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Rotary Club of Parker

Parker, Colorado

We currently have hybrid meetings: an in-person meeting with a Zoom component.

Please go to the Calendar to see the dates, formats and speakers of our meetings.

Thank you to all who ordered Palisade peaches and pears to support the projects of the Rotary Club of Parker and our partners!

If you have any questions, please contact ParkerRotaryPeaches@gmail.com. Thank you for supporting our community service projects!

Polio Plus 2024

Thursday, October 24 is World Polio Day, when we recognize both the huge achievements that that world has made in the goal to eradicate polio, while also acknowledging that we still have a ways to go. Rotary has worked tirelessly since the 1980s with partners around the world in the efforts to immunize children against polio. The October 2024 issue of Rotary Magazine has several articles highlighting this campaign -- check out your copy!

In addition, the campaigns to eradicate polio have had many side benefits -- the Plus in Polio Plus. For more information, check out this article from the Rotary International website: https://www.rotary.org/en/plus-polioplus.

One way that we can all help with this effort is to donate money as a member of the Polio Plus Society. To set up a recurring donation online, go to https://my.rotary.org/en/polioplus-fund. Or you can make a donation directly through our club:

Zelle your donation to treasurer@parkerrotary.org
Send your check to Rotary Club of Parker, PO Box 473, Parker, CO 80134

Our club has a history of generosity in supporting the campaign to eradicate polio. Thank you for your support in 2024.

A Reunion with Mario’s Two Families!

The Rotary exchange student that our club hosted over the past school year, Mario Garcia Banon, returned to his family in Spain in May. Mario’s host family, the Dishongs, visited Mario and his family in Spain this summer – a visit that of course included a soccer game! That’s the Club Deportivo Eldense that everyone is supporting.

RYLA 2024

From the left: Amanda Jones, Wyatt Jones, Addison Oldham, Jessica Oldham, David Cannon

We welcomed five high-school and middle-school students who had participated in RYLA and Young RYLA this past summer to our meeting on September 5. What is RYLA? Rotary Youth Leadership Awards -- RYLA for high school students and Young RYLA for middle school students. Local participants spend a week at a camp in the mountains learning and practicing leadership skills and making new friends. The Rotary Club of Parker sponsored these students to attend so there was no cost to them.

Interested in participating in a future RYLA or Young RYLA? Check out their webpage.

This Will Make You Smile...

Here's a story to make you smile! Affinity Ranch sent us a video showing four of their horses testing out the exercise loop that our club created by putting up the fencing. Check this out on Facebook and enjoy! (You don't have to log into Facebook to enjoy this -- just skip the login screen.)

https://www.facebook.com/reel/515259384392229

Another Great Food Drive!

Saturday, August 17 was a hot one, but crews of Rotarians staffed the food drive for the Parker Task Force at the Stroh Ranch King Soopers. We had terrific support from the community, collecting

64 boxes of food
$1368 in cash
$345 in gift cards
109 butters
98 packages of cheese
78 dozen eggs

Here are just some of the smiling Rotary volunteers from that day -- if you have more photos please pass them along!

Fences Done at Affinity Ranch!

A group of Rotarians went out to Affinity Ranch on Tuesday, August 20 to see the horse exercise area put to work for the first time! Members of our club put up the fencing that created the exercise loop. Here are just a few of us who helped with this project, with some of our clients shown in the background. If you have more photos of the fence construction, please pass them along!

Here are the two horses who tested the loop, while some envious horses looked on...

Thank you to all who worked so hard to make the 2024 State of the Town event at the PACE Center on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 such as success! Click here to view a slide show of the event, which featured comments from Parker mayor Jeff Toborg on the state of the town and his visions for the future. In addition, we presented the Parker Impact Award to Mike Waid and Nate Smith -- click here for more information on these deserving recipients.

We are grateful to all of our sponsors, listed in the Sponsors box on this page.

Service Above Self

We meet In Person

Thursdays at 7:00 a.m.

Parker Library

20105 E Mainstreet
Parker, CO 80138
United States of America

We have hybrid meetings with a Zoom option. Email president@parkerrotary.org for the Zoom link.

Bulletins

Venue Map

Suzette Farrar

Oct 10, 2024

Freedom Service Dogs (Intro: McCloud)

District Governor Tami Fennell

Oct 17, 2024

Annual club visit from 5450 District Governor (Intro: Garwood)

Table Talk with Members

Oct 24, 2024

Garwood and Huffaker

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The Rotary Club of Parker is committed to membership and volunteer opportunities without regard to age, ancestry, disability, national or ethnic origin, race, religious belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status.

Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.

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Cherry Creek Valley (Parker)

Castle Rock

Castle Rock High Noon

Castle Pines

Centennial

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District 5450

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President - Board Officer

Susan Garwood

President Elect - Board Officer

John Huffaker

Secretary - Board Officer

Janice Beller

Treasurer - Board Officer

Dan O'Neill

Co-Sergeant at Arms - Board Officer

Ron Saatjian

Co-Sergeant at Arms - Board Officer

Deann Olson

Community Service - Board Member

Timothy O'Connor

Club Service - Board Member

Kelly Young

Youth Services - Board Member

Tim Mackin

Membership - Board Member

Gail Lehrmann

Fundraising - Board Member

Mac McCloud

Public Relations - Board Member

Greg Watanabe

Grants Director - Board Member

Michael Graham-Hyde

Past President - Board Member

Michael Graham-Hyde

Club Foundation President - Board Member

Michele Schultz

Club Foundation Treasurer - Board Member

Kitty Peterson

Click the button above to support the work of the Rotary Club of Parker by making a donation to the Rotary Club of Parker Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit Colorado corporation.