Past President's Dinner - A Ghoulish Time!

Everyone seemed to have an absolute blast last night at the Halloween Past President's Dinner. So many people came out and dressed up - it was really a sight to see!

A BIG congratulations to Larry Wright for receiving the Paul Harris pin for his dedication to Rotary and our Club. Well done and well deserved!

Another BIG congratulations to Occo van Tijn for receiving the Rotarian of the Year award - a.k.a. Rotarian of Many Years ... haha ... he sure has been a blessing and a hero for all the work he does as Treasurer. Thank you so much!

Port Perry Rotary provides refreshments at the Community Care Walk for mental health

Thank you to Ludger Kenny, Arch Evans, Jim Lawrence, Jim Brady, Roy Goodwin, Mike Gaudet, Michael Stuart and Jim Jenkins who all helped to make our contribution to the CCD walk a big success on Saturday. As ever, it was a great morning.

Our upcoming Gala - amazing live auction items!

Here are two of our featured Live Auction items for our upcoming Spring Gala - to be held on April 21st. To purchase Gala tickets, contact Arch Evans at 905-982-1082.

Our Club Donates to Shelter Box

We were so honoured to have Geoff Lloyd, Ambassador for Shelter Box and a member of the Oshawa Club, come to visit us. He gave a very informative talk about Shelter Box - it's beginnings and impressive numbers on how many displaced people have been given shelter in camps due to conflict and natural disasters. It is a truly impressive organization and Geoff is the embodiment of an Ambassador and Rotarian. The Club surprised Geoff with a check to pay for two Shelter Boxes. These Shelter Boxes will give shelter to two families in dire need, along with providing water filters, solar lights, a stove, and many other essential items for daily living.

Gala 2018

January 31 2018 Meeting

President Jim Jenkins reading a recognition award from MP Erin O'Toole.

Anne Wright - Oak Ridges Hospice of Durham Ltd. *(www.oakridgeshospice.com)

Presenting a progress report on the project.

Joanne Fowler - Her committee is hard at work organizing this years' Gala

Mark your calendar for April 21

Our exchange student, Mathilda Ingestion, will be participating in the Polar Plunge on Saturday. The event is organized by the Port Perry Hospital Auxiliary.

Welcome to our Club Brien Stewart!

We are so pleased to announce our newest member to the Rotary Club of Port Perry - Brien Stewart! He has so many wonderful qualities that make a perfect fit to our Rotary family. Welcome Brien!

Seniors' Christmas Dinner

The 36th Annual Senior's Christmas Dinner was held at the Scugog Community
Centre in Port Perry on November 16th. There were 220 meals
served to guests and volunteers consisting of turkey with all the trimmings.

Pre-dinner entertainment was provided by the Port Perry High School Jazz Injection ensemble and after dinner music was provided by the Markham/Unionville Rotary Choir.

A number of volunteers assisted to make this a very special and festive
evening. There were volunteers from The Scouts, Coldwell Banker, Scotia
Bank, Canada Trust, Royal Bank, All Fit All Ages, Perceptor Gamma Xi, and
others too numerous to mention.

What a great way to start off the holiday season!

Past Presidents' Dinner

The Rotary Club of Port Perry Past President's Dinner honouring Past President Robert Keeler and our former Past Presidents was held at Sunnybrae Golf Club on Friday, October 28, 2016.

Patricia Bayley, Jim Jenkins and Dave Cash were presented with Paul Harris Fellowship Awards for their outstanding volunteer contributions to the community and rotary Club.

Past President Bob Brownson presents Pat Bayley with her Paul Harris Fellowship Award

President Jim Brady presents President Elect Jim Jenkins with his Paul Harris Fellowship Award

President Jim Brady presents Rotarian Dave Cash with his Paul Harris Fellowship Award

September 2016

Posted by Jill Wantola

International Youth Exchange Student

Sophie Raae our youth exchange student from Denmark, arrived at the end of August and is quickly settling in to life in Port Perry. She is attending classes at Port Perry High School and is living with her first host family Dr. Merrilee Brown, Steve Gray, Alastair and Sophie Gray.

A Field of Dreams

A number of the Rotary Club members attended an evening at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology on Thursday, September 15^th to recognize donors who support the university and hear about future expansion plans. The event took place at Windfield Farms where the famous race horse Northern Dancer, is laid to rest. The Rotary Club has been supporting students from the Township of Scugog for a number of years, through bursaries that are matched dollar for dollar by the university.

Fall Golf Classic

Another successful Fall Classic was held on Tuesday, September 13^th at the Royal Ashburn Golf Club. There were 104 golfers who participated in the tournament to raise funds for community projects including the Seniors Christmas Dinner.

