Rotary Club of Northern Bruce Peninsula
59 Main Street N0H 1W0 Lions Head, ON, Canada

THANK YOU PENINSULA HEALTH TEAM! Several Rotarians got ‘shot’ today (March 30th). Rotarians Douglas Greig and his wife Ellen, Doug Embleton and Lynda, and Darlene and I (Dilamarter) experienced the great organization of the PHT from the Northern Bruce Peninsula. It was a WONDERFUL experience! THANK YOU FROM THE ROTARY CLUB OF NORTHERN BRUCE PENINSULA TO THE ‘PENINSULA HEALTH TEAM’ FOR THEIR GREAT WORK LOOKING AFTER US ALL. ... We are so fortunate to live in this wonderful community.

Sanitation is key to health and the prevention of disease!

No Dinner Dinner Door Prize Winners Helen Schenk wins the Georgian Bay Honey Pam Robertson wins the Red Bay Gift Certificate Ellen Greig wins the Coffee Grinder... Vi Adams wins the Blender Craig Adams wins the Coffee Maker Daryl Cowell wins the Electric Grill Congratulations to all the winners. Thanks to every participant for helping the Rotary Scholarships Fund. Winners will be called tomorrow and told how to claim their prize. Thanks everyone.

Rob Hiscott reports on our Scholarships and the door prize winners tonight.

Ice enjoyed his St. Patrick's Day dinner! YUM

Rotary Club of Northern Bruce Peninsula’s GREEN NO DINNER DINNER $15.00 per person March 17, 2021 ... It is fun. It is simple and it will help us continue valuable programs in our community. In these challenging times, Rotary needs to raise funds to support our Scholarship Program and your support can help us make this possible. Send your cheque for $15.00 to our mailbox at Rotary Club of Northern Bruce Peninsula, Box 305, Lion’s Head, Ontario N0H 1W0 or E-transfer the funds to [email protected]. Make sure you give the name of each participant as there are many wonderful door prizes. PRIZES INCLUDE: Valata Raclette Electric Grill, Chefman Instabrew Coffee Maker, Isablender 9 pc. Blender, Coffee and spice grinder, Georgian Bay Honey. See all the pictures on our Facebook page. Have fun and help Rotary continue this valuable program. Corned beef and cabbage, pork chops, steak and lobster, whatever you can imagine is possible. This dinner is GREEN! It’s fun. It’s a way to support your community. PLEASE PARTICIPATE AND MAKE THIS A SUCCESS.

HONEY FOR YOUR HONEY SWEET GIFTS FOR VALENTINE’S DAY New for Rotary Club of Northern Bruce Peninsula 2 kg jars of honey $25 save $5. 1kg jars $15. Buckwheat $20 call Doug for Curbside pickup 69 main st lion’s head. 226 923 1604 SAVE MONEY...BUY THE 2kg. SIZE!

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Rotary Heroes Douglas Greig Douglas Greig is sometimes referred to as the ‘encyclopedia’ of our club. His memory for events, projects, policies, and Rotary expectations is incredible. Without him, we would be lost at times. He joined Rotary in the mid 90’s when he and his wife Ellen moved home to the Bruce Peninsula from Brampton, Ontario to retire. He was born and bred ‘North of the Checkerboard,’ as we all say here, on the northern section of this beautiful peninsula.... Douglas had worked in many capacities for John T. Hepburn Equipment, a company that manufactured cranes and all sorts of large equipment. He had been production clerk, scheduler, expediter, and assistant comptroller to name just a few of his jobs. Returning to the Bruce was a great decision by Douglas and Ellen. The community gained a hard worker, and we gained a great friend. We all gained two great workers and two great friends. Ellen opened a Pet Supply Business and Douglas was right there to help her. They worked well as a team. He will tell you how important Ellen is to him and how she has helped him throughout the years. He was asked to join Rotary by Csptain Gerald Greig a relative and friend. He liked that Rotary was extremely community minded and accepted the invitation immediately. It was not long before Rotary put him to work as Secretary! That job he held for countless years and worked with many, many presidents to make sure the work of our club got done and was organized. Douglas was an organizer and still is. If you ask him what he likes best about Rotary his answer will be quick and simple, ‘the people’. He has made countless friends both in the club and when working on projects for the club. He is, indeed, a worker. Although his eyesight is a serious problem for him now and he has had to give up the secretary’s job, he still is active at so many Rotary projects. We turn to Douglas when we need information about how this was done, who knows where this is, how can we contact the right people and just how long should this take? Whatever the question, Douglas has the answer. For those of us that know him well, we can tell you that he is a true friend with a sense of humour and a willing heart to help. If you want to know if Rotary is for you, ask Douglas Greig. He knows how he has enjoyed it and what he has gained as a member. We know how much we have gained by having him in our club for these many years. Thanks Douglas. You are a true ROTARY HERO. See more

