Jesse Webb, who joined the Rotary Club of Ladner in December gave his "Classification Speech" for fellow members to get to know him a little better. Manager of the Delta Funeral Home, in Ladner, Jesse started life in Kenora, Ontario. After college he moved to BC where he started in the funeral service business. After transferring to positions in Toronto, Houston, Dallas and Orlando, he returned to the Lower Mainland. Jesse, his wife Ashlee and their two sons, aged 14 and 10, live in South Surrey. He says he looks forward to participating in Ladner Rotary to provide service to the community -- "service" being the key word which he provides through his occupation and personal life.
Rotary Club of Ladner Past President Brian Coe received a Paul Harris Fellow Award +3 on January 28, 2025 for contributing a total of US$1,000 or more at each of the four levels now reached to The Rotary Foundation for its Annual Programs Fund, global End Polio campaign or the Humanitarian Grants program or for exemplary work in community service.
Rotary Club of Ladner member Brian Smith received a Paul Harris Fellow Award on January 21, 2025 for contributing a total of US$1,000 or more to The Rotary Foundation for its Annual Programs Fund, global End Polio campaign or the Humanitarian Grants program or for exemplary work in community service. Past District 5040 Governor Chris Offer pins the Paul Harris Fellow pin on Brian.
During apartheid in South Africa an entire community of "coloured" residents (members of multiracial ethnic communities with ancestry from African, European, and Asian people) was removed from Cape Town and all its houses and buildings bulldozed to make way for new construction for the white population -- decades later, construction which never happened. Some of those displaced people formed the community of Atlantis. Past District 5040 Governor (PDG) and Rotary Club of Ladner member Chris Offer, while travelling with his wife PDG Penny in December 2024, visited the Rotary Club of Atlantis and its projects to feed and support children and adults in an impoverished community with 40% unemployment and where severe measures are needed to protect property from theft by desperate residents. Chris Offer is shown here with some children in Atlantis before Christmas.
The three-day Barnside Harvest Festival at Paterson Park in Ladner last September attracted over 30,000 people, including 2,500 children. Just over half were from Delta, but others from other Metro Vancouver communities. The Festival featured 50 bands and 20 recording artists, 100 vendors, artisans, food trucks. It was made possible by multiple sponsors, primarily the Barnside Brewing Co., and 250 volunteers, including members of the Rotary Club of Ladner who managed vehicle parking for the event, generating over $30,000 for local charities. The highly popular event is returning to Ladner in September 2025.
Massive wildfires in Southern California, USA, have destroyed at least 12,000 buildings, razed neighborhoods, and displaced tens of thousands of people