SATURDAY OCTOBER 11, 2025
Half Marathon, 10K, 5K Run/Walk, Free Kid's Run
Join us this Thanksgiving as we help to serve our Community!
 

2025 Dinner of the Month Draw

Rotary Clubs of Thornbury-Clarksburg and Meaford

24 Chances to Win!
First Prize: $250 gift certificate 
Second Prize: $100 gift certificate
(at local restaurants)
Beginning March through August 2025 four tickets per month will be drawn. Winning tickets go back into the drum! Increase your odds even more with a discounted five-pack.
Participating Restaurants in Meaford & Thornbury
The Dam Pub, Franny’s Mercato, The Leeky Canoe, Station 87
Ted’s Range Road Diner, Bruce Wine Bar, The Corner Cafe & Grill, Fabbrica
The Bistro at Lora Bay, The Mill Cafe, The Port Tavern, Winifred’s English Pub
Tickets are $25 each or 5 for $100 available from members of Thornbury-
 
Proceeds fund Rotary community projects in Thornbury-Clarksburg & Meaford
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Ticket Sales Closed!

ORDER YOUR TICKETS HERE


March 17 Draw : Meaford Rotary Club
$250 Winners       Restaurant                       $100 Winners           Restaurant
Robin Jowett        Station 87                          Karen Thompson      The Port                                        
Robyn Smith.        Dam Pub.                           Becky McDonald.      The Corner Restaurant
April Draws: Monday, April 28
Brian Jahoor        Ted's Range Road Diner   Maureen McDonnell  Franny;s Mercato
Don Schram          Leeky Canoe.                     Wendy Saopland.      Mill Cafe
May Draws: Monday, May 26
Mike Sandbloom   Bruce Wine Bar               Mike MacKey              Ted's Range Road Diner
Paul Venning          Fabbrica                           Gale Spencer              Leeky Canoe
June Draws: Thursday June 19 -Thornbury Clarksburg Rotary Meeting
Tristan Flachs.   Winifred's English Pub      Orville Boyd.             Station 87
Lynda Woon.       Franny's Mercato.              Amy Offord              Winifred's English Pub
July Draws: Thursday June 17
August Draws: Thursday August 21 
 
Our Community Runs on Kindness
As another year is coming to a close.  One of our own members, David Mossy, created this wonderful poem to reflect on Thornbury-Clarksbug Rotary Club in 2024.

We are thrilled to introduce you to the 2024 Kindness Award winner. You may not know her name, but on your travels around Thornbury you most certainly know who she is. The women who in all kinds of weather, rides her scooter with a beaming smile of her face, always on a mission to her next act of Kindness.  

Kindness is a type of behavior marked by acts of generosity, consideration, caring, friendly, rendering assistance, or concern for others, without expecting praise or reward in return.  

Joan Gaudet is that woman, and our 4th Annual Thornbury Clarksburg Rotary Kindness Award Winner. You now know her name! 

What a wonderful evening...full of fun and new friendships, delicious food, dynamite dancing, and great anticipation trying to unlock the cage! Our 3rd annual Kindness Gala was a big hit!!
Thanks to the kindness of our community, funds raised for the Moreau Park - Kindness at Play project are growing.
Runners and walkers of every age and stage enjoyed the annual Thornbury Turkey Trot in support of the Thornbury-Clarksburg Rotary Club this past Saturday October 12th. The event attracted over 850 participants, and is a major fundraiser for the Club. Proceeds from the annual event supports the many needs of the local community along with a variety of international aid projects. This year the race is also supporting the revitalization of Moreau Park in Thornbury which in partnership with the Town of The Blue Mountains will upgrade a number of the facilities. 
 
Read more and see list of winners...
Linda Wykes joined Thornbury-Clarksburg Rotary in 2001. One of the first women to join our
club, she was already well known to it as the go-to person for printing and graphic design. That
role has continued over the years but it belies the many other contributions she has made to
the club and to the community at large during that time. 

Rotarian Linda’s name has become synonymous with Riverside Press and The Review. The latter
is a voice for many community members as well as a valued source of information about what’s
going on in our community following the closure of the town’s newspaper. Not one to speak
publicly or “toot her own horn”, it was through a single one liner in the town’s News and
Notices section of The Review that members of the club became aware that Rotarian Linda had
been awarded The Blue Mountains Community Builder Award (age 26+) in April of this year.

Frequently, Rotarians have a “pet project” within Rotary.  It might be water or sanitation projects, or literacy, or Youth Exchange or local projects.  From the many good works that Rotary does in the world, we all have one or two that really “turn our crank”. For Thornbury-Clarksburg Rotary’s 2023-24 Club President, John Bailey, it is ShelterBox, the disaster relief organization associated with Rotary that provides shelter and basic needs in disaster areas all over the world.  In fact, it was ShelterBox that attracted John to Rotary!!

...and now John has been recognized with ShelterBox Canada's All Star Award...

To support T-C Rotary’s tent, table and chair rental fundraiser, a maintenance crew is needed from time to time to repair and clean out the trailers used to deliver these items and periodically make sure the tables and chairs are cleaned for the season.

What a wonderful evening...full of fun and new friendships, delicious food, dynamite dancing, and great anticipation trying to unlock the cage! Our 2nd annual Kindness Gala was a big hit!! And our online Silent Auction was also a great success with bidders grabbing up over 40 amazing items. Thanks to the kindness of our community, funds raised for the Moreau Park - Kindness at Play project are growing...we will have an update soon.
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