On Wednesday May 15^th our morning meeting will be at Exshaw School. Arrival time is 7.45 so no need to get up earlier to come to the meeting. Car parking will be in the top parking lot at the school. Car-pooling seems like a good idea. Breakfast will be continental style – no cooked breakfast. Coffee and Tea will be served.

Always wanted to know how Rotary House works?

Who can use it? How is it arranged? Who should be contacted for information?

Please see the download link on this page (the File Download column is on the lower left) that we will leave there for the forseeable future so it can be found when needed. We will also be sending you an email with this document to you so that if you get inquiries about it from anyone interested in using the Rotary House facility you can provide them with it.

This is unfortunate because we were considering running it again next year as we thought it was valuable PR and encouragement to the younger generation to familiarize themselves with the Rotary organzation.

If you have comments for us as to what we could have done/not done to generate entries, we would be happy to hear them.

Feel free to email the PR Committee at rotaryclubofcanmore@gmail.com.

Adventure in Citizenship – April 28 – May 1 - Ottawa

This 5 day action packed program is coordinated and hosted annually by Ottawa area Rotary Clubs. Our locally selected student will join approximately 220 other adventurers from all over Canada - all selected and sponsored by their home-town Rotary Club. More information: http://www.rotaryottawa.com/ and select Adventure in Citizenship tab.

Selection criteria: Excellent academic standing; leadership ability; community service, with an emphasis on non-school related volunteering.

RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) Conference.

May 2nd – 5th Canmore.

The Rotary Club of Canmore will be sponsor four students (in grades 10 through 12) to attend an all-expenses paid camp to discuss leadership skills and to learn those skills through practice.

The goal for RYLA 2013 is to have 100 Alberta students attend this year’s high energy, high impact program.

Deadline for applications Monday, February 18th.

Application process:

·         write a letter, with resume attached, to Rotary Club of Canmore (attention Jane Neil. janeneil@telus.net) giving your reason as to why you would like to attend Adventures in Citizenship and/or RYLA  highlighting your citizenship and leadership qualities;

·         Be prepared to attend an interview;

·         Know about Rotary and what we do

·         Be prepared to come to a Rotary Club meeting after the Adventure to make a brief presentation

We are targeting to launch the new site by January 30, 2013. In order to fund the costs associated with the site, we are selling rotating ad banner space on the homepage to members.

We are pleased to announce the new 2013/14 Outbound Exchange Student is LAUREN HAWKER.

The Rotary Club of Canmore PR Committee will be posting monthly reports on this site as well as sending an email to all members and announcing it at meetings.

Your new PR Committee consists of: Sally Garen, John Thorburn, Bob Aishford and Brian Travers.

We held our first meeting of the year on Monday, July 16th and have this information to share with you:

·         We discussed lots of new ideas for PR, including an annual PR event in Canmore – we will let you know when more develops on that

·         We will be creating a new PR website this year that is very public-friendly at CanmoreRotary.com. It will be geared more towards the general goals of Rotary and how to get involved. It will run alongside the Clubrunner site which is more member-friendly.  We plan to fund this site by selling advertising to Rotarians in business. If anyone is interested, please talk to anyone on the committee. We have not formulated the exact workings of the advertising yet.

·         We will be creating a new PR POLICY document as a guideline to all Club members and committee heads to clarify/unite and strengthen all of our collective efforts towards letting the public know what we are doing

Building Basic Education in Guatemala

            Report from Doug Jones, January 2012

 Rotary and its partners have been working over the past two decades eradicating polio from 99% of the world. We are now on the brink of achieving this goal, but a strong push is needed to get rid of the other 1% once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.

Your contribution will help Rotary raise $200 million to match $355 million in challenge grants received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The resulting $555 million will directly support immunization campaigns in developing countries, where polio continues to infect and paralyze children, robbing them of their futures and compounding the hardships faced by their families.

As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk. The stakes are that high. Please contact The Rotary Club of Canmore at (janrickmatthews@gmail.com) to make your pledge.