On Saturday, April 10th, the Rotary Club of Richmond Hill will be holding their 2nd “Bottle and Food Drive” to collect alcoholic bottles/cans for deposit refund, and packaged food.
The money collected will be used to the benefit our community and international programs in desperate need during the Covid-19 pandemic. The packaged food will go to the Richmond Hill Food Bank.
Please help by dropping off your beer cans and liquor bottles, or making a packaged food donation, on Saturday, April 10th, 11am-4pm at one of four drop off locations:
- Dr. CP Giri Dental Office - 9791 Bayview Ave, Richmond Hill, L4C 9X7
- Upper Yonge Place (Loblaws mall) – 10909 Yonge St. (at Bernard Ave), Richmond Hill
- Richmond Hill Board of Trade – 376 Church St South, Richmond Hill
- 29 Bedford Park Ave – off of Yonge Str, Richmond Hill
The packaged food will go to the Richmond Hill Food Bank.
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:
- Our most recent donation was $1000 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
- Donation of Personal Protective Equipment to Richmond Hill's Yellow Brick House, women's shelter
- Rotarians picked up shovels and work gloves to plant trees in the Oak Ridges Moraine Corridor Park near Old Colony Road
- Launch of the 1st annual Richmond Hill's Women of Inspiration and Leadership Award, or WILA, the first winner to be announced this spring
- $1000 donation for water filters for a village in Laos
- $1000 donation for the Beirut Hospital Restoration Project (damaged by the August 2020 explosion)
- 750 lbs of food to the Richmond Hill Community Food Bank courtesy of the September Bottle & Food Drive
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