Rotary recently contributed to metal plaques for the Grieving Soldier memorial at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Remembrance Day ceremonies will take place at the new Fire Hall at Hwy 50 and Bolton Heights at 12:15 on Monday, November 10Stories
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Rotary recently contributed to metal plaques for the Grieving Soldier memorial at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Remembrance Day ceremonies will take place at the new Fire Hall at Hwy 50 and Bolton Heights at 12:15 on Monday, November 10 |
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 You can see by the expression on Weston's face that he was proud of his accomplishment at the finish line! Special thanks to all who participated 300 runners, 100 volunteers, committee, sponsors, family and friends to make this such a great day!...despite the weather. The new location provided lots of good feedback to see what went well and how we can improve for next year. 10th Anniversary Sunday, Oct 25, 2020 !! |
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 Time to contact your sponsors, sign up volunteers and encourage runners to register. Looking forward to a great event again this year. We have re-located the starting/end point of the race behind the Caledon Centre for Recreation and Wellness and Rotary Place!!Starting at 9:30 am, register for our FREE Kids 1K Fun Run. Each child will receive a race finishers medal, drawstring backpack and snacks. Limited to the first 400 registrations. At 10:00 am run or walk along Kingsview to Longwood and into Bolton Camp along the Murray Stewart Trail. Registered runners for the 5/10 km need to pick up a runner kit including Haunted Hill t-shirt and swag. Lunch, awards and prizes! Limited to the first 400 Registrations. Register as a runner, volunteer or sponsor on rotaryhauntedhill.com All net proceeds for the day will go to local youth organizations including Humberview Alphadogs Robotics Team, First Lego-League Caledon, Kids First Caledon among others. |
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.JPG) Becky Smith has gone 'above and beyond' to support our projects and is a well-deserved recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow. This is an award "to honor a Rotarian or friend of Rotary in recognition of their contribution to Rotary and the community over several years." |
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 Proud to recognize Tyler Viaene as a Paul Harris Fellow, June, 2019 |
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 A few Rotarians and member of John Williams family - Kathy, Kelly and Kyle were present to see the bench in it's new location toward the West end of the Murray Stewart Trail in Bolton Camp. It was a nice opportunity to recognize and remember all the contributions that John made to the club over his 25 years. |
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.JPG) Frank Macellaio recognized as a Paul Harris Fellow at Changeover in June 2019 |
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 President Doug Prince announced 2020 theme Rotary Connects The World and presentation of Long Service Plaque naming Doug Witherspoon, Ross Gray, Romas Krilavicius, Dave Sammut, John Williams, Douglas Fleck, Hal Gregory, Don Ogden, Bob Palmateer and Murray Stewart |
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 We had a great day at the tournament on May 23 - started out rain and cold but ended sunny and bright. Great energy in the room with golfers meeting up with friends old and new. Thanks to all the volunteers, sponsors and golfers for supporting our event again this year. |
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 Ron Kyle arranged a Rotary to Rotary transfer of fire and emergency equipment to Guatemala. Very much appreciated!! |
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 We partnered with a Rotary club in BC to provide girls in Africa with sanitation products. |
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 Carine Strong presented the club with a certificate of appreciation for our volunteer efforts over the past year and supporting the Caledon Volunteer of the Year award! |
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 We are proud to recognize Murray Stewart for his 50 years in the Rotary Club of Bolton by naming the newly refurbished trail through Bolton Camp in his honor. There was a ceremony on Sat. Oct 27, 2018 where friends and family joined together to celebrate this milestone. A bench, designed by Girls Can Too, was dedicated to John Williams in remembrance of his 25 fulfilling years in the club and wonderful memories. |
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 Thank you to our sponsors, volunteers and runners for making our annual family event such a success!!. The weather started out snowy but the sun came out and made it a great day to be outside getting fresh air and exercise! The renovated Murray Stewart Trail through the Bolton Camp made it a safer, easier run this time and well worth the investment. |
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 Chaiyot Mamuang arrived recently from Thailand. Brian James was there to greet him and welcome him to Canada. I'm sure he is in for a wonderful year of new experiences ahead! |
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 Here is Chloe at the airport to take her on the next year's adventure as a Youth Exchange student in Austria - can't wait for the updates on her adventures! |
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 A big welcome to our newest member Adrian Weglo! |
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 Murray Stewart has been in the Rotary Club of Bolton for 50 years. To recognize his tremendous contributions to our club and community we asked for the new TRCA trail through Bolton Camp to be named in his honor. The unveiling took place at Changeover 2018. Once the signage has been installed we will all take a walk on the trail to mark the occasion. |
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 Rick Arthur awarded William E Egan Willing Worker award for "service above self". |
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 David Kostynyk was honored as Rotarian of the Year 2018 at Changeover on Fri. June 8! |
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 Please join us in welcoming Fouad Al-Hin to our family of Rotary |
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 We were thrilled to have Lesley Barmania, DGN representing Rotary Foundation present Margo and Diana with their Endowment Plaque for making the pledge to "Doing Good In The World" and making an investment in the future. |
