by Southtowne Rotary | Aug 4, 2016 | Miscellaneous
Oregon Festival of American Music 2016 (OFAM) at the The John G. Shedd Institute of the Arts is in their 25th season. Jim Ralph, co-founder, brought a few of the OFAM performers to entertain us at today’s meeting. G.I. Jive, Good Cheer From Home, 1939-45 is...
by Southtowne Rotary | Aug 1, 2016 | Peace
Professor emeritus Doug Carnine reviewed the rapidly growing body of scientific findings about kindness, which is another way to think of service over self. Extending kindness beyond volunteering and bringing it into our homes and our workplaces is a surprisingly...
by Southtowne Rotary | Jul 14, 2016 | Miscellaneous
The district membership chair has asked Southtowne how we are recruiting so many new, committed members. Membership/Engagement Chair, Glen Brigham, drafted the following thoughts. I have been asked about strategies our Rotary club uses to recruit new members. This has...
by Southtowne Rotary | Jun 16, 2016 | International Concerns, International Rotary Programs, Programs we Support
Rotary Youth Exchange is the opportunity of a lifetime for the more than 8,000 students who participate worldwide each year. Kate Stokes was a Rotary youth exchange student from 2003-2004 in a remote town in northern Japan. She shared her experience with us today...
by Southtowne Rotary | Jun 9, 2016 | Community Awareness, Non-Profit, Volunteer Opportunities
The Volunteers In Medicine Clinic, or VIM, was founded in 2001 by Sister Monica Heeran. Then, as now, the mission of the Clinic is to reach out and help people gain access to health care. Much has changed over the last 15 years, but one that hasn’t changed it VIM...
by Southtowne Rotary | May 20, 2016 | International Concerns, International Rotary Programs
Project Amigo is a non-profit organization whose goal is to help poor rural children in the west-central state of Colima, Mexico achieve the education and skills they need to lift themselves and their families out of generations of poverty, and to build better and...
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...
