Annual Haunted House

We're holding our annual Haunted House fundraiser, so come and be scared if you DARE!!!

WHEN: SAT, OCTOBER 29th (last Saturday in October)
WHERE: Wenk Funeral Home (Payn Ave, Village of Chatham)
Click here for a map to the location.
6pm-7pm
Children & Chickens Hour
(lights on/no scaring)
$3.00 per person

7pm-10pm
Haunted House
$5.00 per person
children 12 & OVER

Red Cross Blood Drive

Northern Columbia Rotary sponsors a Blood Drive in conjunction with the American Red Cross a few times a year at the Chatham Firehouse. NCC Rotary does this as a community service to help the Red Cross obtain much needed blood for use in our area. Our volunteers assist with calling donors to schedule appointments, signing in appointments and walk-ins on the day of the drive and running the canteen.

Date: Friday, 8/12/2011
Time: 12:30pm - 5:30pm
Where: Chatham Fire House
Contact Barbara for more information or to sign up: 392-9137 or email

Annual Golf Tournament

When: Thursday, July 7, 2010
Where: Winding Brook Country Club / Rte. 203 Valatie
Registration begins at 9am / Shotgun at 10am

Cost per golfer: $100
The first 10 paid foursomes will be entered into a raffle to win $100
Payment must be received by June 17, 2011

Fee includes:

• Greens Fee


• Hole-in-One Contest


• Golf Cart


• Hors D'oeuvres


• Beverages on Course


• Lunch & Dinner

Cash bar available. Awards ceremony & raffle to follow dinner.

Contact Lynn Bell for more information: 392-9206

All tournament proceeds will be donated to local charities including: rescue squads, libraries, food pantries, Columbia-Greene Domestic Violence, R.I.D.E.S. Program, Marion Stegmann Fund, Salvation Army Summer Camp and many more. In addition, our Rotary club sponsors scholarships for area high school seniors, a Rotary Youth Leadership Program and the 3rd Grade Dictionary Project for the Chatham and New Lebanon school districts. Help us help YOUR community!

FORMS
Golf Letter
Golf Form
Sponsor Form

ShelterBox Responds to Japan Disaster

ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity that delivers emergency shelter, warmth and dignity to people affected by disaster worldwide.

ShelterBox Response Teams have already mobilized after today's massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

The Northern Columbia Rotary Club asked for donations from our members, community, family and friends following the devatasting earthquake in Haiti. We successfully raised the $1000 needed for one of these boxes in a week. One ShelterBox will provide shelter for up to 10 people.

Please make a donation online, www.shelterbox.org, or send us a check:
Northern Columbia Rotary
PO Box 17
Chatham, NY 12037
memo: ShelterBox

Thank you.

ShelterBox USA

ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity that delivers emergency shelter, warmth and dignity to people affected by disaster worldwide. The latest deployment of shelters boxes (in 2011) have included response to a cyclone in Madagascar and response to an earthquake in New Zealand. Northern Columbia County Rotary combined their efforts with the Rotary Clubs of Windham and Cairo, NY to raise funds to support ShelterBox #16041.
This ShelterBox can be tracked by logging in to www.shelterboxusa.org. By simply entering "USA" as country of origin and "16041" as box number, we can see when and where our ShelterBox will be deployed. Keep checking back often!

Water for Life provides clean drinking water for Haiti

Roy Sheldrick and other members of the Rotary Club of Ancaster, Ontario, Canada, have spent 15 years helping to provide clean drinking water for 300,000 people in the Artibonite Valley of Haiti.

A year after a massive earthquake crippled the country, followed by a deadly cholera outbreak, their work in the region is more important than ever.

Sheldrick and his wife, Norma, founded Water for Life after taking part in a service trip to Haiti with their church in 1996. The nonprofit organization, supported by the Ancaster club and District 7090 (parts of Canada and New York, USA), drills wells to provide clean and accessible water in Haiti. To date, the project has raised more than US$1.5 million for 219 wells. It has also helped construct more than 350 latrines.

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