Paul Harris Fellowship 2026
Celebrating the Community Service of Ryan Benoit
- Thursday, February 5th, 2026 at 6:00 pm
- The Caruso Club
- 385 Haig Street, Greater Sudbury
- Tickets: $125 per person; $1000 for tables of 8
- For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Rick Mackenzie at rickmackenzie258@gmail.com or 705.929.1100
Introducing Ryan Benoit
Sudbury’s oldest service organization, the Rotary Club of Sudbury, will honour Ryan Benoit with a prestigious Paul Harris Fellowship at a Dinner event on February 5th, 2026.
Based in Sudbury and located on Lasalle Boulevard, Positive Inception is a clothing brand and lifestyle movement that Ryan Benoit founded in 2014 and focuses on spreading positivity, self-belief, and empowering people to achieve their goals. It attempts to combine fashion with community support, charitable giving and a message of perseverance against limitations.
The Foundation committee of the Rotary Club of Sudbury is committed to ensuring that every Rotarian supports the Rotary Foundation every year. This “EREY” (Every Rotarian Every Year) effort helps ensure that the Foundation has enough support to do the good work and big projects that Rotary performs at both the local and international levels. One way that we acknowledge and celebrate the good work of the Rotary Foundation is to honour someone locally with a Paul Harris Fellowship.
These ‘fellows’ are selected by a committee of Rotarians for their service to the community. To recognize the excellence of someone’s “Service Above Self”, our club makes a contribution of $1000 US to the Rotary Foundation and then hosts a luncheon or dinner at which the new Paul Harris Fellow is celebrated. Past honourees in Sudbury have included Dr. Pablo Cano, Felix Lopes, Helen Ghent, Bela Ravi, Brian Smith, Terry Galvin, and dozens more.
Paul Harris Fellows can also be conferred by a Rotarian onto other club members or family. They can accomplish this by making a $1000 US donation to the Foundation in that person’s name.