Thank you to all our volunteers, sponsors and golfers

Ribfest donates to Port Perry Hospital

A cheque for $25,000.00 was donated to The Port Perry Hospital Foundation from the proceeds of the Port Perry Rotary Waterfront Ribfest.

Jim Brady (President of the Rotary Club of Port Perry), gives a cheque for $8,342.50 to Barb Brady (President Auxiliary to Lakeridge Helath Port Perry).

Words of Wisdom from the "Great" Dan Clancy

We were fortunate to have Dan Clancy, the legendary lead singer of Lighthouse, perform for us at our 1st ever Rotary Waterfront Ribfest. He rocked the stage and performed a great show for all the attendees. We were so fortunate to have him, and his band, play at our event. He wrote a heart-warming letter that needed to be shared. He truly "gets" Rotary and why we put on a Ribfest. And for that, we are very grateful.

Thank you so much for the honor of performing at last nights Rotary Ribfest in Port Perry...

I hope that the remainder of this weekend is well attended and the that the patrons are supportive and kind to Rotary and its many volunteers...

Thank you for improving the quality of life and making improvements in Port Perry and the surrounding communities through your tireless service for others...

Sincerely grateful...

Best wishes,

Dan Clancy

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Collective Music Group

Tel: 905.429.7087

Email: collective@danclancy.com

Website: www.danclancy.com

Website2: www.lighthouserockson.com

2016 Waterfront Ribfest Great Success!

35 Years Ago

Caesars Skate Park Grand Opening

Pancake and Family Fun Day

Pancake and Family Fun Day a Huge Success!

For more photos - click the PANCAKE DAY tab at the top of this page.

Solar lights for Orphanage in India

Dear Rotarians, Friends and Family of Narendran Sethi,

Greetings of love and Prayer filled regards to you all from Isaac Arulappan, the Founder of Cornerstone Orphanage functioning in Village Mullippadi in Tiruchirappalli District in Tamil Nadu State of South India.

I take this opportunity to thank you all on my own behalf and send you all the love and sincerest thanks of all 84 children from age 5 to 18 (boys and girls) and alll staff living in CORNERSTONE ORPHANAGE at Village Mullippadi. Your generous help sent through our Dear Narendra Sethi has just supported us to install 5 Solar Street Lights in our Orphanage Campus. This was our dream project since the past 7 long years and today this project is realized successfully with your loving financial help.

All in Cornerstone Family at DKSHA are filled with joy and happiness to receive Narendra and his Wife who are happily visiting us from 9th noon to till now. They are meeting the orphanage children, took part in our inaugural function of the Kitchen and Wash Project just completed a few days ago.

The Technician and his assistants are now getting ready the solar Lights that DKSHA Cornerstone managed to get ready using your financial help you all sent with love for the needy children and staff here in Cornerstone Orphanage.

Narendra Sethi will come back to you with sweet memories and good stories + feed backs from Cornerstone Orphanage.

Once again Thanking you all with loving gratitude and prayerful regards, I remain.

Yours Sincerely,

ISAAC ARULAPPAN

Founder - of DKSHA &

CORNERSTONE ORPHANAGE

Caesarea Skate Park - update

Dear Rotary Club members

Attached are a few photos for you. After 5 1/2 years of fundraising, I'm overwhelmed of the reality here. "WE ACTUALLY HAVE A SKATEBOARD PARK"!! The kids are loving every minute of it - even in the dark. Mother Nature has been so good to us this year! They love it!! This would not have happened without your generous donation.

We had a minor unveiling on Friday, Dec. 4th for the locals, but please do not feel left out. We are planning on a Grand Opening on Sat., May 14th, 2016. We will keep you posted of details.

Also, we entered a float in the Port Perry Santa Claus parade this past Sat., thanking the community for their support.

Will keep in touch regarding our grand opening.

Merry Christmas and all the very best in the New Year to you and your families!

Susie

Past Presidents' Dinner November 2015

Port Perry Outgoing Rotary President Bob Brownson (left) presents Dave Cash with the "Rotarian of the Year " award at the Past Presidents' Dinner.

