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Here are some photos and videos of past events and projects.

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Volunteering At The Food Bank – December 13, 2023

Volunteering at the Redwood Empire Food Bank –12/13/23  –  Last one of the Year! We volunteer at the Food Bank 2nd Wednesday of every month. It is different adventure every time, but we always have fun!  This day, we packaged potatoes. 

And it is awesome hearing how many tons of food we packaged and how many people we help.

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Meat Auction – November 2, 2023

Annual Meat Auction – On 11/2/23 Our Rotary club held it’s annual Meat Auction. 

Every year our club sponsor’s SRJC students to buy and raise lambs, cattle, and sheep.  They then sell them at auction. Our club buys some of them and auctions the meat to help raise money. 

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Volunteering At The Food Bank – October 11, 2023

Volunteering at the Redwood Empire Food Bank –10/11/23  –  We volunteer at the Food Bank 2nd Wednesday of every month. It is different adventure every time, but we always have fun!  This day, we packaged onions.

And it is awesome hearing how many tons of food we packaged and how many people we help.

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5th Wednesday Social @ Gospe’s- August 26, 2023

Club Dark & Social – Starting the 2023-2024 Rotary year, on the 5th Wednesday of a month, the Club is dark. There will be a social on the following Saturday each month, there is a 5th Wednesday. In August, our Club is Dark August 30, the social was held Saturday, August 26, 2023 at the home of President Ann Gospe from 2 PM-6 PM. All ages were welcome. Swimming was be available and enjoyed by several of the guests.

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Iron & Vine Social – July 20, 2023

Another fun Santa Rosa Rotary Social.  This one was July 20, 2023 @ Iron & Vine in Santa Rosa.

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Giro Bello 2023

This year’s Giro Bello was a huge success

The smiles generated by the riders after the ride spoke volumes to the success of the day. The positive comments from the riders about the friendliness of all the rest stop workers and how well the food was presented. The hospitality was said to be excellent.

Many complikments were recived for the beauftiful scenic ride, and the riders loved how well the routes were marked.

For those that contributed financially, a very large thanks to you! It made a difference in the success of this important Rotary fundraiser.

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Setup & Cleanup

Kudos to all the volunteers and helpers. The Giro Bello would not have been possible without the awesome, behind the scenes, hard work of all the volunteers that helped setup and clean up. 

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Youth Exchange Welcome Social – 8/11/22

On Aug. 11th we held a Youth Exchange Welcome Social for about 40 Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Santa Rosa and the Rotary Club of Santa Rosa East/West, including 4 exchange students (our Santa Rosa clubs’ 2 inbound exchange students from Sweden and Italy, our outbound to Germany, and Sebastopol’s inbound from South Korea).

2020 Club Rotary Guadalajara – our sister club in 2012

A visit was made by Shari with her family Rotary in Guadalajara, where she was a member between 2006-2012, before  transferring to Rotary club of Santa Rosa. Club Rotary Guadalajara and our Santa Rosa club became  sisters in the program of bringing an Orchestra of under privileged  children a federal program in Mexico assigned to the Secretary of Culture in the state of Jalisco to improve the lives of poor children. The program was jointly coordinated by both clubs and successfully implemented in 2012 at the Green Music Center.
These photos are members of the club Rotary Guadalajara in hotel Quintana Roo where they meet every Tuesday for lunch. Their speaker was a professor from the University of Guadalajara speaking on women’s issues and lack of services provided for women with low income status.
It is amazing so many years of working towards progress in women’s issues and it seems they are regressing backwards.
The highest rate of assault, death and violence against women was in 2019 in the history of status of women.

2018 Children’s Holiday Festival

On Saturday, December 15th, our annual Children’s Christmas Festival took place at Spreckels Performing Arts Center.  108 students, plus several adult chaperones, from six elementary schools were hosted by Santa (Tim Fawcett) and his elves (Judy Glenn, Steve Baime, Kris Anderson and Casey Carter); the children  saw a performance of the Nutcracker Ballet, and afterward enjoyed punch and cookies (baked by elves Debi Zaft, Andrea Geary, Kim Graves, Kathy Schwartz, Ann Gospe, Kris Anderson, Diane Moresi, Casey Carter, and Judy Glenn), and a gift for every child from Santa.  It was lots of fun for everyone!

2017 Dictionaries For 3rd Graders

2017 Children’s Christmas Special