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All proceeds from our fundraisers go toward serving our community.

Return-It Fundraiser

Community Members, if you've ever wondered how to support our many local Rotary initiatives, here is a simple way. Return your beverage containers to our local Return-It Depot. See the attached instructions.

Those Rotarians who attended our last meeting received stickers to adhere to your beverage recycling bags. Thanks to everyone who has returned beverage containers to the Return-It Express Depot in Squamish. This initiative has the potential to raise significant funds for our club.

I will be bringing recycling bags and more express stickers for these bags to the next meeting.

I've attached instructions on returning your beverage containers which will put money directly back into our Rotary Club account.

Thank you for your help with this.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

604-970-5952

Kyla Paine

President

Squamish Rotary Club

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Recycle Bicycle is Back!

Posted on May 20, 2024

Recycle Bicycle is back!
Join us on Saturday, June 1st in the parking lot at Brennen Park.

Bring by used bikes in the morning 10.00 - 12:00

and anyone looking for bikes can pick up in the afternoon 12:00 - 3:00.

If you are interested in volunteering for this event please email volunteer@shhs.ca, if you are interested in or have questions about donations please email bikes@shhs.ca.

Tim Hortons Smile Cookies

Posted on Apr 26, 2024

From April 29-May 5, Tim Hortons Restaurant Owners will be supporting more than 600 local charities, hospitals and community programs across Canada.

Guests who purchase a freshly baked Smile Cookie will be donating to these great causes with 100% of proceeds being donated to the local charity!

The Rotary Club of Squamish is honoured to be a Charity of Choice for the 2024 Tim Horton’s Smile Cookie Program in the Sea to Sky corridor.

We will use the funds to support the new children's playground at the Oceanfront Park in Squamish!

Each Smile Cookie is $1.50 or just $18 per dozen.

To pre-order Tim Hortons Smile Cookies, click HERE for the order form. Complete the form and take it to your nearest Tim Hortons store.

Squamish Climate Action Plan

Posted on Apr 25, 2024

Our guest speaker today was Ian Picketts, Manager of Sustainability and Climate Change at the District of Squamish.

The District has developed a Community Climate Action Plan which has a target of reducing our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 45% by 2030, and to be net carbon neutral by 2050.

The plan concentrates on Mitigation - actions that reduce GHG emissions. It will address 3 main areas - waste, transportation and buildings.

Work is under way on projects related to improving deconstruction practices, reducing embodied carbon in buildings, expanding our landfill gas collection system, constructing EV infrastructure and bringing a team of youth to Squamish to work on climate change projects over the summer of 2024..

More at: Climate Action - District of Squamish

Spring Cleaning our Community

Posted on Apr 20, 2024

On Saturday morning members and friends of Squamish Rotary were on the avenues, streets, lanes, and trails of Downtown Squamish picking up litter and rubbish for Pitch-In Week. Two truckloads of garbage were collected and taken to the dump.

A big THANK YOU to Emma Seguss for recruiting all the volunteers and doing a great job organising the event.

Club makes another Donation to Squamish Helping Hands Society

Posted on Mar 14, 2024

Our guest speaker today was Michelle Balch, Volunteer Coordinator at Squamish Helping Hands Society.
She gave us an overview of all the programs and services run by the Squamish Helping Hands Society and the Under One Roof facility.

After her presentation, the club presented Michelle with a cheque for $5,000 which are funds raised at a Bingo night and a personal donation.
This will be added to the amount raised by the club at the Coldest Night of the Year event and will bring our total to over $23,000 for this very worthy cause.

Food, Shelter, Community - Squamish Helping Hands

Rotary Supports the new Foundry Youth Hub

Posted on Mar 13, 2024

Sea to Sky Community Services Society, helps thousands of children, youth and adults through more than 40 community services and programs in BC’s Sea to Sky corridor. It has replaced the condemned Youth Resource Centre in Squamish with a new $2.2 million, 5,000 sq ft youth centre where young people aged 12-24 can access mental health, primary care, substance use intervention, peer support, and social services, all under one roof. The Rotary Club of Squamish provided $30,000.00 in funding to furnish the Squamish Youth Hub at the centre, providing technology equipment, a pool table, and other recreational equipment including a $10,000 District Grant from The Rotary Foundation.

