Rotary Club of Vancouver News Room

Community Service

Our Community Service Committee has been involved in some exciting local projects in the recent past. In 2003, the Committee worked closely with the Parks Board to see to fruition the Club’s major capital contribution to the construction of Emery Barnes Park. The Park provides a focal point to the surrounding community and much needed green space in the urban setting.

Our Community Service Committee has also teamed up with the Vancouver Police Department and their Police Athletic League to stage a free annual youth soccer camp. We have been involved in this very worthwhile effort over the past seven years. Campers aged six to nine enjoy four days of top-notch instruction from the police and Vancouver Whitecaps coaches.

In 2005, the Committee launched its much-anticipated Stay in School Scholarship Program. Each year, this program will award scholarships of $7,000 to two deserving students entering Grade 10 at Gladstone Secondary School.

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