It was with distinct pleasure for President Rick Evans to give some history and well deserving acknowledgement to Ray Bukovec for his over 50 years of outstanding service to our club and for expanding Rotary's reach in Slovenia. Surrounded by his family, receiving a Paul Harris Fellow Award made for an emotional moment for him and all. Congratulations and thank you Ray.
Interact Club at St Catharines Collegiate celebrated multicultural week with a presentation about peace. Students made posters, poems, and a video sharing what peace means to them and how can they promote peace! Thank you, teachers and staff, at the Collegiate for supporting the students!
On behalf of myself, my wife Olga, and my family, I want to personally reach out and thank all of you for the totally unexpected reception and the awarding of a Paul Harris Fellow Award for my years of service.
Congratulations to Lezlie Murch recipient of the Complin Cup for her total involvement in all aspects of Rotary and always thinking of how to make more efficient everything Rotary.
The Rotary clubs of Panamá Norte and Westchester (Los Angeles), put together a global grant that sought to remedy the digital divide in Panama. The project provided each school with 30 laptops for students, an interactive whiteboard, and other technology, and also provided training for local teachers.
Rotary editor Wen Huang visits the home of the 2024 Rotary International Convention for a third time and finds that the flourishing Asian city-state has reinvented itself — again