Salvation Army Winter Jacket Program

Food Drive

Rotaract Community Activity

Bottle Drive

Back To School Initiative

Terry Fox Run

Rotary Beer Fest

Richard Housen & Dr. CP Giri - Our Beerfest 2022 Sponsors

Shelagh Harris recognized of her Exemplary service to Rotary and our community over many years

The Rotary Club of Richmond Hill is an organization dedicated to community and international service.

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Richmond Hill Rotary Bottle and Food Drive

On Saturday, October 22, 2022, the Rotary Club of Richmond Hill will be holding their 3rd “Bottle and Food Drive” to collect alcoholic bottles/cans for deposit refund, and packaged food.

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.

The packaged food will go to the Richmond Hill Food Bank.

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!

Women of Inspiration and Leadership Award

The deadline for nominations for the second Richmond Hill Rotary Women of Inspiration and Leadership Award is approaching.

Nominate by January 15, 2022.

Leah Taylor Roy, Member of Parliament for Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill said:

"This award recognizes the very important contributions that women in Richmond Hill make and provides role models and inspiration for other women of all ages to engage and become leaders. I thank the Rotary Club for continuing this new award for the second year and look forward to congratulating this year's winner as I did the inaugural winner Sajida Habib last year."

Nominate a woman who you know is worthy of the award! More details and nomination forms are available at

https://rotaryrh.wixsite.com/womensinitiatives/programs

Fill A PURSE FOR A SISTER CAMPAIGN

Leah den Bok

Nov 17, 2021

TALK AND PHOTOGRAPHY PRESENTATION BY “LEAH DEN BOK”

Leah den Bok is an advocate for a compassionate, nonjudgmental approach to fighting homelessness.

Leah gave presentation at last Rotary meeting and showed images from her three volumes of “Nowhere to Call Home” Photographs and Stories of the Homelessness. She also shared the several individuals experiencing homelessness when she met in cities around the world.

Rotary Online Auction

The first ever ROTARY ONLINE AUCTION concluded on Dec 10th 2021.

With your generous giving, the event was very successful and we raised around $2700 , all these proceeds will go towards the Rotary Club of Richmond Hill' s initiatives on Community Projects.

We are grateful to all our Supporters and Donors for your continued, faithful support of our efforts.

Special Appreciation to all our members, however we genuinely appreciate few for their generous contribution:

Donita Hagborg, Beppi Mottes, David Obadia, Richard Housen, Dave Tate, Steve Knight, Dave Morrison, Paul Vyrostko

Raj, CP, Glen, Peter, Veda, Noeline, Eric & Paul Thomas

THANK YOU for your continuous support, and belief in our humanitarian mission, we really appreciate it.

Please continue to follow this journey, once again, thank you very much and may all of you be blessed with happiness and good health.

Richmond Hill School Tree Planting

On October 20th, 180 students from . Bond Lake Public School, Richmond Hill High School and the As-Sadiq Islamic School weathered drizzle and cold temperatures for the 16th Richmond Hill Rotary Tree Planting at Oak Ridge Moraine Corridor Park near the Old Colony Road in Richmond Hill. The high school students were trained in the morning to do the planting with public school teams in the afternoon. Thank you to all our student volunteers and their teachers!