Our inbound Youth Exchange Student, Tamara, is expected to be here this upcoming week! Hopefully we can get a delegation out to the airport to greet her. Club members should watch their emails for details.
Looking for something fun to do on holiday Monday? Come out to Andrews Scenic Acres and purchase your Honda for Playground car raffle ticket! We'll be there will the car from noon on.
Join us Friday, September 5th at 7:15 am, Ares Restaurant banquet room to hear more about the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games from our speaker Betty Jo Parent. RSVP to georgetownrotary@gmail.com. Love to have you!
Coming during the summer of 2015 to the Golden Horseshoe area will be the largest international sporting event ever held in Canada – the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games. These games will host more athletes that either Vancouver or Montreal Olympics. Covering a massive footprint from Oshawa to Hamilton, Minden to Welland, the Games will leave behind social, economic and infrastructure legacies. Specifically relevant to Rotary, the Games will leave behind a massive team of passionate, newly ignited volunteers having greater pride and awareness of their community, as the Games will lead the largest peacetime shout out for volunteers ever done in Ontario.
The TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games Organizing Committee (TO2015) is tasked with the responsibility of planning, managing and delivering the Games. Its mission is to ignite the spirit through a celebration of sport and culture. Betty Jo Parent is Manager, Logistics Support for TO2015. She has spent 30 years in Logistics with Maple Leaf Foods and Kraft Canada, then the last 3 years with the Mississauga Hockey League as League Scheduler. She started working for TO2015 in January of this year.
Betty Jo is herself very passionate about Rotary. She is a member of Mississauga-West Rotary Club since 2012. She was a Rotary Exchange Student to Australia in 1979-80 and her daughter was a Rotary Exchange Student to Vienna, Austria in 2012-2013. Betty Jo is Club Services Director for her club, and newest member of the District 7080 Rotary Youth Exchange Committee.
Dave Hayden reported that even though turnout was slightly lighter than anticipated (due to overcast skies), they still had a very successful day with over $42,000 raised for Chase Galea and his therapy for Quad Cerebral Palsy. Thanks everyone for your support and to the Rotary Club of Georgetown for their generous sponsorship of this event!
Lauren's Spaghetti Supper fundraiser was awesome! It was a packed hall and the Iron Siren's Riding Club for Chicks, Halton Hills chapter came out in numbers to support Rotary! Thanks to everyone for supporting Lauren's Rotary Youth Exchange trip to Italy.
Get a ticket for a chance to win this Honda Civic Sedan and support the completion of the Universally Accessible Children's Playground at Dominion Gardens Park in Georgetown, Ontario. Tickets are 1 for $100 or a 3 pack for $250.
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