10/17 9-10am Ribbon Cutting for Pickleball Courts at Douglas County Community and Senior Center
10/19 7:30-9am: Rotarians at work at the Food Closet
10/26 Tree Planting Service Project in Markleeville. 500 trees will be planted. Contact Sam if you are interested in helping.
10/30 Club Social 4:30-7pm at the Great Basin Brewery
11/6 9-10am: Veterans Day Celebration at Gardnerville Elementary School - see flyer with information below
11/9 District Rotary Clubs in Action meeting - success stories for fundraisers, grants, etc.
5/2-5/4/2025: District Conference in Fallon "Top Gun Rotary". RV Friendly and no suits or ties!
5/17: Club Leadership Assembly
October 17 - Kim Robinson - Vietnamese Refugee
October 24 - Nikki Rudelbach - Economic Vitality Manager
October 31 - No meeting - Enjoy your Halloween and the club social the night before
November 7 - Eddie Sanderson - Photographer
The Chili cook off was a great success thanks to Rotarians Graham Rogney, Pat Garrahan, Howard Vipperman, Tony Magnotta, Ken Miller, Skip Pardee, Sam Steele and prospective member Whitney Bullion. More on this at the meeting this week, but sharing some pictures here!
Alicia Main, Executive Director of the Douglas County Chamber of Commerce
PROJECT SANTA CLAUS UPDATE
Started in 1988 by Marilyn and Carl Malkmus, Project Santa Claus has partnered with community members, local businesses and service clubs to provide Christmas gifts to local children in families that need a little assistance to make Christmas complete. Alicia Main, Director of the Chamber of Commerce, informed the Minden Rotary Club at their meeting this past Thursday that last year over 223 families (with over 717 children) received gifts thanks to the generosity of our community.
Families in need are enrolled by the Family Support Council and the Carson Valley Food Closet. Children of these families complete their wish list on an angel ornament which gets put on trees around the community for community members to pick and fulfill the wish. Service Clubs and Community members gather in early December to wrap gifts and complete gift tags. Mann also utilizes the entire Douglas High girls basketball team to run gifts to cars when families come to pick up the gifts. This year, pickup will be on December 13th and 14th.
Rotary Club of Minden Foundation awarded 5 grants directed toward at risk children during the first trimester donations of the 2024-25 Rotary year. Congratulations to the following recipients:
Jacks Valley Elementary for Handheld Translators (Polish, Russian, Tagolic and Spanish) $220.00.
Jacks Valley Elementary for an Upgraded PA System (to replace the one from 1981) $2,000.00.
Jacks Valley Elementary for STEM Program materials (robotics and coding) for 2nd grade classroom $1,811.97.
Gardnerville Elementary School for STEM Program materials in the classroom and the After School Program (4 robots and consumables) $1,083.00.
Douglas County Library (Reading pods and reading kits) $500.00.
In addition, the Foundation disbursed an International Grant for $1000. This Global Grant went to the Rotary Club of Ajijic in Mexico for menstrual education workshops and dispensing reusable menstrual kits.
All of that totals $6614.97! What a great reason to be thinking about sponsors for our May Minden Giving Cup Golf Tournament!
Veteran's Day at Gardnerville Elementary School
Graham Rogney and Pat Garrahan updated the club on the activities of the Community Services Committee. Ideas for the upcoming year include:
1. Pocket Dictionaries
2. Rotary Theme Literacy Kits (books)
3. Lampe Park Circuit Course Refurbishing and/or book walk
4. Martin Slough Trail Mile Markers
5. Rotary Community Pillars
6. CV Health Courtyard (could be furniture, a water feature, shading, etc.) for patients / staff
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