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Paul Van Nest
Dec 29, 2021
OUR LAST ROTARY REFLECTION
Rotary began as a fellowship opportunity. Rotarians invited like-minded professionals who fit the criteria of membership. Over the last...
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Peter Merkley
Dec 22, 2021
ROTARY’S CENTENNIAL PROJECTS – HOW DID WE DO?
What a year this has been! Rotarians are people of action and looking back over this year, and the last 100 years, we are very proud of...
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Glenn Warner
Dec 15, 2021
THE WATERFRONT CLUB ADDS TO ROTARY’S COMMUNITY SERVICE
The Kingston Waterfront Rotary Club is the newest Rotary Club in Kingston, chartered in April of 2015. We are proud of our reputation as...
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Fred Richmond
Dec 8, 2021
FAIRMOUNT HOME: A LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP
Fairmount Home opened as a long-term care facility on outer Montreal Street, now Battersea Road, in 1968. The Rotary Club of...
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Dave Hallett
Dec 1, 2021
SHELTER BOX & SHELTER KIT
ShelterBox is now a globally recognized NGO that provides aid directly to families whose home has been lost or damaged in a natural...
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Elizabeth Cohoe
Nov 24, 2021
ROTARY REACHES OUT TO INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
You might think that a 100-year-old organization could be dated and unchanging, but Rotary continues to evolve and adjust to our changing...
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Brett House
Nov 17, 2021
A ROTARY AMBASSADORIAL SCHOLAR
With a B.A. in economics from Queen’s University, I was selected in 1994 as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar and headed abroad for a year...
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Paul Van Nest
Nov 10, 2021
ROTARY AND QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY
Successive principals of Queen’s University have been invited to be honorary members of the Rotary Club of Kingston, going back to...
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Paul Van Nest
Nov 3, 2021
The FOUR-WAY TEST
Since 1943, Rotarians have embraced The Four-Way Test when faced with a decision. It is applied to the things we think, say, and do. “Is...
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John Boone
Oct 27, 2021
CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND STRUCTURE in NORTH KINGSTON
Back in the 1980s, a group of Kingston Rotarians built their first playground structure at Lord Strathcona Public School. A design was...
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John Boone, Dwight Boyce & Paul Van Nest
Oct 20, 2021
Rotary Initiated Child Enrichment (RICE)
In 2002, Rotarian John Boone took to heart the message delivered to the Rotary Club of Kingston by Dr. Mustard, a McMaster University...
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Doug Townsend
Oct 13, 2021
ROTARY’S SWEAT-EQUITY PROJECTS
Rotary projects that require members to pitch in and help with some physical labour are called sweat-equity projects. These are near and...
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Paul Van Nest
Oct 6, 2021
ROTARY’S FESTIVALS OF MUSIC: 1950 to 1964
We know it now as the Kiwanis Music Festival, but it didn’t start that way; Rotarians hosted the first music festival in Kingston in...
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Bill Egnatoff
Sep 29, 2021
ADVENTURES IN HISTORY 2012-2019
Rotary Adventure programs focus on youth, our future leaders. These short-term and unique adventures help secondary students determine...
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Paul Van Nest
Sep 22, 2021
ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE
The Rotary Club of Kingston started hosting exchange students in 1983. These students not only served as ambassadors for their host...
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Fred Richmond
Sep 15, 2021
KINGSTON-FRONTENAC ROTARY ANNES
From the founding of the Kingston-Frontenac Rotary Club in 1966 until the late 1980s, the wives of club members played a very important...
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Elaine McCabe, Margo Warner & Betty Welch
Sep 8, 2021
ROTARY ANNS (Kingston)
The term Rotary Anns was conceived by delegates on a train trip from San Francisco to the Rotary Convention in Houston, Texas, in 1914. A...
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Paul Van Nest
Sep 1, 2021
THE ROTARY SEA CADET CORPS DURING WW2
Over the past 100 years, Rotary in Kingston has focused on helping children and youth from supplying shoes, creating leadership...
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Paul Van Nest
Aug 25, 2021
GO NUTS FOR ROTARY!
Rotarians first hatched the idea in the early 1960s to drive around the city selling cans of peanuts door-to-door as a club fundraiser....
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John Farrow
Aug 18, 2021
ROTARY TV AUCTION GOES ONLINE
The Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston’s annual auction is one of the longest running Rotary fundraising events in Kingston. Since 1998,...
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Paul Elsley
Aug 11, 2021
ROTARIANS TACKLE FOOD SECURITY DURING COVID-19
In 2012, Blessings in a Backpack was established in Kingston to provide food assistance to families in need on the weekends. Children’s...
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Bill Punt
Aug 5, 2021
WATER WELLS IN KENYA
Epidemics often find their sources in the contaminated water in hand-dug wells. These wells, typically up to 30 feet deep, may reach...
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Paul Van Nest
Jul 28, 2021
KIM PHUC & BETHANYKIDS HOSPITAL
In August 2001, I received a call from Bradley Sumner, a co-founder of the Kim Phuc Foundation. Readers may recall the front cover of a...
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Paul Van Nest, Sarah Beech & Jenna Smallegange
Jul 21, 2021
ROTARY for YOUNG ADULTS – ROTARACT
In its ongoing efforts to engage and support young people, Rotary sponsors Interact Clubs in secondary schools and Rotaract Clubs in post...
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