Boulder Valley Rotary Club
Boulder Valley Rotary has traditionally planned one major fund raising activity each year. The event always looks to the community and the friends of Rotary everywhere to help make it successful. For the past 10 years this event has been held in the early spring and has combined a variety of activities including a silent auction, a live auction and a reverse raffle. Each year a good time was had by all while significant funds have been raised for charity.
Each year, the club raises the funds it needs to support all of the club activities. In no area is this more obvious then Community Service. Over the past 10 years the Boulder Valley Rotary Club has funneled over $250,000 (a quarter of a million dollars!) into the local community through local charities and non-profit organizations.
The club is planning the 2004 event to be an exciting
Take The Time To Meet New and Old Friends over dinner.
Dining for Dollars
Kit Hollingshead preparing his lesson.
Hosts & Hostesses
Scot & Eileen Smith:
Cooking lesson with well known local Chef
January 17th
4270 Peach Way
Boulder
Guest Limit = 10
A Great Success
Kit Hollingshead: Indian Cooking Demonstration
Come enjoy the WORLD FAMOUS Chef, Kit Hollingshead on his birthday for a fantastic cooking demonstration.
January 17th
Guest Limit = 6
A Great Success
Bob & Patti Lucas
Hors D'oeuvre
Matched with white and medium red wines.
Herbed and braised tenderloin of pork , wine reduction sauce with hints of plumb.
Roasted, herbed veggies and garlic flavored aromatic rice.
Citrus avocado salad with sesame/peanut dressing.
Served with Semillion (Aussie) and Pinot Noir (OR)
Fruit compote with a desert wine that will blow your socks off!
Followed by a Brandy/Liquor tray and coffee.
April 3rd
3950 Newport Lane: Boulder
Guest Limit = 6 guests
Andy & Patsy James:
Tennis Mix Doubles Mixer
All Tennis players are invited to sign up and be our guest in a Tennis Mix Doubles "Mixer" at the Boulder Country Club In-door Tennis Facility. Players of all skill level will be mixed and matched with the other players in a fun round robin Mix Doubles format. After tennis, you will be hosted for a casual dinner at Andy & Patsy James house serving refreshments, dinner & dessert.
Tentative: January 31, 2004
Tennis: Boulder Country Club In-door Tennis Facility
Dinner Andy & Patsy James House
Guest Limit = 10
Gordon Gamm:
A Night of Cocktails & Fine Food Celebrating Service & Fun
February 28th: 7:00pm
6609 Baseline Rd: Boulder
Guest Limit = 30
Charles & Margaret Hix:
Japanese Dinner
Be treated to a sushi preparation and Asian food cooking lesson featuring Japanese Chef Sensi Nobu Kishi. Saki tasting in addition to wonderful food.
March 12th:
2933 Hunt Ct
Erie, Co
Guest Limit = 10
Beatriz Lentz:
Afternoon Tea: Special Ticket Price = $50
Afternoon tea and small, unusual fashion or gift show
April 10, 2004: 3:30
7184 Rustic Trail: Boulder
Guest Limit = 50
Carolyn Paul:
Cinco de Mayo
Come enjoy buffet style Mexican food to celebrate this traditional holiday.
Date: May 5, 2003
2757 Meadow Mtn. Trail: Lafayette
Guest Limit = 20-30
India Wood, Paul Mandel & 2 Rug-rats:
Trash Treasure Hunt and Sculpture
You have the opportunity to collect trash from the local river beds, etc. and make wild sculptures with a celebration afterwards over dinner. Young children are welcome at no additional cost.
May 15th or 22nd
India's Yard: 564 Locust Place: BoulderV
Guest Limit = 20
Connie Holden & TK Smith:
Tour de Forks:
In anticipation of the Tour de France, you are invited to the Tour de Forks. You will work up an appetite on a 15 or 30K bike ride on scenic northeast county route. You will return to a champagne brunch prepared by local purveyors of fine French food, LeChantecler. Musical entertainment will be provided by local songwriter, Scott Johnson
Sunday, June 13th, 9:00am
7134 Cedarwood Circle, Boulder
Guest Limit = 12
Marylee Zurick:
Swim Party
Convene for a 50's style beach party with the Beach Boys and Gidget, just kidding, but you get the drift.
June 25thV
240 Hopi Place Boulder
Guest Limit = 30
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Centennial Project update October 2003
In the summer of 2002 Rotary International asked each Rotary Club, worldwide, to participate in the Centennial celebration of the founding of Rotary. The Centennial will be celebrated in January 2005.
After a request by Rotary International President Lundeen (2002/2003), in late summer 2002, appointed a chair to look into this important request from Rotary International and a committee was formed to look into potential projects with members for BVRC and the other Clubs in Boulder.
Rotary International requested that the project be a collaboration of the local Rotary Clubs, be visible in the community and give proper recognition to the Clubs sponsoring the project.
