Dear Friends:
We have
launched the Call for Sponsorship, and we are diligently pursuing
partnerships to support
an initiative that will strengthen our corporate and volunteer
profiles in both Pickering and Ajax while providing all of us with a
lucrative business venture that will net
great returns many times over to sustain
the charitable needs within of our own communities today, and in the
future years to come.
A Ribfest and
Community Festival is a huge undertaking to plan, manage, and execute,
but the Rotary Clubs and their volunteer resources are up for the
challenge. The forecasted financial returns on a venture like this
outweigh any other that the two Clubs have done to date as separate
initiatives. And, with your financial assistance in our startup year,
a dream will become a reality … a new and smart venture that will
engage the community as a whole while raising awareness of the role of
the Rotary Clubs and how they help the less fortunate, and/or sustain
the services that we all have come to rely on.
Some of our
benefactors in the past:
¨ Canadian
Landmine Foundation
¨ Polio Plus
(projects to eradicate polio)
¨ Pickering
Rotary Music Festival (1987+)
¨ Pickering
Museum Village Steam & Gas
Barn Addition
¨ Durham
West Art Centre
¨ Frenchman’s
Bay West Rotary Park
¨ Youth
Exchange Program
¨ Dunbarton
High School Environ. Studies
¨
Ajax/Pickering Rouge Valley Hospital
¨
Ajax/Pickering United Way
¨ Herizon
House
¨ Big
Brothers and Sisters of Ajax/Pickering
¨ High
School Bursaries
¨ 5th Ajax
Boy Scouts
¨ Pickering
#2525 Army Cadets
¨ Ajax
Public Library
¨ Junior
Achievement, and so much more.
We support
numerous grass root projects and families in need, and we participate
in other endeavours that are not high profile or well known, but
ones that truly make a
difference and provide independence and confidence building
for our adults of tomorrow (e.g., assistive devices for handicapped
children). At the event, we
will be assisting with a Food Bank Drive initiative.
We
welcome you to join us in a 2008 success story!
Lon Harnish
Durham West Rotary Ribfest
c/o Rotary Club of Ajax
290 Harwood Street, South
P.O. Box 21022
Ajax, ON L1S 7H2
If you wish
to become a sponsor: Please fill out the information below and FAX it
to: 1-905-576-2919
Thank You.
