by Southtowne Rotary | May 12, 2016 | Community Awareness, Non-Profit
NAMI Lane County helps families, friends, consumers of mental health services, and caregivers by providing resource material, referrals, support groups, political and legislative activity, public outreach and anti-stigma education. Jose Soto and Frank King provided an...
by Southtowne Rotary | May 5, 2016 | Community Awareness, Education, Environmental Concerns
The Salmon Watch Program was represented as our program at Rotary today. Here are a few notes from the presentation: Salmon Watch takes students on a field trip to where (and when) salmon are spawning, which is part of a larger curriculum. Often this is their first...
by Southtowne Rotary | Apr 14, 2016 | Community Awareness, Education, Environmental Concerns, Non-Profit, Volunteer Opportunities
As a board member and volunteer of WREN (Willamette Resources & Education Network), Ron Leonard shared with us what is happening with the ecosystems of the West Eugene wetlands. WREN is a private nonprofit on a mission to practice and promote land stewardship...
by Southtowne Rotary | Apr 7, 2016 | Community Awareness, Non-Profit
Today’s Rotary meeting featured Sponsors Mentorship Program. Sponsors Mission is to assist men and women from Lane County released from Oregon state correctional facilities and the Lane County Jail in making a successful reentry into our community. Our success...
by Southtowne Rotary | Mar 17, 2016 | Community Awareness
The new Eugene City Hall project is well underway to bring our community a new building and public plaza that will provide a welcoming and accessible place for the community, as well as a home for City government. Mike Penwell, the City of Eugene’s Design and...
by Southtowne Rotary | Mar 3, 2016 | Community Awareness, History
Randy Ellis, an officer with the Eugene Police Department, started in 1970 and has been part of the force for 45 years. In 1972, the police force established a “traffic noise team” or “TNT” to address a growing problem on South Willamette...