Challenges Facing local News Media

Posted on Feb 29, 2024

Editor Jennifer Thuncher and Publisher Sarah Strother from The Squamish Chief joined us to talk about the challenges facing local news media. Some of the main comments were:

• the Squamish Chief has a great team of dedicated and hard-working staff.

• readership is the key; readership drives advertising which is almost 100% of the paper's revenue.

• the paper version Chief went free to expand readership.

• currently 5500-6000 copies are printed weekly and distributed around town.

• most of the readership is now online with 350,000 articles viewed per month.

• the Meta ban on Canadian news has meant even more effort is being made to drive readership to the Squamish Chief website.

• the daily newsletter email has been very successful in keeping people up to date with what's happening in our community.

You can Sign up for The Squamish Chief's newsletters - Squamish Chief.

Squamish Community Comes Together to Alleviate Hunger and Homelessness.

Posted on Feb 25, 2024

On February 24th the Squamish community turned out for the Coldest Night of the Year fundraising walk to support the Squamish Helping Hands Society.

The event takes place in communities across Canada in support of local charities serving people experiencing hurt, hunger, and homelessness.

In Squamish, 54 teams and over 200 walkers participated.

The event has raised almost $80,000 so far with the proceeds going to Squamish Helping Hands.

The Rotary Cub of Squamish joined in with with 4 teams and has raised close to $18,000 for this important cause with more to come.

S2S Gondola donates Andy Anissimoff Painting to Hilltop House

Posted on Feb 14, 2024

At the live auction during last October's Gala, the Sea to Sky Gondola bid $5,000 and won the original painting by local artist Andy Anissimoff.

On Feb 13th, representatives from the the Sea to Sea Gondola donated the painting to Hilltop House. We thank everyone at the Sea to Sky Gondola for your generosity and community spirit.

Proceeds from the October Gala will support several projects that the Rotary Club of Squamish is working on this year, including the Playground at the Oceanfront Park, the John Gullo Home for Children in Mexico, and the Centre of Hope in the Philippines.

SquamishCAN receives Rotary grant for the Downtown School Farm

Posted on Feb 01, 2024

At our regular meeting on February 1st, Squamish Rotary presented a $5,000 grant to Squamish CAN for projects in the next stage of development at the Downtown School Farm.

One of these will be the construction of a "Kids Zone", which will be a gathering space for younger children featuring opportunities to explore the environment using all the senses.

Krystle tenBrink, Executive Director of Squamish CAN accepted the grant from President Kevin Haberl and Eddie Carter, Commumiity Service Chair.

Squamish Rotary has supported the Farm with a past grant and also in-kind donations and some volunteer labour.

Read MORE.

Coldest Night of the Year

Posted on Jan 23, 2024

What would you do if you didn't have a warm place to go home to tonight? What if you didn't have enough food to fuel your body and were cold all of the time?

On February 24, 2024 the community of Squamish will be walking to raise money for Squamish Helping Hands in our first Coldest Night of the Year event.

The Rotary Club of Squamish is participating as team Captains, walkers & fundraisers.

We are asking for you to join us and help those less fortunate in our community.

Apply for Grants for Local Community Projects

Posted on Jan 08, 2024

The Rotary Club of Squamish is inviting applications for grant funding for local community projects.

For more information and to submit an application, click on "Apply for Funding" on the top menu.

Applications will close on March 31st, 2024.

Club Christmas Party 2023

Posted on Dec 21, 2023

It was a fun evening at Howe Sound Inn on Thursday December 21st for our annual Christmas party. Delicious food was accompanied my laughter, fellowship and good cheer, followed by some lively games. Thank you to Lynda for organising everything and to Howe Sound for hosting us.

More photos HERE.

ed: Apologies for the photo quality -

the photographer blames it on the lighting conditions!