... been to our Sunrise Trail lately?

If not, you'll be interested to know that we've added some club identity to the Trail with improved signage that helps to recognize the recent priority we've placed on beautifying the Trail with trees, daffodils, brush clearance and general cleanup.

As you enter the Norfolk Sunrise Trail at Davis St you are greeted with a portal to our real-world Trail which also includes the club QR code as a portal to our digital-world website.

Great work by our Environmental group.

Please go to the 'Read more ...' tab to find out more about this speaker and the topic discussed.

 

It's such a wonderful, festive-season event and once again, our club has contributed more-than-its-fair share to the Salvation Army Kettle program. Once again, our organizer (Joanne Kiefer - see the frozen version at the photo!) worked with the Salvation Army coordinator (Doug Montgomery) to get us all involved at the collection points in Simcoe and Port Dover. She writes in the following note as results from our contributions;

Neither rain, nor snow, nor blizzard like conditions shall keep a Rotarian from their appointed kettle shift. And what a crazy four weeks of weather it was, particularly the last couple of days. This season our club covered approximately 44 shifts for a total of 88 hours of volunteer service. These hours assisted the Salvation Army in the preliminary total of $280,000 (as of Dec 22 – a few more kettles to add in and maybe some mail in or drop off donations yet to come). While the goal of $310.000 may not be met this year the drive was very successful considering the blizzard like conditions that hampered the last couple days of giving. Strangely, Doug Montgomery Kettle Coordinator stated while the Pandemic did not have many upsides, charities saw an increase in giving during the past few years. I would like to thank all Rotarians for the giving of your time during a very busy personal season for all of you. In addition, I pass on from Doug the following message, “Hats off to your club, all the best in 2023.” I look forward to the ringing of bells with all of you again next year!

After much anticipation, we held our first Club meeting in the newly-minted, Riversyde 83, Food Hub facility - what a great meeting in an absolutely tremendous community facility. The facility proved to be an excellent venue for our meetings - the Church Out Serving group can be more-than-pleased with the outcome of their labours. 

Moreover, with Ross Gowan's skill, we conducted our first-ever 'hybrid' (ie live & digital together) session.

As the meeting unfolded, the following events were introduced by Pres Louise;

More detailed stories concerning these presentations can be found on the website (see stories below) or at www.norfolksunrise.org. 

As an RCNS Regular Member, did you know that almost all of the information found on your home-based, Club Runner (CR) desk-top computer access, can be found on your cell phone?

The enclosed, ~1 minute, video provides for some information and instructional assistance.

Once installed, your phone will then provide you with easy access to data from our RCNS records such as;

Those who have it on their phones use it frequently - if you don't have it yet, why not give it a try!