Welcome to the new Rotary year! I feel very honored and privileged to serve as your Rotary president. As a member of our club for over twenty years, I am deeply committed to our mission and core values. I am excited to integrate our old traditions as we create new ones with our slogan of "Continuing Traditions and Building New Ones".
“Rotary Connects the World” is this year’s Rotary International theme. Our District 5240 motto is “One World, One Rotary.” As a club, we follow these mottos by emphasizing on our tradition of service and fellowship - locally, internationally, and throughout our district. We are community builders by helping others. We are community leaders by impacting change.
Bakersfield East Rotary Club has been in existence since December 23, 1952. Our club is 67 years strong and has a long history of service above self. In all our years, we have pioneered impactful and long lasting community projects throughout our city and beyond. The search for a cure for Valley Fever started in our club. Valley Fever Americas Foundation was formed by our own members. We established the Rotary Park near the bluffs, delivered a fire truck to Mexico and assisted in obtaining a vehicle for Covenant Coffee. Our organization was instrumental in starting the Blood Mobile project. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, BERC refurbished two trailer homes and drove them to New Orleans to assist residents who lost their homes. These are just a few examples of our club’s contributions and strong commitment to service above self.
Come join us for a meeting filled with fellowship and fun! Stay active, be engaged and participate in as many of our events and activities as possible. I will do my very best to make you as proud of this club as I am.
Yours in Rotary Service,
Quon Louey
WE HOPE EVERYONE HAD A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
(Better you than the 48 M]million turkeys you all consumed. But you know, there were probably a whole lot of them that deserved it.)
BAKERSFIELD DREAM CENTER (Kern County Network for Children)
Tom Courson
Tom Courson and a recent graduate of the program
SUCKING UP HARD
Back from Europe, Christine Randall and Ron Biglin setting the bar too high with fancy suck-up gifts and our esteemed President clearly enjoying every minute of it.
For those of you who are ringing the bells at the Vons on 5700 Stockdale Highway on December 12, 2018 from 10:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., take a gander at the fellow above. You see how happy he is? Wouldn't you just want to dump all your money in that pot if you were passing on by? So, on December 12, 2018, be like Wilbert West out of St. Louis and ring the hell out of that bell and let all the pearly whites out.
