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Random Acts of Kindness

RAK week runs every year around RAK Day February 17th. RAK in our community has been one of our clubs favourites ways to spread joy during such a wonderful week. Check out below what we have done for RAK week.

RAK week 2019

We celebrated Random Acts of Kindess Week from February 17th-23rd within our community, and what a great week it was. We started our week off with a trip to the City of Port Coquitlam Firehall #1 where we delivered Tim Hortons coffee and donuts to the fireman on duty early Sunday morning. They were very grateful for the gesture of kindness afterwards, we headed to Starbucks and spent the rest of the morning preparing cards for another RAK!

On Monday we paid a visit to some of the residents staying at the Eagle Ridge Manor in Port Moody where we delivered kindness cards and got to talk to a few of the residents. It was super nice for us to be able to interact with and visit them.

On Tuesday one of our rotaractors delivered flower arrangments to a few of the schools in our community to show appreciation for the teachers and all the hard work they put into educating children and youth. Thank you teachers of SD43, we appreciate you!

On Wednesday we got together and delivered treats to all 4 firehalls in Coquitlam! We interrupted dinner at a few of the halls but the firemen were kind enough to let us snag a picture in front of one of the trucks! Thank you Coquitlam Firemen!

The remainder of our week was spent doing smaller acts of kindness to our coworkers at work and even in our local starbucks while grabbing coffee. Overall it was a wonderful week of kindness and we look forward to spreading kindness all year round!

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SHARE

SHARE Family & Community Services is a local organization close to our hearts, our club has done many initiatives and fundraisers to support the SHARE Food Bank and the families that rely on they support. Check out below some of the things we have done lately for SHARE.

SHARE Family Christmas Hampers 2019

To end off the month right before Christmas, President Jaymee & Vice President Kendra got the opportunity to deliver the food and gifts on behalf of the club. Each year we try to sponsor a family through Share Food Bank, this year we were fortunate enough to take on two families and we were beyond excited to be able to give back to these families in our communities! Big thanks to Eric, Kimberley, Sarah, Carter & Evan for contributing to this years hampers! Way to go Rotaractors!

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Guatemala Gala

We raised funds alongside the Semiahmoo Peninsula Rotaract club and the Fraser Valley Rotaract club for the Rotaract District 5050 international service trip to Guatemala in August 2019!

There was a silent auction, toonie tosses, lottery board and so much more fun was had. If you were able to make it out to our fundraiser we hope you had a wonderful time.

It was a magical night! The turnout for our gala was absolutely amazing and it was such a successful night! Congratulations to our winners of the toonie toss, lottery board, The $400 Calvin Klein watch won during our heads or tails game & all the bidders for our silent auction that got to go home with amazing prizes such as 2 club seats for a Canucks game, 4 BC Lions tickets, Cobs Bread for a year & so much more!

Thank you to all that came out to support this event! It would not have been able to be such a success without you all!

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Pub Nights

Our club has held numerous Pub Night events to raise funds for different causes over the years. Take a look at our few most recent ones.

Get us to Guatemala Pub Night 2019

We held our first fundraiser to help us with our goal of getting to Guatemala in August of 2019. Our Pub Night was a great success! With everyones help supporting us we raised just over $1000 to go towards our trip to Guatemala!

Pub Night for Polio 2019

In November our Club held our fifth pub night at Townhall Coquitlam to raise funds for the Polio Foundation, the whole event was a great success. We ended up raising $905.50 which when matched by rotary international and The Bill and Melinda gates Foundation it ends up making out to be $2716! What an amazing achievement for our club! Thank you to everyone who came out and to all the rotaractors the donated their time to make the event a success!

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Socials

Here you’ll be able to check out some of the social events our club has held in the past.

Pumpkin Carving Contest 2019

We had our first ever Pumpkin Carving Social on October 25th at the Port Moody Recreation Centre. We voted for the “best” pumpkin at the end of carving, whomever carved the “best” pumpkin got awarded with a donation in their name to the SHARE food banks for our version of Halloween for Hunger this year! We had an amazing turnout with rotaractors from all over the district coming out to have some halloween fun with us! Austin Taylor, President from the Whidbey Island Rotaract Club won our Pumpkin Carving Social!