We want to help you to serve our community of Dundas
as well as international needs. Drop us a note.
email caldwell@silomail.com for details,
post: P.O. Box 65595 Dundas ON L9H 6Y6
Our Club regularly meets for lunch at 12:00 Noon
at Dundas Museum & Archives, 139 Park Street West.
Founded in 1948, we have celebrated 75 years of service
with a listing of some 100 significant projects
locally and internationally
ranging from $1 million to a $ few thousand.
Additionally, we have addressed numerous smaller needs.
Currently, in cooperation with our daughter Sunrise Club,
we are working on an accessible Heritage Trail
along Spencer Creek through the middle of the olde town.
Thank you for your support.
Watch for these events again in 2025
Lobster & Rib Fest 2025
Saturday, June 7
sponsored by the two clubs in Dundas - Noon and Sunrise
A Drive-Thru event
at the Air Force Club parking lot
128 King Street East, Dundas.
Purchase tickets from members
Canada Day
Celebration
and Pancake Breakfast
in the Dundas Driving Park
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Breakfast 8:00 AM to Noon
Tickets at the event
featuring great music
and
Power Lifting for Polio Eradication
Rotary "Tour de Dundas" Gran Fondo
& Taste of Dundas
2022, '23, and '24 were great successes. Thank you
Attention Cyclists and Families!
join us on Sunday, September 21,
riding through pastoral farmland
along the rolling concessions of scenic Flamborough.
and shorter family rides in Cootes Paradise.
The event is centred in the Dundas Driving Park.
We are also offering A Taste of Dundas
featuring local food emporiums in the Park
and open to all.
For information & registration google
Rotary Tour de Dundas Gran Fondo
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN UP TO:
Our Taste and Tour of Dundas 2023 was a roaring success with over 300 riders in the big rides, a 20 km family ride, walking tours, and Shed Brewery, Red Door Pizza, and Burnt Tongue food and beverage, plus a number of Dundas Vendors, in the Dundas Driving Park. We did not anticipate the size of the crowds, and ran out of food, but certainly will add for the 2024 event. We were able to raise $10,000 each for our Routes Youth Centre and for St. Joseph's Villa Dundas Hospice. Our thank you to all who supported us. You made it happen.
Our Lobster & Rib Fest May 28 2022 was a roaring success
... we had only 4 lobster left at the end of the day!
We have published brief descriptions of some 100 significant projects locally and internationally in our 74 years of Rotary in Dundas (ranging from a few thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands, have been able to support a number of local endevours, and will finish June 30 in the black financially, We have increased our membership by 25% this Rotary year, and are raring to go into our 75th year.
We managed to meet in person from September through December 14, 2021, cancelled meetings during January, started back on ZOOM weekly beginning February 1st, and were back in person by March 1st, 2022. Although we have sometimes been unable to meet, we are still supporting initiatives at home and abroad.
In June 201, we wrote: in the past few months, as we close the Rotary year 2020-21, the Club has continued to meet, on-line only, every second week. We have found little ways to serve:
- We have helped to sponsor a “Walking Guidebook of Dundas - a nice compliment to the Rotary Heritage Walking Tours we launch in June.
- To assist frontline medical workers in their attempts to vaccinate persons with precarious living accommodations, we have provided a quantity of bus tickets and Tim Horton’s gift cards to help to attract vulnerable persons to come for their COVID shots.
- honouring Rotary’s international concern for garbage at our Great Lakes, we have so far conducted two cleanups: one of Cootes Drive along the Des Jardine’s canal, and one along the old rail trail south of University Plaza.
- The Club sponsored meals for a number of shut-ins for Valentine’s Day.
- Progress in our project with a Rotary Club in Kenya to provide toilet and water facilities for several schools in rural Kenya, has advanced to the stage where building contracts are being finalized.
- We are in the process of granting study/research awards for our annual McMaster Global Health endeavour.
See also our March 9 posting below.
