Dear Editor,
The Rotary Club of Bowen Island (RCBI) has completed the fifth annual Operation Red Nose (ORN) with the help of Rudy and his many friends on Bowen Island. We are grateful for the support, participation and friendship of our islanders.
On the program’s nine evenings in November and December, The Snug Cafe provided a warm space and a telephone for the ORN operations office and volunteer lounge.
On the ORN nights, addition to the members of The RCBI, we were joined by volunteer Friends of Rotary: Elizabeth Ballantyne, Peter Baumgartner, Ann Campbell, Jason Campbell, Martin Clarke, Leah Cline, Liz Hammond, Doug Harding, Adam Holbrook, Portia Lynn, Judith McBride, Glen McGregor, Sam Nosek, Bruce Russell, Maureen Sawasy, and Barbara Wahler. We also thank Melanie McLeod at the RCMP Detachment for processing the required Criminal Record checks so efficiently.
We are grateful to the following Bowen Island businesses who provided gifts and food as “thank you’s” to our volunteers: Artisan Eats, The Ruddy Potato, The Rustique Bistro, The Bowen Island Golf Club, The Orchard, The Tuscany Restaurant, and The Snug Cafe.
Our sponsors are recognized for cash donations of $50.00 or more to the ORN program. All donations to ORN stay on Bowen Island to support youth programs. We are deeply thankful to the following sponsors: the Bowen Island Golf Club, Bowen Irly Building Centre, Wolfgang Duntz, The Bowen Island Pub, Bowen Waste Management, Phoenix on Bowen, Cates Pharmacy, Peter King, and The Ruddy Potato. In addition to these sponsors, we are grateful to our clients who responsibly took Rudy’s option of having ORN drive them home and also provided us with cash donations.
This holiday season, ORN 2014 raised about $2,400.00 to support youth programs on Bowen Island. The RCBI is interested in exploring suggestions from the Bowen Island community on how these funds might be used. If you have some ideas, please talk to us about it.
With sincere thanks again to all involved,
Robert Ballantyne and Denis Lynn, RCBI Coordinators ORN 2014
