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Jim Simpson presenting an RCNS cheque to George Araujo, General Manager/Treasurer for the Norfolk County Fair and Horse Show. This donation (as has been the case with our previous-year donations to this cause) will be used in direct support of the Ag-Awareness program; a Fair program intended to enhance the awareness of Grade 4 children concerning the nature of our agriculturally-based community.
President-Elect Rudi Atkinson, presenting Eric Haverkamp with an RCNS donation towards his plan to re-brand the Riverside 83 building into a food-based facility, emplaced to support those in need in our community. This donation will go towards the creation of an artistic mural to add to the exterior aesthetics of the building.
RCNS Community Service Work - Riversyde 83
Over the past several weeks, we’ve had a great chance to help
our friends at Church Out Serving as they tackle the work needed to transform
an old liquour store into a community support centre. On several occasions, we’ve been able to get into destructo-mode and leave our sweat behind as we helped to clear out the place, tear down a rugged suspended ceiling and generally help out around the construction site.
This was not the kind of thing that everyone could participate in owing to the nature of the work but we offered up many volunteers; all making short work of it. Those able to help out included Peter Wheatley, Jim Dawson, Andy Kooistra, Jim Simpson, Ross Gowan, Dave Nicolle, Alan Plater, Keith Jones, Keith Catherwood and Gail Catherwood. Eric assures us there will be more chances to help out, before he’s finished with the reconstruction work in the fall.
Church out Serving has been keeping the public up-to-date on their own facebook page and we’ve even received a bit of sincere recognition for our contribution - see https://www.facebook.com/pg/churchoutserving/posts/?ref=page_internal
Photos that resulted from these adventures are at our album(s) at
https://norfolksunrise.org/photoalbums/riversyde-83-demolition/
A couple of the more interesting shots are shown below.
Presidents Leading from the Front!
While Pres Keith certainly knows a lot about dumpster diving, Past-Pres Gail makes a better fashion statement on a construction site; she makes such great cookies too!!
Thanks very much to Mike Cobb (left), representing the Rotary Club of Simcoe and presenting a cheque to John Wallace, to support the Operation Eyesight project in Nepal which is led by the Rotary Club of Norfolk Sunrise. The Simcoe and Norfolk Sunrise Clubs work closely together in several ways, to the benefit of the members in both clubs and the people and communities supported locally and internationally. Thank you Simcoe Rotary members!
Very uplifting "classification talk" by Tracy this morning. Interesting to learn that it took Tracy a while to find her passion as a chef, but she certainly hasn't looked back since. That passion certainly has driven Tracy to excellence, demonstrated in spades through The Bellworth House restaurant, her catering, and now her Liaison College venture. 
Jim used his Sgt-at-Arms opportunity to give a brief overview of his experience as a part of the 2018 Canada to Scotland Rotary Curling Tour. He noted the rewards, value and unique aspects of the tour and thanked his Rotary hosts as well as those in the club who had supported his great experience. Happy Bucks offered for each one. Shown here is Jim with the 'Bob Mackintosh TransAtlantic Rotary Curling Quaich' won by the 2108 Canadian team for the first time in 8 years.
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