At last week’s meeting we met the auctioneer who will help ensure that our major event on February 13th will be a huge success. Brian Bice comes to us from the very successful Lake Oswego Club annual auction, and has been a professional auctioneer for nonprofit events for years. He said that the procurement of […]
Weekly Newsletter | November 17, 2015
The Salem Area Trail Alliance (SATA) will be the recipient of our Good Works major grant this year. If you aren’t familiar with their work, let me give you a bit of background about their organization. SATA was founded in 2010 by two civic-minded individuals: Jeff McNamee, faculty member at Linfield College in the Department […]
Weekly Newsletter | November 10, 2015
We are fortunate to be a part of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, a charity which is rated highly by the well-regarded “Charity Navigator” service. Charity Navigator independently reviews thousands of nonprofit organizations every year. It gives each charity an overall score and a star rating. The Rotary Foundation (TRF) received an overall rating […]
2016 GoodWorks Recipient Announced!
We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2016 GoodWorks grant: Salem Area Trail Alliance! This grant is the last large influx of funding needed in order to move into the construction phase of the Salem Bike Park and Trail Facility. The facility will include 2 miles of cross-country trails and two pump tracks, […]
New Member Feature: Bruce Bailey
Today, we welcomed a relatively new Salemite to our club: Bruce Bailey. Below is the kind introduction as read by Bruce’s sponsor, Mark Wulf. On July 1, 2015, Bruce arrived in Salem as the new Executive Director of the Union Gospel Mission. A ‘fun fact’ is that he and his wife Linda drove here along with […]
Weekly Newsletter | November 3, 2015
During the month of November, we will learn more about The Rotary Foundation, and how our membership in Rotary contributes to so much good around the world. Today I’ll share with you a brief summary of the history of The Rotary Foundation. It all started in the year 1917. At the Rotary Convention that year, […]
World Polio Day | Live Stream Recording
Did you miss the live stream on October 23rd of the third annual World Polio Day? We got you covered:
New Member Feature: Lindsey Vorse
We had the great pleasure of inducting our newest member: Lindsey Vorse. She’s been visiting and a part of our club for quite some time now, so she already feels like family. Here’s a kind introduction as read by her sponsor, Tammy McCammon at today’s meeting: “Lindsey likes to say she grew up in the same […]
