Scholarships Available, Application details......
The Rotary Club of Burnaby Deer Lake is welcoming applications for its Community Leadership Scholarship from Senior Secondary students in Burnaby schools. For details READ MORE
Scholarships Available, Application details......The Rotary Club of Burnaby Deer Lake is welcoming applications for its Community Leadership Scholarship from Senior Secondary students in Burnaby schools. For details READ MORE
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DG Shirley-Pat VisitsOur District Governor Visits and Inducts New Member. Click on "Read More" for photo.
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Festival Of Lights - Now at City of LougheedThank you sponsors for supporting our Festival of Lights fundraiser. This event finances the Boots for Kids initiative providing over 225 pairs of boots for the neediest school children in Burnaby. |
Burnaby's Rotary Clubs Celebrate Service in the CommunityMAYOR HURLEY IS KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT FELLOWSHIP BREAKFAST |
MLA Visits ClubMLA Katrina Chen Visits Our Club
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Festival of Lights 2022With the Festival of Lights now concluded we are pleased to thank our sponsors for their commitment. Thank you to our generous sponsors! Your support has ensured that over 250 needy Burnaby students now have warm, clean boots for the rest of the winter.
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Installation in the gardenRecent installation of club officers.
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Donate to Club ProjectsWe welcome donations to help finance club projects especially our Boots for Kids program. It's easy to pay using your credit card and PayPal. Using your mobile phone simply scan this QR code and follow the instructions. Easy! |
Festival of Lights !Our club's annual Festival of Lights Fundraiser has concluded at The City of Lougheed. Many thanks to our generous sponsors. |
Returning to Meetings in PersonWe are returning to our regular meeting place at the hotel for forthcoming meetings. Dates with program details to be provided as they become available under "Speakers". We normally meet on the first and third Thursdays of each month.
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NewsletterOur current Newsletter is available in the Download section. Click on the .pdf file in the lower right-hand column.
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Mayor Hurley Highlight of First MeetingBurnaby Mayor Mike Hurley kicks off first meeting of our Rotary year.
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Strawberries Available
Rotary Club of Burnaby Deer Lake in partnership with the Rotary Club of Abbotsford-Sumas presents our annual STRAWBERRY SALE Fresh, cleaned and sliced strawberries packed in their own juices All the work has been done!!! NO SUGAR OR WATER ADDED 5 kg (11 Lbs.) - $48 13.5 kg (30 lbs.) - $90 Note: pick-up is available only on Saturday June 10th, 2023 from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM at The Salvation Army parking lot, 6125 Nelson Ave. Burnaby, ORDERS MUST BE PLACED BEFORE JUNE 4th, 2023 Note flyer available for download (on right). Please distribute to your friends. Funds raised go to scholarships and Rotary's community projects. See Read More --> to go to the link for ordering and FAQ's
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Frequently Asked QuestionsFAQ’s How much does it cost to be a member of the Rotary Club - Burnaby Deer Lake? Annual Club membership fee is $240. This fee is waived for Rotaractors in their first year with the Club. Breakfast costs anywhere between $0 if you choose to have nothing to $15 if you have the full breakfast. District Conference - Optional (about 20% of members would go) $400 International Conference - Optional (about 10 % of members would go) $ 400 plus hotel and airfare Donation to the Rotary Foundation of $25 per year (expected but not required) How much of a time commitment is it? Club meetings last one hour and fifteen minutes on the first and third Thursday of the month starting at 7:15 AM. You should attend at least 12 meetings a year but some members with other commitments attend no meetings but do volunteer work and are active in the club. The median number of volunteer hours is about 2 hours per month with some Club Members volunteering up to 500 hours per year and some less than 5 hours per year. What volunteer activities would I be able to do? A few of the activities that Club members undertake are to provide “Boots for Kids” in the elementary schools, provide a pancake breakfast for an elementary school in Burnaby, help with international exchange students and stream clean ups and fish releases. Internationally, Rotarians in our Rotary District can be found on almost every continent. Some of our Club members volunteer in Uganda, India, Costa Rica and the Philippines. I am not retired yet. Should I join? Rotary is flexible so that you can do as much or as little as you want. Our newest members range in age from 30 to 65 years old. Are there any famous Rotarians that I may have heard about? Few people are aware