Rotary Club of Ladner
Coast Tsawwassen Inn, 1665 56th Street V4L 2B2 Delta, BC, Canada

As eight Ladner Rotarians shared stories about family members who served their country in the military we salute all those who lost their lives, came home wounded and made that sacrifice on the occasion of Remembrance Day. https://portal.clubrunner.ca//remembering-family-of-club-m

Thanks to Delta residents, 50 low income families throughout Delta will enjoy a happier Christmas with $4,900 in net proceeds from a paper Shred-A-Thon which Ladner Rotary held on November 7, 2020. The funds will purchase food gift cards, replacing the usual Deltassist Christmas Hampers of food collected through local schools and other organizations because of pandemic restrictions. https://tinyurl.com/y5u9l887

E-Comm is the first point of contact for 9-1-1 callers in 25 regional districts in British Columbia. It handles over 1.8 million 9-1-1 calls a year. E-Comm 9-1-1 emerged from the chaos in coordinating first responders during the 1994 Stanley Cup Riots in Vancouver, as a multi-municipality agency which provides emergency communications operations for British Columbia. The company coordinates 9-1-1 service for police, fire, and ambulance service, providing call-taking and dispatch services for multiple agencies in the Lower Mainland area. https://tinyurl.com/y3p23ere

On the 75th anniversary of the United Nations (UN), Canada is celebrating our nation's role as a founding member and a contributor to world peace with its 2020 $1 circulation coin. Canada was one of 51 countries which founded the United Nations in October 1945. As one of the most international organizations in the world of the day, Rotary played an active role in the drafting of the United Nations Charter in 1945 in San Francisco. Today, Rotary holds the highest consultative status offered to a nongovernmental organization by the UN’s Economic and Social Council, which oversees many specialized UN agencies. https://tinyurl.com/yys5cgjn

A large segment of the population is retiring, displaced workers are seeking employment and new skills, and vast numbers of young, diverse, and underrepresented workers are joining the workforce. The construction industry needs to ensure effective transfer of knowledge to keep up with this churn of change. SkillPlan has developed and implemented an industry-proven mentorship model for the construction industry that can also transfer well to other settings. https://tinyurl.com/y4gro69z