Submitted by Rob Hiscott
Rotarians teamed up with members of the Peninsula Bruce Trail Club for the kickoff to the 2026 ‘Butt Blitz’ campaign on Tuesday, May 12th beginning at Lion’s Head Beach. About a dozen volunteers divided into smaller groups and collected cigarette butts and other garbage at the beach, along the section towards the Lion’s Head Lighthouse, and on the Bruce Trail (from McCurdy Parking Lot to the Lion’s Head Lookout). Over 1,800 litter items including over 1,200 cigarette butts (two-thirds of the overall total) were collected by the group of volunteers that morning. Rotarians and Friends of Rotary had previously collected around 400 cigarette butts during our annual spring clean-up of the section of Bruce County Road 9 between Lion’s Head and Barrow Bay on May 5th.
The ‘Butt Blitz’ campaign goal is to collect 7,000 butts over the course of the season to help clean and preserve the Bruce Peninsula environment. Cigarette butts were by far the largest item count along the Bruce County Road 9 and Lion’s Head Beach/Bruce Trail clean-ups of May 5th and 12th. Cigarette butts are highly toxic and contain plastics which are non-biodegradable. When discarded along roadways (treating highways as an ashtray), these butts can significantly increase the risk of spontaneous, unpredictably dangerous wildfires – our forests here on the Bruce currently have a very high fuel load making the risk of a serious fire that much greater. To help preserve our beautiful natural environment on the Bruce, please dispose of your cigarette butts in a safe manner!
Over 130 People Enjoy Rotary’s First Pancake Breakfast of 2026!
Thanks to everyone who came out to Rotary’s first (of four) community Pancake Breakfast of 2026 held at the Rotary Hall! Over 130 people enjoyed a delicious pancake breakfast of buttermilk & vanilla pancakes with real maple syrup, scrambled eggs, pork sausages, seasoned hash browns, orange juice and coffee/tea, served by Rotarians and Friends of Rotary. Rotary thanks our individual and corporate sponsors who generously donate product and money to help defray our costs of putting on these breakfast events, allowing us to return more of the proceeds back to the community of Northern Bruce Peninsula! Photos from this latest Rotary community Pancake Breakfast event can be found at https://www.rotarynbp.org/photoalbums/pancake-breakfast-may-17-2026.
Our next community Pancake Breakfast will be held at the Rotary Pavilion by Lion’s Head Beach on Sunday, July 5th, on the Canada Day holiday weekend … Hope to see you there!
In addition to hosting our first Pancake Breakfast of 2026, May has been a busy month for Rotarians tending bars for a variety of functions including our biweekly Rotary Friday Pub Nights (May 8th and 22nd), the SWANS annual Fashion Show (May 7th), the Lion’s Head Hospital Auxiliary annual Fish Fry (May 16th), both held at Lion’s Head Arena, as well as other events.
Rotary will host two Friday Pub Nights next month – June 5th and 19th. In addition to a wide range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, a variety of snacks (such as flatbread pizzas) are available at Rotary Pub Nights. Please join us for fun evenings at the Rotary Hall! Also next month, Rotarians will tend bar for the Tobermory Fashion Show on June 11th to be held at the Tobermory Community Centre – more details to come.
