The Durham Days of Giving - Online Giving Back Advent Calendar
The Rotary Club of Ajax is proud to announce our launch of the 2021 online giving back advent calendar. Each day you'll discover a different charity doing great work in the Durham Region and how you're helping them. Visit - Durham Days of Giving to learn more and order for yourself and a loved one!
Ajax Rotary Supports the Super Sophia Project
Former club President Bruce Green joined other volunteers on Sunday Nov. 27th to help pack thousands of gift boxes for children and families battling cancer this Christmas.
Love Boxes™ are filled by community members with toys, crafts, clothes, gift cards etc. and are gifted to children in hospitals all across the GTA, Durham, and up North.
Visit - The Super Sophia Project to learn more about the organization and Sophia's story
Rotary Club of Ajax Remembers our Fallen Soldiers
Members of the Rotary Club of Ajax joined members of the community and local politicians MP Mark Holland, MPP Rod Philipps and Ajax Mayor Shaun Collier at the Ajax Royal Canadian Legion to pause and remember those who sacrificed for our country.
Members of the Rotary Club of Ajax were finally able to come together and celebrate the club's 70th anniversary and recognize members who had made special contributions to the club and our community.
Congratulations to our President's Award winners:
Steve White - 2021
Caitlyn Mackrell - 2020
Congratulations to our Paul Harris Award winners:
Ron Larock
Donna Bright
Steve Rutledge
Dick Briscoe
Congratulations to our 2021 Pat Bayly Award recipient:
Joe Dickson
View photos from the event on our facebook page:
Oct 24th 2021 was World Polio Day.
Rotary Club of Ajax President Heather Hebert and Rotary Foundation Director Ken Hurst, along with Presidents from other Durham Region Rotary Clubs and politicians, had previously taken part in a flag raising ceremony to mark the occasion.
The eradication of polio is one of Rotary's longest standing and most significant efforts. Along with our partners, we have helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children against polio in 122 countries. We have reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent worldwide and we won't stop until we end the disease for good.
Grandview Kids
This month the Rotary Club of Ajax is pleased to acknowledge how charitable funds, received from the Delta Bingo, directly benefit Ajax Community organizations such as Grandview Kids. Grandview Kids – founded in 1953 – is an independently operated not-for-profit organization. They are the only Children’s Treatment Centre in Durham Region, providing specialized programs, outpatient clinical treatment and support to thousands of children and youth with physical, communication and developmental needs and their families.
What they do:
- Assess, diagnose, prescribe and provide clinical treatment, specialized programs and therapies, and specialized equipment for children and youth with communication, physical or developmental needs;
- Provide access to specialists, consultation and support for families;
- Build capacity in the community through information, knowledge exchange and consultation to professional and other organizations;
- Participate in research activity and teaching in the field of children’s rehabilitation.
Thank you to all the players and volunteers who came out to support the Rotary Club of Ajax's 18th Annual Golf Tournament.
Click below to see the prize winners and images from the event...
Thank You!
We owe a huge thank you to all the visitors, sponsors, vendors, performers and volunteers who came out last weekend to make our first walk-up Ribfest of this pandemic a huge success!
We Have a Winner!
Congratulations to Carol for winning the Rotary Club of Ajax Catch the Ace! Club president Heather Hebert and director of fundraising Tom Batchellor present Carol with her cheque with the remaining funds raised going to support Girls Inc Durham.
Delta Bingo and the Rotary Club of Ajax support the Ajax/Pickering Hospital Foundation
Back in March 2019 the Ajax Pickering Hospital Foundation began a new fundraising campaign with the aim of raising $500,000 to buy 100 new smart pumps. Smart pumps are attached to an IV pole and are programmed with medicine dosages for the patient. Each new unit costs $5,000.
As the pump is found throughout all their departments, this was a unique chance for Delta Bingo charity funds, through the Rotary Club of Ajax, to help all of the Hospital's front-line staff have the best equipment at their fingertips regardless of which department they are working in.
The battery-powered units are mobile, allowing a patient to move around with them, and from a safety point of view it’s major for patients. There’s less chance of an error as they are programmed units, with a library of dosage information, that can alert staff when needed to ask them to double-check the dosage. It’s been a game changer for them.
Ajax Rotary Appreciates First Responders
This is first responders weekend. In appreciation for everything that they do, Ajax Rotary donated dinner for all of the ICU staff at Ajax-Pickering hospital last night and coffee and bagels for staff starting their shift this morning. In addition we donated Crispy Cream donuts to all of the fire halls and Ambulance stations in Ajax. From Ajax Rotary Thank you for helping the public get through this.
Our 70th Anniversary Guide is Out!
To celebrate 70 years serving Ajax and it's residents, we have put together a 40-page anniversary guide highlighting some of our accomplishments and long-standing members. Copies will be delivered in your Ajax-Pickering News Advertiser and you can also download your digital copy here - Ajax Rotary 70th Anniversary Guide
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