Following our very successful speaker series 'Indigenous Voices', our Club has established a priority to carry-on with another themed, community education and information initiative ... so, it's now time to start planning the Norfolk Sunrise, Fall '22, Speakers Series.
This year's topic is 'Climate Change/Climate Action'.
If you have ideas on topics we could cover or speakers we should invite or suggestions on how to reach the greatest number of people to engage them in this series we'd love to have you join us in developing and organizing this event.
Please EMail our Club coordinator, Marjorie Dawson at mevdawson@gmail.com or call her directly at 519-583-3328.
Thanks so much!
The fifth approved licencing of our ever-popular community fundraiser concluded on Friday 21 January 2022 - what an adventure that series of draws proved to be - congratulations to all winners but in particular to John Lloy our $15K Grand Prize Winner!
Rudi Atkinson writes in: You are invited to visit the local Rotary Sunrise Trail running north off of Davis St in Simcoe.
Following a very successful venture in 2020 (right in the middle of the pandemic!), we decided it was important to try collecting hygiene products for those in need, once again. Our aim was to partner with community vendors (incl two employers) to collect feminine hygiene products for distribution to our local Norfolk County food banks (five of them), the woman’s shelter, St Vincent de Paul and the Salvation Army.
Between 15-20 volunteers participated in this very worthy service project with representation from each of the three local Rotary Clubs. With Area Co-ordinator Bob Stevenson's oversight, Joanne Kiefer and Mary Mercato (both from RCNS) organized and ensured that the event would be as successful as possible. They would like to thank all those who participated and helped out in any way to bring this project to fruition. 
Rotary's aim was as simple as it was important - to work with others in the community to help with a cleanup of our local waterways - this as a part of a greater Rotary initiative to do something useful across the entire Great Lakes area, during this years Environmental Week.
Part of the aim was to clean-up our local waterways - here we worked at locations at Alligator Park Simcoe, Wellington Park Simcoe, Quance Dam Delhi, Port Dover, Turkey Point and Long Point.
