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World Leaders Pledge US $1.9 Billion To End polio

ABU DHABI, UAE (8 December 2025) International leaders, philanthropists, and global health partners announced today in Abu Dhabi a collective US$ 1.9 billion to advance polio eradication. This includes approximately $1.2 billion in newly pledged funds that will reduce the remaining resource gap for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s (GPEI) 2022-2029 Strategy to $440 million. The funds will accelerate vital efforts to reach 370 million children each year with polio vaccines, alongside strengthening health systems in affected countries to protect children from other preventable diseases

Holiday Puzzle Pop-Up

Puzzles are a part of every family Christmas gathering and you can get your unique Squamish puzzle while stocking up for your holiday feast. Squamish Rotary will be at Nestors Market on Wednesday, November 26 and Saturday, December 6th with a special on everyone's favourite Squamish Puzzle. At only $15 it is an affordable gift for your family, friends or co-workers. Come and visit the friendly Rotarians and pick yours up!

Proceeds from sales support youth programs in our community!

Paul Harris Fellow Presentation

Rotarian Henry Marsden becomes newest Paul Harris Fellow

Barry Wetter RIP

We remember Rotarian Barry Wetter

Rotary Raises over $25,000 for Coldest Night of the Year

The Squamish Rotary Club, together with Interact Students from Howe Sound Secondary, raise a record sum for the Squamish Helping Hands Society.

Return-It Fundraiser

A great way to support your local Rotary Club - return your beverage containers to the local Return-It Depot!

Beef on Bun at Logger Sports

Beef on a Bun is coming up!

Recycle Bicycle is Back!

Posted on May 20, 2024

Recycle Bicycle is back!

Tim Hortons Smile Cookies

Posted on Apr 26, 2024

From April 29-May 5, Tim Hortons Restaurant Owners will be supporting more than 600 local charities, hospitals and community programs across Canada.

Guests who purchase a freshly baked Smile Cookie will be donating to these great causes with 100% of proceeds being donated to the local charity!

The Rotary Club of Squamish is honoured to be a Charity of Choice for the 2024 Tim Horton’s Smile Cookie Program in the Sea to Sky corridor.

We will use the funds to support the new children's playground at the Oceanfront Park in Squamish!

Each Smile Cookie is $1.50 or just $18 per dozen.

To pre-order Tim Hortons Smile Cookies, click HERE for the order form. Complete the form and take it to your nearest Tim Hortons store.

Squamish Climate Action Plan

Posted on Apr 25, 2024

Our guest speaker today was Ian Picketts, Manager of Sustainability and Climate Change at the District of Squamish.

The District has developed a Community Climate Action Plan which has a target of reducing our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 45% by 2030, and to be net carbon neutral by 2050.

The plan concentrates on Mitigation - actions that reduce GHG emissions. It will address 3 main areas - waste, transportation and buildings.

Work is under way on projects related to improving deconstruction practices, reducing embodied carbon in buildings, expanding our landfill gas collection system, constructing EV infrastructure and bringing a team of youth to Squamish to work on climate change projects over the summer of 2024..

More at: Climate Action - District of Squamish

Spring Cleaning our Community

Posted on Apr 20, 2024

On Saturday morning members and friends of Squamish Rotary were on the avenues, streets, lanes, and trails of Downtown Squamish picking up litter and rubbish for Pitch-In Week. Two truckloads of garbage were collected and taken to the dump.

A big THANK YOU to Emma Seguss for recruiting all the volunteers and doing a great job organising the event.

Club makes another Donation to Squamish Helping Hands Society

Posted on Mar 14, 2024

Our guest speaker today was Michelle Balch, Volunteer Coordinator at Squamish Helping Hands Society.
She gave us an overview of all the programs and services run by the Squamish Helping Hands Society and the Under One Roof facility.

After her presentation, the club presented Michelle with a cheque for $5,000 which are funds raised at a Bingo night and a personal donation.
This will be added to the amount raised by the club at the Coldest Night of the Year event and will bring our total to over $23,000 for this very worthy cause.

Food, Shelter, Community - Squamish Helping Hands

Rotary Supports the new Foundry Youth Hub

Posted on Mar 13, 2024

Sea to Sky Community Services Society, helps thousands of children, youth and adults through more than 40 community services and programs in BC’s Sea to Sky corridor. It has replaced the condemned Youth Resource Centre in Squamish with a new $2.2 million, 5,000 sq ft youth centre where young people aged 12-24 can access mental health, primary care, substance use intervention, peer support, and social services, all under one roof. The Rotary Club of Squamish provided $30,000.00 in funding to furnish the Squamish Youth Hub at the centre, providing technology equipment, a pool table, and other recreational equipment including a $10,000 District Grant from The Rotary Foundation.

Challenges Facing local News Media

Posted on Feb 29, 2024

Editor Jennifer Thuncher and Publisher Sarah Strother from The Squamish Chief joined us to talk about the challenges facing local news media. Some of the main comments were:

• the Squamish Chief has a great team of dedicated and hard-working staff.

• readership is the key; readership drives advertising which is almost 100% of the paper's revenue.

• the paper version Chief went free to expand readership.

• currently 5500-6000 copies are printed weekly and distributed around town.

• most of the readership is now online with 350,000 articles viewed per month.

• the Meta ban on Canadian news has meant even more effort is being made to drive readership to the Squamish Chief website.

• the daily newsletter email has been very successful in keeping people up to date with what's happening in our community.

You can Sign up for The Squamish Chief's newsletters - Squamish Chief.

Squamish Community Comes Together to Alleviate Hunger and Homelessness.

Posted on Feb 25, 2024

On February 24th the Squamish community turned out for the Coldest Night of the Year fundraising walk to support the Squamish Helping Hands Society.

The event takes place in communities across Canada in support of local charities serving people experiencing hurt, hunger, and homelessness.

In Squamish, 54 teams and over 200 walkers participated.

The event has raised almost $80,000 so far with the proceeds going to Squamish Helping Hands.

The Rotary Cub of Squamish joined in with with 4 teams and has raised close to $18,000 for this important cause with more to come.