by Southtowne Rotary | Oct 8, 2020 | Education, Environmental Concerns, People and Personalities
Dragonflies and damselflies flutter in and around Eugene. Oregon dragonfly and damselfly expert, Cary Kerst, speaks about local species, how to identify them, and where to find them. Follow along as Kerst shares a host of fascinating damselfly and dragonfly facts....
by Southtowne Rotary | Oct 1, 2020 | Community Awareness, Education, Non-Profit, People and Personalities, Politics
Meet Ibrahim Coulibaly, an advocate for discussing human rights issues and current president of the Eugene Springfield NAACP. Ibrahim grew up in the small, french-speaking country of West Africa. He came to the US for the first time in 2008, where he lived in New York...
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 | 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...
by Deanna Rivera | Sep 13, 2019 | District News, People and Personalities
District 5110 Governor, Rick Olson, spoke today. Rick joined Rotary in 1986. He is from the Eugene area and served as President of the Eugene downtown club. Passion Passion is key to what Rotary is and should be. At every board meeting, Rick asks if they are focused...
