Nanaimo 7-10 Club

08/29/2025

DID YOU KNOW?
We need volunteers!
If you can spare 1.5 hrs a week, send us a message !
We start at 6:30 am

08/29/2025

A huge supporter of 7-10 for years.

Sunday breakfast at the 256. Sept 7 at 9am-10:30am

08/29/2025

“When he died, I wanted to die,” says Gretchen Brown. “The grief is ongoing, and it’s unbearable.”

Her son Hayden grew up in Nanaimo. He played baseball and learned the bagpipes. As a teen, he struggled with mental health, which later led to poverty, homelessness, and isolation.

“If you lose a child to cancer, you get sympathy. If you lose a child to substance use, you’re often blamed.”

Gretchen found support through Moms Stop the Harm, a group for families affected by substance use. “Shame is actually a killer. People isolate. They think it’s their fault. That’s not true — they just need support.”

In 2024, 446 people in the Island Health region died from toxic drug poisoning. Nearly half were at home. Most were alone.

“Grief never goes away. There is no closure. You learn to live with it.”

On Overdose Awareness Day, we remember every life lost, support families, and work to end the stigma together.

Read Gretchen’s full story and find grief support: https://ow.ly/PXUn50WNUmb

MomsStopTheHarm

02/20/2025

🍁 Back by popular demand, the Rotary Club of Lantzville, are holding their annual Maple Syrup fundraiser again this year.

We have an exclusive deal with a small, family owned syrup producer (Les Sucreries d'Argenteuil) in Quebec to bring in their Grade A maple syrup - this is definitely not your average supermarket syrup! We will be taking orders and payment up until March 11th, and then delivery occurs in late April or early May.

We are selling:

• 1L bottles for $25,

• 500ml bottles for $15, and

• 250ml jars of maple butter and maple jelly for $10 each.

To order, please email rclantzville.treas@gmail.com. We do require payment at the time of placing the order, and this can be done either by e-transfer to the same email address (rclantzville.treas@gmail.com), or by cash, cheque or credit card (if you want to use one of these other methods, please let us know this in your order email and we will contact you to arrange to collect your payment).

This is a great fundraiser for our club, which allows us to put money back into local organizations and good causes.

Interested to find out more about what we do at Rotary? Check out our website https://portal.clubrunner.ca/675

02/20/2025

See you all tomorrow, rain or more rain, for our February Helping Paws clinic! Reminder it is first come first served.