REMEMBERING HEROES
On Remembrance Day (a snowy November 11), the Presidents of the three Rotary Clubs of St. Catharines (Rotary Club of St. Catharines; Rotary Club of St. Catharines – South; and The Rotary Club of St. Catharines Lakeshore) placed wreaths during an Observance and Memorial Service at the Cenotaph in St. Catharines. The Annual Remembrance Day’s events began with a parade from the City Hall ending at Memorial Park, which contains the cenotaph. The service included a Two Minute Silence along with the firing of two of the guns of the 10th Field Battery.
Pictured left to right are Terry McDougall, Rotary Club of St. Catharines; Robert Eagle, Rotary Club of St. Catharines South; Eric Jones, Rotary Club of St. Catharines Lakeshore. Picture courtesy of Assistant Governor Milica Kovacevich.
FLAG RAISING
On Thursday, October 24th, the three Rotary clubs of St. Catharines (Rotary Club of St. Catharines; Rotary Club of St. Catharines – South; and Rotary Club of St. Catharines Lakeshore) joined together in raising the Rotary and the End Polio Now Flags at St. Catharines City Hall. This was followed by a joint luncheon, “Purple Pinkie Celebration” at the St. Catharines Golf and Country Club. The guest speaker for the luncheon was Bojan Stupar, Coordinator Post Polio from March of Dimes Canada and polio survivor Eleanor Lewis.pur