The Rotary Club of Geprgetown accepted the ice bucket challenge this chilly morning and challenges the Rotary Clubs of Acton and Milton along with the Literacy North Halton to take the challenge.
Photos from our exchange student Lauren's Spaghetti dinner and a couple of Airport shots, with Maria (Lauren's Host sister) inbound to Woodstock, and in Milan the arrival of 3 inbounds to 2050: Lauren, Katie, and a Canadian from Sudbury (name to follow)!
Other picture is Lauren with her host family (Renata and Valter).
I am a Rotarian in Georgetown, ON, and we have a project that I’d like to share with you. Many people in Georgetown have seen us out and about selling raffle tickets for a Honda. What we are really selling is a dream – a fully accessible playground that is safe for all children and families. Several years ago, our Rotary Club decided to create a play space for children, and we raised close to $200,000 to develop an area of the Dominion Gardens playground with surfaces and equipment especially designed for children with physical limitations. Our project now is to finish that job by replacing the woodchips with rubberized surfaces. Why is the Rotary Club of Georgetown committed to completing the universally accessible playground? Because all children should be able to play together – regardless of the physical abilities.
Please enjoy this one minute video, filmed at the playground, to illustrate the need and support the cause - Let's play together video
National statistics tell us that 3.1% of Canadian children have a physical disability. Georgetown has an estimated population of 7,250 children under the age of twelve, indicating that we have approximately 224 children in town with a physical disability. We want to provide a safe physical space with equipment designed for ease of access. We believe these children deserve a safe place to play with other children – after all, it’s better to play together. In fact, the video I have included with this email is about Chase Galea, a 7 year old boy in our area who was born with quad Cerebral Palsy. He is typical for his age in that he loves to play, race around, cool off on the splash pad, and make new friends.
This is my direct appeal to seek your support to help Rotary finalize the Universally Accessible Children's Playground (UACP) that requires the installation of a rubberized ground cover in place of wood chips that basically impedes the pushing of wheel chairs, maneuvering with canes, as you can see from the video.
We need to complete the playground...so our car raffle is back...bigger and better than ever. Your donation will go a long way towards our goal, you’ll feel better about helping Chase, and other children like him, and you could win a new car – talk about a win, win, win!
Win a2014Honda Civic EX (total value $26,901.23)
o 4-door sedan
o automatic
o loaded
o winner may negotiate with Georgetown Honda for a different vehicle (no cash value)
Honda Civic EX draw date: Saturday October 18 at 2:00 p.m. at Georgetown Honda
· Only 750 tickets will be sold (and each ticket has an Oil Change special rate coupon!) at $100 per ticket or 3 for $250 – fantastic odds but even more important – for a really good cause!
I would be pleased if you would forward this request on to your email contacts and Facebook friends. Thank-you for your assistance in helping us help the children in our community.
Join us, or please support me as I Ride for Refuge! Everyone is welcome!
A team is being formed to ride in support of Street Soccer Canada through Ride For Refuge. The Ride for Refuge is a family-friendly cycling fundraiser that partners with 175+ charities to raise needed operating funding for their work with the displaced, vulnerable and exploited. It is taking place on Saturday, October 4th and the Brampton Routes all start and finish at Immanuel Christian Reformed Church, 2626 Mayfield Road, Caledon. Riders can choose to ride different route lengths from 10km, 25km or 50kms. The event is family friendly.
So far, the team consists of Paul Gregory (Team Captain), Hossam Khedr, Tasnim Patel, Muhammed Patel and Linda Zammit.
Please consider an individual donation to one of our team members by visiting the team’s page at http://bit.ly/1sjhk1Q.
Or, why not come out and join the team for the ride! We encourage everyone to support or join us for a beautiful fall ride!
Paul’s message: On October 4th, we'll be joining thousands of Canadians riding for charities serving the displaced, vulnerable and exploited. Riding a bike can seem like a small thing, but the impact is huge -- the funds we collect will change lives through STREET SOCCER CANADA. So please, give generously, and remember us on RIDE day as we huff and puff our way to the finish line. Knowing you're supporting us will kick start our recreational programs across the GTA.
I was lucky enough to have met Paul and been introduced to his organization, Street Soccer Canada, through my Rotary Club. It’s such a worthwhile cause, plus cycling is great exercise!
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.
Imagine a community where the residents are all free to plant, grow, harvest, and eat healthy food whenever they want without having to pay for it.
Sound too good to be true?
That's exactly what residents of more than 20 cities and towns in France are doing through a project called Potalib. Launched by the Rotaract Club of Versailles, Potalib was inspired by the Incredible Edible project, an international food-sharing movement founded by Nick Green in England. The Rotaract members obtained Green's permission to apply the concept in France, changing the name to "Potalib," a contraction of "...
Supporters of the anti-vaccine movement question the safety, efficacy and necessity of the very medicines that have so greatly reduced our children's risk of catching a host of once-common but potentially very serious infectious diseases, such as mumps, measles and whooping cough.
And then there's polio, the disabling, sometimes fatal virus that was every American parent's worst nightmare until effective vaccines were developed in the 1950s — and which still infects children in the developing world.
Some who oppose vaccines are well-meaning parents who have come to believe — wrongly in the...
Rotary continues to follow the developments surrounding the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and advice of the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, our partners in international public health.
Strengthening the health infrastructure and supporting and sustaining the deployment of government health workers throughout these outbreak areas are greatly needed. Although Rotary has limited opportunities to respond at a corporate level, our strength as an organization is firmly rooted in the grassroots response of Rotary clubs and Rotarians.
Clubs around the...
The history of Rotary's work with youth dates back to the 1920s, when many clubs took part in an international event known as Boys' Week.
The first Boys' Week was held in New York City in May 1920 by the Rotary Club of New York and other local organizations. The event was part of an effort to promote youth development in the areas of education, citizenship, health and hygiene, and vocation.
New York club members reported on the success of Boys' Week at the 1920 Rotary convention, hoping that it would become part of the Boys' Work program, which Rotary had established several years earlier...
Misheelt Batjargal and her fellow club members are giving a voice to infants and toddlers in Mongolia who would otherwise live in a silent world.
As part of a large-scale community project, the Rotary Club of Ulaanbaatar Peace Avenue, Mongolia, is equipping hospitals with screening devices to test newborns’ hearing. Batjargal, an ear, nose, and throat physician, says screening to detect hearing loss is not routine nationwide in Mongolia. She estimates that more than 200 hundred children in the country lose their hearing each year.
But Batjargal believes this is preventable. Early screenings...
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