Welcome !

We are now back to live meetings (+Zoom hybrid) every Tuesday at 6:30 PM at the Whistler Racket Club. Happy Hour social time, drinks and dinner starting at 5:45. Please go to the Calendar for the details of each week's meeting. If you are thinking about joining Rotary, or are a Rotarian visiting from another club, please feel free to join us. (Note: no meetings the 3rd Tuesday of the month)

Email us at info@whistler-rotary.org for zoom log-in info?

Check our Calendar or List of Upcoming Meetings and Events for the details.

#Lyttonstrong

The Lytton Fire
Almost one year ago, on June 30th, 2021, the beautiful Village of Lytton, BC was destroyed by a wildfire that swept through the town with such speed and fury, most residents didn’t have time to grab much, if anything. Only a few things in Lytton were unscathed by the devastating fire. One of those things, was a small vineyard on the opposite side of the Fraser River called Winch Spur Vineyard. Owners Chuck and Nonie McCann farm this small vineyard planted in Pinot Gris grapes. Here's a link to a video that explains what happened.

Grapes With A Special Purpose
As our winery is based in Lillooet, Fort Berens Estate Winery has a deep connection to the people and community of Lytton. A few months after the fire, while driving from Lillooet to Lytton to pick the grapes from Winch Spur Vineyard, our team, deeply moved by the devastating loss in Lytton, crafted a plan to launch a fundraising campaign. These Pinot Gris grapes from Lytton escaped the fire, and became grapes with a special purpose.

Lytton Strong Special Edition Pinot Gris
Today we are absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of our Lytton Strong Special Edition Pinot Gris, made exclusively with grapes from Lytton's Winch Spur Vineyard. Along with our vineyard partner, Winch Spur Vineyard, and with support from industry partners including TricorBraun, Elite Print Services, and Artus Bottling, we are thrilled to announce that 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this special edition wine will be donated to this fundraising campaign. To hear more about this wine and how it will help, watch this video here.

With just a limited amount of wine produced, 120 cases (1,440 bottles), we expect it to sell out very quickly. It will be sold exclusively in our tasting room and on our website. The wine is sold in packs of 3 bottles for $100 (plus taxes, bottle deposit and shipping). The full $100 per 3-pack will be donated to the fundraising campaign. To maximize the donations to the fundraiser, we are not able to offer a discount on this wine to our Discovery Club members.

Ukraine Sunflower Seeds

El Cardonal Children's Home

World Polio Day Proclamation

RCOW January to June 2020

Despite all the restrictions created by the Covid pandemic, thanks to Zoom and the ongoing support of all our members and friends the last 6 months have been very productive.

RCOW in December 2020

Whilst Covid-19 continues to place so many restrictions on our activities, the RCOW continues to be active in the local and global community.

This month we:

Sponsored Xmas Gifts for all the 39 children at the Skatin School. The pictures show Roberta Whiskyjack and her team delivering the gifts to the children of Skatin and Tipella.

A thank you from the Skatin School

"I would like to thank you, Gill and the Rotary Club on behalf of the Skatin Community School students, parents and staff for the making this year’s Christmas special for them.

You will see by the photos and videos that the students appreciated the gifts they received.

I want to mention also that we recorded our last fluent speaker elder singing Jingle Bells in Ucwalmicwts. It made it even more special.

We would like to wish you and the Rotary Club a very special and Merry Christmas."

We had a fun Zoom Xmas Party with a Festive Basket Draw and some competitions that raised $900+ for our local projects.

Isabel McLaurin and Erika Durlacher enjoying the Xmas Party from their Covid bubble.

Our Speakers for December were:

David Malaher (long time member of RCOW)- on the topic "An Art and History Story to go with 14,000 Islands in Lake of the Woods". David and Rosemary spend their summers at their cabin on the lake and shared many pictures of the lake and its interesting demographics and history. It inspired our listeners who have not been there to put this amazing lake on their travel bucket list for post-Covid.

James McConville and Danile Martin from Eagle Mountain Middle School, Coquitlam. James and Daniel are creating an Outdoor Environment Classroom at their school out of what is mostly suburban woodland with many invasive species. RCOW subsequently donated $1000 for a weather-safe notice/information board from our Environment Fund.

We hope that post-covid some members will be able to join some of the work parties to help establish this project.

Scholarship Winners 2020

We were delighted to welcome the 3 RCOW scholarship winners for 2020 and Ewa Zebrowski to our meeting on Tuesday 18th August.

Abby Unruh received the BobBrown/Richard Heine Scholarship

Jade Quinn-McDonald received the Walter Zebrowski Scholarship (Girl)

David Mehta received the Walter Zebrowski Scholarship (Boy)

Each student presented a personal portfolio of their achievements and spoke of their aspirations and plans for their future. Their presentations were truly impressive and showed them to be very worthy recipients.

This is the first year that 2 students, a boy, and a girl have received Walter Zebrowski Scholarships thanks to the amazing fundraising of Ewa Zebrowski and Doug Forseth.

We look forward to a return visit of these young people next summer to hear about their experiences and the first year of tertiary study.

Kalu Tamang Nepal Update

Ken Martin first met Kalu Tamang some years ago in Nepal when Kalu was his trekking guide. Kalu visited Whistler in 2018 and first spoke to the Rotary Club of Whistler describing the aftermath of the earthquake that had a devastating impact on Nepal.

On August 11th, Kalu spoke with us once again from Japan where he is currently marooned, unable to return to Nepal because of the Covid pandemic. Kalu and Selina Ng from Malaysia have created a small Charity project - Right to Loo - which is focussed on providing clean water and proper sanitary toileting facilities for schools in Nepal. In the last 3 years, they have built toilets for 12 schools. This is quite an achievement as all supplies have to be transported over very difficult terrain to get to the schools.

For more information go to Facebook: RightToLoo and rightoloo@gmail.com

Sea to Sky Rotary Clubs teamed up to Pedal for Polio and raised $17000+

Bobbie Rathbun still remembers the time as a child when she wasn’t allowed to go to the mall or the movie theatre or the local swimming pool over fear of coming into contact with large crowds.

While our widespread COVID-19 health protocols are new to most, for a certain generation, physical distancing was the norm as parents tried to protect their children from another devastating, infectious disease: polio.

Amarok Society

Teaching Mothers to Teach Others. Speaker: Dr Tanyss Munro

The Rotary Club of Whistler has supported Bulbuli, one of the mothers in the Amarok Society programme in Bangladesh for a number of years. Last year the club also started sponsoring Sejada.

The Amarok Society was founded with one family at its centre: Dr. Tanyss Munro, Gem Munro and their four children.

"The Amarok Society defeats ignorance with the most powerful force known to man: Woman."

At our Zoom meeting of the 4th August, Dr Tanyss Munro spoke to us about what has happened with the programme since the Covid pandemic swept across the globe.

For more information about the Amarok Society see :

http://amaroksociety.org

PAINT PARTY # 2

Please join us on Friday November 26th for our 2nd zoom paint party.

Go to https://tinyurl.com/vzfj3mdc for all the Information and Registration

Lest we forget.

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