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President: Bill Walsh • RI President: William B.BoydClub Secretary-Larry Shelley • Treasurer-Keith Pedersen • Past President-Bill Redmond • President Elect-Michael Broadhurst

Club Service Programs-Thalia Kingsford • Club Service Fellowship-Ron Robertson • Club Service Communications-Tom Loucks • Club Service Membership-Bill Keech

Community Service International-David Irving • Community Service Youth-Lee Tunstall • Community Service Fund Raising-Joe Fras • Community Service Involvement-Murray Young

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Office Hours: 8:00a.m. - 4:00p.m. Monday - Friday • Sandra leaves the Rotary office on Tuesday morning at 10:30a.m.

District No. 5360VOL. 24 No. 33 February 20, 2007

This week’s

reporter,

Bill Clapham

Integrity Awards Dinner (March 5, 2007)

file photo

Our speaker, Margaret Trudeau...

Our trend of first-rate guest speakers

continued today.

Thalia Kingsford introduced Margaret

Trudeau with a great account beginning

with she and Margaret attending high

school together. As Thalia described it,

after she and Margaret finished high

school, their paths began taking a rather

dissimiliar route.

Margaret attended Simon Fraser Univer-

sity to study English literature.....and

Thalia went to UBC. After that, Margaret

wound up living at 24 Sussex Drive while

Thalia was living in a forty foot trailer, six

miles west of Longview, Alberta!

Our speaker was an eighteen year old on

vacation in Tahiti when she met Pierre

Trudeau, who was then the Minister of

Justice....and as they say, the rest is his-

tory.....

Ms. Trudeau spoke to us as the honorary

president of Watercan, a Canadian char-

ity dedicated to providing clean drinking wa-

ter, hygiene education and basic sanitation

to the world’s poorest people. Watercan

concentrates its work on four countries in

east Africa; Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and

Tanzania.

We were reminded that more than a billion

people in the world do not have access to

safe drinking water and that 2.2 million

people die every year from water-related

diseases. Most of them are children.

Margaret told the story of talking to a young

woman in Africa and asking her what was

the difference in having clean water for

two years through the help of WaterCan.

The answer was simple. “Our children are

not dying now”. Through WaterCan’s work,

over the next four years, clean drinking

water will be provided to 120,000 people

living in Africa.

WaterCan works with local partners, us-

ing practical solutions to help provide the

clean water, using three main compo-

nents.... locally appropriate water sys-

tems, simple sanitation facilities and hy-

giene education.

We enjoyed the story that new wells were

now placed about a fifteen minutes walk

from the main villages .....simply to allow

the women a little time for socializing.

Apparently the men didn’t “ do water”.

Margaret Trudeau emphasized that the

world is in a water-crisis and it will only

get worse. In twenty to thirty years, the

United States “bread basket” states will

not be able to feed the country, simply

because of a lack of water. Canada has

time....but not all the time in the world.

Although Margaret didn’t relate one of

her most well-known quotes....” I want

to be more than a rose in my husband’s

lapel”..... she will be remembered as a

thoughtful and yes, beautiful, spokeswoman

for a most worthwhile cause.

Another of our outstanding women mem-

bers, Lee Tunstall, expressed our thanks.

WORLD IN WATER CRISIS

Pres. Bill with Rotarian Gary Pluim, ExecutiveDirector of WaterCan...

Lloyd Flood talks about our Indonesian Water

Project....

The Meeting:

Carl St. Laurent ushered the head table in

on time and President Bill got us started

with some well chosen words including a

mention that there were two theories about

arguing with a woman... and neither

worked....which reminded us of our guest

speaker’s famous comment “Don’t forget,

it takes two to make a divorce”.

Frank performed his usual allegro and

Helen Greenwood gave an elegant

invocation.

Recently engaged Sheila Acharya introduced

the visitors and guests...good old Dick Roscoe

received a noisy welcome back.

Among the guests were WaterCan

Chairman James Knight and long-time

Rotarian and Executive Director of

WaterCan, Gary Pluim, both from Ot-

tawa.

The pride and joy of Coventry, England

(along with Lady Godiva), David

Bromwich did double duty.....reminding

us of the up-coming President’s Ball as

well as leading us in the sing-song. The

majority didn’t seem to realize that the

world’s longest running musical was

“Fantasticks”....but we did know “Try to

Remember”.

Once again Larry Shelley presented an

excellent member recognition. This time

we heard a tribute to a past President of

the club John Bertagnolli and his wife

Barbara. Although his roots are in North-

ern Italy, he is a third generation

Canadian....growing up in Rocky Moun-

tain House. We were saddened to learn

that the couple were leaving Calgary to

retire on Vancouver Island. Friends are

reminded that his address and phone

number will be made available to anyone

who wants to visit!

Once again the name of Rotarian Lou

MacEachern came up. This time it was

to thank Lou and his Fortune Industries

for sponsoring the current edition of the

Cog.

A bolt of lightning suddenly hit the meet-

ing, as George Brookman auctioned off

two 650 gram boxes of pure Ceylon Tea,

donated by Robert E.J.M. Pogue. The

winners were Lou MacEachern and

George himself who matched Lou’s bid

of $500.

Lloyd Flood spoke to us about Rotary’s

outstanding international project.....

bringing clean water and improved

sanitation to Lombol in Eastern Indone-

sia. His solid presentation came as a nice

introduction to our guest speaker.