that many famous people belonged, (or still belong) to Rotary. Following is a list of some names you will recognize. BUSINESS LEADERS Max Cointreau Rotary Club of Paris, France Owner, Cointreau liquor enterprise Raymond F. Firestone Rotary Club of Akron, OH Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Joyce C. Hall Rotary Club of Kansas City, MO Founder of Hallmark Cards Reijiro Hattori Rotary Club of Tokyo Ginza, Japan chairman, Seiko Konosuke Matsushita Rotary Club of Osaka, Japan President, Matsushita Electric Co. Dr. Charles H. Mayo Rotary Club of Rochester, MN Co-founder of Mayo Clinic Toyohiko Mikimoto Rotary Club of Tokyo, Japan Mikimoto Pearl Co. Heinrich Nordhoff Rotary Club of Braunschweig, Germany President, Volkswagen J.C. Penney Rotary Club of New York, NY Founder of J.C. Penney stores Leopoldo Pirelli Rotary Club of Milano President, Pirelli Tire Co. Italy Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Rotary Club of Chicago, IL Chairman of the board of the Walgreen Drug Company Sam Walton Rotary Club of Bentonville, AK Founder of Wal-Mart EXPLORERS Roald Amundsen Rotary Club of Oslo, Norway First person to reach the South Pole in 1911 Neil Armstrong Rotary Club of Wapakoneta, OH Astronaut & first man to walk on the moon Frank Borman Rotary Club of Space Center, Houston, TX U.S. astronaut Richard E. Byrd Rotary Club of Winchester, VA Arctic explorer Gordon Cooper Rotary Club of Space Center, Houston, TX U.S. astronaut Sir Edmund Hillary Rotary Club of Auckland New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist and the first person to reach the top of Mt. Everest. Charles Lindberg Rotary Club of Edinburgh American aviator INVENTORS Thomas A. Edison Rotary Club of Orange, NJ Inventor Guglielmo Marconi Rotary Club of Bologna, Italy Inventor of the wireless, 1909 Nobel Prize recipient for physics Orville Wright Rotary Club of Dayton, OH Co-inventor of the first successful airplane ROYALTY Prince Axel Rotary Club of Copenhagen, Denmark Prince of Denmark Prince Bernhard Rotary Club of Amsterdam, Netherlands Prince of the Netherlands HRH Prince Charles Rotary Club of Banchory-Ternan Prince of England HRH Prince Phillip Rotary Club of Edinburgh Prince of England Prince Rainier III Rotary Club of Monaco Prince of Monaco Greve Af Rosenborg Flemming Rotary Club of Copenhagen Danish Count Tsuneyoshi Takeda Rotary Club of Tokyo-North Japanese Royal Prince LEADERS Asgeir Asgeirsson Rotary Club of Reykjavík, Iceland President, Iceland Eduard Benes Rotary Club of Prague, Czechoslovakia President, Czechoslovakia Alcino Cardoso Rotary Club of Porto-Douro Secretary of State, Portugal Sir Winston Churchill Rotary Club of London Prime Minister, England & Leader of UK during WWII Gerald R. Ford Rotary Club of Grand Rapids, MI President, USA J. William Fulbright Rotary Club of Fayetteville, AR U.S. Senator from Arkansas Steingrimur Hermannsson Rotary Club of Reykjavík Prime Minister, Iceland Sydney G. Holland Rotary Club of Christchurch Prime Minister, New Zealand John F. Kennedy Rotary Club of Hyannis, MA President, USA Leonard Mulama Rotary Club of Kisangani Prime Minister, Democratic Republic of the Congo Duck Wo Nam Rotary Club of Hanyang Prime Minister, Korea Choong Hoon Park Rotary Club of Hanyang Prime Minister, Korea Nereu Ramos Rotary Club of Florianópolis President, Brasil Franklin D. Roosevelt Rotary Club of Albany, NY President, USA Woodrow Wilson Rotary Club of Birmingham, AL President, USA & Nobel Prize laureate in peace Chia-kan “C. K.” Yen Rotary Club of Taipei, Taiwan President, Republic of China-Taiwan Chang Soon Yoo Rotary Club of Hanyang, South Korea Prime Minister ARTISTS, COMPOSERS, AND AUTHORS Cecil B. De Mille Rotary Club of Hollywood, CA motion picture director Walt Disney Rotary Club of Palm Springs, CA Animation filmmaker OTHER Holly Compton Rotary Club of St. Louis, MO 1927 Nobel Prize recipient for physics Pope Francis Rotary Club of Buenos Aires Pope Ko Hirasawa Rotary Club of Kyoto East Japanese anatomist and president of Kyoto University Duke Kahanamoku Rotary Club of Honolulu, HI Olympic gold medalist, "Father of Surfing" Tapio Korjus Rotary Club of Lapua Kiviristi, Finland 1988 Olympic Gold Medal winner javelin Jean Leclant Rotary Club of Paris French Egyptologist Connie Mack Rotary Club of Fort Myers, FL Baseball Hall of Fame manager and team owner Georges Octors Rotary Club of Brussels Belgian orchestra conductor Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao Rotary Club of Manila, Philippines World champion professional boxer & politician Luciano Pavarotti Rotary Club of Modena Italian opera singer |
Japanese CultureEnglish language students try out their communication skills.
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T1D - Youngest Rotary Speaker Reveals AllOur club's youngest speaker (accompanied by mom) tells us about living with Type 1 Diabetes
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Service Projects - International |
Rotary - Good things happen |
Laughter, the Best Medicine |
Health Benefits in Rotary MembershipJoining and participating in a service club brings identifiable health benefits
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