From Boyle Street to Belize, Edmonton West Rotary has a sixty year history of applying its members' unique skills and talents to the challenges that face our community, our city and our world. Join us!
Meeting: chair, Ingrid; music, David Gibbens; grace, David Turner
Attendance/Guests: 25 including Ross and Darlene Hallet, Rotary Eclub of Canada; Penny Ritco, Executive Director Citadel Theatre; Neil Luipasco, Director of Fund Development Citadel Theatre
Curling: Rotary Club of Edmonton West were undefreated in the first 2 days of the Rotary District 5360/5370 Curling Bonspiel held in Lethbridge. Fred, Ed, Darrell, David Gibbens, Brian and Duart came in third in Section A as they suffered defeat to the reigning Rotary World Champions of Curling. Well Done
Fine master: Dan Graham fined everyone who did not bring a guest to 60th anniversary of our club $1; he then asked table questions regarding Rotary International to raise maximum fine levy including what other anniversary was it on February 23 (110th of Rotary International), what were the classifications of the 4 men attending the first meeting (lawyer, coal merchant, mining engineer, tailor); host of the first meeting (mining engineer), host of the second meeting (Paul Harris), number of members attending the fifth meeting (15), when did Rotary go international (1912), when did Rotary go outside of North America (1912).
50/50: Dan Graham and Brian did not match cards, $109.50 carried over
Grandview Extended Care Centre Music Presentation: plan to attend and bring guests to see Tommy Banks on March 10 at 6:30 p m
Guest Speaker: Joe introduced Penny Ritco, executive director of Citadel Theatre, by mentioning that he and Nancy have been attending the Citadel for 20 years. Penny has been with the Citadel since 2003 and is a graduate of the National Theatre School Canada.
Penny advised that next season is the 50th anniversary of the Citadel Theatre and, thus, there will be a special set of programing. Also, there are many theatres across Canada that are approaching their 50th anniversary. She played a video on the history of the Citadel which showed, in 1965, that Joe Schoctor, Sandy Mactaggert and 2 others started the theatre. The first presentation, November 10, was Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf which was a very progressive production for a new theatre group. This play will be one of the productions that will be part of the 50th anniversary play bill. John Neville became general manager and brought in international talent. 1970 saw construction of a new building on 99 Street; 1984 saw stage 2 being completed with plays staring in December on the new MacLab Theatre Stage.
Robbins Academy fosters growth of future artists, there is a catalyst theatre called Black Box Theatre. Plans are in place to raise $5 million through the Encore Campaign. There were 5 main areas of attention in the original Articles of Association being produce plays, develop artists, develop audience interest, run the facility and raise funds. The current board of directors has recommitted to these 5 key areas of interest. Foote Theatre School trains young people and prepares them to go on to colleges/universities like MacEwan. There is a partnership with the Banff Centre for Performing Arts with 18 play writes in development.
The Citadel name comes from the locale of the first location occupied being the original Salvation Army Citadel.(on 103 Street). The Citadel has its own shops for rebuilding props on site and being able to create new show stage setups. This means it is an important employer for people with skills to build and create back ground and stage presentation effects. Part of the 50th anniversary program will be continuing the upgrading of the present theatre location. A new non discreet big main entry on the diagonal facing onto Sir Winston Churchill Square will be created including a big sign for arts messaging, not fund raising.
The Edmonton West Rotary Club will be holding another Club Social Event as per the details outlined below:
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Guest Speaker: Joe introduced Penny Ritco, executive director of Citadel Theatre, by mentioning that he and Nancy have been attending the Citadel for 20 years. Penny has been with the Citadel since 2003 and is a graduate of the National Theatre School Canada.
