Submitted by Rob Hiscott
Your local Rotary Club is excited to host a Silent Auction as a fundraiser for Rotary Scholarships! The Auction will be held on Saturday, May 6th, between 7:00 and 9:00 PM at Rotary Hall in Lion’s Head. Information on auction items available for bidding can be found on our Rotary facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/RotaryNBP/ and items will also be on display at Rotary Hall during the auction event. Rotary will tend the cash bar that evening, snacks will be available, and music will be provided by local musicians including Arnie Crittenden, Dominik Franken, Gerry Gregory, Colman Jones, Rod Layman and Brian Taylor.
For many years, Rotary has provided up to $5,000 annually in scholarships and awards to graduates of Bruce Peninsula District High School to help support their post-secondary goals. We award five different scholarships including the Rotary ‘Highest Academic Proficiency’ Scholarship (to the student receiving the highest Grade 12 average), the Rotary ‘Service Above Self’ Scholarship (to the student whose volunteer and extracurricular activities best exemplify the Rotary motto of ‘Service Above Self’), the Keith Hopkinson Memorial Scholarship (for students pursuing a medical, health or related field of post-secondary study), the J.C. Buckley Memorial Scholarship (for students entering power engineering or trades-related programs or apprenticeships), and the Mary Cameron Scholarship for ‘Most Improved Student’ (to the student demonstrating the most improvement over the school year, as selected by the School). All proceeds from sales at this Silent Auction event will go directly towards the Rotary Scholarships program.
Beyond bidding for items at our upcoming Silent Auction, you can also donate directly to our Rotary Scholarships program by making an e-transfer to nbprotary@gmail.com (please include your name and contact information in your e-transfer message). Alternatively, you could mail a cheque to Rotary Club of Northern Bruce Peninsula, Box 305, 59 Main Street, Lion’s Head.
Please help us continue our Rotary Scholarship program, supporting deserving graduates from BPDS to pursue their post-secondary goals!
Rotary Pancake Breakfast Returns May 21st
Rotary will be holding our first community Pancake Breakfast of 2023 at Rotary Hall (59 Main Street, Lion’s Head) to be held Sunday, May 21st from 8:30 to 11:00 AM! Breakfasts will include pancakes with real maple syrup, scrambled eggs, pork sausages and hash browns, as well as orange juice and coffee to drink, and will cost $15.00 per adult ($7.00 for kids aged 12 years and under), with all profits going towards Rotary local community projects.
We encourage you to bring your own plate and cutlery to help reduce waste from this breakfast event.
In addition to table seating in Rotary Hall, there will be an option for breakfast pick-up for those wishing to take away their breakfast.
Rotary thanks all of our sponsors (corporate and individual, continuing and one-time donation sponsors) for their contributions towards our Pancake Breakfasts! These include Russell and Abby Miners (Miners’ Maple Products), Trace MacKay and Steve Woeller (Terrapin Social Finance), Pat Boyle Concrete, Dr. Pat Duronio, Rick Paciej and Kathy Austin, Barbara Dirckx (RE/MAX Grey-Bruce Realty Inc.), Leroy Dirckx (Atlas World Real Estate Corp.), David Hosken, Howard James, and Wilfred Laman (Lion’s Head Beach Motel). Our Pancake Breakfast sponsors help us offset breakfast expenses, the costs of putting on these breakfasts, allowing Rotary to have more money to put towards our various local community projects.
