by Southtowne Rotary | Sep 25, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, People and Personalities, Politics
Police Reform Amidst Eugene Protests Over the past few months, the Eugene Police Department has been working hard to manage protests safely and effectively. The department has currently spent $650,000 of overtime costs to do just that. Chief of the Eugene Police...
by Southtowne Rotary | Aug 28, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Health and Wellness, People and Personalities
Gender dysphoria is essentially where the mind and body parts don’t match. It has been described as a homesickness in your own body that never goes away. Technically, it is the condition of feeling one’s emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be...
by Southtowne Rotary | Aug 13, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Environmental Concerns, Fundraising, Health and Wellness, Local Business, Non-Profit, Volunteer Opportunities
Welcome to Positive Community Kitchen. This non-profit sources local produce and cooks healing, organic meals for community members with life-threatening illnesses. The meals are plant-based, full of nutritious ingredients, and gluten-free. In addition, local teens...
by Southtowne Rotary | Jul 13, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Miscellaneous, Politics
Hugo Nicolas’s Story When Nicolas was 11, his mother told him and his two younger siblings that they would travel to the U.S. to join their father, who was an undocumented farmworker. He remembers walking for two days to cross the border. He was dehydrated and...
by Southtowne Rotary | Jun 14, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Health and Wellness, Non-Profit, Programs we Support, Volunteer Opportunities
Think of Kindness, Act with Kindness It’s proven that if you’re thinking about kindness, you become a kinder person. That is what the Spreading Kindness Campaign is based on. Spreading Kindness to the Unhoused Recently, the Spreading Kindness Campaign has...
by Southtowne Rotary | May 1, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, People and Personalities
In a time of worldwide shifts and unexpected changes, one of our biggest challenges can be a closed mind. Our guest speaker, Barry, suggests that through cultivating a learner’s mindset, knowing ourselves, and utilizing the medical model, we can respond more...
