Photo Albums

Rotary in Action

On September 24th, 2018, Faisal Arif, Rotary Club of Calcutta South City Towers, Calcutta, India was a guest at our club meeting. We exchanged club flags.

On a bright and sunny day, the folks kept coming with their electronic stuff. Rotarians Jennifer, Shelly, Peter, Ric, Steve and their friends and kids made the day a success.

On May 2nd, 2018 Toronto Leaside Rotary Tree Planting took place at the Moccasin Trail Park. It was a beautiful sunny day. , There was a good turnout of 240 mostly grade 5 students from Leaside High, Rolph Road, Bessborough, St. Anselms Separate, Thorncliffe Park Public and Northlea Public. There were many teachers, parents and volunteers at the event. The students from Leaside High (grades 9/10) were taught proper tree planting techniques and were very proactive in both planting and mentoring the other students. On the hottest day of the season so far, the students planted 260 trees.

On January 14th, Raees Ahmed was formally inducted as the newest member of the Toronto Leaside Rotary Club. New members, like Raees enable our club to continue serving communities, both locally and globally

Some photographs from the May 3, 2017 Toronto Leaside Rotary Tree Planting at the Moccasin Trail Park. On a beautiful sunny day, students expanded the frontiers and filled in gaps of the planting areas, located on man-made berms immediately east of the Don Valley parkway and south of the rainbow-painted bridge near Lawrence Avenue, There was a good turnout of 250 elementary and high school students and teachers. They planted 335 trees. Bob Barnett, Rotarian also took students and teachers on nature walks throughout the day

Some photographs from the 2017 Toronto-Leaside's Annual Corn Roast

The Toronto Leaside Rotary Club held their 25th Annual Community Corn Roast at Trace Manes Park on September 16, 2018. Families and friends from Leaside and other communities visited the park between 12:00pm and 5:00pm and enjoyed corn on the cob, hot dogs, ice creams and drinks as well as the numerous games and exhibitions: Tri-cycle tracks, slides, reptile exhibition and the dog show and competition.

At the Toronto Leaside Rotary Club meeting on Monday December 18, 2017, Mr. Rob Oliphant, M.P., Don Valley West presented Tariq Durrani, Rotarian, the Member of Parliament’s Sesquicentennial Citizenship Award. Mr. Tariq is among a select group of 100 of Don Valley West constituents who have been honoured with a special medallion in recognition of their contributions to the community. The Member of Parliament’s Sesquicentennial Citizenship Award has been inaugurated to both celebrate this historic milestone and honour people who have built our country through their contributions to leadership, community service, sport and countless other ways. As the Member of Parliament for Don Valley West, Mr Rob Oliphant believes it is important that we recognise those people who have quietly, selflessly and tirelessly continued the work of building a Canada that we can all be proud of and celebrate.