Rotary District 5870 Central Texas District Governor Bob Crouch shares his message for November 2023. He discusses his visit to Rotary Headquarters, Rotary areas of focus, the Rotary Foundation and more! He has a special announcement for who is our featured guest speaker for the 2024 Foundation Gala on January 20, 2024.
On January 20, 2023, we invite you to join us for the District 5870 Central Texas Foundation Gala featuring our esteemed guest speaker, Mario De Campo, Rotary International President Nominee. Our event will be held at the Sheraton Austin Georgetown Hotel & Conference Center. Tickets are $100 each. Major Donors will receive a special invitation and registration link.
As we have previously noted, the primary focus of Rotary International regarding membership is retention of our existing Rotarians. One of the best ways to do this is by enriching the club experience by building relations between your members. Showing your members that your club cares for them is a giant step in the right direction
In the tranquil town of Mexia, Texas, the community came together in a remarkable display of solidarity and compassion as the Mexia Rotary hosted a Mental Health Awareness Walk.
On Saturday, 30 September 2023, The Rotary Club of Flatonia and the Flatonia Lions Club hosted a joint service event, a Garden Party and Lunch, to Celebrate Community.
On Saturday, October 21, Georgetown Rotary Club members, along with family, neighbors, friends, service dogs, and the Round Rock Young Men’s Service League, assisted the local Georgetown chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace to build twenty beds.
South Austin Rotary Club along with the Austin Westlake Rotary Club worked at the Central Texas Food Bank today making up ten pound bags of fresh vegetables ...carrots, sweet potatoes and russet potatoes to help feed our neighbors.
Shiner Rotary will be hosting their annual Election Day Pancake Breakfast on November 7th from 6:30am to 8:00am. Canned donations for the Shiner Food Pantry will also be accepted at the door.
The Westlake Rotary Club welcomed Julie Guillot, Courtney Assir, and Mr. Kerry Taylor, the Westlake Director of Bands and Eanes ISD Director of Fine Arts to the meeting today to speak to us about the Westlake Chap Band’s upcoming trip to the Tournament of Roses Parade!
The Rotary Club and its members donated $2250 to the band for the upcoming trip.
The Rotary Club of Austin-Southwest kicked off our new environmental project - collecting Styrofoam from our community and taking it to the Austin Recycle and Reuse Center. We will collect Styrofoam the first Saturday of the month at the SFC Farmer's Market at Burger Center.
Rotary E-Club of Central Texas is excited to share a picture of the construction of the building that will house the Oxygen Refilling Station in Liberia that is funded by a Global Grant.
In recognition of National First Responders Day, which is 28 October, 2023, The Rotary Club of Flatonia donated supplies to the Flatonia Police Department and the Flatonia Fire & Rescue Department.
Rotary EClub of Central Texas teamed with Rotary Club of Austin NxNE to work with Rise Against Hunger to create 10,000 meal kits that will feed folks around the globe.
Through our Operation Vacation project, the Rotary Club of Austin and Killeen hosted SPC Marc Rivera and his wife Josephine Cardenas and their two little dogs stationed at Ft. Cavazos for a weekend at the Aiden Hotel by Best Western in South Austin.
Abhishek Padmanabhuni, one of the newest members of the Austin Cosmopolitan Rotary Club was recently featured in the October edition of the Rotary magazine.
The goal for Temple's Polio Fundraiser was to achieve $2,500 for World Polio Day and the team went over. The theme was a raffle for a small refrigerator like for and office or a den. The event was held at the 3 Texas Winery in Temple. Rod Henry and Kim Langston were the drivers of the program.
Austin Cosmopolitan is partnering with Sunshine Community Garden to install a "pocket prairie"! Rotary volunteers will replace sections of Bermuda grass in the garden with Texas wildflowers and other native plants that serve as habitat and food for local pollinator species. This aligns with the seventh of Rotary International's Causes, Protecting the Environment.
Sun City Rotary President Elect, Ted Berriman, came up with a brilliant idea for a new Service Project. Since the citizens in Sun City and Georgetown are blessed with such outstanding Fire/EMS and Police departments and we are indebted to them for our health, safety, and well-being, let’s show our appreciation in a major way.