Rotary in Oakville is a House with Five Doors
For almost 100 years, Oakville Rotarians have raised funds through special events to support local area charities and not-for-profits, dispersing financial aid to many deserving organizations and their very worthy projects and initiatives. As well, funds are donated and leveraged to support Rotary International projects that impact the global community in a meaningful way
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Rotary Launches its 25th Year of Auction Action & Collaboration
The Rotary Online Auction, a collaborative annual event, which began over 25 years ago, has consistently provided a significant way for participating Rotary clubs to raise funds for both their local community initiatives and international projects. Originated by the Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar, this year’s auction team includes the Rotary Clubs of Oakville, Oakville Trafalgar, Kitchener, Milton, Mississauga, Burlington North, Caledon and Cambridge Preston Hespeler. The 2025 Rotary Online Auction will run from November 1-15, 2025 at www.rotaryonllineauction.ca Registration is now open!
The auction initially began as a fun, collaborative project that featured Rotarians selling items on television through a broadcast via local cable provided Cogeco in Halton, before the auction evolved into an online-only format after nearly a decade of initial success.
Last year’s auction was another impressive achievement. The collaborating clubs raised a remarkable $124,400, with those funds being shared amongst the clubs to support their local community initiatives and international projects. The success was a true team effort.
Motivated by past accomplishments, Rotarians are already setting ambitious goals, challenging themselves to better last year’s results and setting a target of $150,000 for the 2025 Rotary Online Auction. With approximately 1,000 goods and services for auction and multiple warehouse locations for pick up, the auction will be a must “bid to win” to get great gifts or unique experiences for Christmas, Holidays and special ocassions. The Rotary OnLine Auction runs November 1st – 15th 2025.
Please register to bid and bid often! Your support will make a difference in the many southern Ontario communities and beyond supported by the Rotary Online Auction. For businesses wishing to donate or community members who wish to learn more about this successful annual tradition, please do not hesitate to check out the website at rotaryonlineauction.ca
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2025 OAKVILLE ROTARY EDUCATION AWARDS
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In honour of Rotary’s 100 years of service to the community of Oakville and beyond, Rotary Oakville was thrilled to present a grand total of $100,000 in Rotary Education Awards to 30 of this year’s grade 12 graduating students. The announcement was made via Zoom to the students and their families during a virtual presentation hosted by Rotarians from the three sponsoring clubs, Rotary Club of Oakville, Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar and the Rotary Club of Oakville West.
Four of the student recipients received additional awards in recognition of their contributions to community service. Eric Zhang from Oakville Trafalgar High School received $1,000 as recipient of The Donna Messer Service Above Self Award. Jack Pinette, a Thomas A. Blakelock High School graduate, received the $1,000 Bill Barnes Music Award. While Brenton Wang, Oakville Trafalgar High School and Lia Palagud of St Thomas Aquinas High School were both honoured with a Mary Jane & Barry Howie $1,000 Health Care Award, a new award this year.
Alphabetically by Oakville High School, the following grade 12 graduates were awarded a minimum of $3,000 each towards continuing their education at the institution of their choice. All, but three of the students have chosen post secondary education in Canada.
Abbey Park High School
- Raneisha Grant
- Jason Kwak
Ecole Secondaire Gaetan-Gervais
- Rachel Adams
Garth Webb Secondary School
- Colsen Flemington
Oakville Trafalgar High School
- Adeife Adedeji
- Anthony Firsov
- Siena Miller
- Thiery Pinnock
- Brenton Wang
- Eric Zhang
St Ignatius of Loyola Secondary School
- Rishan Kamalanthiran
Iroquois Ridge High School
- Nessa Byrne
- Kiyan Mahmood
- Alen Muminagic
- Ryan Shen
St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School
- Nika Babiychuk
- Jessica Ezeokana
- Silvana Garcia-Otero
- Anicia Mascarenhas
- Lia Palagud
Thomas A. Blakelock High School
- Menna Gebril
- Tatiana Lassos
- Sohrab Omar P
- Polina Penkova
- Jack Pinette
White Oaks Secondary School
- Saksham Goel
- Radwa Kharboutly
- Andy Lu
- Jessica MacPherson
- Sunny Ni
The generosity of the sponsors of the Family Ribfest, Golf to Give Tournament and Rotary Online Auction ensures the annual Rotary Education Awards are possible. Please assist Rotarians in supporting Oakville students by your patronage to Rotary events and its sponsorsed settings.
