Two beautiful smiles as longtime Stirling Food Bank volunteer, Heather Bailey (left) is delighted to accept a cheque in the amount of $7,500 from Stirling Rotarian, Laurie Osborne. The $7,500 represents the total proceeds from the local service club’s eleventh annual Christmas online auction – a dedicated fundraiser – organized and run by the Rotary Club of Stirling in support of the Stirling Food Bank since 2014.
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Lots of helping hands in The Little Village with a big heart…
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Terry Vollum
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2024-12-20 05:00:00Z |
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Pictured here (L-R) are Stirling Rotarians, PJ Kursell, Alan Wells, Lynda Brady, Donna Graff and Darcy McGroarty. Longtime volunteer, Mona Lise Dube, is kneeling in front. The Stirling Rotary bi-weekly Bottle Drive is now in its seventh year and has managed to raise thousands of dollars in support of many worthwhile community projects. And from now on, there will be a Free Draw, every two weeks, open to anyone who donates their empties to the Stirling Rotary Bottle Drive, with a chance to win a $25 LCBO gift card.
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Everybody wins by supporting Stirling Rotary’s bi-weekly bottle drive…
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Terry Vollum
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2024-12-01 05:00:00Z |
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Rotarian, Laurie Osborne with assistance from nephew, Braydon, has been kept busy sorting, cataloguing and adding items to the 2024 Stirling Rotary online Christmas auction website. The eleventh annual auction goes ‘live’ at 5:00 p.m. Friday Nov. 29 and runs until noon, Friday Dec. 6 and features an amazing line-up of more than 100 generously donated gift items just in time for some early Christmas shopping. Pictured here are just a few of those items. All proceeds will support the Stirling Community Cupboard (Food Bank) and the Christmas Food & Toy Drive.
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Simplify your Christmas shopping while supporting a most worthy cause…
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Terry Vollum
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2024-11-24 05:00:00Z |
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Pictured are Foxboro residents, 7-year-old, Evie and 10-year-old, Shayla. The sisters are examining an oversized pumpkin to see if they can estimate its weight. The giant pumpkin is the centerpiece of the annual, fun-filled, guess-the-weight-of-the-pumpkin contest held at the Pro One Stop in Stirling. It’s a 50/50 contest with half the proceeds going to the local Food Bank and runs until Sunday October 27 at 3 p.m. when the actual weight will be revealed and a winner declared.
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What does a giant pumpkin have to do with the Food Bank?
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Terry Vollum
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2024-10-13 04:00:00Z |
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Two of the younger drop-in visitors to the annual Pro One Stop Customer Appreciation BBQ held last Saturday, were 5-year-old, Kayleigh, and 7-year-old, Amber of Stirling. The sisters are seen here, sitting comfortably on the tailgate of Dad’s pickup, each enjoying a hot-off-the-grill, hot dog. Members of the local Lions Club and Stirling Rotary Club have worked together each and every year to help make this popular annual event such tremendous a success.
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With a little help from their friends…
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Terry Vollum
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2024-08-12 04:00:00Z |
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Pictured here is Stirling resident, nine-year-old, Cooper, perhaps considering the purchase of a fine bicycle helmet, just one of the thousands of bargains available at the 24th annual, Stirling Rotary Giant Yard Sale, held two weeks ago, on site, at the Stirling railway station.
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Stirling Rotary’s 24th annual Giant Yard Sale was a huge success…
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Terry Vollum
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2024-06-10 04:00:00Z |
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You just never know what treasures you might find at Stirling Rotary’s Giant Yard Sale. Pictured here are just a few of the many curious bargain-hunters browsing through a variety of items at the 2019 event. This year’s Giant Yard Sale takes place over two days at the historic railway station in the village. All are invited to shop Friday May 31 8:00 a.m until 1:00 p.m. as well as Saturday June 1, from 7:30 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. All proceeds in support of Stirling Rotary’s many worthwhile community projects.
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Stirling Rotary seeks items for their 24th annual Giant Yard Sale
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Terry Vollum
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2024-05-06 04:00:00Z |
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Imagine that you are about to sit down to enjoy a morning cup of tea or coffee. It’s a sunny, peaceful morning, only to have that silence broken by the very loud wail of an air raid siren. Just another morning for some in the Ukraine.
