Service Above Self
We meet Wednesdays at 7:15 AM
Rodd Charlottetown Hotel
Rodd Charlottetown Hotel
75 Kent Street
Charlottetown, PE C1A 8B9
Canada
Charlottetown, PE C1A 8B9
Canada
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Gary Conohan

The Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty meets every Wednesday morning at 7:15 a.m. at Rodd Charlottetown Hotel. Our Club held its charter meeting on June 13, 1987 with Tom Wilkinson as President. We tend to have lively, interesting meetings with great speakers who discuss a variety of topics.
As a service club [one of 35,000 Rotary clubs worldwide] we raise funds through various projects and use these funds to make improvements in Charlottetown and around the world. Our main fundraisers are the Business Advertising Supplement and the QEH Foundation Golf Tournament. 100% of proceeds raised from our activities go to local community and international projects.
Each year, thanks to the generosity of Bev Simpson and John Barrett of Veseys Seeds company, members sell approximately 150 boxes of flower bulbs which are provided to us free of charge by Veseys. The $3000-$4000 raised annually from these projects go directly to our Rotary International Foundation to be used in our world-wide Polio Eradication campaign.
Of course, as most will know, Rotary International has a significant investment in world youth and facilitates the one-year Rotary Youth Exchange program. Our club has consistently participated in this program for over 30 years by sponsoring at least one Island student going to another country each year. In addition, we accept an international student each year and provide them with host families, counselling, transportation, and members provide numerous activities throughout the year for our inbound student. This year we are delighted to have as Rotary Exchange Student Manuella Cabezas from Columbia, South America.
You are most welcome to join us on Wednesday mornings. If you would like to attend a meeting, to see what our meetings are like, send us an email.
Gary Conohan
President
The club made a donation to Family Services PEI. Accepting the donation from Rotarian Bob Gray is Kathy Jones, Executive Director and Clinical Therapist at Family Services PEI.

The donation will go towards teen therapeutic counselling, particularly for transgender youth and others from the LGBTQ+ community.
On November 20, the 2019-20 Mentor Award was presented to Nora McCarthy-Joyce by RCCR president Gary Conohan.

In the fall of each year, the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty honours a member of the Island Community who through exemplary contributions and service to society fulfills the distinction of being a mentor to our club, its members and society as a whole.
President Gary Conohan of The Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty presented a cheque to Myron Yates, Executive Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters.

The cheque is the third installment of a 3-year donation and will be used for the Big Brothers Big Sisters teen mentoring program. In this program a junior or senior high student is given training in mentoring and is matched with a younger student in a nearby school.
The Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty welcomed its newest club member, Karla Cabrera, into the club. Karla is sponsored by Rotarian Pam Borden.

President Gary Conohan, Karla Cabrera and Pam Borden.
October, 2019 - President Gary presented a cheque to Hannah Gehrels for the Sierra Club Wild Child Program.

President Gary Conohan presented a cheque to Julie-Lynn Zahavich, Stewardship Coordinator, of Island Nature Trust.

This donation will assist in Island Nature Trust's development of a Veterans Serenity Area, an area where veterans suffering from physical or psychological injuries can go to find a quiet place in nature, to reflect, to heal and to replenish.
You want to nominate a mentor for the 2019 Mentor Awards?
Each year the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty presents a Mentor Award to a member of the community who has been a mentor to others in a specific field.
At a special dinner meeting the club presented the 2018-19 Mentor Award to Gary Schneider, Mentor to Islanders on Forest Ecology. For more information, click here.
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