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       President's Message

 

 

 

 

Bakersfield East Rotary Club was chartered on December 23, 1952 and held its’ inaugural Charter Night on January 30th, 1953, making this our 70th year of “Service above Self”.  Known within District 5240 as a “Black Belt Club”, we are very active in Community Service & Youth Service.  We are fortunate to have four affiliated Foundations that provide funding for academic & vocational scholarships, to meet emergency spending requirements for families in need & for our Rotary Avenues of Service as well as support for local hospice, the fight against cancer and medical research.  They are the Bakersfield East Rotary Foundation, The Plank Foundation, Valley Fever Americas Foundation & the Joe Alexander Foundation.
 
Locally our club was instrumental in establishing the Houchin mobile blood bank, providing a coffee truck to Covenant Coffee, as well as creating & maintaining the scenic area along the Panorama bluffs known as Rotary Park.  Annually we make available tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships to local high school students & we sponsor the Kern Community Rotaract (for young adults) and four Interact Clubs (the high school version of Rotary). Our club has established KERN Yes! (Youth Empowerment Symposium) as a vital opportunity for Kern County Youth to learn leadership skills, and we sponsor a large number of top-notch students annually to attend RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards).
 
We partner with many local organizations, such as The Mission at Kern County, the Boys and Girls Club, CASA, Jamison Center, Ronald McDonald House, Links for Life, and Lamont Chamber of Commerce (to name a few).  This year we will be partnering with The Mission at Kern County to help complete an upgrade of their overnight accommodations for the homeless of Kern County.   We are a Peacebuilder Club & a Rose Parade Ambassadorial club.  Some of our Global projects include providing water filtration systems to remote village so they can have safe, clean drinking water, and supplying medical equipment and wheelchairs where they are badly needed.
 

The Rotary International Theme this year is “Create Hope in the World”. Through the hard-working members of our club & friends of our club we will do our best this year to create hope in our community as well.  Our District theme is “Let’s Have Fun.”  We invite you to attend one of our meetings at the Bakersfield Museum of Art to see how we have fun while we create new friendships & work on a vast array of projects to benefit our community & the world.  Our club is most welcoming to visitors & prospective members. 

We meet most Fridays at noon at the Bakersfield Museum of Art.

Frank Colatruglio

2023-2024 President

Annual Backpack Drive

Every year before school starts, Bakersfield East Rotary Club provides backpacks for students of several organizations such as The Boys and Girls Club, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), Bakersfield Homeless Shelter, and several of our sponsored elementary schools including College Heights Elementary. Inside each backpack are pencils, erasers, notebooks and notebook papers to help the children in these programs get a good start to their school year.
 
 
This year's backpack distributions will take place as follows:
 
July 22, 2022  2pm-6pm
Lamont David Head Center
10300 San Diego Street
Lamont, Ca 93241
 
August 12, 2022
The Boys and Girls Club of Bakersfield 
More information to come

Vino Amore

 
Bakersfield East Rotary's annual premier fund raiser, raising money for our 5 avenues of service. A marvelous sit down dinner with paired wines, this is a must for members and guests. Silent and live auction with items donated by major donors and members round out a spectacular evening.

Jamison Center

The Jamison Center is a housing/intervention program for children who have been removed from their homes and taken into protective custody by law enforcement. It is a frightening situation for these children who arrive most times with just the clothes on their back and little else. Bakersfield East Rotary Club donates clothes, especially underwear and socks for these kids. Babies are often brought to the facility without diapers or change of clothes. Rotarians from Bakersfield East donate diapers, baby clothes and blankets for the babies and their foster parents. Recently it was brought to Bakersfield East Rotarians attention that the existing barbecue was not functioning. Rotarians immediately went into action and purchased a new barbecue while repairing their existing brick barbecue, bringing it back to working order.

Boys and Girls Club of Kern County

Bakersfield East Rotary Club has had a long relationship with The Boy's and Girl's Club of Kern County. With their original site in East Bakersfield, it was a natural fit. We have provided backpacks, vans, Thanksgiving Dinner to the area citizens, scholarships, Christmas and Halloween parties and goodies, and support any time a need arises. This organization has successful programs during the summer and after school programs during the school year. It is a safe place for these area children after school. We also provide "sweat equity" when the need arises, providing graffiti removal when the building or vans get "tagged."
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Bakersfield Museum of Art
1930 R Street
Bakersfield, CA  93301
United States
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Rotary 2023-24
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Club Executives & Directors
President
Frank Colatruglio
Vice President
Aaron Markovits
Secretary
Victoria Harp
Treasurer
Bob Parker
President-Elect
Linda Sullenger
President Elect Nominee
Jimmie Soto
Sgt-At-Arms
Christine Diaz
Club Service Director Meetings & Events
John Wilson
Club Service Director Membership
Fernando Aguirre
Youth Service Director
Li Gibbs
Community Service Director
Steven Gibbs
Community Service Advisor
Fernando Aguirre
Community Service Advisor
Baynes Bank
Community Service Advisor
Tom Burch
Community Service Advisor
John Wilson
Vocational Service Director
Bill Trivitt
International Serv Director
Ron White
Club Advisor
Tom Burch
The Rotary Foundation
Dan Giordano
Ambassador of Fun
Scarlett Sabin
Program Committee
Wayne Kress
Program Committee
Arnie Johansen
Program Committee
Susan Gill
New Member Recruitment
Lourdes Arrubla
Public Relations
Christine Diaz
Vino Amore Co-Chair
Christine Diaz
Vino Amore Co-Chair
Ryan DeLashmutt
Family of Rotary
Michele Brown
Interact Advisor Centenniel High
Li Gibbs
Interact Advisor East High
Steven Gibbs
Interact Advisor Garces High
Teresa Ramos-Alvarez
RYLA Coordinator
Li Gibbs
Youth Exchange
Li Gibbs
Peace Chair
Fernando Aguirre
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