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Ukraine - A Perspective from the Front Lines
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William MacKay
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2024-04-24 04:00:00Z |
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Since 1999 Relay For Life has united a collective of Canadians, who are a force-for-life in the face of cancer. At Relay For Life events, participants of all ages gather at a community space and take turns walking around a track or path to symbolize the perseverance and action needed to improve lives and change the future of cancer forever. During Relay, we honour Participants of Hope during our first lap the Lap of Hope. When the sun goes down, luminaries light the track in memory of those we have lost. The Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay For Life will be held on Saturday, June 8, 2024.
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Relay for Life
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2024-04-10 04:00:00Z |
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When Rotary was established by Paul Harris and three others, each person came from a different walk of life. At our meeting today, we had an opportunity to learn about Lynda Brady as she presented her Classification Talk.
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Classification Presentation - Lynda Brady
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Lynda Brady
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2024-02-07 05:00:00Z |
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For our meeting on January 31st 2024, we were joined by Angela, a Special Olympic Mom and Coach, and her son Logan, Logan has successfully qualified to compete on the upcoming Provincal Championships. They provided some great insight into what it is like to compete and the unique sense of community and spirit that are shared by all those that participate in the Special Olympics.
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Special Olympics
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2024-02-02 05:00:00Z |
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The Rotary Youth Exchange Program had humble beginnings in Belleville and we owe it all to a Belleville Rotarian who chose to get involved, Rotarian Bill MacKay Senior. Past District Governor (77/78) and Past President Belleville (70/71)
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My Rotary Exchange - Ian Acton (1972/73)
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2024-01-24 05:00:00Z |
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Longtime Stirling Food Bank volunteer, Heather Bailey (center) accepts a cheque in the amount of $8,000.00 from Stirling Rotarian, Laurie Osborne, as Stirling Rotary Co-President, Bill MacKay looks on. The $8,000.00 represents the total proceeds from the local service club’s tenth annual Christmas online auction – a fundraiser dedicated to assist and support the Stirling Food Bank for the past decade.
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Helping hands in The Little Village with a big heart…
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Terry Vollum
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2024-01-07 05:00:00Z |
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Rotarian, Laurie Osborne has been kept busy sorting, cataloguing and adding items to the Stirling Rotary online Christmas auction website. The tenth annual auction goes ‘live’ at 5:00 p.m. Friday Dec. 1 and runs until noon, Friday Dec. 10 and features an amazing line-up of generously donated gift items just in time for some early Christmas shopping. Pictured here are just a few of those items up for bid this year. All proceeds will support the Stirling Community Cupboard (Food Bank) and the Christmas Food & Toy Drive.
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How to simplify your Christmas shopping while supporting a worthy cause…
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2023-11-26 05:00:00Z |
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The Paul Harris Fellow recognition acknowledges individuals who contribute, or who have contributions made in their name, of $1,000 to The Rotary Foundation. Rotary established the recognition in 1957 to encourage and show appreciation for substantial contributions to what was then the Foundation’s only program, Rotary Foundation Fellowships for Advanced Study, the precursor to Ambassadorial Scholarships.
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A Paul Harris Celebration
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2023-11-03 04:00:00Z |
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Terry Vollum For PostMedia STIRLING – It was a challenging project that has taken a few years of hard work, dedication, along with wholehearted support from the community. And now, the Rotary Club of Stirling is pleased to announce the completion and the official opening of Station Park. There will be a formal, ribbon-cutting ceremony – along with a railway station Open House, to be held on site, Saturday September 30, from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. and all are invited to attend.
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Here’s a neighbourly invitation from the Rotary Club of Stirling…
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Terry Vollum
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2023-09-25 04:00:00Z |
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September is Basic Education and Literacy Month, a time for Rotary members to focus awareness on our involvement with literacy and education and recommit to finding solutions that meet needs of illiteracy and gaps in education in our own communities and internationally. Rotary Club of Stirling member and public-school educator Kim Caron, reminded us with what Rotary is doing, what our club is doing and provided great insight into what is currently happening in today's classroom.
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Literacy in Today's Classroom
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Kimberly Caron
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2023-09-13 04:00:00Z |
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Residents of Stirling-Rawdon were able to come together for the first of free weekly dinners at an event sponsored by the Rotary Club of Stirling. The Stirling Community Dinner saw the return of its first meal with a special BBQ at Rotary Park at 5 p.m. on September 7. After the September 7th date, there will be weekly meals every Thursday starting at 5 p.m. at St. John Anglican Church on North Street.
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Community Dinners Return
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2023-09-07 04:00:00Z |
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Weekly message to D7070 AGs, Rotary and Rotaract Club Presidents & Club Secretaries. It has been a very busy, satisfying and fun week!!
