Events

Hello Everyone,

Sorry for the typo on my first email invitation

On Saturday November 30 2024, at 9 AM we are going to install the Christmas Lights at Delta Hospital and Delta Hospice.

We are hoping to complete by 12 Noon and then have an informal lunch or coffee at Kee House Cafe at McKee House (Courtyard Cafe at the hospital is closed on weekends).

On Thursday January 23 2025, we will return and do the light take down.  At that time, a free lunch/coffee will be provided by the Courtyard Cafe at the hospital).

The Delta Secondary Interactors have been invited to help us with light installation on Sat Nov 30.

It is short notice so please sign up if you are available to help and sign up any family members that could help us.

We are hoping to have:
(1) 2 person team install the lights on the bushes & trees in front of the Main Hospital Entrance and the roundabout in the driveway at Delta Hospice

(1) 2 person team install the lights at Mountainview Manor Entrance on the side of Delta Hospital opposite to main entrance

(1) team of several persons to install lights in the Healing Garden in the Courtryard inside Delta Hospital

Mike Storey will go to Delta Hospital at 8 AM on Saturday, contact Security and pull out the lights, then start plugging in & testing.  If we need bulbs, I will keep those strings separate and run to Can Tire or London Drugs to pick up replacement bulbs (there are some replacement bulbs with the lights so we might be OK)

This will be our 19th year providing a traditional Christmas Dinner for the mentally handicapped adults & their immediate families who belong to the Weekend Family & Peer Support Group in Delta.

Thanks goes to past Ladner Rotarian Thom Wright for introducing this project to our club in 2005. Thom was only with our club for a short while, but his involvement with the Delta Branch of CMHA led to our club providing this annual Christmas Dinner which is much appreciated by both attendees and volunteers.

Our Weekend Family & Peer Support Group Christmas Party is scheduled for Saturday December 14 at Ladner Community Centre.   You are encouraged to bring your family and friends to help with this event.

This year, we need volunteers to cook boneless turkey roasts and hams at home and bring to the event at 5:15 PM.

And of course, lots of volunteers are needed for unloading/loading rental dishes, food & supplies, prepping & cooking veggies, prepping salads, set up of the hall, making coffee & punch, serving food, clean up.  This is a hands on project that the whole club can be involved in.  Friends & family welcome to join in and help with the following

Sat Dec 14: 

1 PM (4) persons needed to help peel veggies + unload truck load of rental dishes at Community Centre

4:15 PM (4) persons needed to help prepare salads & make coffee.

4:15 PM (4) volunteers need to set up serving tables, set up chafing dishes with boiling water, set up plates, prep utensils in napkins.

5:30 PM (8) volunteers needed to move food from kitchen to buffet area. Need to carve hams & turkey roasts

5:45 PM (16) volunteers needed for serving plus volunteers needed to refill chafing dishes.

6:45 PM Lots of volunteers needed to clean buffet serving area, clean off tables & rinse dishes & utensils, serve coffee & final clean up

Let me know if you have a preference for a volunteer position or better yet, just volunteer and let me assign you a task.

No lunch meeting on Tueday December 17, 2024, we are meeting for Dinner to celebrate Christmas, our Communuity and Rotary. Invitations with a RSVP have been sent. Please register yourself, family members and potential new members. 

Come and join fellow Rotarians and guests for a celebration of the "Most Wonderful Time of the Year". We will be meeting for dinner and enjoying the "Holly Jolly Dinner Buffet", at the Coast. There will be no lunch meeting on that Tuesday. Come earlier to enjoy some live seasonal music and Rotary fellowship. Registration starts at 5:30 PM, Dinner at 6:30 PM. Please invite your spouse, family members and prospective members to this Celebration of the Season, our Community and Rotary.

This event is subsized by our generosity to our social fund. In the spirit of the season we ask that you drop-off or bring non-perishable food items. These items will be donated to the South Delta FoodBank, to help in our communities food security needs, especially during the Holiday Season.

Many more things are in the planning stages for our Christmas Celebration 2024, so please register yourself and as many guests as possible !!! Stay tuned and HO HO HO!!! and Away We Go!!

You are invited to help with delivering Christmas Hampers Saturday December 21 at 9 a.m.

We will gather on 104 St (East Delta Hall), outside the Paragon Farms, half way between Highway 10 and 64th Avenue.

You will be assigned one or two or three hampers to be delivered to either North or South Delta anbd you will be done by Noon

No need to register for this event.

Just drive to Paradon Nurseries Sat morning at 9 AM, let them know which area you want to deliver the hampers to and they will direct you to the loading area, load up your vehicle and give you a list of addresses where the hampers will be delivered.

The Christmas Hamper Program in Delta is organized by Deltassist and involves many non-profit groups in Delta including our Rotary Club.

Jim Burnett represents Ladner Rotary at the organizational meetings and our club has been involved with the Christ mas Hamper Program for several decades.

Jim also picks up the donations collected by several secondary schools in Delta and delivers to Paridon where they are sorted and organized.

Ladner Rotary has increased our annual club donation to $2,00 to the 2024 Christmas Hamper Program to help with the purchase of food supplies for this year's hampers thanks to the Shred Event this Rotary year.

And as usual, we have numerous club members and their family/friends do the actual delivery of Christmas Hampers on the Saturday morning prior to Christmas 

Any questions, please feel free to contact Mike Storey at 604-830-1310 or mike@idealdoor.ca

Thank you

We are not meeting at the Coast, for our first meeting of the New Year, on Tuesday January 7, 2025. We are on tour and will be meeting at noon for our Rotary lunch meeting at RAMIE'S, in their upstairs private meeting room. Ramie's is located at 6165 BC Highway 17A in Delta, near the Cascade Casino.

Happy New Year!!! We have lined up Dale Saip, Senior VP with the Vancouver Giants Hockey Club of the WHL. Dale is a good friend of Rotary and will give us an update on the hockey club and the business of hockey. He is also going to address our Rotary clubs attendance at the Sunday, January 19, 2025 afternoon hockey game against the Brandon Wheat Kings, at the Langley Events Centre.

Watch for the Invitation to attend this social and fellowship gathering in a Private Suite, or the Flight Deck Lounge or the Sapphire Room, depending on how many of our Members and Guests are attending.

Go Giants Go!!!!  

Please invite interested south Delta community leaders to hear from the returm visit, of BCWHF, supporting women's and newborn health.

This is his second visit to continue our Delta Police Department's fight on Cybercrime!!!