MTA Rotaract Active in the Community

Posted by Susan Fisher

on Feb 07, 2016

Last semester, Mount Allison Rotaract made a substantial donation to Community Forest International; a Sackville based NGO that focuses on individual and community connections to the forests that sustain them. The charity has its headquarters on School Lane and operates on both a local and an international level. MtA Rotaract, a small club on campus with strong ties to the Rotary Club of Sackville, planned and put on a bake sale at Sackville’s Midnight Madness event in December. They baked close to 200 shortbread and gingerbread cookies at the home of a local Rotarian, all of which were purchased by the event’s attendees. These sales, along with several generous donations from passers-by, yielded a grand total of $221.85. This amount was matched by pre-accumulated funds in the club’s bank account and rounded up. At their first meeting of the semester, the club president, Colin Robertson, presenter charity founder Jeff Schnurr with a $500 cheque.

Rotaract is the youth wing of Rotary International and it provides an opportunities for young people to enhance the knowledge and skills that will assist them in personal development, to address the physical and social needs of their communities, and to promote better relations between all people worldwide through a framework of friendship and service.

Mount Allison’s Rotaract Club is putting on a chilli cook off on February 18th from 6pm-8pm as part of the Sackville Winter Carnival. The event will be located at the Bill Johnstone pavilion and $5.00 will get you any 3 cups of chilli of your choosing. After enjoying the chilli’s, you will be able to vote for your favourite chilli of the night. All proceeds from this fundraiser will go towards purchasing school supplies for Syrian Refugee children expected in Sackville. Do you have a chilli recipe you would like to enter? If so please email hcfletcher@mta.ca. We hope to see you there!