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 What an amazing day we had - over 400 people walking the trail in the sunshine, playing games of chance, petting live bunnies, eating ice-cream. Great way to celebrate spring! |
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 Brendan took Don and Karen on an ATV to see the refurbished cabins. TRCA Bolton Camp donated 4 cabins and Bolton Rotary is helping to cover some of the renovation costs. Starting to shape up! We learned that YMCA Cedar Glen hosts 25,000 guests each year and offers maple syrup, bee apiaries, organic farm, and soon to come childcare centre and farm therapy for mental health. |
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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 |
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 Well we out-did ourselves on the ugly sweater/hat competition. what a lot of fun!! |
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 Maureen was inducted on Dec 18 as our newest member! Congratulations and welcome to the club! We should have re-thought our 'ugly sweater' event on the same evening - always a good sport, Maureen joined in the fun and spirit of the evening. |
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Bolton Camp is going through an exciting re-imaging to be more community focused and a vibrant centre for arts, exercise, entrepreneurship, business development, workshops....and much more...take a look Bolton Camp Reimagining |
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  What a party! 85 Rotarians and friends of Rotary joined together for a Christmas celebration and to raise more than $6,000. for Bethell Foundation, supporting a family and Shop with a Cop. Everyone was so generous and really got into the spirit of the auction. Murray was in great form last night and rallied the crowd to give big! Here's Jill heading home with her loot. |
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 What a great day for a parade! We gave away 5,000 toothbrushes/paste along the route. Thanks to Connor Anderson for being the gingerbread mascot on the float, to Matt Jennison for driving the truck, Greg at Diamond Towing for the truck and Dave at Motorhome Travel for float storage and decorating, and of course, the volunteers who came out to distribute the toothbrushes. |
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 We were pleased to host the district governor on her recent club tour. L-R Ingrid Sproxton, DG Kathi Dick, Timothy Whitehead, Sherrin Palmateer and Don Ogden |
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 North Hill tree planting through Bolton Horticultural Society - recognizing donors for generosity |
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 We are excited to use the newly revitalized trail for our upcoming Haunted Hill Run - enjoy this lovely weather and take an Autumn walk. |
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 Congratulations to Fines Ford Lincoln, family owned, family operated small business champion who positively contributes to the life and spirit of the town. |
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 We are pleased to welcome Allan Bennett to the family of Rotary. He was inducted September 25. |
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 The supplies have arrived in Guatemala and getting ready for distribution to 100 schools (15,000 students)
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 Jeanne Egan, Becky Smith, Douglas Fleck and Murray Stewart were presenters to the Humberview Award recipients June 2017 |
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 28 companies were celebrated June 26 for their generous support of the Bolton Rotary golf tournament. Over 23 years we have given more than $1.3 million to community groups & charities including $200,000. to local hospitals. Charlene representing Woodington Lake Golf Club where we have hosted the event over the past 5 years. |
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 Andrew Miller awarded Rotarian of the Year 2017 at recent Changeover night |
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 It was at Changeover on June2 that Scott Fraser was recognized with a Paul Harris Fellow and congratulated by DG Bill Proctor and outgoing President Aldo Villanovich. |
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 We were pleased to co-present with Palgrave club to donate $12,000. for a program that brings parents together to support their children with disabilities. |
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 May 18 weather held until the end of the tournament to make for an amazing day! We were able to donate $10,000 to each of 3 hospitals that will go toward research and equipment in our local community. Members from Headwaters, William Osler and UHN joined us to volunteer and receive the donation. 260 golfers, 70 sponsors and 40 volunteers help to make the day such a huge success! Thanks to everyone for their ongoing support. |
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 Proud to induct Chandler Nicol to the family of Rotary |
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Once again we are supporting the Humberview robotics team as they go on to the Ontario District Championships: April 13th - April 15th The Hershey Centre  |
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 Bolton Rotary was recognized as a community partner in the AED-CPR Program that has trained more than 17,000 students in life-saving skills in 60 schools across Peel Region. |
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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.
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 We raised over 11,000 at our Christmas auction and were proud to donate it to Vitanova, a local foundation ...helping put lives back together. |
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 Becky Smith was inducted as an Honorary member at the Christmas event December, 2016 |
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 Excellent day in the parade with a record crowd! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! |
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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.
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 Parking at Rotaryfest is co-ordinated by the Navy League and their volunteer team - thanks for all their time and work on that weekend! Proceeds from that event are shared with them. |
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 17 of our club members met to brainstorm, discuss and share ideas to help shape the future of our club...stay tuned for action items to follow |
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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.
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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.
