This year there will be lots of changes both behind the scenes and for the bidder experience as well. Stay tuned for all the details including no more telephone bidding
or online narrative. Up to date website and bidders have the option to pay online and a streamlined pickup process.
Along with announcing the winning Ribber Co-Chair Melissa DeBeau was happy to update the Club on another successful Ribfest!
We don't have the final number yet, but we are expecting it to be around $90,000.
The committee would like to thank the membership for coming out to volunteer, we had all shifts filled in record time. The recycling efforts of the garbage crew generated 1,620 kilograms of recyclable materials and 7,755 kilograms of organic materials that would have otherwise been collected as regular waste and sent to the landfill.
St. Catharines Rotary Club grant supports international Brock marine biodiversity research.
Norievill España a Brock student in the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre’s (ESRC) inaugural PhD in Sustainability Science class, España is undertaking fieldwork in select marine protected areas in the Philippines thanks to a $58,000 St. Catharines Rotary Club International Global Grant Scholarship.
Aldo Villanovich, Barbara Lewis, and Brian Springal, with Jane from Not Just Tourists along with Ken Taylor, and Sandra Holloway.
This team along with Lezlie Murch toured Warehouse of Hope and Not Just Tourists while collaborating on a possible global grant to furnish a pediatric intensive care unit in Guatemala. They joined us later for our Rotary meeting and lunch at the Yacht club.
Rotary to amplify climate action at COP28 in DubaiRotary will help facilitate collaboration on community-led climate action, and discuss the intersection of climate change and