Sign up HERE to order your temporary flag and help us help the community!
For the third year in a row, your friends and neighbors at the Rotary Club of Okotoks will be running a flag fundraiser for community and youth projects and programs.
Show your pride in our country and help line your street with Canadian flags. For your $60 subscription, Rotarians and Friends of Rotary will install a Canadian flag on your front lawn prior to three long weekends including:
Victoria Day
Canada Day
Labour Day
Volunteers will remove the flag on the weekend following these long weekends.
Please pay online with a credit card. *hint: be sure to select your card type at the top of the page.
If you have any difficulty signing up or if your flag is in need of service, please call Flag Coordinator Jeff at 403-808-7203.
Rotary Club of Okotoks President Robert Gollan and Robbie Burns event committee members joined Jim Avery, Sprung VP, Lynne Douglas, Sprung Manager along withRowan House representatives Linette Soldan and Kelly Smit to celebrate the gift of over $32,000 to Rowan House Society, representing the proceeds from the January 28, 2023 Robbie Burns Dinner and Dance.
We are grateful for our sponsors, including presenting sponsor, Sprung Structures, as well as event patrons for their support.
See you next January for the next installment of the Robbie Burns Dinner and Dance.
Our friends at Sobeys Okotoks, David and JoAnn Gilbert, have once again partnered with the Rotary Club of Okotoks as a Diamond sponsor of our annual Youth Programs and Projects. We are ever so grateful for David and JoAnn's continued support and confidence in the Rotary Club of Okotoks as we serve the citizens and youth of our community.
Sobeys Okotoks is a family owned Grocery store, serving the Okotoks Community since 1982 with Quality and Trust. From quality food and staff, to the trust of long-time customers, which have led to 11 Awards in the Western Wheel’s best of the Foothills readership survey, the Gilbert family business is rooted in the community and that means giving back to the town they call home.
Sobeys Okotoks Partners With Rotary Club of Okotoks for Youth Programs
We couldn't host this annual family event without our wonderful sponsors! Partner with us for the 33rd annual Rotary Club of Okotoks Soap Box Derby as we work to provide a great family experience.
Explore and secure your Sponsorship Opportunities HERE!
Soap Box Derby sponsorships are an affordable way to show your community support and range from $100 to $500.
If your company needs to be invoiced for your sponsorship, please email us at okotoksrotary@gmail.com. We'd be happy to help.
Generous community sponsors are being sought for the January 28th, 2023 Robbie Burns Dinner and Dance, in support of Rowan House Society. Click HERE to select a sponsorship level that matches your or your organization's wishes.
Get your tickets now, in time for Christmas gifts, for the January 28th, 2023 Robbie Burns Gala in support of Rowan House (emergency shelter)! Tickets are $100 each. For sponsorship opportunites, please contact Trish Henderson at 403-585-5571 or Jeff Foss at 403-808-7203.
Being pulled over by law enforcement can be distressing for most people, but can be particularly unnerving and a barrier for drivers who have developmental disabilities. Rotary and Inclusion Foothills arranged for 5 clients to participate in traffic stop simulation exercises along with Q&A at the HTA parking lot.
Thanks to Art and Cherie for the tour, mead tasting and great hospitality tonight at Chinook Honey Company! Rotarians and friends learned all about the art of mead making tonight with a dash of good humour.
We want to take this time to thank Chef William and the staff at Crystal Ridge Golf Club for taking such good care of us and for the delicious meals. Please consider this venue as you plan your special events.
What a gorgeous day it was to wrap up the Community Learning Garden for another season. We would like to thank all of our dedicated gardening angels for their hard work this summer. We had one of our most productive harvests ever, due to so many helping hands. Thanks everyone, see you next year!
At Fountain Tire, we’re driven by partnership and are committed to the success of our associates, our owners and you. That means we’ll always treat your vehicle like it’s our own, finding simple, innovative ways to meet your needs and work smarter for you.
At CARSTAR, we offer comprehensive auto body repair services, from minor dents and dings to repairing your accident damage. Whether you've had a fender bender, tangled with Mother Nature or want to freshen up your car's look, you can relax, we'll take it from here!