Rotary Heroes Captain Gerald Greig The ‘Captain’ as we all call him is that type of individual that all Rotary Club’s would love to have as a member. But we sure are not going to let him go anywhere.... Gerald Greig has been in Rotary for 40 years this very year. He joined Rotary at a time when our club was struggling to survive with only 9 members. His uncle, Ivan Lemke, asked him if he would be interested and he said he would. Since that time, he has served as chair of every committee we have including membership, fundraising and pancake breakfasts. He has been president several times as well. Jerry’s enthusiasm for international projects and his desire to help others less fortunate than the rest of us, has led him to champion projects that have helped around the world. He is our ambassador for Polio Plus and a strong believer in the work Rotary International does in the world. Jerry’s enthusiasm to help in the Cameroon resulted in our club, for several years, working to assist residents in this war-torn African country. He is a retired Great Lake Captain with Upper Lakes Shipping out of Toronto. He started out as a ‘deckhand’ in 1965 in what he thought would be a temporary job. Well he continued to work through the ranks very quickly and soon was the Captain of his own ship. Like many others in the area in which we live, Captain Gerald Greig had heard the call of the sea and it was in his blood. He, and his wife Helen have two girls and several grandchildren. One of their daughters, Erin, is also a member of our club. Rotary is, indeed, his passion. He will tell you it is because of the good Rotary does both locally and in the world. He enjoys his work with the Cameroon Project. He enjoys meeting Rotarians from many clubs. He was thrilled to meet Rotary International President Ian Risely in Mildmay in 2017. He attended the International Rotary Convention in Toronto in 2018. In fact, he would tell you that one of the best things about Rotary is making new friends from all over the country and the world. Captain Gerald Greig is active in our community and our province. He belongs to the Barrow Bay and District Sport Fishing Association and has been President of the International Ship Masters Association. Gerry has received a Paul Harris Fellowship for his Rotary work in our community and the world and received the Captain Lewis Ludington Award in March of 2008 from the Detroit Mariners Church for his efforts in the shipping industry related to the Edmund Fitzgerald. Our Captain Gerald Greig is truly a Rotary Hero. We are enormously proud and honoured to call him our friend and fellow Rotarian. Pictures are Captain Gerald Greig and his daughter Rotarian Erin at a Rotary Pancake Breakfast during warmer and safer times.

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Indeed it’s an emergency developing for the Children of the World Covid-19 causing immunisation gaps for vulnerable children Dated: 07 Nov 2020... LONDON: Severe disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic to immunisation campaigns against measles and polio are putting millions of vulnerable children at risk from deadly and debilitating diseases, United Nations agencies said on Friday. Issuing an urgent call for funding to avert epidemics of the contagious diseases, the UN children’s fund Unicef and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said $655 million was needed to address dangerous immunity gaps in poor and middle-income countries. We cannot allow the fight against one deadly disease to cause us to lose ground in the fight against other diseases, Unicef’s executive director Henrietta Fore said in a statement. Fore said the $655m needed included $400m for polio and $255m for measles. Transmission of poliovirus is now expected to increase in Pakistan and Afghanistan Measles has staged a global resurgence in recent years, with ongoing outbreaks in all parts of the world. Vaccination coverage gaps have been further exacerbated in 2020 by Covid-19, and the WHO said data on measles death rates for 2019, due to be released next week, will show the continued negative toll that sustained outbreaks are having. With polio, case numbers worldwide had been reduced to extremely low levels before the Covid-19 pandemic, but transmission of the crippling virus is now expected to increase in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and in areas of Africa where polio vaccination coverage rates have dipped. The Covid-19 pandemic (has) hurt momentum as... immunisation efforts were suspended, the WHO’s director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing on Friday. This left children, especially in high-risk areas, more vulnerable to killer diseases like polio, measles and pneumonia. And now we’re starting to see outbreaks of these diseases. The WHO’s director of immunisation, vaccines and biologicals Catherine O’Brien told a separate briefing that disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic to health services had led to 91 routine vaccination campaigns being stopped in 53 countries. They’re coming back, but they haven’t come back fully or as quickly as we were hoping they will, she said, adding that this was creating immunity gaps for measles, polio and several other infectious diseases. If we don’t act quickly soon for both polio, measles, yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, we will see significant outbreaks in 2021 or 2022, O’Brien said. Published in Dawn, November 7th, 2020

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Tomorrow is WORLD POLIO DAY. Help us end polio. We are almost there.

October 24th is World Polio Day Learn how Rotary is celebrating the work we have done and are still doing. https://www.facebook.com/rotary/videos/761243921099394/

As important a vaccine today as yesterday!