No amount of rain could dampen this enthusiasm!
This past Saturday, June 15, members of the Rotary Club of West Ottawa gathered at the house of Ed and Anne-Marie Balys for a BBQ to celebrate the supposed coming of summer.
Here are the latest winners from the 2019 Rotary Cash Calendar Draws!
| Ottawa Rotary Cash Calendar Winners, June 12 to June 25, 2019 | ||||
| Ticket # | Amount | Name | City | Win Date |
| 3111 | $50 | David Malone | Kemptville, ON | 25-Jun-19 |
| 0767 | $20 | Grace Lennox | Ottawa, ON | 24-Jun-19 |
| 2106 | $25 | T. Kawai | St. Laurent, QC | 23-Jun-19 |
| 3194 | $200 | Pat McCarthy | Nepean, ON | 22-Jun-19 |
| 2171 | $25 | Roy McKeown | Edwards, ON | 21-Jun-19 |
| 0061 | $50 | Alice and Mark Guy | Mountain, ON | 20-Jun-19 |
| 0188 | $20 | George Papadopoulos | Ottawa, ON | 19-Jun-19 |
| 0696 | $25 | John Kanellakos | Ottawa, ON | 18-Jun-19 |
| 3917 | $50 | Anant Grewal | Ottawa, ON | 17-Jun-19 |
| 0132 | $25 | David Porter | Ottawa, ON | 16-Jun-19 |
| 1958 | $50 | Ms. Shelane Donoghue | Toronto, ON | 15-Jun-19 |
| 2739 | $100 | Cheryl Gothard | Winchester, ON | 14-Jun-19 |
| 0377 | $25 | Thomas K. Morton | Denver, CO, USA | 13-Jun-19 |
| 3715 | $50 | Shauna McCaffrey | Ottawa, ON | 12-Jun-19 |
Rotary International’s service club for young people ages 12 to 18 is known as Interact. Interact exists to develop constructive leadership and personal integrity, and foster an interest in world fellowship, in high school students worldwide. The Rotary Club of West Ottawa sponsors an Interact Club at Woodroffe High School. That club is mentored by teacher Jaden Lairson, the Head of the Canada and World Studies Department.
This is what 62 years of giving looks like! Disbursements since 1957It has been 50 years of perfect attendance in a long and distinguished Rotary presence for Jack Troughton. Today this achievement was celebrated by the attendance today of his family and more than a dozen Past, Present and Future District Governors at his home club of the Rotary Club of West Ottawa.
RCWO Past President Jean Bégin presents Jack Troughton with his pin for 50 year of perfect Rotary attendance
When you deliver over 5000 plants in 3 days, navigation is critical!
In recognition of his assistance to the Rotary Club of West Ottawa, this week Geir Engdahl of Norway was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship. The awards ceremony was performed at the Oslo International Rotary Club with club President Robert Laan presenting the award and reading the citation.
OIRC President Robert Laan presents Geir Engdahl with his Paul Harris Fellowship
Read on to find out how Geir's software helped enable teams of volunteers to organize the delivery of over 5600 chrysanthemums for RCWO's annual Mums for Thanksgiving fundraiser.
When RCWO member Nigel Lever found out that Carol Waters and Suan Cross of Project Chance Africa had an opportunity to send some extra supplies to their school in Kenya, he took the reigns and made it all happen. Project Chance Africa supports the operation of a school and community centre in the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
Look at what we funded in 2017-18 through our Community Services Committee and the International Services Committee.
If you have any Prairie roots, or if you would like to know what it was like going to school in the WWII years or if you have an interest in the 40's and 50's or if you would just enjoy an entertaining read.....this book is for you! We would like to introduce you to this just published book entitled “Flashbacks of a Prairie Kid” by Merv Letts ISBN 978-0-9867490-2-5
Sinai Surgeon - The Adventures of an RCAF Medical Officer with the UNEF is the gripping tale of RCWO`s own Dr. Merv Letts during his time peacekeeping in the Sinai Peninsula during the 1966-67 lead up to the Six Days War.
This Fall, our club will present Dictionary4Life books to ten schools in both the public and Catholic school boards.
See what a difference one dictionary can make for life! RCWO's 60 second entry to the DGs challenge to tell the story of a club project. http://youtube/uCwcZQKQ6nE
To encourage donations for our local literacy project, Dictionary4Life, the Rotary Club of West Ottawa (Service Fund) Inc. now has a profile on Canada Helps (www.canadahelps.org). Donating to this project has never been simpler! Simply click to make a safe & secure donation. A $20 donation will purchase at least 2-3 dictionaries! A tax receipt will be issued by Canada Helps for donations.
LET'S DROP TO ZERO
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For more than 30 years @Rotary and partners have been working to#endpolio. We're #thisclose to ending the disease forever. Join us!" #endpolionow or visit endpolio.org
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 Rotary Music for Humanity Concert April 13, 2019 |
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 2016 Musicians and Hosts |
Vimy oaks to put down roots at Ottawa high schools
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/vimy-oaks-ottawa-trees-planting-1.4658843
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/vimy-oaks-ottawa-trees-planting-1.4658843
Shared via the CBC News Android App
Want to know what happened in the first 50 years? Check out our 50th Anniversary Book
And then check out the next decade in our 60th Anniversary Book
