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Media Release - Groundbreaking held for future home of Rotary ParkPhase one of construction has commenced at Lincoln’s newest destination park
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Big Cheque Presentation
Sunset Music Crowd
Juan Carlos Guatamela
Ontariogreen Treeplanting
Lincoln Soap Box Derby
Christmas 2017
CNOY Team 2018
Niagara Joint luncheon
Newest Paul Harris Fellows
Auzzie Vocational Training Team Barbecue
Visiting Californians before RI Convention in Toronto
Sew Less Blankets
World Polio Day
District Governor Visit
Butterfly Garden Tree Planting
Bike Rodeo
Awards 2018/19
Food Drive 2018
New Member Induction
Purse Project
Cluster Fund Participating Clubs
Sponsors
Lamplighter Marketing
Lamplighter 2018
This is the media release issued by the Town of Lincoln May 22, 2020
Niagara Rotary Clubs Help Long-Term Care Residents Communicate with Loved Ones
St. Catharines May 25 2020 — Six Rotary Clubs in Niagara (The Rotary Clubs of St. Catharines Lakeshore, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls Sunrise, Fonthill, Lincoln and Welland) have joined forces to supply Samsung Tablets to each of the Long-Term Care Homes managed by the Regional Municipality of Niagara.
As we are all too aware, the residents of these term care facilities are in "lock-down", unable to see or speak to their loved ones outside of the home other than waving at a window. COVID-19 has imprisoned the senior generation of families, especially at a time when they need their family’s words, smiles and love.
Local Rotary Clubs across Niagara wanted to help. After contacting the Regions LTC coordinator, who canvassed all their facilities, it was agreed that on-line communication was a real need and that all 8 of their facilities wanted tablets for their residents use.
Based on this research, each of Linhaven (St. Catharines), The T. Roy Adams Regional Centre for Dementia Care (St. Catharines), Deer Park Villa (Grimsby), Upper Canada Lodge (Niagara‐on‐the‐Lake), The Meadows of Dorchester (Niagara Falls), The Woodlands of Sunset (Welland), D.H. Rapelje Lodge (Welland) and Northland Pointe (Port Colborne) have received 10” Samsung tablets perfect for residents to share, contact and talk with their families and friends.
For more information, and individual Rotary Club contact information if desired, please contact Sue Foster, President of the Rotary Club of Lincoln or by email at suefoz@gmail.com or www.lincolnrotary.ca
About Rotary
People of Action, Rotary is where neighbors, friends, and problem-solvers share ideas, join leaders, and take action to create lasting change. Rotary connects 1.2 million members from more than 35,000 Rotary clubs in almost every country in the world. Each day, our members pour their passion, integrity, and intelligence into completing projects that have a lasting impact. For more than 110 years, we’ve bridged cultures and connected continents to champion peace, fight illiteracy and poverty, promote clean water and sanitation, and fight disease. Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 30 years. As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
The long anticipated start date to the Rotary Park has arrived.
Phase 1 of Rotary Park adjacent to the Fleming Centre is officially underway .
Scheduled to open summer of 2021. — in Lincoln, Ontario.
Scheduled to open summer of 2021. — in Lincoln, Ontario.
Development of the park will be staged over two phases beginning in 2020 with the installation of the skate park and pump track.
The agreement between the Town of Lincoln and the Rotary Club of Lincoln (RCL) re: RCL’s $100,000 donation to the “Rotary Park” project and recognition (e.g. onsite signage, stewardship, usage opportunities) has been signed and official.
Concept design for the park was completed through a comprehensive community consultation process and approved by Town of Lincoln (TOL) Council as a capital project in December 2019 at a total value of $3,060,000.
Rotary Park is one of the Town’s most significant parkland projects currently and is classified as a “Destination” park because it features a skate park and pump track, amenities that will not be installed in any other public park in the Town of Lincoln.
Designed for all ages, the park will include ample parking for vehicles & bicycles, a variety of activity and passive areas with related equipment, walking paths, picnic pavilion and open space equipped with active utilities (water & hydro) for community events. It will also include, the “Butterfly Garden”, to be created in partnership with Ontariogreen, the Fleming Family, Butterfly Garden Committee and the Town of Lincoln.
"We regret to announce that the 2020 Sunset Music Series has been cancelled due to the Corona virus.
