The Westerner for October 5, 2015

Posted by David Gibbens 
 
October 5, Meeting Notes
 
Meeting: Chair, Fred; music, Jerome; grace, Mark D.; attendance 27; guests Cheryl Deslaurier,and speaker Dr. Paul Major
 
Announcements:
 
Capital City Cleanup: 6 Hearty Rotarians braved the weather to participate on Saturday.  The City was very impressed with our club as we were the only one of three scheduled that actually showed up and worked.  Bravo!
 
​Grey Cup Pool: Ben Doz distributed pool tickets and explained the payouts.
There is 5 ways to win on the Grey Cup Pool
- 1st Quarter Score is $50
- 2nd Quarter Score is $75
- 3rd Quarter Score is $75
- Final Score is $400
- Reverse Final Score is $100
 
District Conference in Dawson Creek. Fred reported on the conference.  The crew from Dawson Creek "hit one out of the park" with this conference which had amazing speakers such as Chris Hadfield, Sally armstrong and Alvin law.  As well, Rotarians assisted in packaging humdred of thousands of "Stop Hunger Now!" food packages that are destined for Nepal.  Overall, an amazing weekend was had by all that attended.  The message that District Governor Tim Schilds wanted to give to all was to "Please give to the RI Fund!" because it is that fund that makes much of what we do as Rotarians around the world possible.
 
Oct 21 - Board Meeting:  This meeting will begin half an hour later than normal at 6pm due to a major event that is happening at the hotel.  Meal will be served during the meeting.
 
Service to Food Bank is Nov 5 – need 15 volunteers.
 
District Govenor’s visit is Nov 9. Board of Directors please plan on attending this meeting at 9:00am and meeting with all members at the regular weekly meeting on that date.
 
Festival of Trees is Nov 27.
 
The Club Christmas Party is set for Dec 17.
 
Rotary Spotlight: Fred explained all the work that Duart Berg does in making sure that all of our meetings are running smoothly.  Many thanks Duart!
 
Grandview: Our club was highlighted in the recently released Grandview Annual Report.  This was distributed to all members present.
 
Fine Master: Darryl Ripley challenged members to list all our avenues of service and to possible ideas to support our vocational service to the club and each other.
 
50/50: Leslie and Annie's numbers were drawn, but not lucky enogh to match cards.  The pot will be carried over to the next meeting.
 
 
 
PRESENTATION: 
 
Dr. Paul Major, 
Associate Dean, University of Alberta 
The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
 
 
 
Dr. Major was introduced by Joe Lizotte.
 
Dr. Major noticed how close the School of Dentisty's mission was to that of our Rotary clubs.  The mission of the school is: "Improving health of the people of Alberta and beyond through excellence and leadership in oral health care, education, research/scholarship and providing service that is responsive to social need"
 
The U of A Dentistry School will be celebrating it's 100th anniversary in 2017.  In 2015 they had 357 applications for Doctors of Dental Surgery and 186 for Dental Hygene.  They graduate only 32 DDS and 42 hygenists in a given year.
 
He gave a brief history of the actual dental school beginning in the old health sciences building and ending in the multiple high tech buildings that they currently occupy.
 
Dentistry has an overall economic impact of about 40.4 million dollars in the Province with approximately 42% of graduates staying within the provice to practice.
 
Dr. major explained all the community outreach programs that the school has developed such as the Glenrose Dental Clinic, Long care term mobile clinics, Shine clinics for inner city students, satellite clinics throughout Northern Alberta and volunteer international projects.
 
 
Paul was thanked for his presentation by Doug MacDougal.