
We have a major focus on children through Rotary4Kids fundraising for families who have children with special needs.
We have also maintained and are renewing Rotary’s Camp Tillicum on Lake Nipissing as a children and youth and family-oriented recreation centre.
We are also proud to be a partner in North Bay’s Family of Rotary Splash Pad, with planning for Phase III underway.
Our history of supporting major capital projects and city-wide events is extensive: new hospital construction; therapeutic swimming pool, The Learning Library, Armed Forces Day and others.
Around the world Rotary is highly regarded for the PolioPlus campaign aimed at both eliminating wild polio throughout the world and ongoing vaccinations to prevent recurrence.
The generosity of Rotarian donations and community fundraising enables Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation to carry out PolioPlus and thousands of other projects in all parts of the world, with drinking water, sanitation, literacy, maternal child and public health and the environment being the major priorities.
I am proud to assume a leadership role in Rotary for July 1 to June 30.
I look forward to continuing and strengthening our relationships with the people of North Bay and surrounding area and the many organizations that we work with. And to continuing the collective efforts of Rotarians in local and international service.
Finally, I thank the North Bay community for its generous support of our work.
