Susan Shultz
For over 100 years, the Rotary Club of Saratoga Springs has proudly served the community-supported nonprofit organizations through volunteering and through the local community giving program. Founded in 1924, and one of more than 35,000 Rotary clubs worldwide, members live by the motto “Service Above Self.” In 1973, the club
Columbia Star
As thousands of families walked through the gates of A C Flora High School’s athletic field on Saturday, May 19, to attend the Forest Acres Festival, Sandy Olson, President of the Rotary Club of Forest Acres (Columbia, US – D 7770) had a huge smile on her face. “Making a
The Sydney Morning Herald
With 1.2 million Rotarians around the world, getting to the top is a reasonably big deal. But when Ian Riseley joined as a 31-year-old in 1978 his intention wasn’t to climb the ranks. “I’d just started my own accounting practice and I was invited to speak to a club on
The Indian Weekender
The Papatoetoe Central chapter of Rotary (New Zealand, District 9920), among the relatively youngest chapters of the Rotary club, is promising loads of fun, entertainment, and satisfaction of helping a great cause, to their guests in the annual fundraising dinner. The fundraising dinner, scheduled on Saturday, June 2, at Alexandra
Shana Filatrau, Durham Region
Whitby’s Gourmet Food Truck Frenzy is returning for its fifth year. The two-day event is run by Whitby’s Rotary Club (Ontario, Canada – D 7070) and is its biggest fundraiser of the year. The event will run Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, May 27, on the Iroquois Park grounds, 500
John Klein, Tulsa World
A project to bring clean water to a small village in Nicaragua has grown into one of the largest aid programmes by any Rotary club in the world. That project, to finance the drilling of a water well, has ballooned into a massive effort bringing clean water to more than
Conor Berry, Mass Live
The Rotary Club of West Springfield (Massachusetts, US – D 5930), longtime organiser of West Side’s Taste of the Valley, says the organisation is working on other public fundraising efforts to replace the outdoor food festival. The decision by the Rotary Club and Town of West Springfield to cancel Taste
Jason Cuevas, Wisconsin Dells Events
The laughs kept coming as the drinks kept flowing at the Wisconsin Dells Rotary Club’s (Wisconsin, US – D 6250) 28th Annual Spring Fling Fundraiser on May 4 at the Kalahari Resorts. Rotary funnyman Wally Czuprynko acted as emcee for the evening, with his brand of outlandish humour. He said
Megan Thorstad, Sun Post
The Crystal-New Hope-Robbinsdale Rotary Club (Minnesota, US – D 5950) recently made a financial contribution to Mano a Mano International for the construction of farm ponds along the Mizque River in the Omereque region of Bolivia. The Omereque area is a mountainous, agricultural region which sometimes experiences severe drought —
Tim Macvean, The Inter-Mountain
With May being “Older Americans Month,” Elkins Rotarians (West Virginia, US – D 7530) learned about the importance of elder abuse prevention during their Monday meeting. Mandy Weirich, programme manager for Healthy Home, and Kathy Stalnaker, community service manager for the Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), shared information
Olayinka Latona, Vanguard
The representative of Rotary International President, Mary Beth Selene, is in Nigeria to mobilise financial support for polio eradication. Selene, a member of Rotary Club of Madison West Towne (Wisconsin, US – D 6250), said the new intervention is part of the global confidence that polio can be eradicated in
