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Beautiful Memories

of Holiday Park 2025

This year was one to remember for so many reasons:  The entrance looked so beautiful and was used more than ever for family photos, 113 trees were beautifully decorated, the weather was perfect (well, except for a little too much wind at times), and a record $4500 was made for local student Scholarships.  

A very special thank you goes to Kate Woolman State Farm for her generous donation to purchase 25 new trees, Scout Troop 60 who helped so tirelessly to put the trees up in November and help take them down in January, Altamont Landscaping for installing the t-posts, and an extra special thank you to the 4 Longfellow 4th Grade Students who raised over $575 for their trees.

Also, a huge thank you goes to Jerry McCabe for his amazing work on the electricity making this year one of the best (even with the wind), to Michael Maassel and Erin Bridwell for their creativity for the entrance which everyone loved this year, Katherine Close for her fun Elf Scavenger Hunt, Kaleidoscope Toys for their generous prizes for the kids who participated, and to all the wonderful volunteers who made this year such a wonderful success.

As we start to put the trees back into storage, please enjoy this wonderful video taken by Lori Sunflower.  It will bring back such great memories of the beautiful Holiday Park 2025.

 

 

Another Great Ducky Race and Community Celebration!

 

The Salida Sunrise Rotary Club would like to thank the following sponsors, nonprofit organization participants, and community members for participating in and supporting the Community Celebration and Lucky Ducky Races on Sunday, August 24.

This event offered fun for the whole family AND raised over $21,500 for scholarships for Salida School District graduates and nonprofits. We’re proud to support the continuing education of children in our community and nonprofits and are grateful for those who’ve joined us in this commitment.

They include our Platinum sponsors: Brady’s West, Heart of the Rockies Radio, HHSB Family Fund, High Country Bank, Kate Woolman State Farm, KW Construction and Restoration, Monarch Manufacturing, Mt Princeton Hot Springs, Dr. Harry and Debbie Payton, Peak to Peak Pickleball Club, Rhodes Family Trust, The Mountain Mail, Wood’s High Mountain Distillery, River Valley Builders, Colorado Mountain Solar, Big O Tires, Ascent Eye Care, 50 Burger, Xcel Energy, Monarch Spur RV Park Camp; Campground, Relaxation Dental, Poncha Lumber, Full Circle Real Estate Group and Katie and David Krieves.
 

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Congratulations to This Year's Scholarship Recipients!

 

Congratulations to the entire 2025 Salida High School graduating class!  This year, Salida Sunrise Rotary Club was proud to be one of the many generous community organizations who attended the Salida High School Scholarship Awards Night.

Our organization received the most applications in the history of our scholarship program, and we were blown away by the impressive credentials of each of the applicants. We select scholarship recipients based on work experience in the community, family or personal hardship, academics, class rank, and extracurricular activities.

This year, we were pleased to award a total of $28,000 to 11 graduating seniors and 5 former SHS students continuing their college educations. We would like to recognize this year’s scholarship recipients. High school seniors: Luke Clanton, Delia Dimino, Hudson Fisher, Brody Hudson, Kyndra Johnson, Cedar "CeCe" Lengerich, Macy Matthews, Emerson Reed, Axel Sather, Raeann Shively, and Ezekiel Wilcox.  College students: Cooper Hodge, Radana Jo Myers, Megan Rhude, Maya Vallevona, and Ethan NeJame Zeiset.

Salida Sunrise Rotary raises funds for scholarships in part through the Chaffee Home & Garden Show, Holiday Park and the annual Community Celebration & Lucky Ducky Race.  We were pleased to welcome last year’s race-winning Platinum sponsors to help present their scholarships at Awards Night: The Mountain Mail, Blue Federal Credit Union, and Peak to Peak Pickleball Club. We are continually grateful for the community support we receive through Lucky Ducky sponsorships from businesses and individuals each year. Through their generosity, our community collectively helps send deserving SSR scholarship recipients off to college on better financial footing.

The Salida Sunrise Rotary Club would like to invite you to consider sponsoring a duck at this year’s Lucky Ducky Race, which will be held in Riverside Park on Sunday, August 24 th , 2025. For more information, please visit our website at: salidasunriserotary.com or email us at ssrluckyduckyrace@gmail.com.

Chaffee County Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Program

Celebrates 10 years! 

Co-Chairmen Jane Vandewalle and Becky Leonard announce the plans for celebrating Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Program being in Chaffee County for 10 years since the launch of this program  in March of 2015!  Wow!!

Becky added, "We have partnered with the two libraries to host a celebration as part of a regularly-scheduled Storytime event.  This is how we launched the program as well as how we handled earlier local DPIL celebrations."
  • Salida Regional Library 's event will be Wednesday, February 26th, from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at their Storytime (their audience is children ages 0 to 5).  
  • Buena Vista Public Library's event will be Friday, February 28th, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at their Storytime (their audience is children ages 0 to 6).  
Press Releases are being submitted to The Mountain Mail, The Chaffee County Times, and Ark Valley Voice, and the information is being shared with the Heart of the Rockies Radio.  
 
This is truly an amazing program for the children of Chaffee County and one we all should celebrate!
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