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Russell Hampton
National Awards Services Inc.
ClubRunner
Speakers
Dec 13, 2018 12:10 PM
Status of the Five-Year Strategy to Reduce Poverty and Homelessness
Jan 10, 2019 12:10 PM
Water Project in Ecuador
Feb 07, 2019 12:10 PM
Understanding Polio and Other Infectious Diseases
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Upcoming Events
Rotary Christmas Party at Porta Romana Restaurant
Porta Romana Restaurant
Dec 20, 2018 6:00 PM
 
Christmas Break - No Meeting
Dec 27, 2018
 
Christmas Break - No Meeting
Jan 03, 2019
 
Club Assembly
Jan 31, 2019
 
Rotary Links
Links
District 5370 Website
My Rotary (Rotary International) Member Access
Rotary Run for Life
Spruce Grove Weather
If you have any comments or questions, please contact the eBulletin Editor Krista Mastaler
Wine Survivor Deadline 
 
Please ensure that all your wine and tickets/payments are brought to the meeting this Thursday, as it is the cutoff for this fundraiser!
 
First draws will begin on December 10th, and going until December 14th.  Prizes may be adjusted depending on the number of tickets sold.  
Silly Santa Auction Total
 
$1725 was raised for Christmas gifts to go to the women at Wings of Providence.  Thank-you everyone for your generous support.  Also thank-you to Elizabeth and Victor for doing such a great job as auctioneers!
Spruce Grove Christmas Hampers
Just passing this along because as a club, we are not donating but if any members are interested in donating or volunteering, here is the information:
 
Update from Marika (Our Outbound Exchange Student)
 
Marika has been on her RYE journey for over 100 days now and is doing fantastic.  She got word late last week that she passed the exam that she had some nerves about, and references below, so that is good news.  German is a challenging language but she is conquering it along the way!  Here are three questions she was asked so that I could share with the club.
 
1.Biggest surprise you have encountered so far that you didn’t think about before you left on your journey
People always said that everything happens so fast on exchange but I never really believed them. It was like I blinked and I’m already over 100 days into my exchange. It feels like last week I wrote my A1 exam and this time next week I’ll be writing my A2. Also everything is so close when you have public transit available to you. In Canada I don’t go anywhere unless someone can drive me but here I have a GA and can get on any train going in any direction and go where ever I need without needing to coordinate who will drive who. I knew that the Swiss railway system was amazing but I didn’t realize how much it would change how I go about my days. I spend a LOT of time on trains and I get so much done on them, most of the time it is either sleeping, eating, or doing homework.
 
2. Favorite “new” food so far
There are so many. I really like Käsespätzle but my favorite so far is probably deep fried camembert. I’ve also had some really good chocolate. Did you know that they have white chocolate Toblerone bars? So good. Also raspberry chocolate is good. One food that I don’t like is Cold Soup. At a joint Rotary meeting that I went to when I first arrived I had what I can only describe as Cold Dill Broccoli soup that I did not like one bit.
 
3.What are Rotary meetings like over there.  Like or dislike about them?
Rotary meetings seem to be pretty similar to ours in Spruce Grove. Before the meeting everyone chats (except they mostly have wine instead of coffee) and then when the meeting starts everyone sits down at tables of around 6 people and instead of it being buffet style they bring everyone’s food out. During the meeting they discuss Club Stuff and usually there is a speech or presentation. I’ve only been to one so far when I gave my presentation because it’s all the way in Oerlikon, Zurich at Noon on Thursdays so I would have to miss a day of school so I’m going to go on school breaks. I had a dinner with my counsellor, YEO and second host family two weekends ago and I have a Christmas dinner with Rotary next month that I am looking forward to. Their meetings are more formal that the Spruce Grove meetings which I would say is the only thing that I dislike.
 
Say hi to everyone for me! Hope you guys have a good meeting.
Upcoming Things to Consider

December 6th - Club Assembly, Annual General Meeting : Election of Officers and Appointment of Directors

 
December 13th - Janine Peters: Status of the Five-Year Strategy to Reduce Poverty and Homelessness

Come hear Janine Peter, who is the Director of FCSS and Social Planning with the City of Spruce Grove, update us on the status of the Five Year Strategy to Reduce Poverty and Homelessness in our community.

 
December 20th - Annual Christmas Party at Porta Romana.  Share a decadent meal, followed by a fiddler and guitarist performing Christmas music.  You can then finish off the evening with a stroll through Central Park with all the beautiful lights.  If you're feeling extra brave, bring your skates!  The social committee would like to reminder everyone that for us to have the whole facility(restaurant) to ourselves, we need to have 50 people register for the event.  Please R.S.V.P to the invite sent out as soon as possible, whether you can or can't.  Thank-you.
 
December 27th - No Meeting, Christmas Break
 
January 3rd - No Meeting, Christmas Break
 
January 10th - Update on the Ecuador Water Project: Brad Mastaler, Neil Hollands and John Oldham
Have Information for The Rotary RAP?
Have a Rotary Story, pictures from a Rotary Social and/or information for the Rotary RAP?  
 
Send me (Krista) an email:  krista.mastaler@gmail.com by Sunday evenings at the latest so that I can include it in the weekly RAP on Mondays!
 
Thanks everyone!!!!
Although every effort is made to ensure that the content of this eBulletin is faithful to the Rotary Four Way Test, readers should be aware that this publication is not the official record of decisions made by the Rotary Club of Spruce Grove.  The approved minutes of the Club constitute the one and only such record.