Events

Camp Yowochas is a year round outdoor education centre and summer camp. From September to June we offer both day and overnight bookings for field trips, corporate events, holiday parties, etc.   Camp Yowochas has many areas throughout our property that they use during the course of the year: The campfire circle, Picnic Shelter, Arts & Crafts Hall, Fireside Lounge, Dry Sauna, Natural Sauna, Challenge Course Area and the Retreat Cabin.  The camp is located on the north shore of Wabamun Lake.

• This event will involve car pooling from West Edmonton and traveling to Camp Yowochas for approximately an one hour drive. 
• Camp tour will commence at 11:00 AM with lunch to follow:
• Lunch will be provided by YWCA camp staff. 
• After the tour we will return to Edmonton.   Yowochas Map

More details of the meeting to be provided later including the meeting place for car pooling.....

Access details:

• Take Highway 16 to Range Road 52 (west of Wabamun – East of Entwistle)
• Turn south on Range Road 52
• Follow the green and white signs through the Hamlet of Fallis to their parking lot
• Speed limit through Fallis is 30 km/hr and is enforced throughout the year by RCMP

https://edmontonrotary.com/events/rotary-club-meeting-september-21st-rotary-at-ywca-camp-yowochas/

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Presentation:  A conversation about challenging yourself, how hard work is more valuable than experience sometimes and discussing the business side or sports radio and the need to adapt and evolve. And some thoughts on the Oilers and Elks!

Jason Gregor is a sports talk radio host on Sports 1440 in Edmonton weekdays from 2-6 p.m. He began his radio career in 2001 after graduating with honours from NAIT’s Radio and Television Arts program, and he has hosted his own sports talk show since 2003.  In addition to his daily talk show he is the lead columnist on OilersNation.com.

Besides being an avid sports enthusiast, Jason is very passionate about philanthropy and community involvement. Over the past eight years he has raised over $3.5 million on his radio show for charities including, The MS Bike Tour, Santas Anonymous, The Christmas Bureau, Alzheimer’s Faceoff, Operation Friendship Seniors Society, Adopt-A-Teen and many more.

Jason is founder of The Gregor Foundation, was named Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International in 2014 and was named one of Edmonton’s Top 40 under 40 in 2011. He was listed as Edmonton’s favorite sports host by Vue Magazine in 2011-2019 and he was the reader’s choice for top radio talk show host in the Edmonton Journal in 2014-2018.

Jason currently resides in St. Albert with his wife and son.

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Join Karen McDonald, former Executive Director, plus Christie Lavan, current Executive Director of SAGE Seniors Association to hear an update of their organization.

Sage | Seniors Association   located at 15 Sir Winston Churchill Square | Edmonton 

www.mysage.ca 

Watch this two minute video about SAGE!

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Our current Rotary Youth Exchange Student, Alma Tragler (Austria), will also have a short presentation reviewing her experiences in Canada so far.

Presentation:  University of Alberta Cities Institute and Perspectives on Edmonton's Downtown Challenges

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Murtaza Haider is a Professor and the Radhe Krishna Gupta Executive Chair in Cities and Communities at the Alberta School of Business, as well as the Executive Director of the Cities Institute at the University of Alberta. Previously, he served as the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and a full Professor of Data Science and Real Estate Management at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). He has also been the Research Director of the Urban Analytics Institute. His roles at TMU have included Associate Dean of Research, Director of Internationalization, Director of the School of Health Services Management, and Acting Chair of the Real Estate Management program. Formerly, he was an Assistant Professor at McGill University, where he established the Urban Systems Lab.

Professor Haider’s research focuses on business analytics, housing markets, transportation, infrastructure, and human development in Canada and South Asia. He authored Getting Started with Data Science (2015) and has developed popular online courses in data science with IBM, including "Intro to Data Science," which has reached over a million learners globally.

A syndicated columnist with Postmedia, his weekly columns on real estate appear in The National Post and regional newspapers. He holds a Master's and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto.

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/cities-institute/index.html

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Last year's president Anurag Shourie with help from the Finance Committee will review the year 2025-2026 including financial statements.

The Honourable Eleanor Olszewski https://www.canada.ca/en/government/ministers/eleanor-olszewski.html

Eleanor has represented the riding of Edmonton Centre since April 2025.

In May of 2025, Minister Olszewski was named Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada.

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