Congratulations to Rotarians Jill Wantola, Arch Evans and Bob Strickert who were presented with the Paul Harris Fellowship award for their contributions to Rotary

Past Presidents: (front to back from left) Roy Goodwin 1990 - 1991 Elgin Knopp 2002 - 2003 Miles O'Riordan 1998 - 1999

Bob Brownson 2015 - 2016 Richard Gauder 2011 - 2012 Bob Buurman 2004 - 2005

Kathryn Chenier 2006 - 2007 Karl Herder 1991 - 1992 2008 - 2009 Mike Fowler 1984 - 1985 2012 - 2013

Dennis Bayley 2000 - 2001 Ted Blanchard 1988 - 1989 Terry Coyne 2010 - 2011

Robert Keeler 1989 - 1990 2015 - 2016

Caesarea Skate Park - update

Port Perry Rotary donates to Caesarea Skate Park for Kids

Introducing Sol Ajis - Our 2015-2016 Exchange Student

To the Host Club and Families:

My name is Sol Ajis. I am fifteen years old and would like to introduce myself to my future host club and family.

I was born in Rio Gallegos, Argentina which is a small town in southern Patagonia. I live here with my mom Alejandra, my dad Fernando, my sister Azul, my dog Mati and my tutle Antonia.

President's Message ~ July

Message from Port Perry Club President Robert Keeler for July 2015-2016 Rotary year.

I hope all of you and your families enjoyed Wednesday July 1^st Canada Day this year, we all certainly are very fortunate to live in such a wonderful and free culture. Doris and I had a lovely trip to Kingston, Quebec City and Montreal

Polio update

K.R. Ravindran

President, 2015-16

T +1.847.866.3235

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KR.Ravindran@rotary.org

Dear Fellow Rotarians,

We’re delighted to report that [today] Nigeria has passed one year with no new cases of the wild poliovirus.

This is the longest the country has ever gone without a case of polio and a critical step on the path toward a polio-free Africa. We’ve come a long way since the bleak years when the virus reached its peak. It was only a decade ago that polio struck 12,631 people in Africa- three quarters of all cases in the world.

The Science of Wild Turkey Hunting

In his presentation on Wednesday July 15 Kevin Wodzak gave an insight into the techniques used to hunt wild turkeys. Rule number one: go where the turkeys are. Rule number two: arrive before daybreak and don’t move. Turkeys have very good hearing and sight. They can see in colour, so full camouflage should be worn, including face paint. Don't go shopping dressed like this. This increases the danger of being shot by other hunters.

Only bearded (male) turkeys may be shot from April 25 to May 25. A shot gun is used and so the range is limited to about 35 yards. Chokes can adjust the shot pattern and range.

Many “gadgets “ were recommended including calls, decoys, IR motion camera, GPS, and head flash light.

Expected cost per pound :$1,000

JUNE 13 -- FOOD BANK DONATION DAY

Thanks to the members who donated their time to stand out in front of three supermarkets throughout Port Perry on Saturday, June 13th! We hope that other Rotary members, friends, family, and community members will come out to support this cause and help to fill up our food bags. This will help towards our goal of 3,500 lbs of food donated for Operation Scugog Food Drive. We hope to see you all there!!

BIG thanks to the Food Drive Committee

Dave Cash, chairperson for the Food Drive Committee, would like to thank the following:

Vos' Independent for being our sponsor with the bags

Port Perry Print for printing the leaflets

To the Rotary members on the committee: Jim Brady, Arch Evans, Terry Coyne, and Ludger Kenny

Club Budget Presentation

Upcoming Budget Presentation: the Board of Director's will be presenting the 2015-16 budget for general membership approval on July 8. All members please plan to attend!

Rotary Food Drive for Operation Scugog

Our Club Donates $10,000 to Caesarea Skate Park for Kids!

The Rotary Club of Port Perry is pleased to announce they are donating $10,000 towards the project of builing a Skate Park in Caesarea. A bit of background about the project:

Caesarea is a small community located in the Township of Scugog. It’s a sleepy town in the winter and thrives in the summer with cottagers and many children. The Caesarea Skate Park Committee (CSP) started 5 years ago when one woman, Susie Bollon, followed her dream to build a skate park for the kids of Caesarea, and surrounding towns. After watching her son, Billy, and his friends skateboarding; bmx biking & skootering in the streets with cars passing by, she knew something had to be done to keep our children safe. CSP is a not-for-profit organization and has been raising money through bottle drives, flea markets, tween Halloween dances and more recently adult dances.

Camp Scugog Outhouses Completed!

There is arguably nothing more rewarding than sweat equity in helping out a great cause! As has been our yearly sweat equity project for the past few years in conjunction with Camp Scugog, Rotarians rolled up their sleeves and built a new outhouse for the Camp. Looks great everyone!!

We have a NEW Meeting Venue!!