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District Govenor John Burns Club Visit
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2023-08-30 04:00:00Z |
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Terry Vollum For PostMedia It all began ten years ago with a simple thought. “We wanted to do something to thank our wonderful customers,” explained Julie Yoo, owner/operator of the Pro One Stop in Stirling, “and the idea of inviting everyone to a summer barbecue at our place of business seemed like the right idea.”
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A little rain didn’t stop the Pro One Stop Customer Appreciation BBQ
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Terry Vollum
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2023-08-13 04:00:00Z |
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Terry Vollum For PostMedia Although we are currently enjoying mostly wonderful, summer weather, Stirling Rotarians are suggesting that you might take a little time to do some spring-cleaning. And so as you tidy up the garage, the basement, a spare room or even a storage shed, you might consider this relatively effortless task as an opportunity to help a worthy cause.
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Stirling Rotary is seeking items for their annual Giant Yard Sale
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Terry Vollum
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2023-08-03 04:00:00Z |
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The goal for the presentation is to provide you with some online tools that will help you be a better Rotarian and also help you with your personal development.
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Rotary Resources
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2023-07-12 04:00:00Z |
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"Rotary helps create the conditions for peace, opportunity, and a future worth living," he said. "By continuing what we do best, by remaining open and willing to change, and by keeping our focus on building peace in the world and within ourselves, Rotary helps create a more peaceful world — a more hopeful world." Rotary can Create Hope in the World.
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Our Year Ahead
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2023-07-05 04:00:00Z |
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The Indigenous Peolpe's Partnership Cluster (IPPC) work with Indigenous communities want and what are their priorities, rather than us assuming we know what they need. The IPPC believe it is important to partner with key people
in the different communities to ensure that they are partnering with them on priorities they have identified as meaningful for their specific needs.
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Indigenous People’s Partnership Cluster
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2023-06-21 04:00:00Z |
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Alan Kester had the opportunity of providing some insight to his life which he entitled “Highlights and Passions”.
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Alan Kester - Welcome to Stirling Rotary
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2023-03-01 05:00:00Z |
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Payton Reid was welcomed to the Rotary Club of Stirling as a new member.
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Payton Reid - Welcome to Stirling Rotary
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2023-02-22 05:00:00Z |
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Gertrud Sobye - Rotary Youth Exchange Program Tru is our Rotary International Youth Exchange Student for this Rotary year. Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) is a Rotary International student exchange program for students in secondary school. Since 1929, Rotary International has sent young people around the globe to experience new cultures. Currently, about 9,000 students are sponsored by Rotary Clubs every year.
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Rotary Youth Exchange Program - Gertrud Sobye
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2023-02-22 05:00:00Z |
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The Rotary Foundation helps Rotary members to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace by improving health, providing quality education, improving the environment, and alleviating poverty.
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Rotary Foundation - Doing Good in the World
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2023-02-15 05:00:00Z |
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Erin Spry, the Food For Learning Coordinator at Bayside High School, was our guest speaker for today who came to chat with us again this year about the food for learning program.
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Food for Learning
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2023-02-08 05:00:00Z |
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In the Fall of 2013, the Principal of the new Stirling Public School talked with Stirling Rotarians regarding the possibility of assisting in the building of an Outdoor Classroom at the school. The school had plans that had been prepared but were looking for outside assistance in order to make their dream come true.
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Outdoor Classroom
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2023-02-07 05:00:00Z |
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Members of the Rotary Club of Stirling have been supporters of the Stirling Community Cupboard (Food Bank) since the Club was re-chartered.
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Stirling Community Cupboard
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2023-02-07 05:00:00Z |
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The Rotary Club of Stirling was approached by the the Community Cupboard/Food bank several years ago, to assist them with their Christmas baskets. At the time is was understood that year there were 75 families locally needing help. We were shocked that our little village had so many families needing help so we offered to put together an online auction to raise the funds. Rotarian Terry Vollum has been a huge help gathering items and more recently Beckie Sarles-Davis has also joined the team. The first year we may have only had 25 items and it has grown to almost 100 this year. All the items are donated by generous local business owners and Rotarians.
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Community Cupboard On-Line Auction
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2023-02-03 05:00:00Z |
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Posted by William Vaughan
In the year 2002, the Rotary Club of Stirling was searching for its next worthwhile community project. Following their weekly meeting, the members of the club walked over to the old Stirling Railway Station which sat neglected in an isolated spot, midway between Highway 14 and the Campbellford Road. It was built in 1879 and had become a boarded up, derelict building on a collapsing foundation.
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Full Steam Ahead
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William Vaughan
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2023-01-20 05:00:00Z |
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