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Adventures in Agriculture in Regina November 28th to December 1st is happening!
The Rotary Club of Brandon is now looking for a Grade 11 or 12 student who has an enthusiasm for learning about agriculture & its varied career opportunities.
 
Simeon Norton, PHF Chair - Rotary Club of Brandon 1344 shown presenting a Paul Harris Fellow pin to Rotary Club 1344 member Hairu Elewuro with 4 year old daughter, Almas.  
 
Hairu actually achieved the PHF for his daughter Almas!
 
Today, at our bi-monthly Rotary Club 1344 meeting, we hosted and enjoyed our participants from this summer’s RYLA Camp at Clear Lake,  Thanks to the efforts and tenacity of our club members, Cheryl Winger and Nonny Cancade to find these great candidates for the RYLA camp.  A great time and experience was enjoyed by all.  Photograph attached profiles (l. to r.)   President Alan Moulin, Marie Lychuk, Ayomide Olatunbosun, Jayden Scherttler, Nonny Cancade and Arlo Connery Dwyer.
 
THE BOOK BIN at 227 18th Street HAS BEEN MOVED TO
LEE'S RESTAURANT
  
The Fall Rotary Booksale will be 
September 
12th, 13th, & 14th 2024
THE OTHER BOOK BINS ARE AT 
* Heritage Co-Op Grocery - Richmond Ave
*Superstore
*Home Hardware
AND
Dollarama - Beside Sobey's West-end! 
 
Thanks so much for dropping your books off. 
Thank you to all who are volunteering,  your help is appreciated
 
The Fall Rotary Booksale will be 
September 
12th, 13th, & 14th 2024
  
At our bi-monthly meeting, August 13th, Simeon Norton, our PHF Chair presented an initial Paul Harris Fellow to one of our newest members Hairu Elewuro. Hairu is from Nigeria, arrived in Brandon June, 2022. Former Rotarian in Rotary Club of Epe Metropolitian , Nigeria District 9110, a former Rotaractor and charter member 2019-20 and Vice-President of Rotary Epe Metropolitian.
It is worthy of note, Hairu has dedicated his first PHF to his 4 year old daughter Almas who was with him today.
A really neat event and congrats to Hairu and Almas!
Paul Harris, one of the first 4 Rotarians, is held in high esteem by all Rotarians. By donating $1000 to the Rotary International Foundation, Rotarians today carry on the tradition of not just helping those in their own communities, but around the world. These are the new Paul Harris recipients Chuck LaRocque, Rick Felstead, Nonny Cancade, Cheryl Winger & Don Partrick.
Congratulations!
The Fall Rotary Book Sale 
will be 
September 
12th, 13th, & 14th 2024
 
Special thanks to our Volunteers
Over 60 volunteers helped us with the sale!
 
Thank you Victoria Inn for our awesome venue and support! 
 
Thank you to all the volunteers for
helping us manage the 35 pallets of books
that were picked up, sorted, stored, unloaded and unpacked
for the sale! 

Brandon Rotary Club on Display

Rotary  club’s display cases in the Main Concourse of the Keystone Centre club’s display cases.
 
The cases, gratefully provided to the club by the Keystone Centre, now offer the public updated information about our club and its ongoing activities in Brandon and Westman.The display also contains some of the club’s cherished artifacts, such as our original Charter, signed in 1921.
 
“If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to check it out, possibly you might find some time to take a look,” says Don. “I think you will find it interesting. The display cases graphically encapsulate just how active The Rotary Club of Brandon #1344 is.”
 
Any questions or comments are welcome, contact Don 204-729-7188
 
 
 
 
 
 

Ripple Effect --Rotary and Education in Developing Countries

Ripple Effect is a Rotary District 5550 program through which Rotarians and other organizations and individuals in Canada can reach out to countries where children’s education is at risk. The program works in partnership with Rotary Clubs and communities in Guatemala to help build, equip and support schools for children in grades K to 6. Your donation to the Ripple Effect Program will help build and/or equip a school in Guatemala.
 
The Rotary Club of Brandon, along with other Rotary Clubs in Ontario and the Prairies have worked together to build a school in San Miguelito, to help reduce the incidence of illiteracy and poverty among the people of the area.  Guatemala is not only one of the poorest countries, (Guatemala is geographically south of Mexico), but has the lowest literacy rate in Central America. The school has taken several years to build, with all work done by local people and supervised over all by local and Canadian Rotary clubs.  Presently there are 5 classrooms, a computer lab, kitchen, washrooms, principal's office, storage along with a cemented playground, fencing and retaining walls.  Needless to say, the school has become the meeting place of the town with a market and place for sports and recreation. 
 
Rotary Shelterbox Program

 

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The ShelterBox program is an unbelievable program to give the opportunity to an individual or a group to be able to step up and give a huge amount of help to people in need.

For example, the Shelterbox provides sustained shelter for people dealing with disaster in the Philippines.

Shelterbox already has two response teams on the ground in the Philippines who are working with the help of Rotarians to provide emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan.

ShelterBox delivers, the tent boxes shown above, or specific Shelter Toolkits for areas where repairs to homes are needed. 

Some 90 countries have received ShelterBoxes. And more than 130,000 ShelterBoxes have been deployed since the Rotary Club project since 2000.

 

For some more info, see: http://www.shelterboxcanada.org/

 

 

 

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Brandon

Service Above Self

We meet In Person
Tuesdays at 11:45 a.m.
ZOOM and Meetings at Aaltos
Canad Inn 1125 18th St
Mail to: PO Box 20035 RPO Brandon South
Brandon, MB R7A 6Y8
Canada
Meetings are on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month.
Club Executives & Directors
President
Treasurer
Secretary
Past President
Director - Club Administration
Director - New Generations
Director - International Service
Director - Community Service
 
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