About Our Club
Centennial

Service Above Self

We meet In Person
Tuesdays at 7:10 AM
Embassy Suites Tech Center
10250 E Costilla Avenue
Centennial, CO 80111
United States of America
We will meet off site on November 22, 2022 at: South Suburban Sports Complex in Highlands Ranch 4810 E County Line Rd Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
Venue Map
Hasta La Vista, Baby!
At our Changing of the Guard Celebration on June 25th, we bid a fond farewell to our beloved outgoing president. Shown is President Trip Butler receiving his plaque from a  past President Marc Garfinkel.
THE PERFECT PLAYLIST
Centennial Rotary Club members selling liquid refreshments to raise funds for the Club's projects at The Perfect Playlist free concert at Centennial Center Park, put on by the Centennial Arts and Cultural Foundation on July 31, 2022.
 
Club Executives & Directors
President
Tom Gross
President Elect
Jon Bellum
Immediate Past President
Trip Butler
Treasurer
Barbara Medina
Secretary
Shirl Mabary
Sargent at Arms
Bob Heavers
Fundraising
John Peterson
Membership Growth & Enrichment
Nicolle Davies
Public Relations
Lance Burkholder
Service Projects
Rob Johnston
Millenial Board Liason
Andrea Cregan (Tagtow)
President
Mary Alice Jackson
Meeting Responsibilities
December 6, 2022
SetUp
Heavers, Bob
 
Greeter
Butler, III, Trip
 
Blue Marble
DeWitt, Scott
 
Happy Bucks
Burkholder, Lance
 
Inspiration
Dill, Audra
 
Rotary Minute
Davies, Nicolle
 
Business Minute
McLaurin, Matthew
 
Take Down
Hope, Ken
 
Club News
Thanksgiving Dinner for CASA
 
Centennial Rotary Club members and their families, along with CASA employees, help serve Thanksgiving Dinner to CASA's guests on November 9th at CASA's office in Parker.
Food Drive for IFCS
On this cold November 12th Saturday morning, members of the Centennial Rotary Cub and their families collected various items to benefit the IFCS food bank at the King Soopers in Arapahoe Crossings.
Peaches and Pears Event A Record Setter
 
 
 
On August 27th, 28 members and member families of the Centennial Rotary Club distributed over 1,050 boxes of peaches and pears to hundreds of people who came to pick them up at two locations: the parking lot of the Embassy Suites in Centennial and at the clubhouse parking lot in Heritage Eagle Bend, a community located in Aurora.
 
Led by The Club Peaches and Pears Committee, the number of boxes of tree-ripened Palisade peaches and Bartlett pears set a new Club record this year. One hundred percent of the monies raised by this event are used to help fund the Club’s various philanthropic projects.
Rotary Club Helps Fund Imagination Library
The mission of the Imagination Library of Colorado is to increase literacy by ensuring all young children in our area may participate in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
Our goal is to provide sponsorship of over 500 children for a one year subscription to receive a new book every month to read in Centennial. It takes $25 to support each child per year. Will you please help us?
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Brew n' Que A Real Success
July 9, 2022. 3:00-7:00
 
Brew n' Que was a real success with our club members selling beer and Margaritas. Club members spent a Saturday afternoon raising funds for our foundation.
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STATE OF OUR CITY 2022- A RESOUNDING SUCCESS!
The 16th annual State Of Our City was held on May 12 at the Wings Over The Rockies hangar at Centennial Airport. Hosted by our club with President Trip Butler at the helm, Centennial Mayor Stephanie Piko updated the audience with the latest developments in the city. With sold out attendance of over 300 guests on a rather blustery spring day, this event marked the first time in three years that we have been able to host this event due to the pandemic.
 
 
 
 
 
STUDENT OF THE QUARTER
 
Viktoria Tuckova is from the Czech Republic and is spending a full school year at Arapahoe High School.  A straight-A student, Viki’s best subjects are math because according to her, “I’m pretty good at it,” and learning new languages and their origins.  In addition to speaking Czech, she also speaks Slovak, French and English and has taken Spanish (but it just confused her French). She is also taking Latin for the challenge of it.
 
She is considering going to medical school after graduation but is still keeping her options open.  One of her favorite things about being in Colorado has been the people and the school,. It is very different from her experiences in the Czech Republic and she really enjoys how open everyone is and has developed many amazing relationships.
 
Viktoria Tuckova, Rotary Club of Centennial’s Student of the Quarter for Fourth Quarter, March-April 2022.
STUDENT OF THE QUARTER
Giovanni Rebecchi is from Modena, Italy and is spending a full school year at Arapahoe High School. An exceptional student, Gio attends a language school at home where he studies both Latin and Greek and hopes to attend Law school, following in his father’s footsteps. At Arapahoe HS, Gio has pushed himself in the classroom and directly asked to take the most challenging classes he can, including Calculus and AP English Literature. Gio has an adventurous spirit and has chosen to make the most of his time in the United States. He has volunteered his time as a mentor for special needs students in the unified basketball program, and he plans on to joining the track team this spring.
Speaker Schedule
December 2022
December 6, 2022,
Bobbie D’Addario,
Alzheimer's Association
 
Upcoming Events
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Jack Tate Updates The Club
Jack Tate, former Colorado State Senator and now CEO of the Colorado Imagination Library updated the club on the progress of the Imagination Library at our March 29th meeting.