Christmas with the West End Seniors

360 West End Seniors, many of them shut-ins, gathered for a wonderful Christmas lunch at the Westin Bayshore on December 1.  This was the 25th year that the Rotary Club of Vancouver Sunrise has orchestrated this event with the help of a downtown hotel and a local grocery store.  This year our thanks go to the Westin Bayshore and IGA for their generosity in sponsoring this event.

Students of King George Secondary and Strathcona High Schools were Santa’s elfs and entertained the seniors with charming holiday carols while helping the disabled to fill their plates.  These schools are recipients of the  Rotary Club of Vancouver Sunrise’s fund-raising energies that provide university scholarships for deserving students at King George and support the youth programs at Strathcona Community Centre.  The Westin Hotel provided most of the food, cooked, set up, took down, cleaned up and provided so much free labour it was incredible.  The Rotary Club expresses its sincere thank you to all at the Westin Bayshore on behalf of the Seniors.  For many of them, this is their only Christmas celebration.