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A Message From Our President

As president of Ottawa's Senior Rotary Club founded in 1916 I am delighted to have the opportunity to pass along a message from the members of our club.

In 2008 we completed, with the assistance of many other Rotary clubs, the new Rotary Home Facility outside of Ottawa; a new respite facility for families with children and young adults with physical and functional disabilities. The building is beautiful and the long-term effort to complete the project has been the cause of great satisfaction amongst Rotarians in the City of Ottawa.

The Adventure Program of our club is reaching its 60th anniversary and has been very successful over the years in explaining to outstanding students from more than two hundred clubs across the country what the Capital is all about. The opportunity for these young persons to connect with each other, and to come to the City of Ottawa and to see government in action, and many of the organizations that are federal in nature; has had great impact not only on the most recent students but on many of the former students from the fifty-nine year history of the program.

Currently the most outstanding initiative is the S.T.E.P. program, a City of Ottawa project for the establishment of a drug rehabilitation centre to be named by the Rotary movement in Ottawa, and to provide a facility of the treatment of young people with drug addiction problems. Vern White, the Chief of Police of the City of Ottawa, has spearheaded this project with Dave Smith as well as others and the Rotary Clubs have been very willing to participate and to sponsor this worthwhile project.

The New Ideas Committee of the club is working constantly to come up with new and interesting projects which meet the four-way test of the Rotary movement, and new events and new activities will be announced from time to time ratified by the Board of Directors of the club. If you would like to join this club there are close to sixty very hard-working members, anyone one of whom would be happy to share their thoughts about how you could interact and be of service to the Rotary movement.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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- Harry Blackmun, Supreme Court Justice USA

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- Antoine Pinay, Pres. of France

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