I am a charter member of the Rotary Club of Kamloops over the past 18+ years and I am currently serving my second term as club President. I have been very active as a club member. I was instrumental in bringing the 2017 RCMP Musical Ride to Kamloops raising almost $90k for community. This money benefited the Away Home program, McQueen Lake Centre, and the Therapeutic Riding Centre. I am hoping we will be successful for bringing the 2023 RCMP Musical Ride back to Kamloops.

The funds from our club's fundraising over the past 18+ years has supported schools for AV equipment, jerseys, robotic kits, scholarships, white boards, chrome books, etc. It also supported programs, like the starfish backpack programs, Rotary Youth exchange, young leadership programs in Kamloops and in Canada.

For a couple of years now I have been actively helping the Kamloops Food Bank by coordinating Rotarians to distribute the yellow bags into areas not serviced by the newspaper delivery. This has increased the returns for Rotary Food Drive (Saturday September 24th!). I have been in 27 Rotary Food Drives over the years.

Our club has an adopt a road and trail that we pick up trash and pull weeds on.

I have been a mentor to our junior Rotary club, the Kamloops Hybrid Interact club, aged 12-18, for the past 4+ years and I am currently acting again as a mentor to these incredible young people.

I have also arranged for our club to work with our City staff to reduce our fire risk and do some FireSmart fuel reduction on some city greenspaces. We are planning to begin this work next March 2023 in the Sifton area of Aberdeen in partnership with our Interact club and local community members.

Overall, I feel the that my continued involvement in Rotary benefits our community and me. I get the fellowship, fun from working with a great group of people and I think our community benefits from the changes we are able to funds or make happen.