Just us again at the meeting and it is kind of nice to be able to visit and hear all the Happy Dollar stories. Well done Sgt. At Arms, Darrell.
Congratulations to Brian Wormald for his outstanding contribution to Rotary and to Belize school Global Grant project.
Brian donated $3500.00 to support a school in Belize. This is such a wonderful donation and along with the Global Grant we will be able to support a school with chrome books, school supplies and teaching staff for these children.
Brian received his Paul Harris + 3 along with a certificate....... and so very well deserved
Brian is passionate about our International support for Belize. He went on a trip to Belize to help with the Prison. This changed Brian's life and like we say in Rotary.....He 'became a Rotarian' while he was on that trip. He saw the difference that is made by our Rotary Club and others.
And speaking of school supplies, please pick up some supplies like backpacks, notebooks, pens, pencils, crayons, etc and bring to Brian at Rotary. If you don't want to shop, I'm sure if you donated $20.00 or some amount, he would gladly shop for you. Thanks for your help with this. The children in Belize will be very happy and grateful.
Belize trip coming up soon and Al & Glen packing tablets to go in the container for the schools.
Lots going on in the life of our Rotary Club.
March 7th - Thirsty Thursday at the Legion. Meet at 5:30pm. This is a fun night that we get together, have a meal and a drink or two and support our local Legion. Hope to see you there.
April 6th - 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM - District Assembly. Please sign up.....new Rotarians or seasoned Rotarians are welcome. Our club has to pay for 5 members whether we go or not. The Rotary Club of Port Moody always has a good numbers so let make this year better yet.
Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversitySurrey Campus
12666 - 72nd
Surrey, BC
May 3rd, 2024 -THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT PINT
Port Moody’s premier
beer tasting event
The Search For the Perfect Pint is the highly anticipated annual event that’s been running since 2004. With the famous Brewers Row in our our backyard, Port Moody has become a craft beer enthusiast’s destination.
The Search For the Perfect Pint features dozens of breweries and food vendors for you to sample all for a $50. No additional tokens or costs for this amazing event.
Not only is this a celebration of great craft beer, it’s also a major findraising event for the Port Moody Rotary Club. All the proceeds goes directly back into the community to support local, charitable organizations.
June 1st - SHRED-A-THON Thank you to Joan for printing out some posters for us. Please take and distribute in your building, coffee shop or grocery store. Anywhere you see a bulletin board, please put this poster up.
Thank you to those that have already signed up to help. We can always use lots of people to help. We have such a good time and it is a great service for our community.
Our guest this week was Rich Williams - friend of Steve Witiuk
Happy Birthday Past President Paul
Thanks Yvonne for the photos xo
Proof President Elect - Rick dove in.....
President Susan looks pretty happy
Great job Rick and thank you again for all of your work in planning and organizing this exciting and fun event. It was such a successful turnout and surprisingly, the water didn’t feel near as cold as we all thought it was going to be.
Also a big shout out and Thank You to Clayton for another year of fun Hawaiian costumes and helping with the set up. Many thanks and gratitude also goes out to all the donors, supporters, and club members for making this such a successful day for such an important cause.
I'm already looking forward to our next year’s event to plunge back in! - from President Susan
2024 Polar Plunge is on Club Runner photo albums now. Thank you to Clayton for the photos.
RIPS was a HUGE success. Thank you to Cleone and Bob and Gayle Carter for their passionate involvement.
2,000 Liters of Invasives were Rotary RIPPED !!!
62 volunteers ripped out over 2,000 litres of invasive ivy and blackberry plants in Bert Flinn Park at Rotary RIPS on Sunday!
A highlight was watching 4 cub scouts showing volunteers from Camp Sasamat pieces of ivy and enthusiastically explaining that the ivy not only can strangle trees but that it can carpet large areas of the forest and not let the plants that should be there grow. This is serious because animals need the native plants for food. I was impressed how they understood the importance of biodiversity.
This was a role reversal for the Camp Sasamat team. 4 staff came with 22 high school students who are on a leadership training course. Some of them will develop into camp counsellors and guide younger children.
Innvervisions, a drug and alcohol recovery centre sent out 18 men who gave back to the community by pulling a huge share of the introduced plants.
A senior from Gleneagle school, a couple of girl guides, some parents, 5 Rotarians and best of all Sarah Livingston from the City made up the rest of the team.
Bob and Gayle Carter, recipients of the Environmental Award for the City helped create Bert Flinn Park, are passionate about protecting it and were leaders on this event.
Rotary RIPS (Removes Invasive Plant Species) is a partnership program between the City of Port Moody, Port Moody Ecological Society and Rotary to help protect environment.
