FRIDAY, January 3, 2025
New Year's Levee
Dolma Food, located at
251 St. George Street
Happy New Year, Fellow Rotarians:
As we step into 2025, let’s carry forward the spirit of Service Above Self that defines us. May this new year bring us even closer together as we work toward making lasting positive change in our communities and beyond.
Let’s continue to inspire hope, build bridges, and create a better world through our shared commitment to service. I look forward to all the wonderful initiatives, collaborations, and successes we’ll achieve together in the coming year!
Wishing you and your loved ones a year filled with health, joy, and fulfillment.
Cheers to a fantastic 2025!
Most of us are familiar with the reference to the “Twelve Days of Christmas” but did you know about the “Eleven Months of Rotary?”
Rotary has identified a theme for each month except July. July is the first month of the Rotary year and is when the annual theme kicks in. This year’s annual theme is “The Magic of Rotary.”
The monthly themes are meant to highlight the wide range of Rotary’s good work and give clubs some suggestions, timing, and guidance for their programs and activities.
Here’s the list:
January – Vocational Service
February – Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention
March – Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
April – Maternal and Child Health
May – Youth Service
June – Rotary Fellowships
July – (no specific monthly theme since the annual theme starts with the new Rotary Year)
August – Membership and New Club Development
September – Basic Education and Literacy
October – Community Economic Development
November – Rotary Foundation
December – Disease Prevention and Treatment
January is Vocational Service month which focuses on:
- Adherence to and promotion of the highest ethical standards in all occupations, including fair treatment of employers, employees, associates, competitors, and the public.
- The recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, not just those that are pursued by Rotarians.
- The contribution of your vocational talents to solving the problems of society and meeting the needs of the community.
Consider Putting Your Vocational Service in Action by:
- Using your skills and expertise to serve a community.
- Mentoring young people to help achieve their career goals.
- Offering leadership and professional development guidance to others.
- Practicing your profession with integrity and inspiring others to do so.
Family Event
Magnetic Hill Zoo Wild Lights
The RCMWR President, Sherry Trenholm, has received a discounted rate for a group of RCMWR Members, Youth Exchange Students and their Guests to attend Magnetic Hill Zoo Wild Lights this coming Saturday, January 4 at 6:30 (the last day of the Wild Lights season).
Wild Lights is a display of hundreds of thousands of holiday lights throughout the Zoo, and it is a fundraiser for the Zoo.
Magnetic Hill Zoo is offering discounted price of $1 off each ticket for groups 15+ people.
The discounted prices are as follows:
- Age 2 and under - free
- Ages 3-12 - $9/ticket regular (reduced ticket rate is $8/ticket)
- Ages 13-18 - $11/ticket regular (reduced ticket rate is $10/ticket)
- Ages 19-59 - $12/ticket regular (reduced ticket rate is $11/ticket0
- Ages 60 plus - $11/ticket regular (reduced ticket rate ($10/ticket)
Please note visitors are not permitted to bring their dogs into the Wild Lights special event/fundraiser. Visitors are however allowed to bring their trained service dogs.
There will be one group RCMWR payment, and then etransfer sent/cash given to the group payment person.
Magnetic Hill Zoo address: 125 Magic Mountain Rd, Moncton, NB, E1G 6A9
Please email Sandy Mollins at sandy.mollins@gmail.com if you are interested in attending by tomorrow, January 3, 2025, at 1 pm and confirm your age. (Thank you for accommodating the quick turnaround).
Rotary Leadership Institue (RLI) 2025 Training
Volunteers Required
We are looking for 3-4 volunteers on Wednesday, January 15th with the "Home of Dinner" program at the Ronald Moncton Family Room at the Moncton Hospital. Volunteers will make a meal for 20 people (individually packaged) for those families with children in the Moncton hospital. The start time is around 2 pm, with the meal needing to be ready for 5 pm.
Additionally, for this one occasion, it would be great if one volunteer could set the menu as well as purchase and bring grocery supplies (as organizer Catherine Black is scheduled to be out of town on this day). Grocery/supplies will be reimbursed and will be provided to volunteers.
Upcoming Events:
- January 25, 2025: Guess Who is Coming to Dinner
- January 31, 2024: Charter Night,
Legend's Restaurant, 377 Killam Drive
- May 29-June 1, 2025: District Conference at The Westin Nova Scotian, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- June 21-25, 2025: Rotary International Convention, at the BMO Centre in Calgary, Alberta. Register today for the incredible Convention experience of a lifetime.
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