Paul Harris Fellowship 2024

Celebrating the Community Service of Lesli Green

Join us for a special Luncheon honouring Lesli Green!
  • Thursday, November 7th, 2024 at 12 noon
  • Radisson Hotel Sudbury
  • 85 Ste. Anne Road
  • Tickets: $75 per person; tables of 8 are available
  • Purchase your tickets by October 24, 2024 by emailing lisademers705@gmail.com or click below
 
Sudbury’s oldest service organization, the Rotary Club of Sudbury, will honour Lesli Green, founder of “Safe Ride Home Sudbury” with a prestigious Paul Harris Fellowship at a luncheon event on November 7, 2024.
Ms. Green founded the Sudbury branch of “Operation Red Nose” in 1999 with the aim of reducing the number of impaired drivers on our roads by getting holiday partygoers home safely and raising funds for worthy causes.  “Operation Red Nose-Sudbury” became “Safe Ride Home Sudbury” in 2017.
 
Every year the service provides rides to approximately 8,000 Sudbury residents during the festive period.  The education campaign is far-reaching with radio and billboard ads running year-round, emphasizing the importance of planning ahead and not driving while impaired. 

The “Safe Ride Home Sudbury” partnership with the Greater Sudbury Police Service also runs throughout the year, and former GSPS Police Chief Paul Pedersen called it “one of the best Crime Prevention initiatives in the fight against impaired driving through a robust education and awareness campaign coupled with volunteer services.”
 

The Foundation committee of the Rotary Club of Sudbury is committed to ensuring that every Rotarian supports the Rotary Foundation every year.  This “EREY” (Every Rotarian Every Year) effort helps ensure that the Foundation has enough support to do the good work and big projects that Rotary performs at both the local and international levels. One way that we acknowledge and celebrate the good work of the Rotary Foundation is to honour someone locally with a Paul Harris Fellowship. 

These ‘fellows’ are selected by a committee of Rotarians for their service to the community.  To recognize the excellence of someone’s “Service Above Self”, our club makes a contribution of $1000 US to the Rotary Foundation and then hosts a luncheon or dinner at which the new Paul Harris Fellow is celebrated.  Past honourees in Sudbury have included Dr. Pablo Cano, Felix Lopes, Helen Ghent, Bela Ravi, Brian Smith, Terry Galvin, and dozens more. 

Paul Harris Fellows can also be conferred by a Rotarian onto other club members or family.  They can accomplish this by making a $1000 US donation to the Foundation in that person’s name.