BIG NEWS!! We will be no longer meeting at Crabby Joe's for our weekly meetings. Instead, we will be having our meetings at Sunnybrae Golf Club!!!! Sunnybrae is located at 1430 King Street in Port Perry. Our first offical meeting at this location will be on July 8th. Same start time of 6:30pm.

Spousal Night at Windreach Farm

Come out for good ol' fashion fun at Windreach Farm! Please invite guests, spouses to attend a wonderful evening including a tour of the farm, some amazing music, great food, and of course awesome company! Please RSVP with Richard Gauder

June President's Message

President’s Message

June 2015

For these past twelve months, I have had the pleasure of serving the members of The Rotary Club of Port Perry and the community of Port Perry in many ways, and, have enjoyed every minute of the journey. I would like to thank all the members for their help in seeing that our fund raising and projects were successfully completed. Beginning next month, Robert Keeler will take over the presidency of the club and I am sure he will bring new and exciting ideas to the job.

During June we will be meeting at Crabby Joe’s, ending a three year stay. July 1^st is Canada Day so there will be no meeting. During June, there will be one Wednesday, June 17^th, when we will have a fun evening with our spouses and potential new members at Windreach Farms. The festivities will start at 6:00 pm going to 8:00 pm, during which time, we will eat, enjoy live music and tour the facility at Windreach.

At our club forum on June 3^rd the membership of the club approved the donation of $10,000.00 to Caesarea Skate Park For Kids. Karl Herder will have the pleasure of presenting the cheque to Susie Bollon to be used for the construction of the Park.

Beginning July 8, our club will begin meeting at Sunnybrae Golf Club under the direction of Robert Keeler.

~President Bob Brownson

Exchange Student Kylie - Writes from Germany

The following is an update from Kylie Santella from Germany:

This past month has been crazy full as will my next month be, I guess this happens at the end of the year.

I have spent a lot a lot a lot of time with my friends here. There have also been way too many school free days in the last month, frankly I don't even know why we even go to school in May. So I spent the first weekend of May celebrating the day the church in my village was made holy. It was a crazy weekend of fun. I learnt a lot about the culture of the little villages all around Germany. There was a lot of dancing. The next weekend I went to yet another festival in a different village because they were celebrating the day that the duke (I think it was a duke) decided that the peasants of the village owned the forest. The whole thing was in a forest. The day before that I was in a neighbouring city visiting a girl who plans to go to canada next year who needed help. But first she showed me around the city (even though I've been there like 40 times already) it was cool to see how the people who actually live there feel about it though. And we had a barbecue which is really typical for my area of Germany. I then went to the capital of my state for a small exchange student get together. Yet another few days of fun. And I went to a confirmation the next day (that weeken was really full). What is really cool about the culture in Germany is that at 14 either you get confirmed with the church or you have a "jugendfeier" which is celebrating the coming of age of an atheist and it's actually almost the same thing outside of the fact that there's no 2 hour church ceremony, I was at one of those two weeks later, also cool. I also spent a few days in a town called smalkalden with my rotary club. There we saw the state garden show for the year (my rotary club is really into it because my town is hosting it in 2017) Other personal fun activity highlights of this last month are, kayaking with my family, driving 347 km/h on the autobahn, and learning how to make proper thuringer klöse.

My host family situation could not be described as anything other than excellent. They are actually the perfect family living in the perfect area. I was supposed to switch another time but my yeo is now letting me stay until the end here. Which is really excellent because of how great this family is. I have two brothers, but one of them is thirty so he's more like the cool uncle who once in a while gives me money for food. And the other brother is 16 and in my class at school so it's really easy to get along with. He even introduce me to all of his friends in our little village who are now my friends and he ha no problems with that. The mum is also really sweet, she's constantly cracking jokes and making me laugh, the dad as we'll. he's a really big Rolling Stones fan and likes to talk a lot about them but it's really nice.

In school it's been really boring. I still don't really have a proper class but I've made friends in every class that I have so it's really not a problem that I'm switching grade levels all the time. The real problem is that it's just boring. The teachers don't particularly care what I do and don't usually bother to let me work with the class (not printing enough papers etc.) bug most of the teachers are really nice. I still hae a private German lesson every week and my teacher is super sweet. Because I really don't have much to learn any more we spend most of our time just talking in German. Today for example we just walked around my city and talked about its history. There really isn't much for me to do in school which kinda sucks but I don't mind cause at least I see most of my friends there.

I've recently been having problems with my bank in Canada. But I think that is now almost completely sorted out. Tomorrow I get the bank card from my counsellor and the rest shouldn't be a problem. Other than that I'm really problem free.

