Nancy Watt was presented with an Integrity Award on April 13, 2011 at the Sutton Place Hotel, Edmonton.

BART PATERSON was nominated as our 2011 - 2012  Unsung Hero.

The City of St. Albert THANKS  residents of St. Albert once a year with a wine & cheese reception.

This year Bart and his wife will attend.

Thanks for all you do Bart!

Danielle Reed, a member of the Morinville Rotary Club is a Life Coach. who owns and operates a business called, Coach on the Go.  She presented our club with an overview of her work, mostly with girls, but she is available for adults and males as well.. 

You don't need a Facebook account to view facebook pages.

But you do need one to post and participate.

Since Saint City Rotary now has a Facebook page, here is how you can easily join Facebook.

Guest Speaker, Rachael Putt, from the Bissell Centre in Edmonton gave a great overview of the Centre and the work they do for thousands of homeless people in Edmonton and area.  Their primary goal is to get homes for these people. Then they work on food, clothing and jobs. It is a tremendous job requiring a lot of support and many volunteers.  Their web page which has much more information is www.bissellcentre.org.

Guest Speaker, Gem Munro, talked about the Amarok Society, where he is the Director.  This society works in severely poor countries where education for females is almost non-existent. There education model is totally different from the norm. They believe that if you teach a mother, you teach a family.  If you teach five mothers you teach a neighborhood. With this believe, they provide free education to a group of mothers who then are required to teach their own childrenin their own home and some of their neigbours children. This has turned out to be very successful and has spread rapidly.  More information is available on their web site at, www.amaroksociety.org.

 

 

 

 

 

Guest Speaker, Yvonne Bull is a long time resident of St. Albert.  She was a very active member of the St. Albert Rotary club for many years.  Now she's concentrating on volunteer work for the Fifty Plus Club.  He current project is the writing and production of a high quality book with many pictures and stories about the history of the Fifty Plus Club which will be going through a major renovation and expansion starting this Summer.  When complete, copies of the book will be given to the City and to the library, and will be available for purchase by anyone in the community. Yvonne shared the project with our club and asked us to consider a donation so the cost of the book for the over 500 members could be reduced.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday's guest speaker was Kristy Russ, BscPharm, APA.  She talked about transforming your health, and how to stop letting health problems interfere with the life you want. Kristy is a practicing Pharmacist who runs a one on one health consultation business as well.  She says getting older does not mean having to slow down.  You just need to learn the right things to do.

Kristy offers a complimentary health consultation ( $150.00 value) for all Rotarians.  This can be booked at http://www.timetrade.com/book/KK7D2.

She challenges all of us to get our life back!

 

Linda Perras has achieved her Paul Harris times two!  Congratulations!  President Ross Algar presents Linda with her prestigeous award.  Paul Harris awards are achieved when $1000.00 US is donated to the Foundation for its many worthy programs around the world. Linda now has three!

Members of Saint City Rotary assisted with a wine and cheese party held for the residents of Citadel Muse. Rotarians helped serve the residents and help them to and from their rooms.  Most of the residents were wheelchair bound.  While this was going on, one of the Rotarians and his band played and sang songs.  A good time was had by all.

A special thanks to Councellor Tim Osbourne who assisted the band and helped the Rotarians serve the residents.

 

President Guy Smith of the AUPE addressed the Saint City Rotary Club on March 24th, giving an excellent overview of the work and challenges of the public union.  As President, Guy has an extremely complex job managing and dealing with union issues for thousands of members.

Adam McKay, Branch Manager of Servus Credit Union in St. Albert presents a cheque to Saint City Rotary in support of the golf tournament.

Guest speaker, Larry Wilkins, talked about a special private school next to what was formerly known as the Hobema Reservation. He says the high school on the reservation, which is funded be the federal government, does not work.  It is riddled with gangs and many of the kids choose not to attend it.

His organization has built a special private school next to the reservation, with strict rules against gangs and drugs. He is raising over $4 million for a new state of the art school. Students have to be accepted into the school and can be dismissed for breaking the rules.  Mr. Wilkins is asking the Rotary clubs to help him raise the remaining funds needed.  He already has over $2 million.

