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The rotary club of mackenzie would like to welcome Katja Traude to our club and also would like to say goodbye to one of our members, Jamie Buis.
Welcome to our Club!
2020 Tree of Lights campaign is a little different this year!
Swing by the Rotary room to see the Christmas cheer!
District 5040 Outstanding Rotary Club of The Year!
We are proud and pleased to announce that our club has won the Rotary club of the year for 2019-2020! Our club is honoured and grateful to receive this prestigious award. Congratulations to Erik Olson, Katja Traude, Stephanie Killam, Kevin McIntyre, Steven Curtis, Donna Mercer, Louise Skavlebo, Kim Guthrie, Doreen Tiller, Corie Neill and Gomeera Gunesakera for all of their hard work and dedication to the club and to service above self.
Thank you to Lawrence Napier and Kim Bell for attending our meeting and receiving donations for Special Olympics and Search and Rescue!
Welcome to Jamie, Bill and Sophie! Our newest members of the Rotary club of Mackenzie!
Thank you to everyone that came out and enjoyed the 25th annual duck drop on Sunday! A huge thank you to everyone that helped make it a success especially Mackenzie Search and Rescue, the District of Mackenzie, the Co-op and many more! Attached is a list of a few of the winners. The complete list is posted in the Mackenzie Mall on the bulletin board. Your prizes can be picked up at Chrysalid Tech &Print in the mall.
The Rotary Club of Mackenzie donated funds to an anti bullying program for the highschool as well as the highschool basketball program. 
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The Rotary club of Mackenzie donated money to many different charities over the last few months. Here is a photo of Kim Guthrie presenting a cheque to Barb Crook, the hospital as well as Barb Dodge presenting a cheque to team mates on the Mackenzie highschool basketball team.
THE MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR FEB 3 2016.
SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CAUSE.
PLEASE NOTE: NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6TH 2016. Enjoy the Christmas holidays!
Festival of Trees starts Saturday November 28th. Please come out and place bids on your favourite trees!! The final night is Friday December 4th so come to the Multi purpose room at the rec center at 7pm to see who wins the trees!
Ladies night is November 27th 7-10pm at the curling rink. Tickets are still available at the Lotto booth. Come out with your girlfriends and have a fabulous night. No tickets will be sold at the door.
Christmas Bingo will be held December 1st at the Legion. Doors open at 6:30pm. Lots of fun and prizes to be won!!
This is a fabulous kick off to the holiday season!
Come out and support the local Rotary Club of Mackenzie !
Thanks to Cheryl Miller for speaking to the Rotary Club of Mackenzie. Tracy Hartman presented her with a cheque for Cops For Cancer.
The Rotary Club of Mackenzie was proud to receive a visit from the latest District Governor John Anderson. While in town he inducted our latest member, Jami McDonald and spoke to our club about the effects Rotary has internationally and how we can be a part of the change. Thank you to Ken, Gord and John's wife Claire for accompanying him on the trip here.
Below is a short biography on John.
- See more at: http://portal.clubrunner.ca/50003/Stories/john-anderson-district-governor-2015-2016#sthash.GLl5avZN.dpuf
The Rotary Club of Mackenzie is very proud to be a sponsor for Cops for Cancer- Tour de North fundraiser. Here is a link to the website for Cheryl Miller, who is a local rider. She will be riding through Mackenzie on September 19th.
Thank you to everyone who supported the 2015 Mackenzie Rotary Duck Drop! It was again a huge success. Thank you to everyone who donated prizes, food, the helicopter and everything else and to people that volunteered their time to make this such a great event this year!!
Good luck to Tracy, our club's President elect, who is off to Seattle this weekend for PETS.
Enjoy your weekend, I am sure you will meet some fabulous Rotarians!
What's RYLA?
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is an intensive training program for community youth leaders. Young people chosen for their leadership potential attend an all-expenses-paid seminar to discuss leadership skills and to hone those skills through practice.
Purpose of RYLA
· Demonstrate Rotary's respect and concern for youth.
· Provide an effective training experience for selected youth and potential leaders.
· Encourage leadership of youth by youth.
· Recognize publicly young people who are rendering service to their communities.
Value of RYLA
· Enables every Rotary Club to acknowledge service to the community of two or more young people annually.
· Enthuses young leaders and provides them with enhanced leadership techniques.
· Exposes a large number of young people, their families and their peer groups, to Rotary ideals of Service.
· Is a complimentary program to other Rotary youth activities and has been instrumental in the formation of Rotaract clubs.
We are "This Close" to ending Polio
After 25 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease.
As of January 17, 2012, Rotary Clubs worldwide has successfully raised more than US$202.6 million to match $355 million in challenge grants received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
All funds have been earmarked to support polio immunization activities in affected countries where the vaccine-preventable disease continues to paralyze children.
In recognition of Rotary’s great work, and to inspire Rotarians in the future, the Gates foundation is committing an additional $50 million (not a challenge grant) to extend our partnership.
Our achievement is just one more milestone in our journey to eradicate polio. Most importantly, our ultimate goal is the certification of the eradication of polio. We are "This Close" to ending Polio, please help us and donate now
Congratulations to Rotarian, Amber Hancock on becoming a Councillor for the District of Mackenzie! Our best wishes go out to her as she begins this new journey!
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Congratulations to our own Rotarians, Kim Guthrie, and Tracy Hartman for winning Citizen of the Year and Business of the Year!
We are all very happy for you both!!!!
Rotarians are your neighbors, your community leaders and some of the world’s greatest history-makers:
- Warren G. Harding, U.S. president
- Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer
- Dr. Charles H. Mayo, co-founder of Mayo Clinic
- Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor of the wireless radio and Nobel laureate
- Thomas Mann, German novelist and Nobel laureate
- Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and Nobel laureate
- Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer
- Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia
- H.E. Soleiman Frangieh, president of Lebanon
- Dianne Feinstein, U.S. senator
- Manny Pacquaio, Filipino world-champion boxer and congressman
- Richard Lugar, U.S. senator
- Frank Borman, American astronaut
- Edgar A. Guest, American poet and journalist
- Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer
- Franz Lehar, Austrian composer
- Lennart Nilsson, Swedish photographer
- James Cash Penney, founder of JC Penney Co.
- Carlos Romulo, UN General Assembly president
- Sigmund Sternberg, English businessman and philanthropist
Rotary Serving Humanity
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