Rotary Club of Ladner
Coast Tsawwassen Inn, 1665 56th Street V4L 2B2 Delta, BC, Canada

Santa and Prime Minister help Ladner Rotarians celebrate Christmas in style -- most members made it onto the nice list, some naughty. https://tinyurl.com/ybocp5kn

Patients in the 58 acute care beds, outpatients, 92 long term care residents, their visitors and the more than 110 hospital and medical staff at Delta Hospital are getting a lift from the Christmas lights now brightening up the main entrance and the Healing Garden at the hospital's central courtyard. A team of 10 Rotary Club of Ladner members, including several from Pure Sunfarms, put up the lights and seasonal figures over the past weekend. https://tinyurl.com/hospitallights

25 families supported by Delta Secondary School students, including 42 student members of the school’s Interact Club, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Ladner, and the South Delta Food Bank, will receive 1,750 food and toiletry items as well as over $2000 in cash and gift cards for the purchase of food, thanks to the students’ and school staff’s Twenty Days of Giving" campaign. https://tinyurl.com/y669qpa6

When you buy from a small business an actual person does a little happy dance. 2020 has been an unprecedented year... let's strengthen our community this holiday season by supporting local & small businesses #SupportLocal #ShopLocal #BuyLocal

Rotary Club of Ladner looked back on its international Gold level Rotary Citation 2019-20 year, with the theme, Rotary Connects the World, and looked forward to 2021-22 with the election of its new board of directors at the club's Annual General Meeting on December 1, 2020.https://tinyurl.com/y4zmd2vu

Founded over 100 years ago, The Rotary Foundation is recognized by international foundation rating organizations as one of the world’s most trusted and effective foundations. It is the foundation for Rotary International, the world’s original service club. Over time it has spent more than US$4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects. It is the powerhouse behind many of Rotary’s contributions to communities here at home, including the Ladner Rotary Splash Park, and arou...nd the world. Members of the three Rotary clubs in Delta, including the original Rotary Club of Ladner, throughout BC and around the world raise funds for, and donate to, The Rotary Foundation because as little as 60 cents can protect a child from polio, $50 can provide clean water to help fight waterborne illness and $500 can launch an antibullying campaign and create a safe environment for children. https://tinyurl.com/y4db4kaq

Vancouver's Women in Blue salutes the 125 women who have served the Vancouver Police from 1904 to 1975, from their early roles as matrons to active duty police constables. The author is the first women to reach the rank of Deputy Chief Constable, Carolyn Daley. https://tinyurl.com/y2n33ljh

As eight Ladner Rotarians shared stories about family members who served their country in the military we salute all those who lost their lives, came home wounded and made that sacrifice on the occasion of Remembrance Day. https://portal.clubrunner.ca//remembering-family-of-club-m

Thanks to Delta residents, 50 low income families throughout Delta will enjoy a happier Christmas with $4,900 in net proceeds from a paper Shred-A-Thon which Ladner Rotary held on November 7, 2020. The funds will purchase food gift cards, replacing the usual Deltassist Christmas Hampers of food collected through local schools and other organizations because of pandemic restrictions. https://tinyurl.com/y5u9l887

The Rotary Foundation supports so many projects, large and small, here and around the world.

Paul Engleman is a Chicago-based freelance writer who is a frequent contributor to the Rotary magazine and Contributing Editor for Rotary Canada magazine. He is also an award-winning novelist whose articles, essays, and interviews have appeared in many publications, including the New York Times and Playboy. Paul is a polio survivor. Rotary magazine is an award-winning publication with a circulation of over 500,000, inspiring the creation of a host of Rotary regional magazines. https://tinyurl.com/y5w6ntst

E-Comm is the first point of contact for 9-1-1 callers in 25 regional districts in British Columbia. It handles over 1.8 million 9-1-1 calls a year. E-Comm 9-1-1 emerged from the chaos in coordinating first responders during the 1994 Stanley Cup Riots in Vancouver, as a multi-municipality agency which provides emergency communications operations for British Columbia. The company coordinates 9-1-1 service for police, fire, and ambulance service, providing call-taking and dispatch services for multiple agencies in the Lower Mainland area. https://tinyurl.com/y3p23ere

A large segment of the population is retiring, displaced workers are seeking employment and new skills, and vast numbers of young, diverse, and underrepresented workers are joining the workforce. The construction industry needs to ensure effective transfer of knowledge to keep up with this churn of change. SkillPlan has developed and implemented an industry-proven mentorship model for the construction industry that can also transfer well to other settings. https://tinyurl.com/y4gro69z

On the 75th anniversary of the United Nations (UN), Canada is celebrating our nation's role as a founding member and a contributor to world peace with its 2020 $1 circulation coin. Canada was one of 51 countries which founded the United Nations in October 1945. As one of the most international organizations in the world of the day, Rotary played an active role in the drafting of the United Nations Charter in 1945 in San Francisco. Today, Rotary holds the highest consultative status offered to a nongovernmental organization by the UN’s Economic and Social Council, which oversees many specialized UN agencies. https://tinyurl.com/yys5cgjn