Land Acknowledgement
“I would like to begin by acknowledging the Indigenous Peoples of all the lands that we are on today. While we meet today on a virtual platform, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge the importance of the lands, which we each call home. We do this to reaffirm our commitment and responsibility in improving relationships between nations and to improving our own understanding of local Inuit, Metis, and First Nations Peoples and their cultures and rights. We are on Treaty 1 territory and the land on which we gather is the traditional territory of Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. From coast to coast to coast, we acknowledge the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit, Métis, and First Nations Peoples that call this land home.”
Mandy Kwasnica and Peter Tonge have developed and are co-hosting a Rotary themed podcast called Talking Rotary. They have some exciting guests lined up, featuring Rotary stories both locally and globally. Talking Rotary can be found at the website: 
The Golf for Literacy fundraiser took place on Monday, 9 September. The weather wasn't ideal but the participants didn't let that dampen the fun. Click 
The club hosted a successful district conference here in Winnipeg.
The Charleswood Rotary Club recently completed a project to provide garden boxes at Westgrove School. The boxes allow students to learn about where their food comes from. Principal Troy Calder is raving about the benefits they already see from the gardens. The teachers and students are very excited about what they see as potential for the garden and further development of outdoor education programs. He is hoping in the fall to have parents come when they go to harvest the garden.