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Residents and business owners in Ladner and Tsawwassen are displaying Canadian flags on their property to celebrate Canada Day, by subscription in support of various services in our community by the Rotary Clubs of Ladner and Tsawwassen. The flags will go up once again in the week around Remembrance Day on November 11th. – photos by Penny Offer
ROTARY'S VISION:
TOGETHER WE SEE A WORLD WHERE PEOPLE UNITE AND TAKE ACTION TO CREATE LASTING CHANGE
TOGETHER WE SEE A WORLD WHERE PEOPLE UNITE AND TAKE ACTION TO CREATE LASTING CHANGE
ACROSS THE GLOBE IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND IN OURSELVES.
We Are Rotary: People of Action in Service Above Self
For over 65 years we have provided relief and built facilities for our community
Around the world our members help save and improve lives
Rotary members have endless opportunities to learn about management, leadership and life
Leadership opportunities come in all forms at club, regional, national and international levels
Members work together in service, where they belong in a diverse, inclusive community of high integrity and respect
We serve our community on the shared, traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the sc̓əwaθən (Tsawwassen), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and other Coast Salish Peoples with our appreciation.
"Unite for Good" is the 2025-26 theme throughout Rotary International, the world's original service club since 1905. The Rotary Club of Ladner welcomes its new president and board of directors, effective July 1, 2025, and presents its Rotarian of the Year Award. Guillermo Bustos presents the club's heritage with its Talking Stick -- Indigenous tradition that only the person holding the Talking Stick is entitled to speak -- passed in a ceremony from the outgoing club president to the incoming one.
The South Delta Food Bank on Ladner Trunk Road is run by a team of dedicated and compassionate volunteers who receive, sort and distribute weekly donations of food or food purchased with donated funds to 130 people in Ladner and Tsawwassen struggling with short or long term poverty.
Rotary Club of Ladner has contributed $3,500 to the Food Bank as proceeds from its Shred A Thon in April, from the club and, with many thanks, and the many local residents who participated in the shredding event.
The Ladner Business Association Expo was a community event May 31, 2025 so that LBA members could showcase their business, create opportunities, generate leads, make connections and grow their business within the Ladner community. LBA member, Rotary Club of Ladner, participated in the business event at the City of Delta's Harris Barn in Ladner.
Ladner Pioneer May Days, the longest-running festival in Delta, since 1896, featured the community parade on May 25th. Rotary Club of Ladner prepared a float and entered the parade through the centre of Ladner, before thousands of people along the parade route.
Club members decorated a farm hay trailer, which Walt Hayward towed with this 1949 John Deere tractor, accompanied by other Rotarians. In the theme of this year's parade -- "music icons" -- the float featured musical notes and records with Erin, son of Ulf Ottho as a rocker. It also featured some of Rotary's 7 Areas of Focus, which are Promoting Peace, Fighting Disease, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene, Mother & Child Health, Education & Literacy, Growing Local Economies, and Protecting The Environment. – photos by Penny Offer and Peter Roaf
Rotarian Simbarashe Basvi, Rector & Theologian
Jun 17, 2025
Biblically based Creation Care Agriculture and how it helps mitigate Climate Change.
Rosanne Horner, Vice President, BDC
Jun 24, 2025
Rosanne is Vice President, Financing & Consulting for BDC
President Brian Coe 2025- 2026
Jul 08, 2025
Rotarian, PDG, & Judge Leo Nimsick - Tribute & Celebration.
BC & Alberta Guide Dogs is meeting the growing demand for professionally trained Guide Dogs, Autism Service Dogs, and OSI (Operational Stress Injury)-PTSD Service Dogs for citizens of British Columbia and Alberta. Each dog is provided at no cost to its human partner. To date the organization has graduated 361 graduates of dogs with partners, 191 currently in service. It has served people in 74 communities through the two provinces, with a staff and over 250 volunteers. BCAGD CEO Bill Thornton presented an update to Ladner Rotary members on May 27, 2025 and on the new state-of-the-art Breeding & Training Centre—a first in Western Canada—will immediately increase the availability of Guide and Service Dogs across British Columbia and Alberta. Within the next five years, our Centre of Excellence will allow us to double the number of individuals we serve.
Since 1959, REACH Child and Youth Development Society has served neurodiverse children and youth with support needs and their families in Delta, Surrey, White Rock, and Langley, B.C. REACH aims to ensure optimum growth and development for young people, empowering them and their families to make informed decisions that shape their futures, and enhancing their quality of life. Presented by REACH Executive Director Renie D'Aquila and co-Executive Director Camille Netherton.
Saving Lives at Sea. John Horton, commander of the Delta Lifeboat Station, presented on the Canadian Lifeboat Institution (CLI), which, for the past 44 years, has provided marine search and rescue and non-revenue marine services in the coastal waters around Richmond, Delta, Surrey, New Westminster, the Fraser River, Strait of Georgia, Vancouver, Victoria, and elsewhere including Washington State. CLI is a valued part of Team Search and Rescue and serves in the City of Delta’s Emergency Services Program.
Dale Saip, Senior VP of Hockey, at the Vancouver Giants Hockey Club and a long-time Trustee on the Delta School Board, spoke about the Vancouver Giants Hockey Club, many years part of the Western Hockey League. Next season for the Vancouver Giants will be the Club's 25th. Players join the club on a scholarship then go on to other university or career options. Hockey and other sports and organizations, such Kid's Sport, change lives of kids in a positive way. Girls are important in hockey as are boys and everybody is welcome to play. A number of Vancouver Giant players gone to NHL and leagues in Europe. Others have become local fire fighters, police officers, teachers and coaches.
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