Rotary Place is under construction!

At noon-time today, nearly 200 members of 13 Rotary Clubs and 1 provisional Club met together with staff and guests of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie, Ontario to celebrate the construction of a home for persons from the hospital's catchment area who need accommodation while receiving treatment for their cancer illnesses.  It is anticipated the building project will take just over a year. 

Twelve of the Rotary Clubs present donated very generously (over $1.5 million) to the Rotary Place project. Rotary Place will have space for administrative offices, the Family Medicine Teaching Unit and a lodge for cancer patients and their families who travel to Barrie for cancer treatment from out of town. Because of this degree of support, the home will be called "Rotary Home". Today's event, a regular Rotary meeting for those in attendence was lead by Bev Morgan, President of the Rotary Club of Barrie-Huronia and Eric Dean of the Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation.