Rotary Clubs in the Sea to Sky Corridor
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Rotary Club of Whistler Milennium website and Facebook page.
Rotary Club of Squamish website and Facebook page.
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The 11th Annual Rotary Club of Pemberton and Pemberton & District Chamber of Commerce 2016 Golf Tournament will be held at the Meadows at Pemberton on Friday June 24th, 2016.
Recognizing climate change is one of the greatest threats to the environmental health of the planet, Whistler Blackcomb is committed to one day reducing the environmental footprint of their operations to zero and believes in an “Every Step Counts” philosophy. On March 16, 2016, Art Dejong will be speaking at our morning meeting about Whislter Blackcomb's response to climate change.
The Rotary Club of Pemberton are proud supporters of the Family Strengthening Program. Our club donated $250 to the program on April 20, 2015. Additional support was offered on May 20th when several club members, Friends of Rotary and Interacters helped prepare the meal for their event.
Special thanks to John, Liz, Pat, Ted, Dave, Linda, Janis, James, Sandy, Rolande, Casey Lee, Rene and Sarah.
On April 22, 2015 a large contingent of Pemberton Rotarians hit the highway at 7am to clean the garbage from alongside Highway 99. Our new Adopt-A-Highway Project has been spearheaded by Rotarian Dave DenDuyf who contacted the Ministry of Transportation & Infrastructure (MOTI).
The Rotary Club of Pemberton will now be responsible for cleaning along the highway from the Petro Canada to the train tracks past Nairn Falls. We have been supplied with all the necessary equipment from MOTI and they will be putting up signage acknowledging "our section " of highway in the near future.
On our first clean up mission, we collected 18 large bags of garbage and several large items including tires, pieces of metal, wood etc.
On May 13 and May 14, a few members of our club solicited donations from the generous folks of Pemberton to go towards our contributions to ShelterBox Canada. Our club has already committed to purchase 1 ShelterBox and we wanted to reach out to the community and let them know about this amazing organization and at the same time raise a few more dollars. In a couple of hours each day we raised an additional $600. Thank you Pemberton!
Please read our news release below;
Nepal Disaster Relief
Rotary Club of Pemberton will be at the Pemberton Valley Supermarket on Wednesday May 13 and Thursday May 14 between 4pm and 6pm collecting donations for the relief effort in Nepal. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck on April 25 killed more than 8,000 people, injured 18,000 and has left many thousands of families struggling to survive. Rotary has already contributed $1,000 to purchase a complete family survival kit from ShelterBox Canada. The survival kit contains a family tent with thermal liner, blankets and ground sheets, water storage and purification, solar lamps, cooking utensils, tool kit, and children’s activity pack. With the support and assistance of Rotary International, ShelterBox was an early contributor to the relief effort providing approximately 1,000 units to the worst hit areas. Rotary Club of Pemberton member Liz Scroggins said, “This is part of the reason why I joined Rotary – to help out less fortunate people around the world. Especially in times of need like this.” If you are out and about on Wednesday or Thursday please feel free to stop by the Supermarket and talk to your local Rotarians about the relief effort. And if you can, we urge you to contribute your spare change to a good cause.
To learn more about ShelterBox visit www.shelterboxcanada.org.
Service Above Self
Pemberton, BC V0N 2L0
Canada