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Bulletin #3, 1 October 2004

UPCOMING MEETINGS:
Oct 7: Slide Show - Inbound Exchange Student Nina - Partner's Night. 
Oct 14: TBA 
Oct 21: Corporate Ethics 
Oct 28: District Governors Visit 
Nov 4 : Slide show - Inbound Exchange Student Baptiste - Partner's Night 
Nov 11: TBA 
Nov 18: Hutterite Colony 
Nov 25: Elections

RECENT MEETINGS:
Sept 9: Past District Governor Ted Valentine (99-00) and Shirley Valentine spoke on their journey to India on behalf of Rotary. Travelling at their own expense, they first visited the Alphonus Social and Agricultural Centre at Kurseong in the Himalayan area. They then went on to a number of villages to immunize children against polio, as part of the Rotary International effort. An impressive presentation. A new publication " Under the Northern Lights" is now available covering Rotary activity in Zone 22 (Canada, Alaska, Eastern Russia and St. Pierre/Miquelon). See Pickles for more details. 

The Great Duck Race went on schedule Sept 11, with a change in location due to strong winds. Even so, the 3000+ ducks were reluctant to fight the wind, and required some prodding. The winning duck adapted by swimming very low in the water, my flock was not so clever.

Sep 16: Our guest speaker was none other than former High River Rotarian (89-03) and Club President (98-99) Don Petlak. Don spoke to us on the Canadian Curling Association. He is eminently qualified, having been involved with the Association for 14 years, and President for 2003 - 2004. Don spoke of the many developments during his involvement. These included more competitions, wider marketing and a budget growth to $25 million. 

Former Mayor Eldon Couey, fellow Rotarian and Paul Harris Fellow, has received yet another well deserved honour. He has been appointed Ambassador for the Alberta Centennial next year. Congratulations Eldon! 
A 1 ½ times life size statue of George Lane will be erected in High River to mark Alberta's centennial. The artist, Rick Roenisch will donate half of the cost, Alberta Lotteries will cover one quarter and fellow Rotarian Doug McLaughlin will donate the rest. Great citizenship, Doug. 
Irv reported our Interact club is off to a good start this year with 17 students at the first meeting. Rotarian Ken Dudgeon will oversee the Club this year. 
Rotarian Gordon Jones and his lovely wife Linora are "Goin' to beat 60", with their 60th wedding anniversary approaching October 23rd. Keep this date open. 

Sept 23: Past Presidents Ted Dawson (01 - 02) and Peter McGuigan (02 - 03) presented a condensed history of Rotary, and an explanation of the present position. Rotary is the oldest service club, about to celebrate its 100th anniversary. There are 1,222,733 Rotarians in 31,603 clubs in 166 countries. The group Study Exchange (GSE) program of The Rotary Foundation is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for business and professional people between the ages of 25 and 40. District 5360 will be doing an exchange with The Philippines. Openings are available for a Rotarian leader and non - Rotarian participants. (See www.rotary.org  and search Group Study Exchange)

Sept 30: The fifth Thursday of any month is "President's Night", with President Doug providing surprise entertainment. This week we had Lesley Wendt from Amazing Grapes, with Vincor rep Royal, providing a seminar on making your own wine. The session was extremely informative, and tasty. We learned that sterilizing is 99.9% of the issue, and that Ferg has an incredibly well stocked wine cellar which is the fruit! Of his own labour.
Terry Arnett provided the financial results of The Great Duck Race, after all expenses, approximately $5400 in our coffers. Terry also advised they have improvement plans for next year. Kudos to Terry, Judy, Wally G. and all those who made it happen.

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