Calgary West MOVE FOR POLIO 2022

Just a few quick updates:

July 1/22- DG Steve Leavitt, The Raymond Rotary Club, U of Lethbridge Rotaracts & the Doherty’s participated in the Raymond Canada Day Parade to kick off MFP 2022. Check out the photo at Raise for Rotary !
July 8/22- RI President Jennifer Jones and DG Steve Leavitt kicked off Move for Polio at Rotary Challenger Park with the Umoja, Komcan & Rotary communities

We have TWO OBJECTIVES for our MFP initiative:

Raise funds for Polio Plus

Please encourage all donations to be made through Raise for Rotary. https://raise.rotary.org/Rotary5360/challenge
Tax receipts will be issued for 100% of the donation and Rotarians will receive points and club credit
Non- Rotarians can also donate . If they have previously donated their donation & points will be credited to your club. If they have not previously donated a donation form can be submitted.
Please encourage lump sum donations vs. per km .

Move for your Physical and Mental Health wellness

Members are encouraged to track their km’s on a weekly basis. Steps can be converted to km’s and mental health activities ( reading, painting, fishing, time with grandkids etc. 15 minutes = 1 km)

The intent is to create some “friendly Rotary competition” regarding our donations and km’s.

Donations can be viewed at Raise for Rotary and a monthly report will be shared. https://raise.rotary.org/Rotary5360/challenge
Km’s – please follow this link:2022 MFP Kms.xlsx

Instructions:

Click on the link which will open Excel program in an internet browser window (you do no need Excel on your computer).

Finds our Club Name on the tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet

Enter your name and then add their Kms for the week in the appropriate column.

There are automatic totals at the bottom of each page to track the Club’s progress.

You will receive a reminder to please update your km's every two weeks for the weekly digest publications on the following dates:

July 13 & 27/22

August 10 & 24/22

Sept. 14 & 28/22

Oct. 12 & 26/22

With thanks,

Don Edie

Calgary West Club Champion

Aug

2022

Art Froehlich

The Future of Agriculture and Food

Aug 15, 2022 12:00 PM

Meeting will open for entry at 11:30 AM MDT and begin at 12:00 PM MDT.

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Canadians have never viewed the agriculture and food industries as being important. There are some good reasons for this. Agricultural producers represent only 2-3% of the votes in this country, so it is very difficult to capture the attention of our political leaders – both provincially and federally. But perhaps a more important reason is that the Canadian food consumer spends a very small percentage of their disposable income on food at approximately 10-11% and next to the United States this is the lowest in the world. Canadians simply have the highest quality and an abundant supply of food at very low prices. This however has changed in recent months as we see the cost to the consumer rising rapidly and now has become much more top of mind with the citizens of Canada. There are a number of reasons for this, global weather issues, climate change, and recent civil unrest in many parts of the world predominately the Russian Ukrainian war. These production related issues have been exacerbated with significant supply chain issues and supply shortages of fertilizer, and a lot of the inputs that farmers need to maximize crop production. The thing I find most frustrating is that many jurisdictions around the world have begun to make very significant demands on how farmers should produce the food we are so dependent upon.

Aug

2022