Congressman David Dreier was made an honorary member of the Arcadia Rotary Club. Dreier, chair of the House Rules Committee, commended the Rotarians for a service project underway in Uganda that will bring water to a village.
Arcadia Rotary Club and other clubs in the United States raised $30,000, which was matched by the Rotary Foundation to total $330,000. The money will go to college loans for students in a southwest Ugandan village.
Arcadia Rotary Club will celebrate 75 years. Starting with 15 members in 1927, the group now has 110 members. Charities and worthy causes that the group supports are listed.
The Rotary Club met at and toured Arcadia Methodist Hospital. Rotarian Dennis Lee is CEO of the hospital and Rotarian Greg Bond is president of the Methodist Hospital Foundation. Other Rotary service projects discussed.
There’s something about Mary. Mary Hansen (photo) honored by Arcadia Rotary Club with the Paul Harris Fellow award for service “above and beyond,” according to Arcadia Rotary Club President Pat Dolphin. Mary was also selected as 2018 Senior of the Year because of her 46-plus years of volunteer work throughout Arcadia.
Scott H. Mittman spoke to the Rotary Club of his experiences in Israel made possible in part by a graduate fellowship sponsored by the Rotary Club. He spent the year studying neurobiology.
The Arcadia Rotary Club has announced a major building program at the Casa Hogar Lazaro Cardenas, an orphan's home in Tijuana, Mexico for 100 children. Members of the Tijuana Rotary Club have agreed to provide one-third of the costs of the project.
Joe Miller writes a semi-regular column called Rotary Corner in Arcadia Weekly. It covers activities of the Arcadia Rotary Club and Rotary International. The page number varies by the issue.
On February 23, the Arcadia chapter of the Rotary International Club will unveil and dedicate an old-time tower clock to the City of Arcadia. Rotary International celebrates its 100th anniversary next week.
The Rotary Club of Arcadia made its annual Christmas caravan bearing food and gifts to the Lazero Cardenas Orphanage and the Santa Teresita Home near Tijuana, Mexico. A new all-purpose building, financed and built by the Arcadia and Tijuana Rotary Clubs, was dedicated at Lazero.
With a combined donation of $1500, Arcadia Rotary and Santa Rosa Rotary helped provide a 22-year-old fire truck to the city of Santa Cruz del Quiche in Guatemala.
The Arcadia Rotary Club is involved in a program with the Gormeck Polygraph School providing subjects for a class of new students entering polygraph training.