CEC Rotary Interact Club.

The first Interact Club in the area  sponsored by the Rotary Club of Truro was granted its Charter this year at the Cobequid Education Center.  The Interact Club of CEC has shown great energy and enthusiasm, choosing very unique projects to fund raise to support and create awareness both locally and internationally.  The Interact club of CEC has gone beyond the recommended ‘one local and one international’ project, entering a team in Relay for Life to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society, and showing real innovation in fund raising creating international understanding and goodwill. Through these efforts, CEC Interactors have developed a network of friendships demonstrating  the importance of:

• Developing leadership skills and personal integrity
• Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others
• Understanding the value of individual responsibility and hard work
• Advancing international understanding and goodwill.

Congratulations to all involved with the Interact club of CEC.
Dennis Keaveney, Interact Club President reports: In a promising sign for the future of Rotary, the inaugural year of the C.E.C Interact Club was a great success. With the help of staff advisor Janice Trider, ten students were able to raise almost $2000 for charities such as The Stephen Lewis Foundation, The Red Cross, and The Canadian Cancer Society.  This was often done through creative and engaging mediums such as, ‘Dare to Grow Hair’, an event where participants earned money pledges for avoiding to shave for an entire month, with the hopes of winning some great local prizes and defeating AIDS in Africa in the process.  

Other fund-raisers included entering a team in the Relay for Life and “Dollar a Day”, an event where participants were forced to spend no more than $1 a day for an entire week, this was used to simulate the living conditions of many third-world countries. The main goal put in place by the club at the start of the year was to create an identity within the school. This was done through imaginative fund-raisers, multiple posters being put up around the school, and near constant harassment of staff and students to help support the various causes throughout the year.

The club looks poised to have a successful future in the confines of C.E.C. Club president Dennis Keaveney and vice president Sarah Farrell would like to thank all students who helped make this year great.