A special Christmas greeting from our house to your house. May you have a wonderful holiday with family and friends and may your New Year be healthy and enjoyable.
 
https://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000000986/Stories/c15a376e-df87-46c6-b5d1-b1778373c071.jpgWe are halfway though our year as your District Governor. It has been amazing in so many ways. We have seen and heard about all the different ways that you have helped to change peoples lives and make a difference at home and around the world, as you have been Building Communities and Bridging Continents You welcomed us into your communities, into your clubs and in some cases your homes.  We have laughed with you; been serious, and we have had fellowship with you. 
We are truly blessed for having the opportunity to serve you this year. As I think about all the great things that you and your clubs have done and will continue to do for Rotary, helping children to learn to read and write, helping new Canadians to learn about our environment.
 
https://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000000986/Stories/84fae63f-dbdb-4d4f-9333-1a2732ab214a.jpgFund raising to build skateboard parks, arenas, hospitals, giving scholarships to youth, breakfast programs at schools for youth, reading to children at libraries, sponsoring a seniors home, hosting a youth exchange student from another country, sending kids to RYLA or MUNA, or any other one of our adventure programs, making sure needy kids have school supplies so they can attend school, or something as simple as ringing for the Salvation Army kettles at Christmas time.
 
Meeting the Polio Plus challenge, going on a Polio immunization trip to India, building water wells in other countries, building a school in Afghanistan, involving children in Schools Building Schools, The Ripple Effect Program, Supplying equipment for a women’s hospital in Uraquay, sending out GSE to other countries and receiving them from that country. And on and on and on…..
 
I congratulate you all for all you do for Rotary, making the world a better place . I ask you all to help me meet the commitment I made this year. By going to your communities and telling the polio story and asking them to donate to this cause. I ask you to show your support to the District’s World Peace Partners initiative by making a commitment in dollars to this cause.
 
Happy Holidays as you BUILD COMMUNITIES and BRIDGE CONTINENTS.
 
Harvey and Lorraine