If you Google ‘Rotary Park’, you will quickly realize that Rotary has populated the world with parks! The truth is that Rotarians everywhere have invested in their communities to benefit the young, the old, and everybody in between. Parks are certainly cornerstone projects that have grown Rotary’s reputation as a service club. In the mid to late 1970s, federally-owned land to the north of Lemoine Point and to the south of Collin’s Bay was identified by members of the Kingston

Rotary started as a group of professionals and small business owners with common interests in community service and business networking. In the early 1900s, this meant men. In fact, this was enshrined in Rotary’s constitution and by-laws. By the latter part of the 20th century, this restriction was becoming an albatross in the eyes of a number of members and clubs. There were countless women who met the membership requirements as entrepreneurs, professionals, or business mana

The Kingston-Frontenac Rotary Club continues to build a strong reputation for its international work in Tanzania. Peter Morin, who joined our club in 2014, quickly became our director for International Service. Peter has developed many connections and ideas for projects in Tanzania and has spent several months there every year since 2011. Our first project, in 2015, was the provision of desks and textbooks for a village school on the island of Ukerewe on Lake Victoria. The ne

In 1917, Rotary International President, Arch Klumpf made a donation of $26.50: “It seems eminently proper that we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world.” The fund increased slowly until the death in 1947 of Paul Harris, Rotary’s founding father. Memorial gifts poured in raising the fund to $1.3 million dollars. The Rotary Foundation transforms donations into service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world. Since its fo