The Rotary Club of Maple Grove will be hosting again for Maple Grove Days the Bed Races!! The Bed Races are during Maple Grove days on Saturday, July 19, 2025. We have a NEW time for the race. The race will now be at 5:00 p.m. on Main Street.  We run this race in collaboration with CROSS Services to raise funds to build beds for kids. This year we have a wonderful sponsor Matress Firm. You would be helping a child have a bed and get a good nights sleep.

 

We are looking for local businesses to sponsor a bed. What a fun way to let the community know about your business!   Each bed sponsored will need 5 people to push a bed.  One of these people will be in the bed. Pushing is very easy since the bed is on wheels and you are not going far. There are easy activities that need to be done as a team like kicking a ball or doing an easy activity. Your team can also wear costumes or have a theme.

 

If you are interested in having a fun time, supporting a good cause and would like to get together with fun friends to win some prize money, contact Mike Bosquez @ mjbosquez@gmail.com to get more information and to register your pushers.

We hope you pass the word out to family, friends and neighbors. If you would like to register a bed or want more information please see the informatin under 2025 Bed Race information on the left tool bar.

 

 

 

The Rotary Club of Maple Grove recently sponsored Myles Castelberry, student at Osseo Senior High School, and Mia Scott, student at Maple Grove Senior High School, to attend Rotary Camp RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership awards), held at the YMCA Camp near Hudson, Wisconsin. The camp is a fun, intensive leadership experience designed to develop leadership, team building, and problem-solving skills through physical, mental, emotional and intellectual challenges. About 59 high school students were selected this year from southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin by their local rotary clubs which paid the tuition for their camp experience.

The Rotary Club of Maple Grove will be sponsoring the Grooves and Foods event in July once again.  The event will be sponsored by the Rotary Club of Maple Grove with food being made available by Buena Sierra.

The concerts will be held on Wednesdays at 5:00 p.m. with the radio show conducted by Mick Sterling and guests.

The concerts start at 7:00 p.m. Enjoy food and music to support a wonderful global club.

July 9th- The songs of Mikc Jagger and Richards-Classic Rock

July 16 The songs of Huey Lewis and the news- Pop and R&B

July 23- The Songs of Bruce Springsteen-Classic and Folk Rock

July 30- The perfect Pop songs of Barry Gibbs and the Bee Gees

August 6- The songs of Joel Crocker and the Band-Blues and Rock

August 13- The songs of Blood Sweat and Tears, Chicago and Tower of Power-R&B Jazz and Rock

August 20 The Orchestra hits and deep tracks of Elton John and Billy Joel-Pop Sympany

August 27 A salute to the American Crooners-Jazz, Swing and pop

If you love to Golf and support a good cause join the Crystal New Hope Robbinsdale golf classic on Tuesday, June 24th at the Edinburgh golf course. Registration begins at 10:00 a.m. for more information and registration see the flyer on the left tool bar.

On Saturday, March 15, 2025 Judy Johnson a member of the Rotary club of Maple Grove flew to San Jose, Costa Rica for a two-week mission/play vacation with several Rotarians. This trip was organized by Steve Laible from the Brooklyn Park Rotary. This will be my third international trip with Steve and his wife, Nancy. Previous trips were to Bangladesh and Cuba. Other travelers were Gennett (my roommate), Martha (translator), Raydeene, Dana and Roz.  Steve organizes these trips through a Rotary group called the Global Travelers.

 

This traveling group also worked in collaboration with the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army helps the poorest of the poor. On Sunday, we went to a SA church service. There were Venezuelan refugees there which were rejected by the USA but Costa Rica took in these homeless souls. Our first event was to Camp Penuel. This is a free camp for poor children. It is Christian based and accepts all children. Children learn about God and unconditional love, and skills such as taking care of farm animals and gardening. It was started by Paul Bernhagen who is from Minnesota. He bought beautiful land in Costa Rica and built this camp. Rotary funding helped to build a gazebo. Steve brought the Salvation Army folks here and perhaps Bernhagen and SA can partner together to bring refugees here for a reprieve.