This was to be the 11th season of the Series. We will continue to monitor the situation and follow Public Health advice to determine whether we may be able to host an event later in 2020.
We look forward to the next opportunity we get to present a concert and enjoy the sunset at Charles Daley Park. Have a safe summer!
COVID-19 Rotary Response
Rotary Club of Lincoln
Have donated $2500 to two local food banks in our community to help in this time of need. Community Care of West Niagara and Village of Hope. After coordinating with the agencies arrangements were made to purchase some of the more needed items such as Protein sources.PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION TO YOUR LOCAL FOOD BANK!
#tagthespirit #respondandserve #Rotaryconnectstheworld #Rotrayserves
The Rotary Park agreement has been signed between the Rotary Club of Lincoln and The Town of Lincoln. Start of the project has been delayed due to COVID-19 but excited to see when the shovels will be put in the ground and construction will begin!
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Under the recommendation from Rotary District 7090 and their cancellation of District meetings and activities and after consultation with your board we have decided to follow suit.
We will be cancelling the April 14 & 28th. morning club meetings.
We will monitor the situation before deciding on the May meetings (May 12 & May 26)
Rotarians please stay tuned for e-mails and LINKS to a virtual speaker series that has been initiated by the Rotary Club of Grimsby (evening) club.
There will be a speaker every Thursday through April at Noon.
For the most complete Niagara based information http://niagararegion.ca/health/covid-19
Stay Safe, Wash your Hands
Sue Foster
President
Rotary Club of Lincoln
CNOY West Niagara is a walk to raise funds and awareness for those experiencing homelessness in Grimsby, Lincoln, and West Lincoln. This walk supports the YW's West Niagara Affordable Housing...
Thanks to all who participated in some way and to all those that donated to the team.
At last count $48,888 was raised by the West Niagara Walk.
The Rotary Club of Lincoln raised $3,785.
The CNOY Canada wide goal of $6,000,000 has just about been reached at $5,837, 151
Thank you to Cathy Davies Rotarian for the Day, Sue Foster President, Phil Goodwin, Lindsay Dressel Margaret Andrewes.
A big shout out to President-elect Dave Klassen who took his two lovely daughters on the walk.
Congratulations Martha Kralt not pictured as she was busy counting the donations for becoming a gold button recipient for getting over $1000 in sponsorships.
Cheque Presentation and Media Launch of Matching Funds campaign for Cave Springs Camp Legacy Hall Project was held July 27, 2019. An official presentation of the $100,000 donation was given to the Cave Springs Camp Legacy Hall Capital Campaign and the official launch of the $25,000 Community Challenge took place.
PRESS RELEASE: SUCCESSFUL ROTARY CLUB OF LINCOLN $25,000 MATCHING DONATION COMMUNITY APPEAL
BEAMSVILLE, ON – Rotary Club of Lincoln is announcing that their $25,000 matching donation community appeal has been a huge success.
Rotary Club of Lincoln and their Executive, members of Lamplighters, were joined by representatives of Cave Springs Board of Directors and the Legacy Hall fundraising team February 18,2020 for the official cheque presentation of $25,000 to fulfill the pledge to match up to an additional $25,000 any community donations.
Sue Foster President, Rotary Club of Lincoln. “We believe in the direction that the camp is making in taking it to a four-season operation and supporting youth leadership and development all year round. Initiating the matching donation challenge to the community was to also help raise awareness of this project and get the community involved in supporting the camp. The construction of a brand-new facility will expand the camp to a year-round operation. The facility will be fully accessible and have universal washrooms designed to accommodate all abilities and genders of children."
On February 11, 2020, District Governor Bob Artis inducted TWO new Rotarians.
Welcome to Rotary, LAURA CORDER & JAROD BRANDON!
L. to R. District Governor Bob Artis; Laura Corder; Barbara Mitges (Laura's sponsor); Jarod Brandon; Club President Sue Foster
Christmas Festivities began with a holidy breakfast of waffles and fruit . Then a hilarious game of Christmas Charades. We split into two teams but by the fourth charade we abandoned teams and worked together to solve the charade that had to be acted out.
