Please have a listen to our very own President Bill Rawlins on the Rotary Club of Parksville AM 2018-19:
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Second Chances - Musical
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November is Rotary Foundation Month. The Rotary Foundation transforms donations into service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world. During the past 100 years, the Foundation has spent $3 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects. The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
Your donation makes a difference to those who need our help most. More than 90 percent of donations go directly to supporting service projects around the world, carried out by 35,000 Rotary clubs. Through donations to the Rotary Foundation, we’ve wiped out 99.9 percent of all polio cases in the world. To learn more about the Paul Harris Society, click here.
What impact can one donation have? It can save a life. A child can be protected from polio with as little as 60 cents. Our partners make your donation go even further. For every $1 Rotary commits to polio eradication, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $2.
Your donation makes a difference to those who need our help most. More than 90 percent of donations go directly to supporting service projects around the world, carried out by 35,000 Rotary clubs. Through donations to the Rotary Foundation, we’ve wiped out 99.9 percent of all polio cases in the world. To learn more about the Paul Harris Society, click here.
What impact can one donation have? It can save a life. A child can be protected from polio with as little as 60 cents. Our partners make your donation go even further. For every $1 Rotary commits to polio eradication, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $2.
Rotarians have been on the job site in Mexico for the past four years! See Rotarians "Up Their Game" in Mexico. For more photos and a daily account of how a "small but mighty" group of Rotarians and friends built an adult education centre in just 8 days, click here. And be sure to read about the International Award received by the Rotary Club of Parksville AM for their ongoing work in Mexico.
Projects from other parts of the world include the building of a corn mill in Sunyani, Ghana.
Projects from other parts of the world include the building of a corn mill in Sunyani, Ghana.
While Rotarians are often known and recognized for their work on Rotary projects, many of our members work locally over and above their Rotary activities. Click here for a listing of only some of the numerous organizations that members of the Rotary Club of Parksville AM have devoted hours of volunteer time to support. Need something done in the community - involve a Rotarian!
Fundraising is an important activity for all Rotary clubs, as it takes money to be able to carry out humanitarian projects in our local communities and throughout the world.
The most recent fundraising project of the Rotary Club of Parksville AM was the RCMP Musical Ride. Not only did this spectacular event raise funds for local and international Rotary projects, it also provided an opportunity for the public to experience the heritage and traditions of the RCMP.
In sponsoring this event, the Club enjoyed the support of a number of organizations and businesses, and we would like to express our sincere thanks here. The Club was also pleased to recognize the Vancouver Island Compassion Dogs who handled parking at the event, and Buckerfields which donated all the feed for the horses. Click here for full story.
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The Beach Club Resort
The Beach Club Resort
181 Beachside Drive
Parksville, BC V9P 2H5
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CLUB VISION STATEMENT
Rotary Club of Parksville A.M. is a service club of community leaders who work within the local and world community to make a difference.
CLUB MISSION STATEMENT
Rotary Club of Parksville A.M. provides service to our community and advances world understanding by building on the strengths of our members.
ROTARY FOUR WAY TEST
Is it the truth?
Is it fair to all concerned?
Will it build good will and better friendships?
Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
It has become a tradition for Parksville AM Rotarians to support the SOS Toy Drive at their annual breakfast at the Tigh-Na-Mara Resort. This was the 10th anniversary for this event, and our members were out in full force. Last year, the Tigh-Na-Mara Toy Drive collected 1,693 toys and gifts, nearly $4000 in gift cards, and more than $9,000 in cash and cheques for the SOS Christmas program.
The breakfast kicks off the SOS Toy Drive and there is still plenty of time to contribute new, unwrapped gifts or monetary donations to help the SOS to ensure that when our local children and youth wake up on Christmas morning, there will be a special gift waiting for them under the tree. SOS collects enough new toys to fill its Toy Shop, where low income parents, grandparents and caregivers can shop for free. To donate to this worthy program, contact the SOS at 250-248-2093 ext. 229.
With such wonderful support from community organizations and businesses, the Rotary Club of Parksville AM has many people to thank for the success of the RCMP Musical Ride this past August. Shown is President Bill Rawlins presenting a plaque of appreciation to Kersti Finholm from Okanagan Hay Sales for their most generous donation of two tons of hay for the Musical Ride.
Parksville AM Rotarian and Salvation Army Major, Norm Hamelin (at right) delivers his usual inspirational remarks at the Parksville Remembrance Day service ...
... while Parksville AM Rotarian Ray Walker also honours our veterans through his work with Scouts Canada ...
... and President Bill Rawlins (shown behind Cenotaph at right) lays a wreath on behalf of the Rotary Club of Parksville AM to honour and remember those who sacrificed so much to give us the quality of life we enjoy today in Canada and on Vancouver Island.
Parksville AM Rotarians Don Goyan (L) and Garry Cox (R) recognize Morris Bouman and all the volunteers from the Nanoose Bay Volunteer Fire Department who were present both nights during the RCMP Musical Ride this past summer. With the tinder dry conditions this year, it was reassuring to have our local firefighters standing guard even though, thankfully, we did not require their services. Thank you Nanoose Bay Firefighters!
The Rotary Club of Parksville AM is taking on a BIG community project in the coming year. Little Mountain is a beautiful pristine area of Parksville. The view from the top of Little Mountain is one of the best you can imagine anywhere — as long as you keep your eyes on the horizon. If you look down however, it’s not nearly as nice.
Over the years, people have used Little Mountain as a dumping ground for their garbage - everything from televisions to couches. It is a disgraceful situation that needs to be cleaned up and prevented from continuing. It is a challenge that our local Rotary clubs intend to address!
Photo above shows a group of Rotarians on an investigative mission to assess the extent of this project so that planning of resources can begin. After an hour and a half of work, they had loaded a dozen heavy gauge plastic bags with half a ton of discarded wood, metal and plastic, and created a pile of larger pieces of wood, plastic and metal next to a sofa that will all go into nets when a helicopter is available to lift it all out of there.
This will be a huge clean-up effort that will involve many Rotarians and their supporters, family and friends, along with a helicopter, nets, trucks and many garbage bags. It is scheduled to take place in the spring of 2019. Stay tuned for updates as this project progresses.
Parksville AM Rotarians and Lions have raised $100,000 for the Parksville Splash Park. Visit the Parksville Splash Park website and see PQB News story.
Children at Live Different school in Cap Haitien, Haiti turn on the taps for the first time in their lives ... a cistern below the school kitchen was funded by Parksville AM Rotary.
Rotarians part of frantic effort to eradicate Pakistan's 'badge of shame': https://www.theguardian.com/…/polio-in-pakistan-the-frantic…
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The Rotary Club of Parksville AM works with The Beach Club Resort, a generous donor of supplies of soaps, shampoos and bedding which are then delivered by Club members to Disaster Aid Canada in Victoria. These much needed products are distributed to victims of disaster at home and abroad.
Rotary is made up of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, at home and across the globe.
The Rotary Club of Parksville AM is always delighted to welcome new members. To find out how you can get involved, please call or send an email to:
Bill Rawlins: 250-240-0326 or bill.rawlins@gmail.com
John O'Brien: 250-228-0020 or john.obrien.rotary@gmail.com
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