It's not too late to order your Canadian flag in time for Canada Day and Labour Day long weekends. For just $45, Rotary volunteers will place a Canadian Flag on your lawn. They will set it up the week before and take it down the week after the long weekends.
Proceeds go to Rotary youth programs and community projects.
Okotoks High School Students graduating this year and going on to post-secondary education in Canada can apply HERE for one of two $1500 bursaries from the Rotary Club of Okotoks. Please look for the ROTARY CLUB OF OKOTOKS CAREER OPPORTUNITY AWARDS and click that link to apply. Deadline to apply is June 15th.
If you have any questions, please send us an email to president@okotoksrotary.ca.
Applications are now open for this year's campers for the Rotary Alberta Youth Entrepreneurship Camp at Cypress Hills, Alberta. This year's camp will run from August 7 - 13th. The Rotary Club of Okotoks will cover camp costs for 3 local students aged 13 - 15.
The 2022 Rotary Club Canadian Flag program is now open in Okotoks. This ever popular program is an important fundraiser for youth programs and community projects. We are grateful for our subscribers who, for a donation of $60, get a Canadian flag planted on their front lawn for the weeks before and after Victoria Day, Canada Day and Labour Day long weekends.
Thank you Okotoks for your amazing support. Our 2021 Canadian Flag program is now sold out!
We couldn't do this without the support of our key sponsor, Quigley Electric. We also want to thank Mr. Green's welding class at the Foothills Composite High School, who helped build the flag supports. And finally, we couldn't do this without the Rotarians and friends who provided the labour to assemble and distribute the flags.
On Saturday, May 8th, a group of Rotarians will gather once again at Mike Broemeling's place to assemble the next 100 flags. We have now sold 122 out of 200 subscriptions at the time of this writing. Thanks to those who are actively promoting this fundraiser. It is expected that once the flags go up around town, there will be more subscriptions sold.
Help is still needed on May 15th to install the flags. We have a few people signed up, but as they say, many hands make light work. Let's come together, safely, and kick this off on a high note. Please contact Jeff at 403-808-7203 if you can help.
Subscriptions to the first annual Rotary Club of Okotoks Canadian Flag Program are open now! Thanks to Quigley Electric for the donation of an additional 100 flagpoles (metal conduit) and the welding class at Foothills Composite High School, we are now able to offer 200 subscriptions! A huge thanks to Quigley Electric for their support as a major sponsor! Please support this local company for all your electrical needs.
To order your flag for just $60, which will be installed by Rotarians and friends for the May, July and September long weekends, click HERE:
Subscriptions to the first annual Rotary Club of Okotoks Canadian Flag Program are open now! Limited to the first 100 subscribers, so don't wait. A huge thanks to Quigley Electric for the donation of the metal conduit for the flag poles! A great community supporter!
To order your flag for just $60, which will be installed by Rotarians and friends for the May, July and September long weekends, click HERE:
Wednesday, April 14, @6 PM, the Rotary Club of Okotoks will be holding its first "Pitch Night" via Zoom. Email OkotoksRotary@gmail.com for Zoom connection details.
We are thankful for having Dani Bristow from Shelterbox and Kent Fraser from the Calgary Fish Creek club join us on March 3rd, to bring us up to date with what has been happening at Shelterbox during the global pandemic. We learned that although it made things more challenging, disasters still struck and Rotary partner Shelterbox still responded to help families during these difficult times.
Kent Fraser wanted our members to know that his club is selling the LuminAID inflatable lanterns as a Shelterbox fundraiser. Please contact Kent directly at K-Fraser@shaw.ca for more information. https://www.shelterboxcanada.org/luminaid/
Join us on March 3 at 7 PM as we hear from Kent Fraser and Dani Bristow from Shelterbox Canada. They'll share the unique work and challenges faced by this vital NGO as disasters strike around the world amid COVID-19.
The Drive for 5 is a community-wide effort to raise $50,000 and 5000 lbs of food in May 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. All Okotoks-area residents, businesses, business organizations and service clubs are encouraged to participate.
Drawn on January 8, 2020, the winner of the 1929 Studebaker raffle was Masoud Paydar of Calgary.
Thanks to everyone who purchased tickets. Know that your funds will be well invested in Community and Youth programs. We are currently working on building the Inclusive Picnic Shelter next to the Riverside Inclusive Playground.
