Grand opening
Inspire Learning Centre, Rotary club welcome special guest to help officially open centre
All employers who would like to learn how to complete a Record of Employment (ROE) form are being invited to attend a lunch-and-learn Tuesday, Oct. 3, at noon at the Wellington Rural Action Centre (RAC) at 48 Mill Rd., Wellington.
Service Canada, in collaboration with the Wellington RAC and the Acadian and Francophone Chamber of Commerce of P.E.I., is offering this session to guide employers through the process of completing an ROE in the recommended order while pointing out some mistakes to avoid.
The session, to be delivered in English, will be facilitated by Edith Ferguson, a citizen service specialist with Service Canada.
The registration fee is $5 for Chamber members and $10 for non-members. This cost covers the lunch that will be provided; the session itself is free. All those wishing to attend must register by Sept. 29 with Velma Robichaud at 902-8543439, ext. 228, or velma@rdeeipe.org.
A special guest will be on hand Oct. 2, to help officially open the Inspire Learning Centre in Summerside.
The Rotary Club of will welcome Rotary International president Ian Riseley of Australia to the event. The event gets underway at 3 p.m.
In 2013, the Rotary Club of Summerside recognized an opportunity to make a difference in the community. The club determined the old Summerside Rotary Library had outgrown its space, making it impossible to meet the needs of the 17 non-profit user groups and educational institutions, as well as the library’s weekly staff programs.
In order to meet the community’s requirements, the club purchased “the old post-office” from the federal government in 2014, and began the process of transforming the space into the new regional Inspire Learning Centre.
Rotary relied heavily upon its club members’ various skill sets to help with the fundraising, marketing, renovations and legal aspects throughout the process.
Through the generosity of the community and the contributions of all three levels of government, $2.8 million was raised to make the new Inspire Learning Centre a reality. Summerside Rotarians contributed over $300,000.
As incoming Rotary International president, Riseley defined the 20172018 Rotary theme as: Rotary: Making a Difference.
“Whether we’re building a new playground or a new school, improving medical care or sanitation, training conflict mediators or midwives, we know that the work we do will change people’s lives — in ways large and small — for the better,” he said.
Fittingly, the community’s new centre includes the library, learning programs for children and meeting rooms and space for non-profit groups taking up 15,000 square feet of the 27,000-square-foot building. The federal government remains as a tenant in the remaining space.
The Rotary Club of Summerside, with a history of making things happen, has once again brought a “legacy” project to life for the benefit of all ages, and is certainly “making a difference” for future generations.