by Southtowne Rotary | Dec 9, 2021 | Miscellaneous
Congratulations to the food box team, who with funding from a District Grant, delivered turkey dinners and food and cleaning supplies to 102 families in our community! Emergency Services were hard at work helping a working single mom with 3 children stay in temporary...
by Southtowne Rotary | May 25, 2021 | Miscellaneous
Investing in real estate is difficult at times, and getting into this arena without the help of others who have gone before you make it really challenging. That’s why Grace founded the local Oregon Real Estate Investors Association (REIA). Grace is a real estate...
by Southtowne Rotary | Nov 5, 2020 | Club Events, Miscellaneous
Rotary Interact clubs bring high school students together to develop leadership skills. There are over 14,000 Interact clubs over 145 countries. India has over 7,000 Interact clubs. The US has over 5,000. Interact allows high school students to be part of a large...
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 Deanna Rivera | Aug 29, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Part of the Southtowne Scholarship fund is set aside for some individuals who need an educational boost — to take the last credits that lead to a degree, a special certificate program or other educational expenses not covered by financial aid. Candidates are...
by Nicole Maslan | May 9, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Carmen Scherich has received hundreds of hours in military disaster preparedness and real-world surviving. During Hurricane Katrina, she triaged or treated 800 people an hour for multiple days. She was also in combat in Afghanistan, surviving daily enemy attacks...