What We Do

Rotary International is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders and problem-solvers who come together to make positive, lasting change in communities at home and abroad.
 
The Rotary Club of Logan Utah is 100 years old! The club was organized on June 11, 1919 and received its charter from Rotary International on June 17, 1919 as Club #1069. 
 
The following were the charter members:
 
Robert Anderson
Dr. E.G. Peterson
M.S. Eccles
Roy Bullen
Dr. E.S. Budge
George W. Skidmore
Rev. E.T. Lewis
C.M. Harris
Reid Shamhart
Roy D. Thatcher
Joseph E. Cardon
A.F. Cardon
Herschel Bullen
S.H. Blair
M.R. Hovey.
All are deceased.
 
We in Logan Rotary are committed to service in our community and around the world through our fellowship of business, professional and community leaders.  We come together to exchange ideas, form friendships and professional connections while making a positive impact locally and internationally. 
 
For the past 104 years our club has thrived with a healthy combination of service and fellowship. One of our members, James Jarvis, was active for 53 years before he passed away in early 2023. We actively pursue service projects both at home and internationally. We built the Willow West Rotary Pavilion at Willow Park and the gazebo at Garff Gardens. We built the bridge at First Dam on the Logan River. We are known for our dictionary program. We have been a part of Rotary International’s drive to remove polio from the planet.  We are committed to promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water and sanitation, saving mothers and children, supporting education, and growing local economies. We are proud of our own Logan Rotary Foundation and its healthy endowment. Among us we have contractors, health-care professionals, retailers, educators, financial advisors, non-profit administrators,  artistic directors, food-service professionals, insurance agents, attorneys, truckers, accountants, media professionals, bankers and loan officers, wildlife biologists, and realtors. We have fun. We are people of action.
 
We recently served our local community by:
  • Handing a dictionary to each and every third-grade student each fall in Cache and Rich Counties – over 2,200 per year for more than 20 years;
  • Awarding more than $10,000 every year in scholarships for students to attend Utah State University and Bridgerland Technical College;
  • Maintaining Garff Wayside Gardens in Logan with twice-yearly work projects;
  • Cleaning our designated two-mile section of Logan Canyon twice a year;
  • Supporting high-school students’ attendance at RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) where they spend a weekend discussing and practicing the guiding principles of leadership and followership;
  • Staffing a rest stop at mile 24.5 of the Logan Marathon;
  • Collecting the materials for 500 protective face shields for assembly and then delivering the finished products to the Logan City Police Department, Cache County Emergency Management, North Park Police Department and Rich County Emergency Management;
  • Spending a long weekend in the small tribal community of Halchita, UT, providing much needed services including working on a new community center and donating books to their new community library;
  • Collecting several hundred rolls of toilet paper to be delivered to the Navajo Reservation as a part of Utah Rotarians’ Native American Initiative which addressed the immediate needs of the community during the pandemic;
  • Collecting plush lap blankets and warm socks to be delivered to Navajo senior citizens;
  • 150 bikes donated by the Cache Valley community so they could be refurbished for children and adults in need of transportation -- in cooperation with the Utah Bicycle Collective.
  • Supporting high-school age Rotary clubs (Interact Clubs) and young-adult Rotary clubs (Rotaract Clubs). We have sponsored a Rotaract Club at Utah State University for many years, contributing to their activities, and occasionally partnering with them in service;
  • Planting 100 healthy trees across Cache Valley to honor our club’s Centennial;
  • Partnering with the Cache Valley Morning Rotary Club to establish the Cache Valley Humanitarian Center, whose primary mission is to identify and meet a variety of needs of area residents. Logan Rotarians have spent over 145 hours  filling and distributing school backpacks and hygiene kits; collecting, cleaning, sorting, and redistributing books to children in need;  collecting new and gently used coats, blankets, hats, socks and gloves in all sizes for those in need of winter items; and weaving sleeping mats from plastic grocery bags for our homeless population. Over 4000 people benefited from CVHC projects in the first year. Cache Valley Humanitarian Center
 
We recently served our international community by:
  • Continuing construction on a new high school in Naranjitos, Mexico with the USU Rotaract Club where work was primarily on a new sports court;
  • Installing and supporting clean-water facilities in several Peruvian villages on the Amazon, who receive our continuing support. In Santa Isabel we also built concrete walkways;
  • Installing aquaponic systems in four villages in Guanajuato, Mexico to provide a sustainable system for growing fish and plants. Our club is spearheading a global project which involves support from other Rotary clubs and Rotary International;
  • Building multiple brick homes in Agua Prieta, Mexico for families of people with disabilities. This is a once-a-year joint activity with the USU Rotaract Club where we also build room additions, add roofs, and install solar units to existing homes;
  • Helping finance one RI Global Grant for Enhancing Quality Education in Nepal and another to build 23 bathrooms in Ecuadorian schools;
  • Delivering 100+ propane cookers to Panama schools; 
  • Sending students over time to Peru;
  • Continuing to support Rotary International in partnership with the Gates Foundation to eradicate polio across the world. Because of this, polio is endemic in only two countries.
 
We socialize with:
  • Weekly luncheon meetings at Logan Country Club with a variety of knowledgeable and engaging speakers who address community and international topics. During the pandemic we did this by Zoom;
  • A spring party with dinner and entertainment – recently bingo;
  • A family picnic at Grant White’s Sportsmen’s Paradise, with games for everyone.  A trout dinner is served by Grant and staff;
  • Golf and Ribs in June. Golf tournament at Logan Country Club followed by a dinner of ribs, hand-rubbed and slow-cooked in our own hand-built cooker;
  • A September Jeep Ride where we climb over mountain roads not usually visited by most of us, enjoy the changing season, and then gather for a group dinner;
  • Our winter holiday party where we dress up a bit for dinner, enjoy entertainment, and learn who the Rotarian of the Year is. Wendi Hassan was our ROY in 2021, and Ralph Bair in 2022.