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Shirley-Pat’s Rotary Story

NEPETS 2018 Update#3:

Shirley-Pat & Friend So honoured and humbled by this opportunity to share My Rotary Story and the Write to Read Project. The NEPETS family did it again – not only did the incoming President-Elect class of 2018-2019 again give me money from their own pockets BUT the 2017-2018 District Governors represented will also be making donations! The approximate $2500 gift from these amazing Rotary Leaders plus the DGs donations will be leveraged into the W2R-BC’s first Rotary Foundation GLOBAL GRANT!! Hopefully the first of many ?This will enable us to build the first community designed culturally responsive community gathering space to build literacy equity WITH Xeni Gwet’in.

My heart is full – Sechanalyagh

Daybreak club is first past the post

Daybreak First Past The Post
Shirley Pat Gale (right) of Williams Lake Daybreak Rotary Club with members of the Toosey band

Anyone who has ever met her will agree that Shirley-Pat Gale is a human dynamo. The driving force from the Williams Lake Daybreak Rotary Club is the hidden secret behind forming the partnership that resulted in the opening of the Toosey Library at Klesko (Riske Creek).

The combined library/gathering place at Klesko is historic as it becomes the first Rotary/First Nations partnership project to be completed and opened in British Columbia. Many more such partnerships are sure to follow.

As is frequently the case with Rotary anywhere in the world, it happens that there is more than one Rotary Club in town, and in this case its in the town of Williams Lake. Shirley-Pat with the Daybreak Club has a partnership with Klesko. The other club, the Williams Lake Rotary Club, is also involved in an aboriginal literacy project, but their affiliation is with the Stone band of the Chilcotin nation. That reserve is located much further west on the Chilcotin plateau.

Stay tuned for news about the Stone/Williams Lake partnership. Meantime, cheers to Shirley-Pat for being the driving force behind this great project, the first of many more in the province of British Columbia, creating what may become a blueprint for many other communities around the world to follow.