Guest speaker, Curtis Crouse, at the March 3rd Rotary meeting, gave a well thought out overview about the difficulties experienced by all kinds of organizations looking to increase their memberships. He didn't have all the answers on what to do about it, but he mused on various ideas the club could try.

Jerry Moran, Chaplain of the Edmonton Remand Centre was the Guest Speaker at the March 10th meeting.  He gave a very interesting overview of the 

remand Centre and the role played be the Chaplain.  The number of inmates that pass through this institution numbers in the thousands per year.

Guest speaker, Derek Jay from the Mayfield Rotary club talked about the Mercy Ship project that serves poor people in third world countries.  The ship, staffed by Doctors, nurses and many others, volunteer their time to provide life altering surgeries to thousands of people who can not afford anything.  Currently, they are working on the East coast of Africa.

The Saint City Rotary Club has decided to support this worthwhile project financially.

 

District Governor, Linda Robertson Visited with the Board and was the speaker at a Rotary Meeting.

Rotarian Warren Renner has become the Movember man, thanks to his staff at work.

Cam Rennie attended the meeting a played a great rendition of Taps.  It was very much appreciated.

Paul Quantz, Chair of the Chamber of Commerce was the guest speaker during small business week.  He was introduced by Lynda Moffat, the CEO and President of the Chamber.  Lynda will soon be the President of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, which is good news for Alberta and St. Albert.

Paul, a former member so Saint City Rotary, gave an excellent overview of the work of the Chamber of Commerce.

Maureen Henkel, Development Officer for Stars Air Ambulance gave a presentation about Stars.  Since they started operations in 1985, they have flown over 26000 missions.

Finally, After ten years of fundraising, planning and a variety of setbacks our Rotary Park is now officiall open.

Kristin Ward from the Alberta government led a workshop about Rotary.  She was able to get all members and guests to participate in a very worthwhile discussion.

Guest speaker, Councillor Sheena Hughes, gave a very interesting talk on her views of the plans for downtown redevelopment.  

Kathy Sandmarier, along with two Morinville Interact students, talked about their trip to Mexico to help with the People of Hope project.  The students showed an excellent video of their experiences, which they said was life changing.

Saint City Rotary members filling packages with all kinds of goodies for the golfers who will be playing in the golf tournament on Thursday.  Breakfast at Seven, shotgun start at eight, and BBQ with prizes at about Two.  Hopefully there will be no rain.

Don Vaugeois gave a great talk about his life, work and family.  Once he got into the piano business, he never looked back. Don's Piano has become a major force in the industry over the years. Many of his staff have stayed with him for many years.  He believes this is partly due to his treating staff like part of the family.

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  Rotary Club of St. Albert - Saint city
  P.O. Box 311
   St. Albert, AB  T8N 1N3

Each year we have a car rally that many members take part in and enjoy. Always a challenge, and always good companionship afterwards. Be careful! Our course master can be tricky!

A regular feature is to have occasional site visits to one of our members place of business. This allows our member to highlight his business, and gives us a better understanding of what exactly he or she is involved with.

We regularly have quality and high profile guest speakers on various topics, including the Premier of our province.

Many of our members look forward to our "Guess who's coming for dinner" event. The premise is that a number of our members host a dinner, and the rest of the membership is advised by the organizer 1 hour prior where to show up. Of course, all members are required to assist in one of the courses (salad, dessert, etc), with the host supplying the main course.

Al Tardif (R) and Dr. Marc Moreau (L) of the CAMTA medical team pack hockey bags with the Rotary emblem on them for their imminent medical mission to Quito, Ecuador.  The bags, complete with the Rotary Logo on them were supplied by the Rotary Club of St. Albert St. City. For more information, visit the CAMTA site

A Saint City Rotary work party packed 30 hockey bags with used fire fighting equipment.  The equipment has been ruled obsolete for fire fighters here in Alberta but is still very useful to a fire brigade that doesn't have any equipment at all.

Every Christmas season, the Saint City Rotary club provides transportation and snacks for up to 50 seniors to view Candy Cane Land and Bright Lights at Hawreluk Park.