Student Share their Vision of Rotary
To celebrate Rotary Awareness Month in January the Rotary Club of Alliston Challenged the members of the St Paul's Catholic School EarlAct club to prepare a creative work that shows how they see Rotary in the Alliston community. This work could be one of the following:
- A short essay (500 words)
- A collage of photographs with text
- A short video (max 1- 2 minutes)
- An original piece of visual art.
The club received numerous excellent contributions from Ms. Matchett's grade six class. Thank you all for your great entries.
The following 3 were selected as the winners in their category.
Best Video - Ryan Delill
Best Poster - Madison Williams
Best Essay - Alyssa Taylor
The Rotary Club
All it took was one idea from one man to change the lives of millions forever.
In 1905 Paul.P.Harris an attorney in Chicago, Illinois decided his dream of having
a professional club with a friendly spirit like the small town he grew up in would
become reality. There are 34,000 Rotary clubs world wide. The club was named the
Rotary Club because of the early practice of rotating meetings among different members
offices. The Rotary Club's main objective is service in the community, in the workplace
and around the globe. The Rotary Club believes in Service above self, and try's hard to
teach this meaning to many young and old. The Rotary Club has started programs for
students and youth that change the lives of all those who participate and teach them the
values of helping those in need. Through these programs students can earn scholarships,
travel on cultural exchanges, or help a community through a service project. We can help
the Rotary Club to spread the message Service above self by volunteering at fundraisers,
giving needed stuff to those less fortunate and influencing others to give back and put
others before themselves.
The Rotary Clubs motto Service above Self means to me...
that the Rotary Club is trying to teach others that they need to learn how to put others
before themselves and that we may not think we are lucky but others around the world
and even in our community are struggling and we can help if we try and give to those
who need our help. Throughout the years the Rotary Club has given our community of
New Tecumseth and beyond so much. Even on the coldest of winter days the Rotary Club
finds a way to warm up our hearts with a large fire. For as long as I can remember me
and my family has been going to the annual Christmas tree burning were we warm up
by the beautiful bright shining fire, drink some delicious hot chocolate and go sledding
down the hills. Thanks to the Rotary Club Alliston has a beautiful park where kids enjoy
the playground and families bond on nature hikes. Just this summer one of the Rotary
Club's latest projects opened up. The Rotary Club provided Alliston with an amazing
swimming pool which cools off everyone on hot summer days. The Rotary Club does
lots for Alliston but just as much for the world. For 25 years now the Rotary Club has
been working on stopping polio, a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease that
that mostly strikes children mainly under the age of 5 in countries like Asia, Africa, and
the eastern Mediterranean region. We can help the Rotary Club to end polio now by
supporting there fundraisers and giving to those who have polio. The Rotary Club
is an amazing volunteer service organization with over 1.2 million members that give
back to those in need and teach those not in need to give to those who have less then
them. Remember all of this only started from one idea to change the lives of millions
forever and you can help change millions more.
Thank you to all those in the Rotary Club who dedicate their time and hearts to helping build our community!