Events

Joint Social with other St. Catharines Club at the Lock 3 Museum

First meeting of the 2022-2023 Board

Please join us on this very special day as we welcome our Assistant Area District Governor Tommy Wegge. 

He will be introducing the 2022-2023 board to our club and our club president will outline his plan for the year.

We thank all Board Members for their commitment to the club and their willingness to take on these responsibilities. We wish you all well in your respective committees and look forward to another great Rotary year.

Informal meeting at Cat's Caboose for those that are able to make it. 

DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CENCELLED!

Please join us at our next month's SOCIAL on Saturday September 10th at Joey's place in Fenwick. For more information please view that event's details or contact us.

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In keeping with this year’s RI motto of " Imagine Rotary” we look at the diversity of our club and imagine  a part of members’ cultures with an evening of diverse sweets/desserts and wines/beer/spirits. BYOB

Chair Niagara Escarpment Comission, Former Member of Parliament for Niagara Falls

Rob Nicholson represented the riding of Niagara Falls as M.P. from 2004 to 2019 He is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Under P.M. Stephen Harper, he served as Minister of National Defence, Minister of Justice & Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Rob was born and raised in Niagara Falls and from his humble beginnings he has risen to the highest ranks of the federal government.  As Rob likes to say “we’ve won the lottery of life being born in Canada

He was elected to Parliament in 1984 until 1993. He then served as regional councillor and school board trustee. He was re-elected to Parliament in 2004 and he served as leader of the government in the House of Commons and minister of democratic reform in 2006. The following year, he was named minister of justice and attorney general. In 2013, he was appointed minister of national defence. He became minister of foreign affairs in 2015 and in 2019 was appointed to the National Security and Intelligence Committee. Nicholson retired from public service in 2019.

In a Niagara Independent interview, published on November 2019, Regional Chair Jim Bradley commented, “Rob has made such a tremendous and significant contribution, not only to those of us in Niagara, certainly in Niagara Falls and the Niagara region, but right across our country and internationally.  When you think of Rob Nicholson, there are certain words that come to mind, one is honesty, one is integrity, one is perseverance, one is service, all of those and many more can be used to describe Rob Nicholson.”

Club BBQ at Joey's home in Fenwick.

More information caming soon.

14th Annual MEGA Rotary TV Auction
December 1, December 2, December 3, 2022

The Rotary clubs of St Catharines South, St Catharines, Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls Sunrise, Welland,
Fonthill, and Fort Erie, together with YourTV are back for the fourteenth year in a row, bringing our MEGA
auction to the Niagara region and beyond.
Thank you!! We appreciate your support of the auction, and all Rotary events and fundraisers.
With your help, our clubs have been very busy during the Covid-19 pandemic. We have contributed to
local food banks; provided computer tablets to long-term care facilities so that residents could remain in
contact with families during isolation; sewn masks and delivered them to frontline workers and others in
the community; and many other initiatives.
We need your help again. Many of our fundraisers had been cancelled during the Covid years –
Ribfests, Purse Bingos, Father’s Day Roses, Family Fun Fests, and more. We relied on the MEGA Rotary
TV Auction to enable all of our clubs to support all of our communities. We continue to depend on our
Auction to enable all of our clubs to carry on their good works in their communities.
How does your donation help your business serve to change lives?
During the televised auction, your donated item with a value between $50 (minimum) and $300 receives
airtime during a 10-minute segment, including a visual description at the beginning of the segment.
Donations of greater value - more than $300 - are featured in special time slots, as major items. Naturally,
the more items you donate, the more exposure you receive.
Online bidding opens on Wednesday November 23, a full week before the televised auction. This gives
our shoppers time to become familiar with your donations, and start bidding on their favourites.
Last year the MEGA Rotary TV Auction was among the most watched programs on Your TV, reaching
about 100,000 homes from Fort Erie to Grimsby.
Deadline for donations is Friday October 14. Please confirm your support with your Rotary contact.
Important Note: we cannot accept any donations which are conditional upon the customer having to
spend more money - such as trial offers, discounts, or additional purchases. Not acceptable examples:
1) $500 or 10% discount on contract of $2500 or more
2) Limited time free membership with purchase of 1-year term
3) Buy second item at reduced price in order to make use of purchased item.
Your donations are extremely important to us and we thank you for following these guidelines.
To participate, complete or update the attached information form with the details of your donation.
If you have questions or require assistance, please call your Rotary contact.
Thank you again for your continuing support!!