The Westerner for March 26, 2012
Posted by David J. Turner
on Mar 26, 2012
Meeting: chair Sherry; music, Jerome; grace, Darrel Ripley
Guests: George Grover Scholarship winners Anthony Lott, Stephanie Lim, and Navneet Khinda; Doug Singleton, President of Edmonton Real Estate Board; Laura Morie, Rotary Club of Westlock and New Generations Committee for Rotary District 5370; Past District Governor David Taylor and his spouse Elaine, Joyce Hendrickson and Duane Treacy
Integrity Awards: see Kieran for tickets for awards dinner April 25, $45 each
Centennial Interact Belise Fund Raiser: see Sherry for tickets for April 13
New Generations: Laura Morie talked about Rotary District 5370 survey for youth support by all 60 clubs in the district. She found that the clubs spend $750,000 to support youth via various endeavours including Interact, Rotoract, Earlyact which covers 587 particpants. Interact and Rotoract themselves have raised $400,000 for community projects and it is worthy that Rotarians support their actions. Centennial Interact (our club is the main sponsor) has raised $60,000 for Belise education projects without adding in what they may raise on April 13. She suggested that you consider taking Rotoractors into your business as employees or contractors as they are underemployed but motivated.
Story: Jim Spalding talked about the animals that were trying to determine who were the best - hawk (fast), lion (strong), skunk (smelly). As they were verbally competing a bear ate them all = hawk, lion and stinker.
Finemaster: Jerome fined if you did not know which buildings were designed by Douglas Cardinal and what the value of a dollar is (it is worth a dollar).
50/50: Bob Lamoureux and Dan Graham did not match cards.
Guests: George Grover Scholarship winners Anthony Lott, Stephanie Lim, and Navneet Khinda; Doug Singleton, President of Edmonton Real Estate Board; Laura Morie, Rotary Club of Westlock and New Generations Committee for Rotary District 5370; Past District Governor David Taylor and his spouse Elaine, Joyce Hendrickson and Duane Treacy
Integrity Awards: see Kieran for tickets for awards dinner April 25, $45 each
Centennial Interact Belise Fund Raiser: see Sherry for tickets for April 13
New Generations: Laura Morie talked about Rotary District 5370 survey for youth support by all 60 clubs in the district. She found that the clubs spend $750,000 to support youth via various endeavours including Interact, Rotoract, Earlyact which covers 587 particpants. Interact and Rotoract themselves have raised $400,000 for community projects and it is worthy that Rotarians support their actions. Centennial Interact (our club is the main sponsor) has raised $60,000 for Belise education projects without adding in what they may raise on April 13. She suggested that you consider taking Rotoractors into your business as employees or contractors as they are underemployed but motivated.
Story: Jim Spalding talked about the animals that were trying to determine who were the best - hawk (fast), lion (strong), skunk (smelly). As they were verbally competing a bear ate them all = hawk, lion and stinker.
Finemaster: Jerome fined if you did not know which buildings were designed by Douglas Cardinal and what the value of a dollar is (it is worth a dollar).
50/50: Bob Lamoureux and Dan Graham did not match cards.
Guest Speakers: Ron discussed our George Grover Scholarship offerings. Over the last 11 years there have been 33 recipients and they jointly have received $254,940 to assist in furthering their education. Our website has a good description of the George Grover Scholarship Estate and how it came about.
Anthony is in the U of A Medical Class of 2014. As a second year medical student, he is president of the medical students association and this shows that he has a political bent as well as an interest in medicine. He talked about his life being a life of presentations and what he learned from each one. They started when he was 7 years old. In addition to what he does at university he is a mentor to students in need. When he was in his undergradute studies, he taught English in Bolivia for 4 months to students that could not afford to pay for regular English classes. As president of the medical students he represents 1,000 students, tries to inspire students to volunteer and knows there are lots of students giving volunteer hours. Future plans include either family or internal medicine, possibly politics.
Navneet is second year political science and is happy that our scholarship recognizes student achievements. Students have a lot on their plates - school, family, volunteerism, work. She has pride in volunteering and providing leadership and is looking to get into politics (she will be working during this current provincial election). She is involved in the community and believes social justice means giving back to the community. Her parents immigrated before she was born but because they were able to succeed, she tends to look out for people less fortunate. She is probabvly aiming for law school but finds she learns more from volunteering and work than in the classroom.
Stephanie is also a second year medical studnet. She comes from Calgary but is the only child of parents who came from Singapore. They are not affluent. She has an honours degree in health sciencs and loves medical school. She volunteers in many health services projects and set up her own hospital visitation routine by visitng hospital wards. She is active in raising funds for Doctors Without Borders and created an annual fundraiser which earned $6-8,000 per year in Calgary and $5,000 last year in Edmonton. A Cystic Fibrosis fundraiser called Shinerama gets many stuents involved and Edmonton raised $15,000 last year - when she attended a national event she found out $117,000 was raised across Canada. Other involvement is student council, Big Brothers/Big Sisters plus trying to get more people into volunteering. Her international clinical is in Formosa during her third year studies and her aim is for general surgery and/or clinical trials.
The speakers were thanked by Lorne.
Anthony is in the U of A Medical Class of 2014. As a second year medical student, he is president of the medical students association and this shows that he has a political bent as well as an interest in medicine. He talked about his life being a life of presentations and what he learned from each one. They started when he was 7 years old. In addition to what he does at university he is a mentor to students in need. When he was in his undergradute studies, he taught English in Bolivia for 4 months to students that could not afford to pay for regular English classes. As president of the medical students he represents 1,000 students, tries to inspire students to volunteer and knows there are lots of students giving volunteer hours. Future plans include either family or internal medicine, possibly politics.
Navneet is second year political science and is happy that our scholarship recognizes student achievements. Students have a lot on their plates - school, family, volunteerism, work. She has pride in volunteering and providing leadership and is looking to get into politics (she will be working during this current provincial election). She is involved in the community and believes social justice means giving back to the community. Her parents immigrated before she was born but because they were able to succeed, she tends to look out for people less fortunate. She is probabvly aiming for law school but finds she learns more from volunteering and work than in the classroom.
Stephanie is also a second year medical studnet. She comes from Calgary but is the only child of parents who came from Singapore. They are not affluent. She has an honours degree in health sciencs and loves medical school. She volunteers in many health services projects and set up her own hospital visitation routine by visitng hospital wards. She is active in raising funds for Doctors Without Borders and created an annual fundraiser which earned $6-8,000 per year in Calgary and $5,000 last year in Edmonton. A Cystic Fibrosis fundraiser called Shinerama gets many stuents involved and Edmonton raised $15,000 last year - when she attended a national event she found out $117,000 was raised across Canada. Other involvement is student council, Big Brothers/Big Sisters plus trying to get more people into volunteering. Her international clinical is in Formosa during her third year studies and her aim is for general surgery and/or clinical trials.
The speakers were thanked by Lorne.