Our Club has been growing!!

T-C Rotary is growing its membership...7 new members in the past 14 months!!

All have jumped right in and been keen to help make a difference in our community and beyond. Do you want to find out more about us and how joining our club could fit into your life's goals and passions? Just click HERE to find out more.

Congratulations to our newest Paul Harris Fellowship recipients

In December, The T-C Rotary Club awarded Paul Harris Fellowships to Dan and Shelly Harrison, owners of Bay-Mount Services which supplies water to those in the area with no well or town water, for their many years of support to our club and our community. Over the past 25 years or so that T-C Rotary has been offering tent rentals, we have needed water to fill the barrels that hold the tents when we can't use stakes. Dan and Shelly have supplied water to us at no cost for these many years allowing the Club to retain more of its rental revenue for service projects in our community and beyond. Also, when we needed a base leveled for our Rotary storage container at Blue Water Storage, Dan did the work at no cost. Dan and Shelly have done much to help T-C Rotary over the years, and they have also helped a lot of other non-profit organizations in the Beaver Valley community as well over many years. We are thankful to the Harrisons for all their support and community-mindedness.

T-C Rotary's 2nd Annual Kindness Award Recipients Recognized

T-C Rotary's 2nd annual Kindness Award recipients were recognized this past November at our Kindness Gala. This year, we asked our TBM community to nominate deserving individuals for the awards. And we are thrilled to honour the winners and wish to thank and congratulate the many deserving kind people within our TBM community. A special shout out to the winners of this year's Kindness Awards...

T-C Rotary...committed to helping women and children in need

Just before Christmas, Mary Lye (Club Community Services Chair) delivered a cheque for $2,500 to My Friend's House in Collingwood. Contributing to this invaluable non-profit that supports abused women and children in the Georgian Triangle has become an annual Christmas-time tradition for our club.

T-C Rotary...committed to diversity and inclusion

Earlier in 2022 our club donated funds to purchase more books relating to diversity and inclusion for the Beaver Valley Community School. The books were a long time in arriving but, finally this past October, Heather Walton (far left), our Club's Youth Chair and also a teacher at BVCS was excited to celebrate the books' arrival along with several BVCS students and staff.

2nd Annual Poinsettia Sale - many thanks to all our supporters

Our 2022 Poinsettia Sale was a success!

Thank you to everyone who supported us by buying poinsettias. We hope you enjoy them!

Thank you for making The Kindness Gala a great success!

A heartfelt thank you to all our supporters - ticket buyers, donors, auction bidders and other supporters with an...

...extra special thank you to our Gala Platinum Sponsor:

We also want to express our appreciation to our other Sponsors:

Jeremy Wentworth-Stanley

Together, we raised over $37,000 towards our special community project:

Morneau Park - Kindness at Play!

Stay tuned for more fundraising events for this project.

TTT-Sat. October 7, 2023

Registration NOW OPEN!

21K, 10K, 5k Run/Walk, 1K Free Kid's Run

We can't wait to see your family and friends again this fall!

7 Pillars of the Rotary International Foundation

Did you know?...The Rotary Club of Thornbury-Clarksburg is a member of Rotary International (RI) with over two million individual members. RI has a Foundation which supports clubs in their work in their own communities as well as around the world.

Kindness Makes Another Appearance at TBM Council

On July 4th, Jeremy Wentworth-Stanley made a deputation about his "O Manners, O Manners, Wherefore Art Thou?" letter in the May Blue Mountains Review. In his deputation, Jeremy highlighted manners is about kindness and how complex the whole topic is. He also stressed the importance of being kind to ourselves so that we can be kind to others. And then, in true "Jeremy-fashion", our new "town poet" ended his deputation with...you guessed it! A new poem!

There is scientific evidence that kindness actually helps us heal emotionally and physically. Repeated acts of kindness decreases pain, stress, anxiety, depression and blood pressure – while increasing happiness and lifespan. And acts of kindness are contagious; when one is the recipient, its contagion makes it easier to pay it forward!

Share your kindness-related literary or art work at #tcrcommunitykindness...we will periodically chose some of those posts for display in our Kindness Korner.

Lib Kennedy

While the COVID pandemic and its subsequent lockdown has presented us with many obstacles, it has also presented us with an opportunity. An opportunity to stop, get quiet, and really ask ourselves what matters most. This opportunity helps many of us to realize that a lot of the things that we surround ourselves with - that we thought we needed - that we thought made us happy, actually do not matter as much as the people that we surround ourselves with. What matters, what truly matters is making sure that we are taking care of each other!

Taking care of ourselves. And taking care of this beautiful environment that we are lucky enough to call home! When we do this. When we take care of each other, it changes who we are on a fundamental level. When we do this, it changes our sense of value, and how we act and respond; which benefits our community and ripples out into the world. This is important as it reminds us of how we, no matter our experiences and perspectives, can come together as a single community. A community of unmatched kindness.

Please join me, and the rest of the Thornbury-Clarksburg Rotary Club in showing the world that Our Community Runs on Kindness!

Sincerely / Miigwech,

Elizabeth (Lib) Kennedy

Thornbury-Clarksburg Rotary Club

President 2021-2023

Rotary International