A Fun Night Out With Friends & Family
= Fundraising for Your Community
The Rotary Club of Ajax is excited to announce a new fundraising initiative, and all you need to do to help is eat out!
Working with our friends at Cloud Nine Bar and Grill, the club has arranged to have three days set aside at their restaurant.
These dates are March 20, April 3, and April 17 from 11AM to 12 midnight and will feature both karaoke and Happy Hour.
We ask that you make plans to drop by Cloud Nine on any or all of these days, and spread the word to friends and family to do so as well.
Cloud Nine is located at 368 Bayly St West in Ajax.
At SUNNYBRAE GOLF CLUB
1430 King St. Prince Albert
(905) 985-2234
9 Hole Shotgun Tee Off @ 2:00 pm -- Open to the first 72 Golfers
Dinner @ 6pm with choice of Steak or Chicken
$125 per golfer includes golf cart and meal.
$60 per person for meal only
Greatest Live Auction and Prizes
Feed the Need Durham Receives $16,000 Donation
Ben Earl, CEO of Feed the Need Durham, the regional food hub that supports some 65 organizations providing emergency food programs. To that end, they collect and sort food for distribution, acting as central clearing house.
Thanks to Delta Bingo the Rotary Club of Ajax donated $16,000 from our Delta Bingo charitable funds to Feed the Need Durham.
The organization has recently refined their business model to create different channels depending on the type of facility. Collectively there are now half a million visits to emergency food organizations, with rapid growth continuing, both in absolute numbers and frequency. They currently distribute over 2 million pounds of food, with an expectation of 4 million pounds by 2028, which means increased need for infrastructure, volunteers, and paid staff to support that goal.
Ben Earl - CEO Feed the Need Durham (left), Ken Hurst (center) - Director Foundation Rotary Club of Ajax, George Okurapa (right) - President Rotary Club of Ajax
New Member George Amoako Classification speech
George is very glad to be a part of the club. Born in Ghana into a middle class family, George survived polio as a child. He worked as a civil servant after his graduation from college. He moved to Germany for a year or two, where he met a woman who he went with to Norway, where he was without family connections and the only black person. Eventually he ended up in London, where he learned about Canada.
Coming to Canada he had several chance encounters with helpful people that allowed him to move ahead. Ultimately he got a position in the insurance industry, eventually opening his own brokerage that has five or six agents.
George is also an ordained deacon in his church, having opened a satellite congregation for a church in Toronto. That satellite congregation now has 200 members, and that is how he met his sponsor Dale Pratt.
Carol O'Neill on The Ripple Effect
Carol works with the restorative justice program of the Mennonite Church providing services to individuals who have committed all manner of offenses both in and out of prison, preparing them for successful reintegration into the community.
She seeks to change the way criminals view their actions so that they understand the consequences of their actions. To that end, they highlight victim impact and atoning for their actions, and help those incarcerated increase their skills and self esteem, with particular emphasis on literacy and computer skills
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Presenter Sarah Crocker (President)
Ajax Lions Club
As a Durham based service club Sarah spoke of the many community based projects their club is involved in. One of particular interest to Sarah is the "Pet Valu Walk for Dog Guides" which is their biggest fundraiser for Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides, proving Canadians with a medical or physical disability a Dog Guide at no cost to them.
Speaker Robyn McKibbon
Engagement, Giving and Events
Durham Children's Aid Foundation
Durham Children’s Aid Foundation (DCAF) you can help turn hope into reality, challenge into triumph and adversity into opportunity for over 4000 children, youth and their families.
Our Guest Speaker Robert Humphrey
Economic Development and Tourism
City of Ajax
Rotary Clubs of Ajax and Pickering
Enjoying Our Year Social Event Together
Water Filters donated by Ajax Rotary Club and individual members
to a rural Lao family in the village of Huaylan
Marsha Jones Dooley (past President Rotary Club of Ajax) received a thank you for her generous gift. Steve Rutledge, from "Adopt a Village in Laos", was onsite to deliver the units. The villagers were pretty excited to receive their filters. They had heard about our program through Rotary, from so many other villages.
After the training and distribution, Steve was invited to join the elders for a special Baci ceremony (religious in nature) and to have lunch with them.
Salvation Army offering thanks to Ajax Rotary Club for deliveries of Food Hampers
The Salvation Army thanked members of the Rotary Club of Ajax for delivering meal hampers in the Ajax Pickering community. Pictured below (left to right) is James Dark (Salvation Army Ajax Community Services Director), Ken Hurst (Club Director Foundation) and George Okurapa (Club President).
Collectively club members distributed well over 300 hampers!
December 10th Feed the Need Concert
@ The Oshawa Biltmore Theatre
Thank you to all the Rotarians and friends who supported the Feed the Need Concert!! Musicians from across the Durham region and beyond gathered to help feed their neighbours in need -- and the need has never been greater -- all in support of Feed the Need in Durham, which distributes food and other essentials to 65 emergency food providers across the region.
Rotary Club Social Nov. 30, 2023
Club of Ajax Rotarians enjoying fellowship and Christmas cheer at the Pickering Island Mix Restaurant & Lounge.
Delta Bingo Rotary Volunteers
Marsha Jones Dooley and Paul Tallman share a moment during their Delta Bingo shift to raise awareness and funds. Delta Bingo is a major contributor of funds that Rotary donates to various charitable organizations in the Durham Region throughout the year.
What a great way to share with those in need at this time of year!
Giving Tuesday - Making an Impact
With Giving Tuesday just around the corner, what better reason to recognize the year round work done by all those who belong to Pickering Charitable Gaming Association. Giving Tuesday is touted as a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world.
Steve And Amanda‘s No Frills in Ajax Honoured
Rotarian Ken Hurst presented a Rotary International certificate of appreciation to Steve Summerhill, owner of Steve And Amanda‘s No Frills in Ajax, for their continued support of Ajax Rotary, Salvation Army, Food drives, raising money towards Salvation Army Christmas hampers this year being delivered to 450 homes, by Ajax, Rotary members and others.
On Remembrance Day we honour those who gave their lives to serve our country
Rotary clubs in Durham kids against hunger food pack November 5, 2023
Rotarian Ken Hurst presented a Rotary International Paul Harris Award to Wayne McConnachie, for his continued work with rotary clubs and others packing over 4 million meals to send to hungry people around the world.
Wayne was also very instrumental in organizing the 118,000 meal pack on January 5, 2022 to honour of Rotary‘s 118th birthday during Jennifer Jones trip to Ontario with district 7070 during her presidency of Rotary club international 21,22.
Rotary Club of Kitante in Uganda
President George was the guest of honor for a fundraising event
Rotary Foundation Walk
Rotary Club of Ajax was represented at the Foundation walk today!!! The foundation was created in 1917 by Rotary International's sixth president, Arch C. Klumph, as an endowment fund for Rotary "to do good in the world." It has grown from an initial contribution of US$26.50 ($37.10 CND) to more than US$1billion ($1.4 B CND).
Induction of New Rotarian George Amoako
Club Social and Rotary District Governor Visit
Our Bi-Annual Rotary Club of Ajax
Audley Road Clean Up
Service Above Self
Cloud Nine, 368 Bayly St S, Ajax N/E Westney & Bayly
Ajax, ON L1S 2H8
Canada