Sep 13, 2025 . . Nickle Dickle Day is the premiere local event attracting nearly 25,000 people to the Waconia community. Our Club has sponsored a duck race for many years, which has showcased local businesses and provides fun for many families that attend. Click on Read More below and take the link to more pictures.
2024 July meeting
2024 Rotary Gourmet Wine Dinner: "Service Above Self Award" goes to Greg Pavitt
2025 Rotary Gourmet Wine Dinner: "Service Above Self Awards" goes to Dr. Dawn Stapleton
2021 Nickle Dickle Duck Races
2021 Golfing Event: pics in photo album below right
many Int'l projects supported (this is doctors w/o borders . . more listed below)
many local organizations supported (this is Auburn Homes . . more listed below)
email: wacwc.rotary@gmail.com
mailing address: P.O. Box 261, Waconia MN 55387
2024-25: Maria "Mari" Stella Parbuoni, our exchange student from Italy during the 2024-25 school year. Click on "read more" below for more info and listing of past exchange students.
2025: Adrik Ehalt and Brooklyn Schramm are our 2 “Service Above Self" scholarship winners of $2000 ea this spring. Click on "read more" link below for further information, past recipients, and our STRIVE (Students Taking a Renewed Interest in the Value of Education) program.
Our Club has supported many international projects through the years: in recent years a large effort with other clubs and Rotary International (both monetarily and member involvement) was on the Tenwek Dental Clinic in Kenya and the Madagascar Ejeda Hospital Solar Project. Additionally, over the last year and previous years we have supported programs such as the Rotary Polio Plus program, Shelter Box, as well as dental, medical, water, and child support projects in Africa, India and Central America. We have used funds from our annual Nickle Dickle duck races, Gourmet Wine Dinner, and flower fundraisers. Specific projects from 2013 to the present are listed below under "read more."
Our Club has been able to support our community and its organizations at a level of about $13,000 each year over the past 4 years, along with our annual road cleanup on Highway 5 just east of Waconia. Organizations such as Treehouse Youth Outreaach, the Carver Co. Historical Society, Auburn Homes, District 110 schools, WeCab Transportation, and the Waconia Food Shelf have been some of the recipients from our annual Nickle Dickle duck races, Gourmet Wine Dinner, and flower fundraisers. More detail is provided below.
Click on https://portal.clubrunner.ca/6749/sitepage/club-information-visitors for registration and more info. Or on "Read More" below.
It is with great pleasure the Waconia Carver West Rotary announces the 2021-22 "Service Above Self award is naturalist Jim Gilbert. He is pictured with his wife at the Dinner event of 7 Apr.
held to support our many local and international projects as noted below . .
Greg Pavitt awarded "Service Above Self" for his work with Humanity Alliance . . see photos at https://portal.clubrunner.ca/6749/PhotoAlbums/2024-gourmet-wine-dinner0
Joe Gifford: Recipient of our “Service Above Self” Award
The Waconia-West Caver Rotary announces that Joe Gifford is the Rotary’s Service Above Self Award recipient for 2021. Joe Gifford epitomizes the words of author Elizabeth Andrew: “Volunteers do not necessarily have the time, they just have the heart; by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see the possibilities.”
photos of the golfing event at (2021: June Golfing Event)
Click on the "read more" button below for more info on Joe and this award . .
Jeri Bowers: Recipient of “Service Above Self” Award
Jeri Bowers is a woman passionate about making the lives of others better, of creating feelings of dignity and self-worth in youth who haven’t always been given that opportunity. She makes a difference in their lives. That is the reason she has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Waconia-West Carver Rotary Service Above Self award.
The award was presented at the 19th annual Rotary Gourmet Wine Dinner held at Vandy’s in Waconia on Jan. 18, 2020. The evening consisted of a five-course gourmet meal prepared by some of the area’s stellar chefs, silent and live auction item as well as the awarding of the Service Above Self award.
Nickle Dickle Day--Waconia's annual town festival--will be here Saturday, September 14th . . . one of the main events is the Waconia West Carver Rotary Duck Races!
It's a major fundraiser for our club--funds earned from business sponsorships go right back into our community, so please consider sponsoring this fun-filled event by requesting a duck:
Click here for our sponsorship flyer.
Email for more information or to sponsor/request a duck.
Our Facebook page/information to share within your network. Don't miss out on being a part of this community-wide event--thank you so much!
Dan Steinhagen receives "Service Above Self" Award. Keith Sjodin and President Susan Laumbach do the introductions.
Rotary Club of Waconia-West Carver members served the community by cleaning up the stretch of Highway 5, west-bound, from CR 92/Laketown Pkwy to State Highway 284 in Waconia.
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Timber Bay Update: Mark Busse
Nov. 19, 2025
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. -
off for Thanksgiving
Nov. 26, 2025
The Rotary Club of Waconia-West Carver announces that Loren Morschen will be our president for the 2025-26 year (1 July 2025 - 30 June 2026). We meet every Wednesday morning from 7:30—8:30 a.m. at Egg-Cetera Cafe (241 E Frontage Rd, Waconia, MN 55387), except the first Wednesday at Vandy's (4:30 social hr) and third Wednesday at 12 noon at Egg Cetera.
President
President Elect
Treasurer
Secretary
Immediate Past President
Vice President
Sergeant-at-Arms
In 1932, Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor created The Four-Way Test, a code of ethics adopted by Rotary 11 years later. The test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, asks the following questions:
Of the things we think, say, or do . . .
1. Is it the truth?
2. Is it fair to all concerned?
3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?