Our Club, through the process of developing our annual Action Plan, has adopted an aim to visit other Rotary Clubs in our geographic region; all to learn more about Rotary and to exchange ideas and stories.
Not long ago, we visited Dunville. More recently, a small group travelled to Ancaster to visit the Rotary Club of Ancaster AM in one of our neighbour cities. It proved to be a wonderful opportunity for Rotary fellowship and a most successful social venture. Moreover, we were entertained by their main guest speaker Ken Price (and Bill Watson) representing the Dream Team Search & Rescue ; a volunteer team dedicated to rescuing lost pets in the Hamilton area.
A few added photos from the morning meeting are at the ‘Read more …’ tab. Note that the Ancaster AM Club has agreed to a reciprocal visit and will be with us at R83 on 26 May '26.

One RI World Curling Championship, Four Participating Countries, 22 Club Curling Teams and 96 Rotarian Curlers – a recipe for fellowship, fun and a wee bit of “The Roaring Game”. Curling is just one of ~149, Rotary International Fellowships. Following a qualifying process (a series of Can-Am curling bonspiels, our own Rotary Club of Norfolk Sunrise and Simcoe Curling Club team qualified for, and attended, the 2026 World Curling Championships hosted by the Rotary Clubs of Ayr & Stranraer in Scotland. 

Our team of Jim Simpson (Skip), Andy Kooistra (Vice), Keith Jones (Second) & Andrew Watt (Lead) were ready to go! The 12-day event opened on April Fool’s Day, spanned 10 days and was held in the most unique of venues, a castle-type hotel (the North-West Castle built in 1820 by a Scot who had explored routes through Canada’s North-West passage) with an attached 4-sheet, alps-decorated curling rink, all put in place by the Hammy McMillan family of deep Scottish curling fame. Perfect! 

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Fellowship, food, fun, footwork and fundraising - who could ask for more!
On Valentines Day of the 2026 Family Day long-weekend, the RCNS organized and hosted our first-ever Music-Bingo, Dinner-Dance fundraiser at the Simcoe Legion.
With almost 100 Rotarians and guests in attendance, the RCNS filled the house and had a great time. As organized by our W&M leader Cathy Harrop, supported by music-bingo entrprenuer Hal Whitcomb (DJ Hal) & wife Debbie and catered by Bobbi Howe and her team, we all sang and danced ourselves into the night. Through the generosity of so many of our Club members, a huge array of donated prizes were available to win as a result of the bingo, even-steven, door and penny-table games and draws.
After it was all over, it was estimated that we had raised over $3500 to support our different Rotary support programs. So much work went into pulling off this very popular fundraiser. Helping Cathy to put it all together were Sunrisers Bettyann Carty, Sue Finney, Michelle Langedyk, Tina Millea, Linda Muir, Sarah Muntz-Flowerday and Louise Schebesch,    
A selection of photos are at the ‘Read more…’ tab and an even larger number are at the Club's Photo Album at this link.
As leader of the initiative, Cathy was thrilled with the results, noting that so many people encouraged a repeat event that she was already thinking of ways to do it better -  talk about ‘Service above Self’

The RCNS is pleased to announce the award of a $75,000 Rotary Global Grant to foster Peace and Reconciliation. The grant, with supporting funding from Rotary clubs in Brantford, St Catharines, Hamilton–Stony Creek, Niagara Falls and Toronto area clubs and International club South Portland Cape Elizabeth, Maine is in support of the upcoming Youth to Youth (Y2Y) Truth and Reconciliation Experience to be held at Chiefswood Park in Ohsweken (near Brantford) March 22-29.