Rotary Club of Northern Bruce Peninsula
Submitted by Rob Hiscott
Thanks to everyone who came out to our first community Pancake Breakfast of the 2024 season held on Sunday, May 19th! The event was a great success and we served 119 delicious breakfasts at Rotary Hall that morning! Rotarians and Friends of Rotary served up breakfasts which included pancakes with real maple syrup, scrambled eggs, pork sausages, hash browns, orange juice and coffee/tea. Our next scheduled Pancake Breakfast will be held on the Canada Day weekend, on Sunday, June 30th at the Rotary Pavilion next to Lion’s Head Beach. We hope to see you there!
Rotary thanks the many ‘Friends of Rotary’ who help out with our Pancake Breakfast events, from grilling food on our BBQs, to helping out on the serving line to serve breakfasts, to washing up during and after the breakfast event.
We also thank our generous individual and business sponsors who provide product or financial support to help defray the costs of putting on our Pancake Breakfasts, allowing Rotary to return more money from our fundraisers directly back to the community. A list of 2023 individual and business sponsors can be found on our Club website (https://www.rotarynbp.org/stories/sponsorship), and this will be updated shortly to reflect our 2024 sponsors! If you or your business may be interested in sponsoring our Pancake Breakfast events this year, please contact Rotarian Doug Embleton at (226) 923-1604 for further information.
Celebration of Life Event for Rotarian Bob ‘Bonzaii’ Spearing
There was a large turnout on Saturday, May 11th at Rotary Hall to remember and celebrate the life of long-time Rotarian Bob ‘Bonzaii’ Spearing. Along with Bob’s daughter Denise Spearing and other family members, many past and present Rotarians, as well as friends and neighbours from the community, came out to remember the remarkable life of our dear friend Bob Spearing. Thanks to the ladies from the Peninsula SWANS Club who prepared and served a delicious buffet lunch at the event. Rotarians tended bar at the event as well.
Rotary Scholarships
Your local Rotary Club has been awarding scholarships to high school graduates of Bruce Peninsula District School to pursue post-secondary studies since 1972 – over half a century! Our Club presently awards up to five scholarships annually including:
• Highest Academic Proficiency Scholarship ($1,500) awarded to student with highest Grade 12 academic average as determined by the School.
• Bob Spearing ‘Service Above Self’ Scholarship ($1,500), recently renamed in memory of Bob ‘Bonzaii’ Spearing, long-time, active Rotarian who exemplified our Rotary motto of ‘Service Above Self’. This scholarship is awarded to a student whose involvement in voluntary and other extracurricular activities best exemplifies our Rotary motto of ‘Service Above Self’.
• Keith Hopkinson Memorial Scholarship ($1,500), awarded to a student who will pursue post-secondary studies in a medical, health or related program.
• J.C. Buckley Memorial Scholarship ($1,500), awarded to a student who will pursue post-secondary studies in power engineering, skilled trades or similar technical program.
• Mary Cameron Scholarship for ‘Most Improved Student’ ($1,500), awarded to the student showing the most improvement over the preceding year as determined by the School.
The absolute deadline for submitting scholarship applications to Rotary is Friday, May 31st. Applications and related materials (resumes and letters of reference) can be submitted via e-mail (to nbprotary@gmail.com) or regular mail to: Scholarships Committee, Rotary Club of Northern Bruce Peninsula, 59 Main Street, Lion’s Head, N0H 1W0.
Rotary raises funds for our scholarships program through our various fundraising activities each year, as well as with the generous support of many donors to our program – this includes major donors Roger and Donna Stiller, and a recent generous donation from the former group ‘The Peninsula Players’ of Miller Lake (Brittany Miller, President, Chris Mawdsley, Treasurer) which will go towards our Scholarships fund.
