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Many happy faces, resulting in better education.  You are Making a Difference. 100 schools were sent supplies.

Regards,  Franky ,DGN Francisco A. Viau

Our club joined others to donate towards the Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines 3 years ago.  Some of the money went right away to lend a hand for the immediate emergency.

We were successful with $140,000 usd Global Grant to refurbish 5 schools that were still in need of rebuilding and refurbishing.

We loaded 2 large 40 foot sea containers with school desks, chairs, books, sports equipment etc. and dried soup, apples etc. A big thank you to all.

Once again Murray & Aldo delivered a Truckload of items for the Shoeboxes, to Samaritan’s Purse, Kitchener.

Last year over 340,000 Shoeboxes were filled and delivered worldwide from Kitchener to the needy children Worldwide.

On Monday October 31, a handful of Palgrave and Bolton Rotarians had the immense pleasure of surprising Teresa Colasanti (Executive Director) and Ailsa Stanners-Moroz (Program Manager) of the Caledon Parent-Child Centre with the fantastic news that our Clubs joined together to co-fund a full year of programming for the Centre's "Let's Get Together" program.

 

This program is one that our Club has been involved with for a few years and have had the pleasure of meeting some of the families who are in the program when they came to speak. For those who may not be familiar with it, this program is a 2x per month evening program for families with children with special needs. Parenting a child who has special needs is at times a long and arduous journey.  There are times when one feels completely overwhelmed and hopeless.  A place where people understand the joys, successes and the heartaches.  Where parents can share information, resources, opinions and feelings. Where people don’t judge.  Where they know that their children will be cared for and cared about.

 

A very successful day for our club.  The 6th Annual Haunted Hill Run was our very best ever. 

 

Thanks to the members and their spouses and friends that ran or walked or volunteered.

The road marshals, chili, music, prizes, set up crew, parking, slideshow and videos, registration, volunteer desk, take down crew were all AWESOME!

My biggest thank you to everyone for all your help. 

Interact Club did a great job on Saturday washing cars.  They raised $485.00 and had a lot of fun!

Thanks to all who helped them out.

 

Coleraine Park Environmental Restoration Project 

 

North Hill and the baseball diamonds here are a couple of pictures of the Baseball pavilions we helped support along with the Town of Caledon, The Bolton Braves and the Kinsmen.

This the the Kinsmen's 50th anniversary this year so we were very happy to partner with them.

 

The picnic tables will be added in the spring and plaque commemorating the site

portable ultrasound unit recently purchased with funding provided by the Rotary Club of Bolton. 

 

 

Thank you again for your ongoing support of Etobicoke General Hospital.  Your annual contribution towards equipment for the  hospital help our physicians, nurses and all our clinicians continue to provide excellence in care to our patients.  Providing a brand new comfy stretcher to our ER patients will make all the difference to them whether they are waiting to be seen by a physician, waiting to be taken to diagnostic imaging for a scan or waiting for a patient room. THANK YOU for providing this indispensable piece of equipment and for helping to make our patients feel comfortable while waiting in the busiest unit of the hospital. Last year there were 72,911 patient visits to the Emergency Department, that’s almost 200 a day! On behalf of all the patients and families that visit our Emergency Unit- thank you for this wonderful gift!
 
I look forward to seeing you all at your annual golf tournament in May!!  Warmest Regards,  Anna