After many meetings and many discussions the Boulder Valley Rotary Club along with the Boulder Rotary Club and Flatiron Club settled on a project late in 2002. The project agreed upon was a "room of reflection" to be built in the new Boulder Community Hospital, which by the way just opened for business in September 2003.
The Centennial project, which when all said and done will span three Club presidents. President Stull (2003/2004) along with incoming President Candy Wither (2004/2005) inherited the on going project and have been busy finalizing the funding of the project and planning for the celebration in 2005.
Thanks to all the Boulder Valley Rotarians, our Club, has fully funded the $8,000.00 share of the project, we were responsible for. The other Clubs are busily finishing their fund raising activities. When all said and done the project will have been funded to the tune of $40,000.00 by the local clubs and will provide a highly visible acknowledgement of Rotary in the Boulder community.
If you get the chance please stop by the hospital and take the time to see our project.
Incoming President Candy Wither will be busy early in her year and especially the late quarter of 2004 and the first month of 2005 planning for the Centennial celebration and the official dedication of the "room of reflection".
All Boulder Rotarians should be proud of this Rotary International effort.
IT'S "COATS FOR KIDS"/ "SHARE A COAT" TIME AGAIN
The 2003 coat drive is now underway. We need the help of every Boulder Valley Rotarian for this year's coat drive. There are jobs for everyone and the following is a tentative list of the work and dates.
A letter to the schools will be followed up by telephone calls to determine which schools will participate. Also, local businesses will be contacted. Coat collection boxes will be delivered on Thursday, October 16th. Coats are to be picked up from the schools on October 30, November 13, with the final pick up on Dec. 4. We will also collect used books from the schools for distribution to the Boulder Valley Public School Title 1 - Books in Homes program.
Art Cleaners will be cleaning the coats this year and their help with this project is greatly appreciated. The cleaned coats will be transported to the Secure Care storage facility at 63rd & Arapahoe on Nov. 2, Nov. 16 and Dec. 7. They will then be sorted according to size on Nov. 8, Nov. 22, Dec. 13 and Dec. 19.
The coats and coat racks will be delivered to the distribution location at the old Granville-Phillips Building (same location as last year) on December 18. Many coats will be distributed to various charities during the collection period, but the final distribution will occur on December 20 and 21 at the as part of the Holiday Food Basket Program.
If you have not had an opportunity to volunteer please consider one of the opportunities mentioned above. Sign-up sheets for use in volunteering your time and effort will be available at the meeting and you can always talk to Bob Harberg or give him a call at (303) 441-3124. SIGN UP TODAY. You will find it very rewarding.
Polio Eradication
10/17/02
In 1985, Rotary launched PolioPlus, one of the most ambitious humanitarian programs ever undertaken by a private entity. The program was designed to provide funds and volunteers to inoculate the children of the world against polio and other childhood diseases. The PolioPlus program was one of the first international activities that the Boulder Valley Rotary Club participated in after the club was founded that same year.
By 1987, Rotary had raised over $247 MM for the program. The PolioPlus program was in large part the catalyst for the World Health Assembly's adoption in 1988 of the goal of polio eradication. Rotary takes pride in its commitment to help achieve a polio-free world by 2005. Rotary increased its support and through 2001 has contributed an amazing $462 MM.
Today, thanks to Rotary and its global partners, the world is on the threshold of eradicating the poliovirus that has destroyed so many lives and hope. Polio cases have dropped by 99.8 percent since 1988. More than two billion children have been immunized, and four million spared death or paralysis. The job is not completed until there are no more cases of Polio. The last 0.2 percent will be the hardest part.
The biggest obstacle to victory is the battle against polio is financial. Despite the enormous resources already committed, more money is urgently needed to buy vaccine and to deliver it to children in the few remaining countries where the poliovirus still circulates. To help close the funding gap, Rotary has announced a new one-year polio eradication fundraising campaign. The goal is to raise $80 MM in donations and pledges by June 30, 2003. The funds are to be collected in total by 2004 and are now part of a larger campaign supported by the Gates Foundation, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that is seeking $275 MM to complete the job.
Rotary has motivated each club to participate in the campaign. The Boulder Valley Rotary is participating in two ways. First, the club has initiated a pledge drive for it's own members. Second, the Boulder Valley Rotary club has agreed to participate with the Boulder Rotary Club and the Flatirons Rotary club to organize and hold a public fund raising event for the Boulder valley, specifically to raise funds to eradicate polio.
The Polio Eradication Campaign within the club has been very successful
through the fall of 2002. Pledges and contributions have exceeded the
district goal of over $100 per Rotarian. Planning for the public event
is underway with the event now being planned for winter of 2003. What
the calendar for specific details as they come available. The proceeds
from the both activities will significantly help Rotary complete the job
that began in 1985, the eradication of polio from the planet.
Boulder Valley Rotary Fund Raising
2003-2004 President, Dean Stull
10/8/03