Rotary Club of Ladner members, family and friends sponsored the 19th annual South Delta Family Peer Support Christmas Dinner for special needs or neurodiverse adults and their families and guardians. 52 members of the group attended the evening of fellowship, fun and good festive cheer over a well prepared full Christmas dinner with turkey, ham, stuffing, fresh cooked carrots, brussel sprouts, mashed potatoes and baked squash, plus dessert. -- photos by Denis Denischuk
Christmas for some Delta families and seniors feeling the pinch will be a little brighter after receiving food hampers on December 21, 2024. Containing a whole chicken, root vegetables, canned goods, macaroni and cheese, cranberries, cookies, candy canes and bread, the hampers, each being two boxes of food gathered by volunteers in recent weeks from food drives at schools and community organizations throughout Delta, had been shared by volunteers equally to 1,500 boxes at the Paridon Horticultural Ltd. warehouse north of the East Delta Community Hall on Highway 10.
A team from Rotary Club of Ladner joined hundreds of volunteers to pick up Christmas hampers and deliver them in North Delta to some among the 650 residences throughout Delta applying for support. Rotary Club of Ladner also contributed $1,500 towards this 35-year-old Christmas hamper tradition, organized by Deltassist.
The most significant performance recognition the 1.4-million-member Rotary International can award to one of its 35,000 clubs is the Rotary Citation. Rotary Club of Ladner received an international Citation for 2023-24 by achieving its goals, including sustainable projects serving needs of our community and world, giving to top-rated The Rotary Foundation, and building awareness of Rotary in the community, thanks to members, local residents and the Delta Optimist.
Ladner Rotary also received international recognition for its donations in 2023-24 to the global campaign to End Polio Now, which Rotary initiated in 1986 and since joined by foundations, world health organizations and governments to rid the world of 99% of life time crippling and sometimes deadly disease. Thanks to Rotarians who have donated and in part to generous sponsors and local Delta residents.
Colourful lights provide a little seasonal cheer to the patients, visitors, care professionals and staff at Delta Hospital, lit up for the Christmas season. Five Ladner Rotary members and two members of the Rotary-sponsored Interact Club at Delta Secondary School put up the lights and decor at the main entrance plus the Healing Garden in the hospital's courtyard -- opened in 2008 by the Delta Hospital Foundation, in partnership with the Rotary Clubs of Ladner and Tsawwassen -- and at the entrance to Mountain View Manor, home to over 90 residents. -- photos by Peter Roaf & Brian Coe
Members, family and friends who gathered for the Rotary Club of Ladner's Christmas Dinner on December 14, 2024, brought with them to share with the South Delta Food Bank 60 pounds of nonperishable food items.
Rotary District 5040 Governor Drew Antrobus made his annual visit to Rotary Club of Ladner on December 3, 2024. Drew’s wife, fellow Richmond Sunset Rotarian and this year’s District Learning Facilitator, Judy Smith, joined Drew. He spoke about this year's theme, The Magic of Rotary, and that it's the individual members who are the magicians who provide service where needed and make things happen, at home and in the world.
Manager of the Delta Funeral Home, in Ladner, Jesse Webb, joined the Rotary Club of Ladner on December 17th at an induction ceremony as part of the club's annual Christmas dinner. Welcome to Jesse and, with him, his wife Ashlee. -- photos by Penny Offer
In Rotary, we believe good health care is everyone’s right. Yet 400 million people in the world can’t afford or don’t have access to basic health care. Disease results in misery, pain, and poverty for those millions of people worldwide. In December, as Rotary focuses on Disease Prevention and Treatment, we can be grateful for our own excellent health system that, despite its various shortcomings, keeps us and our families and friends as well as possible.
As we celebrate the festive season, let's not focus on the endless health needs in our world. Let's take the time to appreciate some ways that we together in Rotary have shared and achieved in making the world a better place through Disease Prevention and Treatment. For example, Rotary-funded technology allows virtual doctors' appointments for people in rural Nigeria.
Compared to the 350,000 polio cases reported in 120 countries during 1986 when Rotary International initiated in The Philippines what has become a global campaign with world health organizations, foundations and governments, there were 12 polio cases reported mainly in two countries in 2023, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In that year of 2023 alone more than 400 million children received the vaccination against polio, with the support of Rotary including US$50 million donated by Rotary members to the End Polio Now campaign.
Despite that effort and huge achievement 14.5 million children in the world have not been vaccinated against any disease, including polio.
Rotary Club of Ladner held its Annual General Meeting on December 10th. Financial statements and a recommended budget were approved along with the board of directors for 2025-26, effective July 1, 2025. Immediate Past President Brian Coe, seen here, was elected President for 2025-26.