Gaming Grants Total $105,000!

Squamish Rotary has applied for Provincial Gaming Grants for the past seven years. Each year we have been successful recipients of Gaming Grants of $15,000 for a total of $105,000. These funds are then distributed throughout the community as well as used by our own youth programs. Over these years we have used $7,000 towards sending five students to Rotary Adventures in Citizenship in Ottawa, $15,000 for RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Camp), and $4,600 for Rotaract.  In addition, over these seven years, we have helped to send underprivileged children to Evans Lake Forestry Camp ($2,700), supported the local Community Garden at Mamquam Road and Hwy 99 ($2,000), beautified the gardens at Hilltop House ($4,000), supported the Squamish Food Bank ($5,800), the Squamish Helping Hands Society ($7,100), Big Brothers/Big Sisters Teen Mentoring Program ($7,500), Squamish Archery Junior Olympic Program ($3,800), Dogwood House - Mental Health Camp ($2,000), Callaghan Winter Sports - Biathlon Bears Kids Program ($4,000), and the Squamish Breakfast Program - over $21,000!!! We acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia. Without the Provincial Gaming Grant funds, this would have been much more difficult to achieve.