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Our club, The Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, in Rotary International District 7070 (in an area of Southern Ontario including Toronto, and stretching north to Alliston and east to Belleville), is part of one of the greatest service organizations in the world.
Members attend Dinner Meetings held each Tuesday at 6:30 pm at the Oshawa Golf Club, 160 Alexandra St, Oshawa , where we gather in friendship, talk about upcoming events and service projects, and listen to guest speakers (usually local and sometimes international leaders of our community).
Comprised of both young, dynamic, and dedicated newer members as well as devoted energetic and well respected long standing members of the community, the men and women of the Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood aim to “make a difference” at home in Oshawa, in Ontario, throughout Canada and around the world, by devotedly living the Rotary motto "Service Above Self".
Oshawa-Parkwood Rotarians believe also in the importance of being active in all seven Areas Of Focus and the five Rotary Avenues of Service – Club Administration, Community Service, International Service, Vocational Service, and Youth Service (formerly called New Generations).
The Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood members not only vocalize their concern for the local community and abroad, they actively participate in finding unique ways to meet the needs of the many organizations and causes.
The Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood, which consists of about 42 members (professional Oshawa businessmen and women, from a wide variety of the community professions in Oshawa), and now in its 49th year in Oshawa, meets every Tuesday evening at The Oshawa Golf Club (160 Alexandra Street in Oshawa).
To assist you in getting to know us better, The Rotary Club of Oshawa-Parkwood is the second Rotary Club in Oshawa which was chartered in October 1976, having been sponsored by The Rotary Club of Oshawa. We support many local and International service projects in Oshawa, in Ontario, throughout Canada and the entire world. Here in the local area are just some of our many ventures. We work with the Ajax Optimists and the Durham Regional Police and created The Kids Safety Village. We are very proud to be associated with the Village. Some of our Club members are on The Board of Directors of The Kids Safety Village and have been since Day One. We are also great supporters of Lakeridge Health Oshawa, The R. S. McLaughlin Regional Cancer Centre, Handicapped Adults and the Participation House Projects, Parkwood Estate, Durham College , Sharon's Kids, Waverly Public School (playground), Friends of The Second Marsh, bursaries for grads of MCVI , Grandview Kids Centre, and Feed The Need in Durham, just to name a few.
With The Rotary Club of Oshawa and The City of Oshawa, we assisted with the completion of The Rotary Centennial Peace Bridge across The Oshawa Creek, near the Oshawa Botanical Gardens and our two clubs have just completed the Gazebo in the Memory Gardens of the Oshawa Valley Botanical Gardens.
And through the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, we join with thousands of Rotary Clubs worldwide to perform many world community service projects, including Operation Eyesight (Cataract operations in third world countries), Canadian Land Mine Foundation for the eradication of landmines, a Literacy program in Guatemala, Shelter Box Canada, a school and school bus in rural India, water projects in Laos and Uganda, and many more. The most important Rotary Foundation project and most successful of which is The Polio Plus Campaign which started in the late 1980's to rid polio from the world. Please feel free to visit Rotary's websites www.rotary.org ;www.
In 2026, you can order a box or more of these Canadian grown tulip bulbs and help Rotary End Polio Now. Rotarians have helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children against polio in 122 countries. We are 99.9% polio free in the world, but we need your help to get to the finish line. The End Polio Now project, perhaps the largest of its kind ever undertaken by a service organization, has been hugely successful with only a few very small pockets of the disease remaining.
