Upcoming Speakers
February 10, 2010: Dr. Paul Puckrin - Haiti
Upcoming Events
29th Annual Dinner/Auction ... read more »
Welcome to the Rotary Club of Port Perry
The Port Perry Rotary Club is part of Rotary International, the world's first service club organization. Our motto, Service Above Self, conveys the humanitarian spirit of the organization's more than 1.2 million members.
The Business owners and professionals who make up the membership have, through strong fellowship, contribute to many meaningful community and international service projects.
2008/2009 donations
- Polio Plus $463
- Port Perry High School Bursaries $500
- Cartwright High School Bursary $500
- Kent Farndale Bursary for the Arts $500, increasing to $1000 next year
- Scugog Memorial Public Library $500 for books in honour of guest speakers
- Shelter Box Canada $1200
- Partnership in Service $675
- Community Justice Alternative - Durham Region $550
- Dr. Silverman's project $3000 to provide funding for Nurses for AIDS patients in Africa
- Prince Albert Public School $300 to provide bussing for their intergenerational project
- Special Olympics $5000
- Youth Justice Forum $300
- Operation Scugog $1000
- Community Care Durham $1000
- Port Perry Hospital Foundation $20,000
- Operation Christmas North Durham $300
- Scugog Christian School $1000 for math educational software
- Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) $850
- Rotary Action for the Development of AIDS Responses (RADAR) $139
Past Projects
- Rotary Gazebo in Palmer Park
- Annual Aquarama event. The annual fundraiser pits teams of five riders against the clock on a short course on the lake.
- Provide accessible and safe access walkways to elevated boardwalk constructed by the Club in 2006 through Rotary Park along the easterly shoreline of Lake Scugog
- Free Christmas Dinner party for over 200 Scugog seniors and individuals with disabilities
- A pledge of $100,000 to Port Perry Hospital for its colonoscopy suite; $80,000 has already been raised and given to the hospital
- Annual Dinner Auction to fund various local and international projects
- Sponsorship and participation in the running of the annual Dragon Boat Festival. The Festival raises funds for four local hospital sites to support breast cancer awareness and support services.
