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Golf Fellowship Afternoon

Over $80,000 in Prizes!!!!

Thursday, May 30th, 2013:
Halcrow Lake Golf and Country Club in The Pas, Manitoba

Come and experience the Halcrow Lake golf course.  It is a well maintained 9 hole course conveniently located in The Pas, Manitoba. The friendly atmosphere will make your experience at this challenging layout a memorable one no matter how you play the day. Our tournament will consist of 2 rounds on this course.  

Registration: 9:00AM to 11:00AM
Shotgun start at 11:00AM
20 holes Texas Scramble – enter a team or as a single
Includes dinner at 5:00PM
8 hole in 1 prizes of $10,000 each
4 Closest to the pin (4 each for men and ladies)
Longest drive (1 each for men and ladies)
Closest to the line
Putting contest
Entry package
*note carts are extra, please contact the pro-shop to reserve your cart.

Prices:

$80.00 per person

Sponsors:
Alouette Hotel
Northland Leisure
Murray GM
Aseneskak Casino
Wescana Inn
Pitre Tire
True Blue Developments
Northland Ford
Kikiwak Inn

Catton's Industrial Supply

To register or for more information contact Jeremy Wachal at jwachal@hotmail.com

Come and hear two distinguished Canadians speak

at the

Roy H Johnson Arena

all for one low price of $40.00 for Adults and $20.00 for Students.

The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson PC, CC, CCM, Com, CD

will be speaking on Saturday June 1^st, 2013 at 2:00 PM

And

James B (Jamie) Wilson B.A., U.S.T.C., M.Ed

will be speaking Friday May 31, 2013 at 3:00 PM

One ticket will get you in to see both speakers. Get your ticket from any Rotarian, at the Wescana Inn or from Michael's Corner Store.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ADRIENNE CLARKSON PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD

