Please help by dropping off your beer cans and liquor bottles, or making a packaged food donation, on Saturday, October 22, 10am-1pm at one of four drop off locations:
- Dr. CP Giri Dental Office - 9791 Bayview Ave, Richmond Hill, L4C 9X7
- Upper Yonge Place (No Frills mall) – 10909 Yonge St. (look for the Rotary tent), Richmond Hill
- Richmond Hill Board of Trade – 376 Church St South, Richmond Hill
- 29 Bedford Park Ave – off of Yonge Str, Richmond Hill
If you need help with someone picking up your bottles or food, and you are within Richmond Hill, please contact Paul prior to the event at pfvyrostko@rogers.com.
So where does the money go? Here is a list of some of the projects that Richmond Hill Rotary has supported since the start of Covid:
- $1000 to The Sandgate Women’s Shelter of York Region
- $1000 donation to Richmond Hill's Home on the Hill, a support organization for local families where a member is struggling with severe mental illness
- $1000 donation to the Richmond Hill Community Food Bank
- $500 for Kids Who Care International, an organization to Inspire and empower kids through acts of kindness and the service of others
- Donation of Personal Protective Equipment to Richmond Hill's Yellow Brick House, women's shelter
- 100+ purses collected for the Fill-A-Purse-A-Sister Campaign for women and youth in crisis
- Rotarians picked up shovels and work gloves to plant trees in the Oak Ridges Moraine Corridor Park near Old Colony Road
- Launch of annual Richmond Hill's Women of Inspiration and Leadership Award, or WILA, the second winner awarded this past spring
- $2000 donation for water filters for a village in Laos
- $1000 donation for the Beirut Hospital Restoration Project (damaged by the August 2020 explosion)
- Scholarship to a graduating student in each of Richmond Hill’s high schools
- Almost 2000 lbs of food to the Richmond Hill Community Food Bank through the previous two Bottle & Food Drives
According to Peter Szoke, Club President, “We are so very excited about this first post-Covid bottle drive! The need in the community is still enormous, so we are hoping that many people will help us out.”
For more information, contact pfvyrostko@rogers.com. Thank you for your support!
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