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Thanks for being Highline Canal heroes. After a morning of hard work, the volunteers celebrated an EPIC haul of 130 pounds of trash and 148 cubic yards of brush along 1 mile of the Canal. Thanks to the Rotary Club of Denver Southeast for bringing your EPIC day of service to the Canal

60 Rotarians and friends worked to remove logs, brush and debris from the Highline Canal on May 16 for the DenverSE Epic Day of Service.

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DSE Supports Team Hoyt

Denver Southeast Rotary along with four other Rotary Clubs sponsored a $10,000 District Grant to fund two racing wheelchairs for Team Hoyt of Denver. Disabled athletes are pushed in these chairs by volunteer runners for the participants in the 17^th annual running of Jody’s Race for Awareness, run by the Colorado Gynecological Alliance.

Rotarians Tim Thomas, Lou Anne Epperson, Martha Boon, Cheryl Radke, Carshon Rodgers supported disabled athletes.

New Member Spencer Traub

Spencer Traub is the owner of Spencer Traub State Farm insurance. Previously with Northwestern Mutual, he has 7 years experience in the financial services industry. He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Toledo. Originally from a Chicago suburb, he and his wife fell in love with Colorado after a road trip and relocated here. Spencer found Denver SE via online research. He is excited about giving back to the community and was at our Epic Day of Service even before his induction.

Join New Hikers Group -June 3

Like to hike? DSE Rotary has a new Hiking Group just formed with a fun agenda ahead.

The first hike, led by Buzz Eddy, starts at 8:30 AM Wednesday June 3 at Lair O the Bear Park.

The Trailhead is at 22550 State Hwy 74 in Idledale.

Steve Werner Receives Rotary's Highest Honor

The Service Above Self Award is Rotary’s highest individual honor. Each governor or director may nominate only one candidate, and a maximum of 150 recipients are selected worldwide. In 2025, just 132 Rotarians were chosen — 132 out of 1.2 million members globally. That makes Steve one of approximately one in every 9,000 Rotarians to receive this distinction.

A longtime member of Denver Southeast, Steve has served Rotary at the club, district, and international levels. He is widely recognized for his leadership advancing Rotary’s mission in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). Known affectionately as “The Godfather of WASH,” Steve founded District 5450’s WASH Local Action Group, sponsoring 16 annual WASH Symposiums. He has also played key leadership roles with the WASH Rotarian Action Group, the Rotary WASH Ambassadors Program, and the Peaceful Schools Initiative.

Bonnie Thomas with C.U.R.E kits headed for Ghana

Bonnie Thomas is heading to Ghana to do a hospital/clinic assessment for Project CURE. She is taking with her CURE kits of medical supplies that are available to anyone traveling to places in need. For years, our Rotary club has provided volunteers and financial support to Denver’s Project CURE. Ghana is a country of 33 million in West Africa where access to medical supplies and services is an ongoing challenge.

MIGHTY WATER PROJECT

Rob Miller spoke on April 16 to report back to us about the clean water initiatives in Rwanda and thank us for our support. It’s hard to imagine any Rotary projects with a more direct, measurable, and numerically significant impact to the human beings we serve through our club than a program to improve water quality.

Rob McMaher announced that On April 30 at 6 PM to 8 PM there’s a special reception and fund raiser at the DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS with a film premiere hosed by Rob Miller and team. The film, called HEALING WATERS, highlights the success of the program across Latin America. Tickets are free. Click here to REGISTER.

Charter Night

78 Denver Southeast Rotary members and guests gathered for a banquet at Cherry Creek Country Club to salute DSE’s 41st birthday. Former Club presidents Doug Andrews and Tom Bieging were among the charter members present. The party, emceed by President Martha Boon, paid tribute to our strong and thriving club’s history of service, fellowship and impact here in our local communities and abroad.

International Signature Project

The Village Health Partnership (VHP), a non-profit chartered in 2013 and based in Denver was selected as the International Service Committee signature project for the next 3 years. VHP serves people in remote southwest Ethiopia. Its work regarding maternal health care and WASH -- two of Rotary's foci -- is central to its mission of safer motherhood. Clinics and small rural hospitals are featured. Our assistance will help to cover the training of nurse midwives in seven new target villages and clinics. These professionals are the primary caregivers for pregnant women; very few doctors and nurses are available. A six-person DSE committee, all with Ethiopian interests, will advise.

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Contributions in Tribute

Posted by Debra Fine on Jun 28, 2011

Would you like to honor or memorialize someone special? Make a contribution to the Denver Southeast Rotary Tribute program to let them know you are thinking of them. Each donation funds our local and international humanitarian Rotary projects and is 100% tax deductible. Download Form

What do you say when asked "What is Rotary?"

Do you have a succinct explanation of Rotary when someone asks you- what some would call an "elevator speech"? Here is a possible response, authored by former member, Jim Creamer:

Rotary is an international organization dedicated to the service of mankind. Denver Southeast Rotary Club is an active organization of men and women providing domestic and international assistance to others far and wide. And we have fun doing it with fellowship for our members and with a sense of ethics as outlined in the Four Way Test.