Welcome to summer – it has finally arrived!
Our last month of the 2024/25 Rotary year is upon us. I encourage all of you to reflect on the positives; the good things that you, as individuals, have assisted in accomplishing during this Rotary year. What has our impact been on our community, our County, the world? You should all be very proud of your personal contributions to our many successes as the Wellington Rotary Club.
Our action plan toolkit served us well; and from the County, the beach, the hospital, the food bank, to our local health team have all benefitted from our hard work. We have enhanced our local engagement, and we adapted well. During our year, we also celebrated by attending fellowship events, fundraisers, and active projects.
As we transition from this Rotary year to the next, let’s focus on the opportunity to balance continuity and change. Let’s move our club forward as we share “The Magic of Rotary” and “Unite for Good.” Let’s all get behind our President Elect Yvonne and make the Rotary year 2025/26 the best one ever.
My Thank You Corner:
This week, I want my thank yous to be directed to fellowship and fundraisers (one and the same).
The Bottle Depot: Headed by Mike, Trudy, Bill M., and Kim, their unwavering hard work and organization have made this project so successful. Thank you also to the many Rotarians and Friends of Rotary who have worked so hard and diligently through cold, heat, rain, and freezing rain. As a result, 750,000 containers were kept out of our landfill. Wow!
Dinner Dance/Auction: Led by never-say-die Bill Pennell, he and his committee continued to work through adverse conditions (due to COVID) and returned a sizeable profit. Well done Bill and your committee.
Diners and Duffers: Norm and his able assistant, Mary, continued with our recent tradition of hard work = profits. Well done to both of you. A special mention to John Inwood who sold over 100 booklets. Well done to all Rotarians who sold booklets.
White Label Maple Syrup: Yvonne, you are the greatest! How do you manage to do everything that you do (write a book, operate a farm) and still bring in $16,000 for the food bank by encouraging the club to sell 1,800 bottles of syrup? It bodes well to have Yvonne take over as President.
Electronic Recycling: Norm, you are a Prince. You and your friends found the time to recycle a ton of electronics. Our environment is so much better because of you and your team’s efforts.
Golf Tournament: Colin and Ken…again a very successful golf tournament means money for the youth camps. A job well done in enlarging our footprint for young people.
Fellowship Dinners: 36 of 44 members attended our fellowship dinners. They allowed and assisted in the integration of our newer members, and they enabled us to get to know each other better. Thank you to our host Rotarians: • Dave Robinet • Robynne Smith and John Heeringa • Colin Fredericks • Howard Ziedenberg • Jacques Michaud • Bill Hurst • Lyn McGowan Thank you all. I could not have done my year without you!
Roger Tessier
President 2024/2025
On Second Thought: It is so weird being the same age as old people.
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