315 - 475 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 2B3 - 604-685-0481
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St. Paul's Hospital Audiology Dept.
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Vancouver Club Meeting Schedule
The Rotary Club of Vancouver meets every Tuesday
12:00pm - 1:30pm at the TERMINAL CITY CLUB
837 West Hastings.
Visitors Are Welcome. Lunch $35.
This Week's Speaker
Mary Laing - Membership Committee
Rotary Strawberry Sales
The Rotary Club of Vancouver will be selling Strawberries in May 2009 as a fund raiser for our Community Services projects. Register now and we will contact you in early May with pricing information and how you can place your order.
For more information click here to see our Flyer or click here for FAQs.
To order now click here. Remember on-line orders close this Friday, June 26th!
Bike-A-Thon 2009
The Rotary Club of Vancouver's annual Bike-A-Thon to raise money for hearing will take place on Sunday July 12th, 2009.
This year your donations will go to support the BC Children's Hospital Otology/Cochlear Implant Program. The Funds will be used to purchase urgently needed equipment including:
1) A Video Visual Response Audiometer which will allow an improved assessment of children when they are being tested for hearing loss.
2) A Verifit Hearing Analyzer which will allow testing of hearing aids of children to ensure all is working well as well as verifying levels.
3) Operating Room Cochlear Implant Templates, Micro Surgical Otologic Ear Set Instruments and Fine and Course Burrs.
4) An outpatient ENT clinic Otologic Telescope and Pneumatic Otoscopy device.
5) A Camera for Outpatient Microscope so patients and parents can see what the doctors re seeing in the ear.
The Rotary Bike-A-Thon Committee visited the Cochlear Implant Services at B.C. Children’s Hospital on April 22, 2009. Click here to read about BC Children's Hospital's Early Hearing Screening Program and the advances in Cochlear Implant Technology.
We have a new on-line registration and donation system ready to go. Riders will be given the opportunity to create their own web site to collect donations as individuals or a member of a team. You can email your personal link to your friends and business associates and invite them to support you on the ride.
For more information click here.
We have over 60 riders registered to -date.
To Support a Rider click here and enter the Riders name in the Participants Name window
To Register for the Ride click here
To access Your Web Page click here. You can view the Pledges you have raised, your list of Supporters and Edit your Web Page.
To View the Status of All On-line Donations click here
For more Details on Registration and Sponsoring a Rider click here
See you on the 12th of July!
The Bike-A-Thon 2009 Committee
Community Service
Click here for information on the Rotary Club of Vancouver's Community Service work.
World Community Service
Click here for information on the Rotary Club of Vancouver's World Community Service work.
International Service
$10 can bring clean water to 40 people for life. Help the Rotary Club of Vancouver provide clean water for 125,000 villagers in the remote Bokoro District of the DR of the Congo.
Over 90% of the Congo's 62 million people survive on $1 a day. With no access to clean water, water-borne diseases bring misery and kill tens of thousands every year. In Bokoro District women and children must walk 4 km on treacherous steep slopes to fetch water.
Early in 2009, the first four of fourteen wells were completed with support from the Vancouver Rotary Club and partners in the Congo, France, Japan and the Rotary Foundation. With your help we plan to raise US$210,000 to drill 10 more wells. These wells will change the lives of Bokoro villagers, especially those of women and children.
Click here for information on the Rotary Club of Vancouver's clean water project in the Congo.
View our Photo Gallery from the Congo.
Youth Committee
Click here for information on the Rotary Club of Vancouver's Youth Programs including Interact, Rotaract, Youth Exchange and RYLA.
The Wunday Ranch
Another unforgettable weekend at Paul McCrea's Wunday Ranch! See the photos
Rotary Bonspiel
A great weekend of curling and fun for all in Squamish! See the photos
Rotary Curling and Bridge
Rotary Curling League and Member's Bridge Current Standings - click here
Upcoming Events
Dinner Auction - Friday March 27th
Regular Events
Rotary Curling - Monday Night - 4:45 pm - For information on the Curling League, contact Myron Kuzych at 604-291-6341 or Bill Dauphinee at 604-985-9693.
Member's Bridge - 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month - For Information on Member's Bridge, contact Jack Zaleski at 604-328-4288
Rotarian's Investment Club - 6:00pm - Last Thursday of every month - RVYC
Welcome to our Newest Members
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| James Aikens | Haruo Kubo | Sue Dulay | Katie Seymour | Tess Lawson | Joe Lopushinsky | Thorsten Abel |
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| Massoud Abedi | Angus Campbell | John Lombard |
Also welcome to Samuel Esaw
Rotary's New Face
In case you missed it, here is the Front Page article
that appeared in the Courier on August 13th.
History of the Rotary Club of Vancouver
A History of the Rotary Club of Vancouver on its 75th Anniversary. Prepared by Ted McRae.
In 1988, Ted McRae, Past-President and Paul Harris Fellow, was asked to write a History of the Vancouver Club commemorating its 75th Anniversary. In honour of Ted, his dedication and commitment to the Vancouver Club, the Complete Text of his research is attached.
How it all started!
The Charter and the official recognition of the Rotary Club of Vancouver, was presented at a luncheon on April 22, 1913. The Roster of the day listed 94 members, a recruiting accomplishment unequalled in our history. There was little doubt that "Vancouver was ready for Rotary".
Here is an excerpt from Ted McRae's history of our club - The Formative Years.
Rotary Club of Vancouver
Nick Blom
President
David Motion
Secretary
John Hayto
President-Elect
Terry Milller
Vice President
Bill Dauphinee
Treasurer