Ladner Rotarians (l to r) Guillermo Bustos, Richard Shantz and Walt Hayward made up one of the teams cleaning up Arthur Drive in Ladner on Saturday morning, January 20, 2018, as part of the City of Delta's Adopt a Street program.
Sending up to five youth to Rotary Youth Leadership Awards leadership development camp in the Spring is one of the causes focused on community service supported by proceeds from the sale of Rotary Club of Ladner lottery calendars last Fall, made possible by our community and sponsors. Delta Life Skills also shared in sales proceeds.
painting of duck by M. Strain, member of the South Delta Artists' Guild, which contributed 12 paintings to feature in the 2018 lottery calendar fund-raiser
For the 10th consecutive year, The Rotary Foundation, which supports aid and development work around the world, has received the highest rating — four stars — from Charity Navigator, an independent evaluator of charities in the U.S. In the most recent ratings, the Foundation earned the maximum of 100 points for demonstrating both strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency. In a letter to the Foundation, Charity Navigator notes that "only 1 percent of the charities we evaluate have received at least 10 consecutive 4-star evaluations, indicating that The Rotary Foundation outperforms other charities in America. This exceptional designation from Charity Navigator sets The Rotary Foundation apart from its peers and demonstrates to the public its trustworthiness." The rating reflects Charity Navigator's assessment of how the Foundation uses donations, sustains its programs and services, and practices good governance and openness.
Over 650 less fortunate families and seniors throughout Delta received hampers of food for the holiday season from schools, other organizations and individuals, and through sponsors such as the Rotary Club of Ladner, which donates $1,000 a year. Organized by Deltassist for the past 30 years, the program relies on hundreds of volunteers to collect food from the community – such as breakfast cereals, tinned ham and chicken, juice, tinned hearty meals (stew), peanut butter, rice, pasta sauce, and hot chocolate -- sort it, box it and allocate to each family then load the vehicles of delivery volunteers, including Ladner Rotarians. photo: a grateful Delta resident receives two boxes full of food for the Christmas season
Delta Fire Department is sharing one third of $300,000, and Delta Police Department and Delta School District the other two thirds, of a gift from the estate of the late Albert Hollinger, a Delta resident of many years who died at the age of 82 in 2015. The total fund from the Albert Hollinger Estate is now transferred to the Delta Foundation which will administer the endowments and provide annual grants based on the income from the funds in three equal $100,000 amounts to the three beneficiaries.
Grade 11 student, Tristan Miura, presents his plan to join other students of West Point Grey Academy this year in an Outreach 360 visit to the Dominican Republic in support of education for less privileged children.
ElderCollege Delta is a volunteer group which takes a relaxed approach in providing opportunities for lifelong learning and personal growth, based at KinVillage Community Centre in Ladner.
TEDxStanleyPark every year attracts 2,683 attendees to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver to hear from speakers on topics related to policy, technology, and innovation, and to network with others. It is one of the largest in the TEDx system of local conferences in centres around the world, based on the internationally acclaimed and exclusive annual TED conference, held for many years in California and now based in Vancouver.
The way of thinking among societies throughout the world tend to be dominated by one of three "ancestral world-views" according to international development expert, Dale Albertson: Fear & Power; Shame & Honour; Wrong & Right. Societies function with all three world-views, but tend to give priority to one of them, reducing one aspect (eg fear) and increasing the other (eg power). Our "Wrong & Right" legal view of the world cannot be imposed on other societies which have a different predominant world-view in international development, peacebuilding and so on.
