We rented out our community hall to many different events and organizations over the years.  I would like to think they’re we have helped the community grow and make many wedding dreams come true.  I would have to say that our crowning achievement would be that we partnered up with Calgary’s Pakistani community to help with the orientation of new Pakistanis to Canada.

We have been doing this for a number of years now and we have had a number of thank you letters for our support of their program.  We on the board are just happy to help out.

During the orientation program, the attendees are told what to expect on the Class 7 driving test, and are given a package that helps them practice and receive their learners permit.  Almost 99% of the people that attend the orientation program and use them practice material received their drivers license.

They’re also given a map of places that the commonly visit such as Pakistani restaurants and grocery stores that sell Pakistani foods.

By helping out their community, we are able to welcome these people to her wonderful city and help ease the transition that they face.

While I was in college and studying to become a social worker, I had the opportunity of living a semester like I was an immigrant to Canada.  It was a great learning experience for me, as I was going to be working with immigrant families when I received my degree. I sat in on an Canadian Immigration Interview, so I would more fully understand how to prepare families for this type of thing.

I was even given a copy of the Canadian Citizenship Test to also help me be able to prepare families for this leg of immigration. I was surprised at how difficult it was, and was glad that I was given a copy, as I would have had no idea of how to prepare them for this.

I even got to have a copy of the written Ontario G1 test to help them prepare for acquiring a drivers license to drive in Ontario. This is important to help them to be able to commute for work. It was a great experience and I feel that I am better able to prepare them, now that I am finished my degree.

Ruth Westheimer, popular American sex therapist and bes know as Dr. Ruth was born as Karola Ruth Siegel, June 4, 1928 in Francfurt Germany. When she was 10 she was sent to Switzerland without her parents during World War II. She learned in 1945 here parents were killed in the Holocaust, and most likely at the Auschwitz concentration camp. She later immigrated to Israel. Despite her height of 4 feet 7 inches joined the Haganah in Jeruselem and was trained as a sniper. She was later seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during the 1948 Arab-Isreal war. It took several months before she could walk.

She moved to France in 1950 and studied and taught psychology at the University of Paris. In 1956 she emigrated to New York City, New York, United States. She earned her master’s in socialogy and a doctorate frome Columbia Unversity. She is multilingual and speaks English, Geman, French and Hebrew.

She has been married 3 times. Her third husband dying in 1997. She has two children, a boy and a girl. And several grandchildren.

Wikipedia - Ruth Westheimer