I've decided I'm really going to use every last minute I have here because I'm really going to miss it but that slowly getting really stressful but at this point I wouldn't have it any other way :)

Liebe Gruße,

Kylie Santella

Kelty Mckay of Willowtree Farm on Gardening

Kelty Mckay, from Willowtree Farm, came out for a special spousal event at Sunnybrae Golf Club, and delivered a motivational talk on Gardening Techniques. A bonus that everyone came away with a planter of mixed greens. Hope everyone enjoys a great and fresh salad this summer!

District Exchange Program Chair Larry Wright

Our one and only ... Larry Wright! Our own club member, Larry Wright, has done such a fantastic job with organizing our Exchange program at the Club level that he was sought out to head the Exchange Program for all of District 7070. Here he comes to give an informative talk on the topic.

Former Exchange Student Tobias

A nice picture of former Exchange Student Tobias ...always an adventurer!!

Blue Jays Outing another great success!

Another great event organized by Rotarian Arch Evans! And the Blue Jays won this time!

Rotarians Frank Baxter, Ludger Kenny, Arch Evans, and President Bob Brownson getting ready to board the bus!

Rotarians and their spouses enjoying the game and festivities

Rotarian Dave Cash and his lovely date

Organizer extraordinaire, Arch Evans!

Fully packed bus!

Dr. Bob Allin and his adorable sidekick

Waterfront Clean Up

Rotarian Mike Fowler organized another Spring Clean Up at the Port Perry Waterfront in association with Earth Day. Great job everyone! This day makes the waterfront all the more enjoyable for community members and the many people that visit Port Perry in the summertime!

Rotarians Jim Lawrence, Jim Brady, and Kevin Wodzak completing the "dirty work"

This day wouldn't be complete without a toast to their hard work accomplished

Our Club Donates to a Good Cause

We received a request for support for an International project spearheaded by Toronto Eglinton Rotary Club. Please see below for detailed information on this very important and worthy project. The Directors of our Club met and approved $1,000 donation towards this project. Good work Club!

Gala 2015 Report!

Posted on Apr 23, 2015

Rotary Gala, April 11, 2015 – Report

Well it looks like another successful fundraising gala for the club. Albeit that ticket sales were lower than last year, those that were there wanted to spend!

Our monetary donations increased by $2,000 largely due to Karl Herder’s efforts in securing more program sponsorships.

The 4 raffles were up by $1,250.00 from last year, netting $8,220. The triple raffle, Vacation, Vintages and Visa was very popular selling $3,380 in tickets. Our collection of Rotarians wines was beautifully displayed and was a big draw. Giving away all 3 of these prizes was very successful. Three lucky winners.

Our last minute donation of Spirits, Liqueurs and Fortified Wines from Robert Keeler’s friend also was very popular.

Special thanks to Dana Smith of Dana’s Goldsmithing for her custom designed pendant. This draw sold $1,760 in tickets.

Emily’s baskets were beautiful as usual with over $2,100 in ticket sales. Thanks to Rotarians and spouses for their donation of these items.

The Silent Auction was down by $1,200 but the Live Auction was $19,000, an increase of nearly $2,800. Jim Jenkins and Emily McDonald’s boat cruise set a record this year with a bid of $3,600. And Bob & Wendy Strickert generously donated a second dinner, netting $2,800 with the proviso of – This is the last year!! For certain this time.

Our experience Live Auction items – Toronto Sports Package, the Ottawa Bound trip, the cottage stay and Brad Martyn flight were very popular. Next year, we will work on adding more “experience” based items. Many people were bidding.

There are a lot of people to thank as follows: Gary & Marsha Hill who donate their time, ticket sellers Amber Herder and our exchange students – Lara Cadosch, Lauren O’Brien and Cal Graham, Debbie McGarry for doing the program, Richie Tripp at Hometown Printing for his service and expertise – the posters really show off our raffle and auction items, Mike Fowler - ticket seller co-ordinator and Occo Van Tijn for handling the money on the night of the event.

Very special thanks to Karl Herder in securing program sponsors, to Dave Cash who did an amazing job as MC and to Michael Stewart for co-ordinating ticket sales.

And to everyone on the committee, Marg Baxter, Vicki Wodzak, Kevin Wodzak, Emily McDonald, Pat Brownson, Barb Gaudet and Fran Herder.

And of course thanks to every Rotarian who brought in wine, lottery tickets, secured donations, sold tickets and helped with the setup at the Royal Ashburn. It is a real group effort.

Oh – how much money did we make? Last year we were just over $41,000. This year? $47,000!!!

~ Chairperson Joanne Fowler