President Bill wrapped up the meeting

with a visionary thought from Helen

Keller, the blind and deaf American

author, activist and lecturer.

John and Barbara Bertagnolli say goodbye... George Brookman conducts tea auction...

Mar. 5 - Integrity Awards Dinner -

Stage West

Mar. 6 - Meeting cancelled

Mar. 13 - Integrity Award Recipient

Mar. 20 - Club Assembly

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

TRAVELLERS

Tom Tait - Perth, Australia

ATTENDANCE

Attendance for the February 20 meet-

ing was 106

Average attendance for January was

57%

Rotary Ski Day Saturday March 24

We plan to leave Calgary for Lake

Louise around 7:30 am on a Pacific

Western Coach. We should be

back by 6:00 pm. Round trip

transportation cost is $20 for

Rotarians and $10 for children and

students. Of course they will have to

provide their own lift ticket and

lunch. Those who are interested can

contact Peter Evans at 295-0869 to

reserve a seat.

We had a long converstation with Ryan

last night and everthing is going well. He

is taking private language lessons three

days per week at the University of

Vladivostok in addition to attending his

high school classes (in which he also

studies russian). In typical Ryan fashion,

he puts a lot of pressure on himself to

master the language and gets a bit down

on himself in that he’s not progressing

faster. Lea has assured him that all

exchange students experience the same

problem in learning a foreign language.

Ryan is comfortable with his current host

family but doesn’t know when or if he’s

moving. He seems to have adopted the

fatalistic attidude that they all seem to

have...it’ll happen when it does and he’ll

find out at the last minute. He finds the

food generally unappetizing and lacking

anything resembling a green vegetable.

But he enjoys the school cafeteria which

is under a dollar for a meal and some-

times good (and sometimes not).

Ryan is really looking forward to the trip

to Moscow and St.Petersburg at the

end of March. The trip is led by a

teacher who is also a Rotarian. She

apparently takes this annual trek to the

civilized part of Russia with her students

and invites along Rotary Exchange

Students. He seems to have a wide

circle of friends among the Russians and

also has made aquaintances with two

other exchange students from the USA.

This rough patch over the visa is really

the fault of no one...just a result of

dealing with the Russian Federation. We

are all grateful for the efforts of all

concerned (Youth Exchange Committee,

The Rotary Club of Niigata, The Down-

town Calgary Club and The

Vladivostok Rotary Club) in working

together to allow Ryan to complete his

exchange. It will be a life altering experi-

ence for him and he and his family will

be forever grateful.

An update on Exchange Student Ryan Mousseau’s experience

in Russia by Don Mousseau, Ryan’s father...

UPCOMING EVENTS

Mar.5 - Integrity Awards Dinner at

Stage West

Mar. 24 - Rotary Ski Day

Apr. 28 - President’s Ball

May 25 - District 5360 Conference -

Red Deer

Jun. 14 - RI Convention -

Salt Lake CityDISTRICT 5360 DISTRICT CONFERENCE

May 25 - 27

CONFERENCE HOTEL - RED DEER LODGE

4311 - 49th Avenue, Red Deer Alberta

(403) 346-8841 or 1-800-661-1657

rooms block booked to May 1

Speakers Include:

Donald Cooper - International Business Speaker

Chris Levy - University Professor and Entertaining Speaker

Jean Irwin - Former Ambassadorial Scholar and Teacher of the Deaf

Early Bird registratioin (before March 15) $225.

Our Theme: “Make no small plans, they hold no magic to stir a person’s blood”

The Vision: The Rotary Club of Calgary is an organization of business, professional and community leaders who cometogether through commitment and fellowship to create opportunities and a better future for generations to follow.

Our Mission: To embrace the ideals of Rotary International, contributing to a better Calgary and a better world through significantservice while providing extraordinary opportunities for networking, fellowship, friendship and personal growth.

Scott is one of

those rare

Calgary born and

bred residents of

our fair city. He

graduated from

Central Memo-

rial High School

and went on to attend Montana State

University and receive a petroleum

landman diploma from Mount Royal

College in 1987.

At the time of his graduation the oil

business was not at its current high and

as a result Scott went into sales and

marketing with Energy Communications,

an investor relations firm. Over 4 years

Scott bought out the partners in the firm,

opened a second office in Montreal,

further grew the firm and in 2005 sold

the company. Currently Scott is setting

up a branch office for the investment

relations firm of Barnes McInerney.

Scott is married to Sharon who is a

manager with the Calgary Health Re-

gion. Scott and Sharon have three

children, two boys and a girl in the

middle. Two are in school, the youngest

in diapers.

Scott was a long time member, and later

leader, with Scouts Canada. He is the

recipient of the Duke of Edinburgh

Award and a lifelong outdoor enthusiast.

Among his outdoor endeavors are;

climbing to 20,000 ft in Argentina, over

1000 ascents on 400 unique mountains,

running Nordic ski patrols, guiding for

Alpine Club of Canada, heli-hiking

guiding – a formidable list by any ac-

count.

Scott was on the Board of the Woods

Homes Foundation for the past five

years and recently joined Rotary as his

major volunteer focus - let’s make sure

we engage this very active member.

Welcome to the Rotary Club of Calgary,

Scott.

NEW MEMBER PROFILE by Jim Sawers

This Issue of

the Cog

Sponsored by

Rotarian

Ted Pound

Scott Berry