Universally acknowledged to have transformed the post of Governor  General, Adrienne Clarkson
 was born in Hong Kong in 1939 and came to  Canada as a refugee with her parents William and
 Ethel Poy in 1942. They  settled in Ottawa, where she attended public schools until
 graduating  from Lisgar College Institute in 1956. She obtained an honours B.A. in  English
 Literature from the University of Toronto’s Trinity College and  later completed an
 M.A. Madame Clarkson has also had a life-long  interest in the French language. She did
 post-graduate work at the  Sorbonne in France and is fluently bilingual. A leading figure
 in Canada’s cultural life, Madame Clarkson has had a  rich and distinguished career in
 broadcasting, journalism, the arts and  public service. She worked as host, writer and
 producer of several  influential programs on CBC Television, including Take Thirty,
 Adrienne  at Large, and The Fifth Estate from 1965 to 1987. An eminent writer, 
she  has authored five books and contributed numerous articles to major  newspapers,
 magazines and anthologies across Canada. She served as the  first Agent-General for Ontario
 in Paris from 1982 to 1987, promoting  Ontario’s business and cultural interests in France,
 Italy and Spain.  She was President of McClelland and Stewart from 1987 to 1988. In 1988,
  she became the Executive Producer, Host and Writer for the programs  Adrienne Clarkson’s
 Summer Festival and Adrienne Clarkson Presents.  These duties kept her busy for the next 11
 years. During this period,  she also directed several films including Artemisia (1992),
 the story of  one of Western Art’s greatest women painters, Artemisia Gentileschi and  
The Lust of His Eye: the life of James Wilson Morrice (1996), arguably  one of Canada’s 
reatest internationally known artists of the early 20th  Century. She also served as 
Chairwoman to the Board of Trustees for the Museum of  Civilization in Hull, Québec and as 
President of the Executive Board of  the International Music Centre (IMZ), the international 
audio-visual  association of music, dance, and cultural programmers based in Vienna,  Austria.
In 1991, she chaired the jury for the Banff Television Festival  at Banff, Alberta. Her work
has been recognized with dozens of awards in  Canada, the United States and Europe including
26 honourary doctorates.  She was also appointed as a Senior Fellow at Massey College, 
University  of Toronto, and as an Honourary Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,  the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Trinity College, and the  Royal Architectural Institute
of Canada. She was also honoured abroad  with the Grand Cross of the Order of Pleiades from 
France (2001) and the  Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation (2006), the only Canadian
to be so honoured. She has been active on cultural juries since leaving  office in 2005 
including chairing the first two Man Asian Literary  Prizes established in Hong Kong in 2007.
She also juried the Giller  Prize for Fiction in 2006 and served on the jury of the Gold 
Medal for  Architecture given by the Royal Architectural Institute. Adrienne Clarkson was 
sworn in as Canada’s 26th Governor General on 7  October 1999. Her tenure as Governor General
was remarkable for the  considerable attention she brought to the courage and commitment of 
Canada’s Armed Forces. She visited and inspired troops in Kosovo, the  Persian Gulf and 
Afghanistan and moved and educated Canadians with her  tributes to the Unknown Soldier and 
Canada’s war veterans. Particularly  memorable was her role in comforting the nation and the 
families of the  four soldiers killed in the tragic “friendly fire” incident in April  2002. 
She demonstrated her commitment to the families of Canadian  soldiers by traveling to Germany 
to visit with the wounded and attending  memorial ceremonies for soldiers killed in action. 
In the process, she  increased our vigilance to Canada’s commitment to international peace  
and security Her passionate interest in Canada’s North and in the circumpolar nations  as a 
whole led to a hugely successful state visit to the Russian  Federation, Finland and Iceland 
in 2003. She then established the  Governor General’s medal for the North just before leaving 
Rideau Hall  and serves as chair of the jury choosing the annual winner who has  contributed 
outstandingly to our understanding and development of the  North. On March 17, 2007 she became
Colonel-in-Chief of the Princess Patricia’s  Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), the first 
Canadian to be  Colonel-in-Chief of a Canadian regiment. The PPCLI is garrisoned in  
Edmonton, Alberta and has been serving in Afghanistan. She visited the  2nd Battalion there 
in Kandahar in August 2008. Adrienne Clarkson actively promoted tolerance, acceptance, 
belonging and  public responsibility in her work as Governor General and as a  broadcaster, 
writer, diplomat and cultural champion. National Post  Columnist John Fraser remarked that 
Adrienne Clarkson “has the ability,  unique among public officials, of making Canadians feel 
good about  themselves and their country.” This talent was recognized by the Blood  Tribe of 
Alberta who adopted her as an honourary chief. Madame Clarkson  is proud to retain her new 
title “Grandmother of Many Nations.” Her  official titles include membership in the Queen’s 
Privy Council for  Canada (PC), Companion of the Order of Canada (CC), Commander of the  
Order of Military Merit (CMM), Commander of the Order of Merit of the  Police Forces (COM) 
and the Canadian Forces Decoration (CD). Since leaving the office of Governor General, 
Adrienne Clarkson has  founded the Institute for Canadian citizenship (ICC) and chairs it 
with  her husband, John Ralston Saul The Institute’s purpose is to help  acculturate new 
Canadian citizens into mainstream Canadian life through  initiatives such as community 
citizenship ceremonies with roundtable  discussions, cultural vouchers to introduce new 
citizens to cultural  activities and museums, and a programme to increase awareness and use 
of  our wilderness parks. Her social activism continues with her serving as  patron of 
Pathways to Education in Regent’s Park and as Honourary Patron  to Bridgepoint Heath Centre, 
an innovative and unique center for  treatment of chronic illness, aging and urban aboriginal 
health. There are two public schools named after her: Adrienne Clarkson  Elementary School in 
Barrhaven, Ottawa and Adrienne Clarkson School in  Richmond Hill, Ontario. The Clarkson 
Laureateship for Public Service is  awarded to two post-graduate fellows at Massey College at 
the University  of Toronto. The Clarkson Cup for Women’s Hockey was inaugurated in March  
2009, a gift which she has made to encourage the growth of women playing  hockey. Madame 
Clarkson is married to John Ralston Saul, the son of Colonel  William John Saul, a veteran of 
World War II, who participated in the  D-Day invasion and later served as an officer in 
Princess Patricia’s  Canadian Light Infantry. Her bestselling memoir, Heart Matters, was  
received with acclaim when it was published in the fall of 2006. In  March 2009 her biography 
of Dr. Norman Bethune appeared in the  Extraordinary Canadians Series published by Penguin 
Canada.

 

James B. (Jamie) Wilson, B.A., U.S.T.C., M.Ed.
 

 B.A. (University of Winnipeg) U.S Multi-subject Teaching Credential, (California State 
University,  Sacramento) M.Ed. Administration (University of Manitoba) Jamie holds a 
multicultural/multi-subject teaching credential and has  teaching experience from K through 
12. He has been a school counsellor,  a curriculum developer and a cultural awareness trainer.
Jamie has  experience conducting various sports camps, classes in survival, land  navigation, 
subsistence living and group counselling. Jamie served in the U.S. Army's Special Operations 
receiving the award  of Distinguished Honour Graduate. He received his US Jump Wings, British 
and Canadian Parachutist Wings and was placed on the 2nd Ranger  Battalion Super Squad Award 
for athletic distinction. He was a member of Canada's National Age Group Triathlon team and  
received both provincial and national environmental awards for his  outdoor education program 
at Joe A. Ross School on Opaskwayak Cree  Nation. He was selected as Citizen of the Year for 
the community of The  Pas in 2008. As a Traditionalist, Jamie has advocated for the equality 
of women in  ceremony and in leadership. Jamie was specifically honored in the  Manitoba 
Legislature in April of 2010 for his outstanding  accomplishments while Director of Education 
for the Opaskwayak Education  Authority. On June 19, 2010 through a Federal Order-in-Council, 
Jamie  was appointed as the second Treaty Commissioner for the Treaty Relations  Commission 
of Manitoba. He was re-appointed as the Treaty Commissioner  for three years on March 10, 2011,
from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2014. Jamie is married to Kristin Erickson and has three 
children.