service club.
Read up on who they are:
It was our honor to present a cheque to Inner City Youth Development Association to support them for lunches for their students. With me in the photo on the left is Joe Cloutier, Founder and Chief Operating Officer of the association and Inner City High School.  The school, on the corner of 101 St and 112 Ave, has a lot of amazing indigenous art some of which you can see in the background of this photo.   Neil Lang
 
 
The Inner City Youth Development Association (ICDYA) was established to provide Edmonton's marginalized Indigenous and other urban youth, with tools and opportunities to break the cycle of poverty, desperation, and dependence that dominates their lives, enabling them to become contributing members of our community.
Speakers
Aviation Museum
Apr 03, 2023 12:00 PM
Tour of Alberta Aviation Museum
NO MEETING
Apr 10, 2023
Easter Monday
Dr. Randy Gregg
Apr 17, 2023 12:00 PM
Edmonton Riverhawks Baseball team
Jason Pincock, CEO, DynaLIFE
Apr 24, 2023 12:00 PM
DynaLIFE Medical Labs
Brent Hesje, CEO, Fountain Tire
May 01, 2023 12:00 PM
Professor Mark Haykowsky, UofA Faculty of Nursing
May 08, 2023 12:00 PM
Recent research about physical activity, healthy aging and the prevention of heart attacks
Reed Clarke, Pres/CEO Edm Stingers Basketball Club
May 15, 2023 12:00 PM
Edmonton Stingers Basketball
NO MEETING
May 22, 2023
Victoria Day
We believe that exemplifying and embracing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) should be a part of everything we do at Rotary.  
Rotary Club of Edmonton is committed to supporting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
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Rotary Foundation
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Graphics for our seven areas of focus. 
click on above graphic to see more details on each cause.