City of Charlottetown Communities in Bloom
A committee under the leadership of Rotarian Past President Gordon MacInnis planted flowers at the corner of Queen Street and Water Street for the City of Charlottetown's Communities in Bloom project.
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Earth Day Clean-up
On April 22, 2010 as part of Earth Day, a number of club members cleaned up litter in the Joe Ghiz Memorial Park and at the Experimental Farm land across from Burger King.
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March, 2010
Easter Beef steer for the Upper Room
The Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty purchased a steer at the 2010 Easter Beef Sale. The steer will be donated to the Upper Room kitchen. Myron McQuarrie from McQuarrie Meats will process the steer at no cost, and the meat will be donated to the Upper Room food bank.
Shown in the photo are Myron McQuarrie, Rotarian Glen Trueman and Mike Godfrey, owner of the steer.
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January 11, 2009
The official opening of a new residential complex for individuals with physical or intellectual disabilities took place on January 11, 2010. The Rotary club of Charlottetown Royalty contributed $5,000 toward the construction and was honoured with a room being named after it.
Pictured above is the President of the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty along with Tracey Crane and Bill Lawlor, Executive Director of the Queens County Residential Services.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Island Rotarians Launch Literacy Project. Learn to read - read to learn
Island Rotary Clubs are launching a literacy project aimed at
assisting students with the development of their reading skills. As part of this project approximately 1200 grade three students will
be presented with a specially produced edition of Webster¹s Dictionary purchased by Rotarians. The goal of the project is to assist grade three students in completing their school year as good writers, active readers, and creative thinkers by providing each student with their own personal dictionary to help them develop these skills.
“The dictionaries are a gift to each student to use at school and at
home, hopefully for years to come,” said Duncan Conrad, a past president of
the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty, the lead club on this
Island-wide Rotary project. Rotarians from clubs across the Island will personally visit the
schools and meet with the grade three students to talk about the importance of
literacy and to hand out the dictionaries.
“Reading is one of the most important skills of all,” Conrad said. “It
is the starting point of all the economic and social opportunities this
world has to offer an individual. Statistics show that a very high percentage
of Islander’s have some difficulty with literacy skills. Through the
efforts of Rotarians across the Island, a personal commitment is being made to
improving literacy and the quality of life of all Islanders, beginning
with our students.”
Rotary International is a volunteer organization of 1.2 million
business and professional men and women united worldwide to provide humanitarian service and to help build good will and peace. Prince Edward Island has six Rotary Clubs who are active in service to their communities and around the world.
For more information on the dictionary project contact PDG Duncan Conrad, Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty at 368-3568 or by email at duncanconrad@eastlink.ca. For information on Rotary go to www.rotary.org.
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Annual QEH Harry MacLauchlan
Memorial Golf day
$36,851 was raised for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Foundation during the seventhth annual Great Day Fore Health Harry
MacLauchlan Memorial Golf Tournament at Belvedere Golf Club on June
2, 2010. This raises the five year total to over $250,000.
Pictured above are Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty president John Barrett (club president), Marjorie MacLauchlan, John Furlong and Alan Morse, Chairman of the QEH Foundation. Rotarians John Furlong and Lee Forbes are the club organizers of the event.
For more details, see the QEH golf page.
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Barn building for Habitat
For Humanity
On June 5, 2010 the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty sponsored and built two mini-barns for Habitat for Humanity. The
barn-build is an annual fundraising activity for HFH - organizations pay an
entry fee which covers the cost of materials and then assemble a team to build a
barn. HFH then sells the barns for about $850 each.
This event is a fun, hands-on project that makes use of the many talents of Rotarians.
How to Build a Mini-Barn
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Youth Awards
Each year the Community Services Youth Committee presents an award to students of junior high schools who have contributed to their community in a significant way.
This year's Youth Award winners are:
Bernadette Chevarie |
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L'ecole Francois Buote |
Andrew Cameron |
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Queen Charlotte Junior High School |
Tesa MacCallum |
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Stonepark Junior High School |
Mia Clow |
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East Wiltshire Intermediate School |
Danielle Murnaghan |
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Donagh Regional School |
Michael MacKenzie |
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Birchwood Junior High School |
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Bernadette Chevarie
Ecole Buote |
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Andrew Cameron
Queen Charlotte Jr. High |
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Tesa MacCallum
Stonepark Jr. High |
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Mia Clow
East Wiltshire Jr. High |
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Danielle Murnaghan
Donagh |
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Michael MacKenzie
Birchwood Jr. High |
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