Welcome New Members
Laird Coghill, residing in Almonte, Ontario has joined us as a new member. Hajra Wilson, residing in Verona, Ontario has transferred to our club from Cambridge North in D7080. Laird’s membership had to be vetted with everyone because he was not a Rotarian previously. Hajra was automatically approved. We look forward to seeing your “Meet the Member” articles Laird and Hajra.
Historical Background
Rotary Fellowships began informally in 1928 when Rotarians with a shared interest in the language Esperanto joined together. In 1947, a group of Rotarian boating enthusiasts began flying the Rotary flag from their crafts, calling themselves the International Yachting Fellowship of Rotarians; this fellowship now boasts the longest continuous existence. The scope of Rotary Fellowships has changed much over the years, but today their purpose is still to unite Rotarians in friendship and provide venues for enjoying their favorite recreational or professional activities.
Announcement from the Rotary Foundation
It’s now easier than ever to make an online contribution on behalf of your club or club members. Just sign in to My Rotary and click or tap Give to go to the Donate page and see the options available to club officers. You can even donate by using your mobile phone or tablet.
This special access is available to multidistrict executive secretaries and these club officers:
- President
- Executive secretary
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Foundation chair
- Membership chair
Announcement Zone 24-32 Newsletter
Zone 24 and 32 newsletter, Beyond Borders News is published monthly. These newsletters contain articles of interest to Rotary leaders across the twinned Zones 24 and 32. Regular features include reports of significant events in the Zones, appointments of Rotarians to Zone and Rotary International committees and taskforces, outstanding project reports and stories of interest to Rotarians across the two Zones 's fourteen time-zones.
This newsletter is now in our Documents section. Articles for consideration for publication and comments are welcome. Please send to the new editor:
What Kind of Activity Constitutes a Makeup?
Makeups can be many things – e.g. attending another club’s meeting, a club service committee or board meeting, convention of RI, or district conference; participating in a club service project, club sponsored community event or club fellowship event. You can volunteer with a local organization, especially if it happens to be one of the organizations that we have listed in
Our Causes on the website.
Makeups can also be online - through a club website in an interactive activity (requires an average of 30 minutes of participation). Rotary E-Club of Canada is a good one. Our club has no time restriction for makeups - do them and enter for whatever date you did the activity. You need to do at least 40 makeups a year.
Rotary wins Best Nonprofit Act for its polio eradication work
