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<\/a>If you look closely you can see Rotarian Les Calkins & Rotary Ann Margaret Calkins (top right), and on the phone line Rotarian Gloria Avis (looking over her shoulder) at the Union Hall during the 80’s.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>This photo was one of the first auctions held at the MMCC (2000).<\/p><\/div>\n
This annual project started back in the mid-1980\u2019s.\u00a0 Letters were sent out to the various businesses within our community asking for donations to this project.\u00a0 We would go around after and collect or display the items up for auction at the various businesses. A bid booklet was produced and inserted in the Algoma News Review for everyone to see the items for auction.<\/p>\n
On the third Saturday of April, we would have the Radio Auction from 7 pm to 11 pm where anyone could call in a bid on an item they wished to purchase. As each year continued, we kept modifying and expanding this project to make it more friendly for our citizens.\u00a0 In the early years, it was held either at the Union Hall on Mackey Street, then at the Polish Hall on Mission Road.\u00a0 Eventually, we moved it to the Michipicoten Memorial Community Centre, displaying the items there for people to come and have a look at the products, sit and enjoy a beverage and still be able to bid on items with the house phones that were provided.<\/p>\n
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This past year, 2020, due to the pandemic, we still managed to have this auction in a \u2018new way\u2019.\u00a0 It was at a later date as the Club needed time to organize ourselves. Eventually, we were able to do an On-Line Auction in November!\u00a0 It was a great success and it gave everyone a better chance to bid, with bidding being open for a whole week!\u00a0 A huge Thank You to the businesses and artisans that gave so generously over the past 38 years and to all the Rotarians for the work involved in making this project a great success!<\/p>\n
Centennial Sight and Sound Project<\/strong><\/p>\n This project started back in 2004- 2005 as our local Rotary Centennial Project to celebrate Rotary International\u2019s 100th birthday!\u00a0 We started with having the Junior Kindergarten, Senior Kindergarten, and Grade 3 students tested to ensure their vision and hearing was healthy and impairing their abilities to learn. Sault Audiology and Dr. Peter Norris came on board with this project.\u00a0 It was so well received by the teachers and parents that the Club decided to continue with it for another century!<\/p>\n We now have students in JK and Grade 3, along with any other students that are recommended by parents or school staff, tested each year.\u00a0 This project has been a great success each year, with an average of 10 percent of the students tested being identified as requiring further testing to better support their learning.\u00a0 If financial help is required by any family, the Rotary Club of Wawa is also there to assist.\u00a0 Once schools are open again and back to some semblance of normalcy, we will resume this project again.\u00a0 It is a great investment in our future leaders!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Scenic High Falls<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When Great Lakes Power (now Brookfield) constructed the power generation facilities along the Magpie River, Scenic High Falls was part of their plan, creating the current dam at the High Falls site itself, Rotary was part of the planning and discussions but took a back seat to ongoing maintenance of the area. There is still the monument at the site, providing for this historical partnership.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Within the past couple of years, Rotary along with the Municipality and the Power Generation Company have formed partnerships to again help to grow and enhance the area as a great tourist attraction and allow for more amenities to be enjoyed while viewing the Falls in all its splendour!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>For many years starting back in the seventies, the Rotary Club of Wawa took on the design, cleaning, and upkeep of Scenic High Falls, back when it was in its natural state of beauty.<\/p>\n