UCPBA

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NEWSLETTER & MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY

MEMBER EVENTS

• Speaker’s Dinners

• Golf Tournament

• Annual Barbeque

• Christmas Dinner

• Historical Walking Tours

• Crafts Workshops & More

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Yearly SCHOLARSHIPS: designed to assist undergraduates

• IVAN FRANKO LECTURE: Done in cooperation with the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa, this annual lecture brings the best of academic research on Ukraine and Ukrainians in Canada to Ottawa.

• THE RAMON HNATYSHYN MEMORIAL LECTURE: Also run with the Chair, this occasional  series takes advantage of high-calibre academics, politicians and others passing through Ottawa.

• DAVID BURLIUK EXHIBIT. He was the founder of the Futurist Movement in art and literature in Eastern Europe before the First World War,  We have been working the Winnipeg Art Gallery to do the show
  
  SO WHO ARE WE, REALLY? 
       We’re a service group, bringing together business persons & professionals with disparate political, religious and generational origins and viewpoints in the service of Ottawa’s Ukrainian-Canadian community.  We work hard, but also like to enjoy ourselves.  If you want to be part of the most dynamic group in the Ukrainian community of Ottawa, fill in the membership form and mail it in, along with your first year’s dues.

WHY JOIN THE BOARD?

You get to be one of the people who run the most active Ukrainian community association in Ottawa: one that serves the whole community. As a member at large, you get practice in running a whole range of events and projects, in teamwork, in administering a community service organization, in lobbying and a whole host of other areas.

Don’t worry, the whole pile doesn’t get dropped in your lap on the first day! You’ll work on a project or event of your choice, along with an experienced Board member who’ll show you the ropes.

Got an idea? Do you want to do something in the community, but don’t know how to get started? UCPBA(O) can offer you an organizational home and help. Convince the Board it’s a good idea and we’ll give you a hand.

If you’re interested, call anyone of the members of the Nominating Committee: Bob Seychuk, Ron Sorobey or Borys Gengalo. Their contact info is in your membership directory.

Find the membership form on:

http://www.infoukes.com/ucpbaott/docs/mem_appl.htm

POTENTIAL EVENTS FOR 2008-09

• Historical Walking Tour

• Ukrainian Independence Day (at the Royal Oak)

• An Evening with a Ukrainian Canadian Opera Star

• Wine Tour of Prince Edward County

• Christmas Dinner (including awards, scholarship and more!)

• Road Trip to the Trypillian Exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum

• Hnatyshyn Lecture

• Franko Lecture

• AGM/BBQ

And: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

 
UCPBA(O) DONATES $1,100. FOR FLOOD RELIEF IN UKRAINE

Source : BBC News online

• River levels in parts of flood-hit Hungary, Ukraine and northern Romania have reached record highs,
  as the countries struggle to cope with flooding which has left at least seven people dead.

• In Zahony on the border between Hungary and Ukraine, the floods were more than 7.5 metres (25 feet) deep - the worst since 1888, the MTI news agency reported.
• Water levels in most rivers have started to fall, but they are still full to bursting.
• In the Ukrainian town of Chop, water levels reached more than 13 metres - perilously close to the dyke's 14.3 metres.

     Considering the scope and devastating nature of the flooding in Western Ukraine last month, the UCPBA(O) Board thought it appropriate to donate a substantial amount to flood relief. We urge our members to do what they can on their own as well to help.

FLOODING IN UKRAINE

     As a result of heavy rains and storms on 26 and 27 July 2008 some parts of the territory of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary were flooded. The disaster has killed 22 people including six children in Ukraine (15 people in Ivano-Frankivsk region and 7 people in Chernivtsy region), while two people are still missing.

     The most affected regions are Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernvitsy, with Zakarpattya, Lviv, Ternopil and Vinitsia also badly flooded. About 40,000 houses, more than 30,000 hectares of crop lands and 680 kilometres of roads have been damaged by flooding in these regions. Over 8,000 people have been evacuated, and some 300 towns and villages were left without electricity. According to reports water levels were dangerously high on the Prut and Dnestr rivers after five days of persistent rain, equivalent to one year's normal rainfall.

For more details click the link below:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SHIG-7H2BSS?OpenDocument

Please see the link below for information regarding donations for flood relief:
http://ucc.ca/floods/

     Thanks to our friends at the Ukrainian Genealogy Group for this article and links.

HAVE YOU PAID YOUR DUES?

Family: $65.

Individual: $55.

Student: $10.

(Family & Individual Memberships will be issued a charitable donation tax receipt for $30. ,
that part of the fee going into our Scholarship Fund with the Shevchenko Foundation)

‘VuykoY urko’, aka George Dzioba, infamous UCPBA(O) Treasurer & enforcer,
prepares list of unpaid members for the gentle ministrations of his collections henchpersons.

INDEPENDENCE DAY

    Stan Klosevych reminisces about his days as a hard-core rocker with Mick and the boys, while the rest of the crew (event organizer Ron Sorobey, centre) anxiously awaits the appearance of the band ‘Ukrainia’

UKRAINIAN-CANADIAN HISTORY ON THE INTERNET

     Simon Fraser University (SFU) Library and the University of Toronto Library (UTL) announce that the Multicultural Canada website, http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca, is now live. Multicultural Canada preserves the history and heritage of Canada's minority groups.

     Multicultural Canada contains unique cultural materials from a large cross-section of ethnic communities including Chinese, Ukrainian, Jewish, Doukhobor, East Indian, Aboriginal, Japanese, Vietnamese, French, Korean, Pakistani-Urdu, German, and Hungarian.

     The Luczkiw Collection contains material on Ukrainians and published in Canada from 1900 to 1950.  Most of the material pertains to the first wave of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, from 1891 to 1914, and the second wave, which arrived in Canada during the interwar years, from about 1922 to 1939.  In its entirety, the Ukrainian Canadian material selected for digitization from UTL (over 125 items) is a record of the life and times of an emigrant community struggling to maintain its cultural heritage far from its homeland. These struggles are recounted in national- local- and institutional-level histories, and in novels, plays, poetry, and song. There are also examples of polemical literature by Ukrainian-Canadian socialists, nationalists, and members of vying Christian creeds.
 

TARAS KULISH
Irene Wolanskyj

Taras Kulish - Bass Barritone

     Born in Montreal of Ukrainian heritage, Taras Kulish thrills audiences with his seductive bass baritone and exceptional dramatic range. Following musical studies at McGill University and the University of Toronto, Taras received vocal training through the young artist programs of l'Opéra de Montréal and Vancouver Opera.

     Taras has performed with opera companies and orchestras throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. In 2002, he made his European debut to critical acclaim in the title role of Don Giovanni in a production directed by famous film director GÉRARD CORBIAU and filmed live for TV5.

    Taras has received glowing reviews for his performance as Gremin in Yevgheny Onegin both in the Czech Republic and, in a concert version, at the Lanaudière Festival with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under the baton of maestro Kent Nagano.

     Taras has also sung at Ravinia, the Aspen Music Festival and Tanglewood. Ottawa opera lovers will remember Taras from his memorable performance as the much put-upon Leporello in the 2007 Opera Lyra production of Don Giovanni. In addition to critically acclaimed performances with numerous Canadian and European opera companies, since 2005, Taras has been the Artistic Director of the GREEN MOUNTAIN OPERA FESTIVAL in Vermont.
 

SECRET WEAPON EXPOSED

A recent photo on the Reuters newswire carried the following caption:
“Women greet a Russian navy ship in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol as it returns from operations on Georgia's sea border”
Photo: REUTERS By Damien McElroy in Sevastopol      Last Updated: 7:02PM BST 23 Aug 2008

     In carrying this item, the agency inadvertently revealed a top-secret project of the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy: Security Service of Ukraine) to repel units of the Russian Black Sea Fleet as they tried to return to their home port in Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine.

     The strategy relies on an analysis of certain well-known proclivities and needs of sailors returning to port after a long stay at sea. After this first test, it is planned to deploy multiple such units to line the whole quay-side to greet returning Russian ships. From that, the SBU feels it will be able to establish a ‘baseline’ of numbers and types required, number of exposures, etc before success can be guaranteed.

     Should the experiment succeed, such units will be deployed, to stand in readiness, along all the major invasion routes into Ukraine. The project is expected to have a social benefit as well: large numbers of pensioners will be able to supplement their incomes while defending the nation.

     NATO sources are intrigued by the innovative nature of the project, but consider it a high-risk strategy. While also pointing out the variable tastes of some Russian troops, they concentrated their critique on the potential difficulties of deployment on the north-east borderlands in February.
 

OUR MEMBERS

     RON TOMOSK, UCPBA(O) Legal Advisor, skipped the Annual General Meeting this year. Claims he was celebrating his 38^th wedding anniversary that evening! The Board has struck a commission to investigate. 38 years, and he still remembers his anniversary!

     In last month’s newsletter we reported on one of MARKIAN SHULAKEWYCH’s many trips to Ukraine on the medical lecture circuit. We have just learned that The University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Post-graduate Medical Education-Diagnostic Radiology honoured Dr. Shulakewych for his ‘outstanding contribution to teaching’ with the ‘Undergraduate Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007-2008’.
 

CANADA & UKRAINE ON MONOPOLY BOARD (WORLD EDITION)!

http://www.hasbro.com/games/kid-games/monopoly/
 

     After world-wide voting on the internet, both Canada and Ukraine made it onto the new World Edition Monopoly Board. Canada got three cities, more than any other country. So who cares how many medals the US got at the Olympics: we got the Board!

     Montreal made it to the high-price dark-blue section (formerly Park Place & Boardwalk) just before GO. Vancouver made it to the lower middle class section (brownish yellow, formerly New York, Tennessee Aves and St. James Place) leading up to Free Parking.

     Kyiv (yes, they spelled it correctly) joins Toronto and Istanbul in another lower middle class area just after JAIL (purple: formerly Virginia & States Avenues and Saint Charles Place Avenues).

 Our e-mail address!

To assist in the electronic distribution of the newsletter, we now have a new, permanent e-mail address:
ucpbaottawa@infoukes.com
You can use it to communicate with us.