In May, our club continued its financial support for organizations responding to the social and economic problems presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognizing our community's strong ties to Ft. McMurray and the compounding effect of the COVID-19 pandemic's consequences have on the flooding that occurred there, the club directed $1000 to those relief efforts. We also adjusted our plans at the last minute and have held back some planned funding for May as we learned of the Alberta Government CIP grant funding announcements. We want to ensure we can maximize positive impacts from our donations to agencies to the community by considering how all funders are responding to meet needs. The COVID-19 Response Committee continues to analyze the developing situation and we will provide another update in June.
Organization
Activities
Donation
Auggie's Cafe
Providing brown-bag lunches to people needing food support
$1,200
Parkland Pregnancy Support Centre
Providing baby supplies, consumables and food to families expecting or who have recently had babies
$2,000
Disaster Aid Canada
Ft. McMurray Flood Relief Fund
$1,000
Tri-Community Adult Learning Association
Tables and chairs to support roving Internet connection stations
As we continue to meet on Zoom, please be reminded that you can join the meeting this week and every week at https://zoom.us/j/602710507. If you already have the Zoom app on your computer or mobile, you can enter the meeting ID directly: 602-710-507.
At the May 28 Meeting
Meeting starts at 12:00 PM
Lunch is... whatever you bring and are willing to eat on camera in front of your closest Rotarian friends!
Guest Speaker: Wes Snihur will give his classification speech!
In Case You Missed It...
The recording of the May 21 meeting can be found here. Mayor Stuart Houston gave an update on how the City of Spruce Grove has been impacted by COVID-19.
The District 5370 Pints for Polio Committee is putting on a Virtual Pub Night to continue to raise money for Polio and to have some fellowship during this time of isolation. Click here to see the event poster.
I hope you can join us for some virtual fun May 20, 6:00pm MDT enjoy some music, videos and fellowship, and of course your beverage of choice!
At last week's meeting, we played a game of Quiplash in our Zoom meeting to demonstrate how you can play online party games with friends and family online. Though we played a game that had to be bought, you can find plenty of free online games or even play traditional party games like Charades or board games with a little creative improvisation. You also don't have to be using Zoom. Any other online meeting apps like FaceTime, Google Meet, Skype, and more, can be used for this purpose. Any app that allows screen sharing and/or video sharing will do the trick.
Jackbox Games, the makers of Quiplash, have put together a guide to illustrate how to play their games online with Zoom. In addition, this article from Good Housekeeping provides a list of games, online and traditional, that you can play online. Again, they highlight Zoom, but any videoconferencing app should work.
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!!!!
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