Community Projects
Our club, like all service clubs, is always receiving requests for support for community and international projects. Our latest decision to support a community project is to partner with the Comox Valley Rotary clubs of Courtenay, Comox and Strathcona Sunrise to raise money over the next three years to help build a $2 Million hospice centre as partners of the Comox Valley Hospice Society. Our club provided $30,000 to this project. Support by our club members was so strong that eleven Cumberland Rotarians pledged $1,000.00 each in addition at the meeting that approved this project. In addition to this project, our club provided much needed equipment to the ParaMedic Volunteer Bike Squad in the form of an Automated Electronic Defibrillator and several sets of rain gear. Another community project we will help with is a drama program at the Cumberland Community School. Our club was the first group to contribute funds to help start the Cumberland Marching Band that made its public debut in May of 2011 complete with attractive uniforms.
On 4 April 2011, a cheque for $6,000 was presented to Jeneece Edroff at the offical groundbreaking for Jeneece Place, a home away from home for families whose children have to be hosptialized at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Victoria. In all the club has committed $10,000 to Jeneece place and in June, the club raised more than $5,000 through a sale of plants donated by Bob and Adela Smith of Courtenay. The funds will also go to Jeneece Place. The club, in partnership with the Village of Cumberland, made it possible for new equipment to be installed at the No. 6 Mine Memorial Park Playground. In August of 2011, work began to refurbish the unique coal cart benches that are a part of Cumberland's picturesque heritage.