Pagosa Springs Rotary ClubLivia Lynch is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom Rotary meeting.
Topic: Pagosa Springs Rotary
Time: Apr 2, 2020 12:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 318 322 6952
Speaker: Dr. Rhonda Webb, speaking about COVID-19
Time: Apr 2, 2020 12:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
The Rotary Club of Pagosa Springs continues to do its outstanding work of making sure our children are fed on the weekends. During this economically and emotionally challenging time, its all the more important that these efforts continue. We are providing nourishment to approximately 60 children! Rotary is committed to continuing this effort for as long as we are able!
There are obstacles to overcome no doubt!! We don't take lightly making sure our volunteers and families are SAFE and PROTECTED. You can help us keep this pantry stocked! Donations can be made to Pagosa Springs Community Assistance Fund - Feed our Children, PO Box 685, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147.
Nothing like a pandemic will stop the Rotary Club of Pagosa Springs from gathering in a safe manner to keep supporting the community!
Until guidelines are issued indicating it is safe to gather in person, The Rotary Club of Pagosa Springs will be meeting virtually using an APP called ZOOM. The meetings will still be at noon on Thursdays but safely from everyone's home. I will post an invitation for the meeting on April 2 in the next couple of days.
You are welcome to join us! You don't have to be a Rotarian to attend!
Our guest speaker will be Rhonda Webb, CEO of the hospital addressing COVID-19
The barrel is still on the ice!!! We are waiting for the ice to melt and safe conditions to retrieve the barrel and announce the WINNERS!
No more guesses can be purchased.
- The grand prize winner gets $1000 and priceless bragging rights.
- Second place gets $500 and slightly-less-priceless bragging rights.
- Third place gets a cool $250.
- Proceeds will go towards supporting the Rotary Club of Pagosa Springs Graduating High School Senior Scholarship fund.
Once again, Rotary delivers! Rotarians spent time with the 3rd grade students delivering and discovering their new color illustrated dictionaries. The children are always excited about this book. It is their only book from school that belongs to them, they put their name in and they can take it home to share with their family. Students were instructed about how to look up words, read the definitions and the way the word was used in a sentence. It is always a very fun event for Rotarians.
Jaime Novoa, the club's exchange student from Spain, was very interested in the children's reactions! Five classrooms of students received around 25 Dictionaries for each classroom at a cost of around $2,000. The Rotary Club of Pagosa Springs has been performing this service for 15 years, 14 of which have been under the leadership of JoAnn Laird.
Rotarians were at it again last week! 'Ringing the Bell' to eradicate polio from the face of the earth! Generous folks going in and out of City Market donated $243 to the fight! With the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledge to match every dollar raised with $2 more; that means $730 to continue the effort that we are so close to winning.
But Rotarians are not done yet! So far, Rotarians have contributed $940 and there are two weeks left in the campaign! These funds will be matched by the Gates Foundation as well. That total is then $3,550 so far. Find a Rotarian and get them a check made out to The Rotary Foundation for Polio Plus or go online to endpolionow.org and make a donation.
When Rotary and its partners launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative , three decades ago, polio paralyzed 1,000 children a day.
We were so proud of all of the exchange students but especially our own student, Jaime Novoa hailing from Spain. To see the bond that these students from around the world form in their exchange year is truly inspirational. Friendships are formed that will last a lifetime. Rotary offers these students the chance to be ambassadors for peace from their country to ours.
Past Presidents, Kim Moore and Shellie Peterson and President Elect, Mike Vanover and his wife Renee, were thrilled to accept the Presidential Citation Award with Distinction at the District 5470 Conference at the Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort this past weekend.
This prestigious award signifies the dedication of the members of the Rotary Club of Pagosa Springs to support the strategic priorities of Rotary International by being people of action changing the lives of families and communities across the world.
If you love country music, the Two-Step and line dancing, then you won't want to miss Pagosa Springs Rotary's fifth annual Jeans and Jewels Barn Dance.
Country Thunder, headed up by Clay Campbell, is known to turn the shyest wallflower into a crowd pleasing line dancer. To say nothing of a Two-Stepping fool. Ya got to love get-down, home-town country to relate to any of this. Most in Pagosa do.
Speaking of Clay Campbell, everyone knows him to be a gifted musician, playing around Pagosa for decades but few know the man.
Clay's fascination with Pagosa began as a boy when his grandparents bought a small cabin in the Blanco Basin. Moving here in 1978, Clay obtained an B.A. in Industrial Education and went on to do all jobs necessary to be able to live in the little mountain town he loved. Carpentry became his trick of the trade, with wilderness guiding and outfitting thrown in for good measure.
Clay has been performing for about 35 years, beginning his career in Bluegrass music. He would be, back in the day, playing the upright bass at Frankie's (aka Alley House) with Randall Davis and the Left Hand Band. All members had serious day jobs but their passion was music. Music. The fabric within us. Part of our inhale/exhale we don't even notice. A mood changer.
About five years ago, country music came a-callin and he joined the group, Country Thunder. Made up of four local musicians, they are a familiar band playing at various local venues and sought after for private functions. Like many in their audience, they are the shy, humble types, not wanting to talk about themselves, just show up and play. And play they will at the Jeans and Jewels Barn Dance, held October 19, at the County Fairgrounds, from 7:00 to 10:00. Doors open at 5:30.
Tickets are available at the Chamber of Commerce, the Chokecherry Tree or from any of your friendly Rotarians. Prices are $20 or $25 at the door. Better hurry. There are only so many tickets available and once they are sold, there goes your chance to tell those stories about an autumn night in October, dancing the night away in the County Extension Building, to the music of Country Thunder.
Join us at City Market on October 23, 2019 from 10:00 to 6:00! Help us celebrate the progress that has been made, and help us keep up the fight to eradicate Polio from planet earth! Rotarians will be there, with the famous red kettle, collecting funds that will be matched by Bill & Melinda Gates, $2 for every $1 collected!
Where are we in the fight to end polio? What bold steps are we taking to get there? Visit the Rotary International Facebook page to RSVP to the Online Global Update. Endpolio.org
No child should have to suffer from this vaccine-preventable disease. Help us make an impact on World Polio Day. Endpolio.org
Smallpox is the only human disease ever eradicated. Let’s make polio the second. Join the fight on World Polio Day. Endpolio.org
How can you triple your impact? Thanks to a 2-to-1 match from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, every donation made to Rotary to end polio will be tripled. Donate today. endpolio.org/donate
Ally Ashbaugh was one of the students selected to participate in the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards and she addressed the Rotary Club of Pagosa Springs recently. She had been fortunate enough to attend several high-caliber leadership camps this summer, but one thing stood out to her about RYLA.
She said that the training and practice involving how to make ethical decisions in all manner of things that come 'at you' in life was one of the most valuable things she learned at RYLA. A very well spoken and interesting young lady and we look forward to watching her continue to develop her skills and be a leader in her class!
There are two other young ladies we are looking forward to hearing from, Peyton Burns and Kaia Jones were also recipients and we look forward to hearing from them soon!
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