Elk Grove Rotary Club and the Grove Junior High Interact Club combined forces to support Troops overseas. Several items were brought to be placed in care packages to be sent all over the world. Cups of soup, crackers, nuts, energy bars, powder drinks and lots of candy. The groups managed to pack 50 boxes that will be mailed to military around the world. The students took the time to make special letters that were placed in each box. This was all possible because of a great organization called Packages 4 Patriots which does this on a monthly basis. The club also made a monetary donation to pay for all of the postage to send the boxes filled with treats.-
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Sheila Ray Adult CenterJun. 05, 2025
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Elk Grove Public LibraryJun. 14, 2025
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Elk Grove Rotary Club and the Grove Junior High Interact Club combined forces to support Troops overseas. Several items were brought to be placed in care packages to be sent all over the world. Cups of soup, crackers, nuts, energy bars, powder drinks and lots of candy. The groups managed to pack 50 boxes that will be mailed to military around the world. The students took the time to make special letters that were placed in each box. This was all possible because of a great organization called Packages 4 Patriots which does this on a monthly basis. The club also made a monetary donation to pay for all of the postage to send the boxes filled with treats.
Today, Natasha Palmer, President of the Elk Grove Rotary Club welcomed Ashley White from Make A Wish Illinois and provided her with grant monies on behalf of Rotary. Ashley mentioned that 9 wishes have been granted to children in Elk Grove Village and 17 wishes granted in the surrounding suburbs. Overall, 729 have been granted in Illinois to children from ages 2 1/2 to 18.
Rotary is grateful to this community for your continued support of our only fundraiser each year, Rotary Fest. Your support allows us to support organizations like Make A Wish. To learn more about this fine organization, please visit https://wish.org.
Elk Grove Rotary Club celebrates their 100% Paul Harris. A small percentage of clubs are 100% Paul Harris. The Paul Harris Fellow is named for Paul Harris, who Founded Rotary in 1905. The Fellowship was established in his honor in 1957 to express appreciation for a contribution of $1000 to the Humanitarian and educational Programs of the Rotary Foundation.
The Rotary Club of Elk Grove Village normally meets every Thursday at Real Time Sports but this Thursday was a special Thursday. The club traveled through seven levels of the candy cane forest, the sea of swirly-twirly gumdrops and then through the Lincoln Tunnel to the Elf Experience for their annual Holiday party.
Kelly Carbon became a Paul Harris Fellow recently at the Elk Grove Rotary Lunch. Paul Harris was the founder of Rotary in Chicago Illinois. Kelly was recognized for her contributions to the Foundation that helps people all around the world
The Elk Grove Rotary Club is once again promoting Literacy. The club has purchase 2200 books with several different titles for kids from preschool thru 5th grade. The books have been distributed recently in time for the holiday seasons. Many local preschools, School districts and Food pantries are the lucky recipients.
The Grove Junior Highschool Interact club helped organize and place stickers on more than 1500 books. The books will be disbursed to local schools and food pantries in time for the Holiday season. This year we will also donate books to the Village Holiday Tree lighting. More than 2200 books were purchased by the Elk Grove Rotary to promote Literacy in young children. The Interact club is like a Junior Rotary Club which meets after school.
I recently represented ELk Grove Rotary at the annual NEDSRA Rise Award. We were honored to be presented with a Rise Award for being a valued supporter. The Rotary CLub annually invites the NEDSRA organization to our Rotaryfest to enjoy a lunch, ice cream and then two hours of carnival rides. All at no expense to the organization.
The Elk Grove Rotary Club installed Natasha Palmer as the 2024-2025 Rotary Club President. 2023-2024 President Ben Grey presented Natasha with the Service Above Self Award for all of her work during the past year.
Rotary President Ben Grey presents the Rotarian of the Year award to Amie Granger with Harper College for her work as Chair of the 2023 RotaryFest.
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