The Courtenay Rotary Club Advisory Council presented $2000 to the Comox Valley Therapeutic Riding Society. Members Loreli Morrison and Cathy Preece were present at a recent meeting to receive the donation. Loreli shared a few anecdotes of the experiences of those who participate in their program and advised that expenditures would include new horse blankets and bridals.The Society is hosting the RCMP Musical Ride on the 13th and 14th of August and special guests will include the Lieutenant Governor.  Volunteers are still needed and you can sign up by calling their office.

 

 

Rotarian Dave White presented G.P. Vanier Secondary vice-principal Murray McRae with $2,000 to help hard-up students pay to enter sports programs and team sports.

 

 

 

Len Anglin of Ironwood Shake & Tile Company and Rod Hunter Past President of the Rotary Club of Courtenay are excited to see the new roof installed on the Courtenay Train Station just before the snow arrived......timing is everything.

The Courtenay Rotary Club.......

 Pictured are Young Professionals Matt Becket, Brendan Somers, Matt MacDonald and Jay Dzuba of the Comox Valley Young Professionals group. Missing from photo are Corey Zaal and Blake Simpson. The Young Pros spent the day last Saturday down at Slegg Lumber painting facia board for the Rotary Club's train station restoration project. Good on them!

Penelope Barbery, our inbound exchange student from the west of France arrived at the Comox airport to be met, and welcomed by members and families of our club

Back row L to R: Kendra Walker (holding Zander Walcott) Past Courtenay Rotary Club President, Audrey Craig, Lyndsay Charles (holding Dylan Charles) and Marjorie Gibson (holding Noah Charles) Front row L to R: Declan Kennedy, Sophie Kennedy and Logan Kennedy.  Missing great grandchildren from photo: Chloe Charles All Kennedy and Charles children are from North Vancouver and Zander is from New York.

The Paul Harris Fellow Award is the highest honour a club can bestow on a person, either inside or outside the club. The award therefore

 

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The Rotary Club of Courtenay was pleased to be able to present to SD #71 Nala'atsi Alternative School 10 computers & monitors along with upgraded software. These computers will help the students alleviate  the frustration of using the 8-10 years old computers which were very slow and inefficient. Shown in the picture are Naomi Carmichael Courtenay Rotary President, Rod Hunter Courtenay Rotary President Elect and Nala'atsi Math & Science teacher Mark Taylor who is also a technology specialist.

-Books For The Cure-

Thank You For Your Donations and Your

Support!!

The Courtenay Rotary Club extends a huge thank to our community for all the donations of books, records, CD's, DVD's, video games, videos puzzles and games.  The response from the public was just fantastic. We raised about $35,000 for cancer research and our community. Thank you to everyone who came our to support our sale and, thanks to all the volunteers involved.

 

 

 

 

 

On Tuesday, the Courtenay Rotary Club hosted four globetrotting students at their weekly meeting to hear tales of overseas life and tout an international exchange program.

Of the four students, two delivered speeches: Sasha Pariy of the Ukraine, who will be spending the coming year in the Comox Valley, and the Valley's own Arlie Christie, who recently returned home from a year in France.

Bent Harder (right) will soon be off on his seventh international medical mission this time to

There was a surprise in store for Rotarian Tony Woods (left) when Rotary District Governor

Courtenay Rotary Club president  Bob Thiesburger (right) provides the St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation with $10,000, raised during the Rotary club's annual Books for the Cure fundraiser.

 

Bent Harder and Bob Thiesburger

Don Larson presents Ken Higham with his new blue badge.

Carrie Robella presents President Audrey with a banner from her small town in Italy.

At their 8-9 July summit meeting in Japan, the G8 nations agreed to "maintain momentum towards the historical achievement of eradicating polio."

Alyssa Mochuzuki & Melissa Kirk - Fred Bossom Memorial $1,000.00 Scholarship - shared: $500.00 each

 

A turkey dinner with all the trimmings was served by Rotarians to about 250 students and staff.

December 18th was our Christmas Party

The GP Vanier Rotary Interact Club is back in action.

The sun shone, the pig was succulent and the rest of the food was just as good.

 

 

Harvey the Reverse draw. 

The Linc- Youth Center officially opened on November 4, 2006.

Wilf Wilkinson of Trenton, Ontario will be the first Canadian in 55 years to serve as RI President.

Susannah Rach Jensen returned to visit our Club having been an exchange student in 1981-82.

This is a picture of Incoming President Steve Elman receiving recognition for contribution to the Permanent Fund.

The project was to help build and equip a daycare center for children of sex trade workers in Bangalore India.

On March 9 Lucas Steifvater became a Canadian Citizen.

President Derek opened the Gala Event with the Theme of " Spend-Spend-Spend " The final numbers are not in yet but it will be a huge success. Jonathon Cross did an excellent job of MC and the staff at Crowne Isle put on a great dinner.

Pictures of the evening can be found at the below link
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Dave Collette is spending the month of February in Maui.  As treasurer of the Club his is missing a busy month and the Club Auction. Hurry home Dave ... We need you

The fund raising Bricks are finally placed in Simms Millenium Park.  Job well done that raised about $45,000 for the Courtenay Rotary Centennial Project.

For a list of current PHF of our Club look on the left side of our Web Page -  " Paul Harris Fellows "

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February 8 - 12, 2006 are the dates for the annual Rotary Youth Exchange Conference and Orientation in the Comox Valley. This quad-club event starts with the arrival of all the Exchange students in our District on Wednesday February 8.

PICTURES CAN BE FOUND AT THE BELOW LINK

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http://www.clubrunner.ca/CPrg/DxJournals/journal.aspx?cid=671&jid=2400

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Georgia Russell, Zack Haigh, Tiffany Veltman, Liwen Guo   Interact Students

The Howies in Costa Rica

Can you guess what type of fish this is?Hola Rotarians from Costa Rica (that's hello in Courtenay English!!).We arrived in Costa Rica on November 15th and got our condo set up. Since then it has been 7:00 a.m. walks on the beach, watering plants, fishing, smoothies in the afternoon, and food, food, and more food. The economy is vibrant here and real estate is appreciating at a great rate. The problem is, there are so many things going on you do not know what to invest in!! It is hard to believe it is over 3 weeks now. We have Albena's relatives coming down on December 18th and staying (some) till the end of January. I may be back home, or stay in my Studio!!!!! The bottom line is: we are having a GREAT time. I just love it here in Costa Rica. If anyone is interested in coming down here, I have all the information.. See you in February..Yours in Rotary, Graham Howie

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Dear Rotarians,

I have done so many wonderful things already I don't really know where to start. Today is my first day in my new host family. The Vaateri's live in an apartment bulding in central Vammala with a beautiful view of the snow covered lake. They were very welcoming and I am very excited but at the same time sad to leave my first host family's home at the Sundgrens because they treated me just like thier own daughter. Currently my new host mother, Eija Vaateri, is cooking dinner (which must have potatoes in it cause dinner always does). Finnish food is quiet bland. They are always adding cheese or jam to their food to give it taste. 

School District Superintendent Bryan Morgan and his two Kindergarten assistants, Kierra Carpenter & Sophie Bos, accepting $1000.00 donation from Courtenay Rotary Past President Marilyn Tevington. Funds were raised in 2004/05 Rotary year to buy K-12 Literacy Kits for Comox Valley School District.
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Were we the 40th Club Chartered as some might believe???  Not so says RI. Infact we didn't make the first 100. Repsonse from RI:
   

See the building of the Simms Park Amphitheatre as photographed by Jim Davis.