Some examples:
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Elf
- Santa's reindeer
- Family gathering
- All I want for Christmas are my two front teeth
- Gift giving
- Away in a manger
- Ghosts of Christmas past
- Turducken ( we gave up on this one)
- Door wreath
- Tiny Tim
- Diamond earrings
- Midnight Mass
After the Charades a vote was made to award the prizes for Ugliest Christmas Sweater
Gayle Roth won first prize with layers of ugly
Sue Foster second prize ugly plaid elf
Orchids were presented to Conversation's cafe staff for a job well done throughout the year.
Everyone were instructed to take home some cookies courtesy of President Sue and chocolates courtesy of Barb
Personally it has been a fascinating year with the resignation of our club President in August and being asked to remain as President for a third term. After some scrambling and some great support from the board members, I feel we are back on track and in a very good place.
More importantly I want to congratulate the club with the achievement of two very significant community projects.
The Cave Springs Legacy Hall project and its $25,000 community challenge has been a great success and has promoted the camp in the community. After a discussion with Niki Inch the Fundraising chair she has updated me with the progress so far:
"We have come a long way and are on schedule for completion in late winter. We have been able to rent the building to the Valhalla Project for 20 weeks through the course of next year. They will be our first renters of the building March 20th for two weeks. We are pretty excited to be working with them. They work with first responders, (fire, police, ambulance) and military who are suffering from PTSD who require a therapy dog to get through the day. The aim is to bring the dog together with the individual in an intensive two week training period which will be held in Legacy Hall. We will be able to still conduct programming and bring schools onto the property while they are in the hall, which means we can still provide our regular programming to the community.
As far as the matching challenge goes...I was just about to write to you about that. We just received a significant donation on Friday from an individual which brought us to $24,999.35. I hope this is close enough to be considered the matching for $25,000 LOL. We have had a great deal of success with this. I know of at least two other significant donations that are coming to us with this in mind. We can't thank you enough."
The Rotary Park name was approved by Town of Lincoln Council in October and negotiations for a formal agreement will begin in January with the town. The park will begin construction in the spring of 2020 where the first phase, skateboard park, pump track and Val Fleming Butterfly Park will commence. Sarah Ane from the town will be joining us January 14 for a presentation and update around Rotary Park.
Another successful Sunset Music Series and Lamplighter Tour have concluded and I would like to thank again John Maynard & Martha Kralt for stepping up to the plate and taking the lead in these two significant events to our club.
Five Rotary Super Hero pins were awarded by myself to Cathy McNiven, John Maynard, Martha Kralt for taking the lead for our fundraisers and making them so successful. I also awarded Super Hero pins to Dave Fisk and Phil Goodwin for their efforts as part of our fundraising teams, without their efforts the events would not have been as successful.
Our Global Grant Eliminating Preventable Maternal & Infant Death in Guatemala was approved and the project will start in January 2020.
Our District Grant Convos Youth Zone Private Office Space was approved.
Working together, even though we are a small club we are achieving a lot of really good things for our community and communities around the world.
Just recently our club was recognized at the District Level with Five Awards
- 100% Foundation Giving Club ($100 US every member) 1 of 4,000 clubs world-wide
- Every Rotarian Every Year Club 1 of 3,400 clubs world -wide
- End Polio Now Donation
- Presidential Citation with Silver Distinction
- And last but not Least a Special award for the year 2018/19 Flamingo of Change Award
There are still lots of things in the works for this club and with help and volunteering from each and every one of you, we are and will continue to make a difference in this world by investing in kids and community.
Stay tuned, think about how you would like to participate, consider becoming a board member, volunteer for a committee or help with a fundraiser that interests you. Talk to friends and acquaintances, bring them to a meeting and be proud that you are a member of the Rotary Club of Lincoln.
Thank you to the Lincoln Rotarians who donated to the shoebox project, thank you to the community and other Rotary clubs in the area that also stepped up to help the Brock Niagara Rotaract collect items to fill shoeboxes with items for women in need in the community.
Rotaract, Rotary clubs and community working together can make wonderful things happen!
A message from the President of Brock Niagara Rotaract Emily Wright.
"Thank you everyone who donated items and time in helping the Brock Niagara Rotaract Club tackle the Shoebox Project. We are so incredibly proud to announce that we will be donating TWENTY-SEVEN (yes 27!) shoeboxes to @shoeboxprojectstcatharines
We originally had a goal of donating 6, so this has overwhelmed us with joy. Our hearts are so full, we are grateful to be surrounded by such kind and giving people in our community!"
