CELEBRATING ROTARY'S ANNIVERSARY - FEBRUARY 23

The following are events to be held by individual Victoria Area Rotary Clubs to mark the 106th anniversary of the foundation of Rotary on February 23rd.

Oak Bay will hold a ‘by donation’ hotdog sale in front of City Hall, from 11:30 – 2:00 pm. All proceeds to benefit Polio Plus. The Rotary Day proclamation will be presented to Council this week, and efforts are to be made to have a Rotary flag flown outside The Oak Bay Municipal Hall on the 23rd. Rotaract students from Oak Bay High have been asked to create window displays in store fronts along Oak Bay Avenue, and so far two banks ( HSBC and CIBC) have agreed to loan space for this purpose.

On February 23rd, Oak Bay will also facilitate the illumination of one side of the Malahat Building on Wharf Street with the Rotary wheel emblem and “END POLIO NOW”. The illumination will commence at 5:45 pm. Gerry Pash of the Downtown club is trying to arrange that A Channel TV weather man Bruce Williams will conduct his early news hour weather forecast in-front of the light display.

Saanich/Sidney will hold a ‘by donation’ hotdog sale at the Saanich Municipal Hall from 11:00-1:30pm on the 23rd, they will also have Rotarians strategically located at the new Uptown shopping precinct offering long stemmed white roses for donations to Polio Plus.

Harbourside has arranged that Victoria City Council will read and adopt the Rotary Day proclamation at their regular council meeting, Thursday Feb 10th. On the morning of the 23rd, His Worship the Mayor, Dean Fortin will address Rotarians at City Hall at 08:30 a.m. and afterwards (08:45 approx.) he will raise the Rotary flag on the City Hall entrance flag pole.

At 12:30 (noon) Harbourside Rotarians, Chris Dysart and Bill Freyer, will be guests on C-FAX 1070 with Ryan Price, to speak about Rotary and their recent trip to Honduras on humanitarian projects for Rotary.