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 Aldo and Douglas by our club display at One Rotary Wonder after another conference |
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 Daiki & Aldo with RI Pres. Elect Ian Riseley (from Australia) & Liam (Exchange student from Australia) at meeting in Brampton. |
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 Jeanne was inducted by DG Bill Proctor as an Honorary member. Proud to have her as part of the Bolton Rotary family. |
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 Andrew Miller was inducted by DG Bill Proctor on Monday...welcome aboard! |
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 We are proud to induct our newest member to our club ! |
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.jpg) Tom Kitamura was honoured last evening at the District Changeover with Club Builder award to a Rotarian who has significantly supported and strengthened their club. Congratulations to Tom ! |
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 Only 2 gold and 2 silver and 4 bronze Presidential Citation awards were presented at District changeover June 28. Karen was pleased to accept the Silver award on behalf of an amazing club ! |
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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.
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 What a team! helping to beautify Bolton |
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 What a day! We exceeded all expectations and feedback from the golfers was fantastic - especially our entertainment with Todd and Greg from Golf With Attitude - we'll get some photos up on the golf website....boltonrotarygolf.ca. Special thanks to sponsors, golfers, volunteers and the committee for making the day such a success. |
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 Coleraine Park Environmental Restoration Project Toronto Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), Town of Caledon, James Dick Construction, Rotary Clubs of Bolton & Palgrave & Kinsmen Club of Bolton
We completed this Project on schedule Friday May 13 and the TRCA Field Team did an excellent job machine planting all the 34 trees behind and adjacent to the Caledon Animal Shelter on Coleraine Drive. The staff & volunteers of the Caledon Animal Shelter and the community dog walkers, not to mention their dogs, will greatly appreciate the shade from these trees on hot sunny days because there were only a few trees in these off-leash areas.
Richard Hunt - Bolton & District Horticultural Society (BDHS) - Associate Director Environmental Projects
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 Aldo and Hectorine were there to celebrate Rotary Day at the Vatican |
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 Coming in 6th place - this club at Humberview has got winning potential! |
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 This is the 2nd phase of the work done at Las Carretas School.....the old one where the boy was trying to drink water from the tap....but no water, also where the dogs and pigs were in the mud on the street. Now they have 2 more classrooms, Toilets & wash station with clean water (there is a water tank on the roof). Good work done by RC Gualan |
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 Stacey Tarrant joined Melanie Johannink and President Karen Fast to accept this cheque for $5000. from our Christmas Auction proceeds. It will go toward an education program for youth to create awareness about impact of abuse on families |
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 Welcome to our newest member Greg Pannia ! |
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 Over 340,000 being checked & shipped to needy around the world from this place in Kitchener. Of these 73 were created or collected by Humberview Interact Club. |
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 Eight children waved from their skiis, sleds and snowboards coming down the snowflake hill this year! weather was wonderful and children lined the streets to receive one of the 4,000 toothbrushes we distributed. |
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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
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 Karen was inducted on Monday by DG Will Pugh. |
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 Proud to be recognized on the new Cavalier fleet |
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portable ultrasound unit recently purchased with funding provided by the Rotary Club of Bolton.
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 Ribfest was a huge success - thanks to our sponsors, volunteers, Rotary family and friends, vendors, community partners! We saw over 20,000 people over the weekend, diverted more than 5,000 lbs of compost, ate our way through thousands of pounds of ribs, danced to rockin' tunes and had a fantastic time in the hot summer sunshine! |
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.jpg) PDG Bob Palmateer was awarded the Rotary Foundation Citation for Meritorious Service for being highly active in service activities related to the Rotary Foundation at the District Changeover, June 23, 2015 |
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 The students were excited to receive new school supplies and games at Las Carretas school, thanks to Hectorine and Aldo for their efforts in securing and shipping the supplies. |
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 Participating with our concession trailer for the 2015 Pan Am Games Torch Relay |
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 James and Anne Dick were recognized as Paul Harris Fellows at Changeover on June 5, 2015. We appreciate all the support they have given the community over the years. |
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.jpg) The ACT foundation has partnered with Rotary and the Humberview school to train students and staff CPR and defibulator skills as part of their health education program. |
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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 |
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Rotarians choose Toronto for 2018
Tourism Toronto is extremely pleased to announce that Toronto has just been chosen as the host city for the 2018 Rotary International Convention, to be held from June 24-27. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the local Rotary Organizing Committee and congratulate them on an admirable job. Thanks to the Rotary International Convention, Toronto will welcome over 20,000 Rotarians and their families, which will represent some 40,000 room nights in downtown and west side hotels, with an estimated direct visitor spend of $32 million. The Metro Toronto Convention Centre and the Air Canada Centre will serve as primary venues. Financial assistance for the event was made possible by the Convention Development Fund, a joint initiative of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, participating hotels and Tourism Toronto |
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Respect for cultural diversity, and the life and dignity of every person without discrimination or prejudice Rejection of violence toward all people in all its forms ResolutIon of conflict within local and global communities Reconciliation of differences in the pursuit of harmony |
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Kristin Morrison Andrea Norgate, Josh Lai, Debbie Findlay joined several of our members and expressed their appreciation for donations from our Electronic Re-cycling day. A life was saved by a successful double kidney/pancreas transplant and now the patient is exhibiting no more diabetes symptoms. |
...Aldo called 4 Rotarians with Pick Up Trucks....See Photos Attached.
