High School Scholarships Awarded: This year, Club President George Ball presented River Falls Rotary High School scholarships to Johanna Barbey and Allie Larsen. Every year, River Falls Rotary awards high school scholarships, in line with our Club mission of "Enhancing Opportunities for Youth, Creating a Better World for All."
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High School Scholarships Awarded: This year, Club President George Ball presented River Falls Rotary High School scholarships to Johanna Barbey and Allie Larsen. Every year, River Falls Rotary awards high school scholarships, in line with our Club mission of "Enhancing Opportunities for Youth, Creating a Better World for All."The Presentation: What did the River Falls area look like 250 years ago? The River Falls Historic Preservation Commission will install a display at the River Falls Library next week that takes a look at the region in 1776, long before the city of River Falls existed. Jayne gave us a preview of her research that examines the geology that shaped the landscape, the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples who lived in and traveled through the area, and what was happening in Wisconsin and across North America at the time. A pdf of Jayne's slides is available by clicking DOWNLOAD FILES at the bottom of this Tidings.
About Jayne Hoffman: Jayne Hoffman is a retired elementary educator who spent most of her career teaching second and third grade at Westside Elementary in the River Falls School District. She holds a master's degree in Elementary Education and Reading and has long been passionate about helping others discover and appreciate history. Click READ MORE for more about Jayne.
The River Falls Rotary Club has 
concluded its second annual Crutches for Africa project, collecting surplus crutches and other unused mobility devices for shipment to people in need in other countries. The club collected a total of 267 mobility devices, including crutches, wheelchairs, canes, knee scooters, walkers and braces. River Falls was one of several clubs in District 5960 that collected mobility devices. On June 7, all the collected devices were loaded aboard a truck trailer in Oak Park Heights for shipment.
concluded its second annual Crutches for Africa project, collecting surplus crutches and other unused mobility devices for shipment to people in need in other countries. The club collected a total of 267 mobility devices, including crutches, wheelchairs, canes, knee scooters, walkers and braces. River Falls was one of several clubs in District 5960 that collected mobility devices. On June 7, all the collected devices were loaded aboard a truck trailer in Oak Park Heights for shipment.Thank you to everyone who donated their unused mobility devices to help people in need and to keep useful devices out of the landfill. We'll be doing Crutches for Africa again next year, so if you have crutches or other devices that you're no longer using, please keep them on hand and we'll let the community know about the next collection event.
If you weren't there, you missed a really outstanding presentation! North Star Youth Exchange (NSYE) is a gem in our Rotary region, and volunteers like Elaine are what make it such an outstanding organization - the envy of many other Rotary clubs and districts. Elaine's slides, in pdf form available by clicking Download Files below, show just how much work goes into making this valuable program function like the proverbial well-oiled machine. Click READ MORE for the rest of this story.
Our exceptional 2025-26 exchange student Ulises Savilla Cortez presented his overview talk about Argentina, his home country. He shared fascinating details about the differences between school here and in Argentina, told us about his family, and offered interesting tidbits about Argentina.