100 Years of Rotary in Oakville
The 100 Years of Rotary in Oakville celebration kicked off on June 28 at the Oakville Town Hall. Members from the Oakville Rotary Clubs were joined by the mayor and other dignitaries in a flagraising ceremony at Town Hall.
The 100 Years of Rotary in Oakville celebration kicked off on June 28 at the Oakville Town Hall. Members from the Oakville Rotary Clubs were joined by the mayor and other dignitaries in a flag raising ceremony at Town Hall.
Registration opens here March 18, 2025
Rotarians in Oakville are excited to announce the 100th Anniversary of Rotary, and its service to the community of Oakville and beyond. Launching today with a special logo, designed by Rotarian Priya Rampersadsingh, to commemorate this auspicious occasion Rotarians extend an invitation to Oakville residents, business and charitable organizations to celebrate with Rotarians on April 30th, 2025.
A not-for-profit service organization that spans the globe and locally set its roots in Oakville 100 years ago is celebrating this memorable occasion with its Grand Gala Event set for Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at the Oakville Conference Centre. Save the Date. All are welcome. To register, click HERE
April 1925, the Rotary Club of Oakville received its Charter from Rotary International and so began the journey of 100 years of service to a community that has grown from less then 4,000 to a population of over 233,700 residents.
Currently there are five active Rotary Clubs in Oakville all of which started from the Rotary Club of Oakville. Expanding to more clubs as the population grew started in 1978 with the Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar, then in 1984 with the Rotary Club of Oakville West, in 1986 by Oakville North (now disbanded) followed by Oakville Rotaract in 2012 (now Halton Rotaract) and most recently by the Passport South Rotary Club. Please check out the cluster webpage at https://rotaryoakville.ca for more information about each of the clubs.
To help Rotarians honour its history of “Service Above Self” Pilon School of Business -Sheridan students led by their co-op program professor are digitizing this multi-faceted Oakville story and will help Rotary share the news this year.
A story which includes building and managing affordable housing, helping to expand and equip the hospital, student bursaries for post secondary education, and working to eradicate polio globally and so much more. The 100-year story will be shared April 30th at the Gala event along with major celebratory announcements affecting the Oakville community in 2025 and going forward.
For 100 years, Oakville Rotarians have raised funds through special events to support local area charities and not-for-profits, dispersing financial aid to many deserving organizations and their very worthy projects and initiatives. As well, funds are donated and leveraged to support Rotary International projects that impact the global community in a meaningful way.
New Rotarian Presidents
Local Rotarians are pleased to announce the new 2025-26 Presidents for each of the five Oakville clubs.
With the start of the new Rotary year, Rotary Oakville is pleased to announce the new Presidents of each of the five Oakville clubs. They are Dianne Dinevski, Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar; Lynn Childs, Rotary Club of Oakville; Michael Olafusi Passport South Rotary Club; and Shruti Ramachandran, Halton Rotaract
Dianne Dinevski, new president of the Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar (RCOT)
The new President of Rotary Passport South is Michael Olafusis.
Shruti Ramachandran, Halton Rotaract Club
Rotary Helping Oakville
To help respond to the global COVID-19 crisis the four local Rotary clubs have joined forces to create the Oakville Rotary Relief Fund. This fund will address pressing needs within our community during this time of great challenge and turmoil – during the Covid19 crisis.
All donations to the Fund are tax deductible, and a tax receipt will be issued to you by CanadaHelps.