CLIFFORD – The Clifford Rotary Club is celebrating its 75th year in 2019.
The Clifford Rotary Club was founded on June 23, 1944 sponsored by the Mildmay Rotary Club.
Rotarian Larry Grummett states community members are invited for an afternoon of cake, cold punch and camaraderie at a celebration from 1 to 5pm on Sept. 21 at the John Hobelman Memorial Rotary Pavilion Park.
Music will be playing and a 50/50 golf shot game is planned at the free event.
The club’s good works will be on display, captured in print and collected in the pages of several scrapbooks.
Over the years the club has raised funds for an arena, a community hall, a clinic, a new Rotary park and a ball park.
It teamed up with the Clifford Lions Club to host Breakfast with Santa to pay for a room for sick children at the Toronto hospital.
Among the club’s latest causes is collecting books for northern communities.
Rotarians also host an annual pork and homemade sauerkraut supper, making their own sauerkraut to serve and sell.
For the past 10 years, the club have served a farmer’s breakfast and looked after the food booth for the Clifford truck show.
The executive for 2019-20 is president Trish Palmer, vice-president Phil Baumgarten, secretary John McVicar and treasurer Karen Dowler.
