Welcome to the Rotary Club of Santa Rosa East/West

"People of Action"

Veterans Tribute Luncheon 

 

 

When and Where We Meet

Our Rotary Club meets at the Finley Center in Santa Rosa at 12pm on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month. Additionally, we engage in at least one hands-on project and evening Club social per month. It’s best to consult our Events Calendar for up-to-date meeting times and locations. We love meeting new people, so we hope you’ll join us!

 

 

What We Do

We are a service club that works together to make our city and our world a better place for all, especially those affected by poverty. We spend our time planning projects, distributing funds and learning about our community. We develop friendships and create opportunities for networking, and we welcome everyone.

Who We Are

We are local business professionals, small business owners, retired folks, community leaders, young people and travelers who have a heart for service. We like to have fun and do good together!

Santa Rosa Veterans Tribute Is Back

By Friday, September 13, 2024
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This year’s event features keynote speaker Retired USN Captain Brett Crozier, a Santa Rosa native (SRHS 1988) and American hero. Captain Crozier was a helicopter pilot, an F/A-18 fighter pilot and squadron commander as well as Captain of the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN 71.

Entertainment at the luncheon includes the Elsie Allen High school drumline marching band, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Color Guard, a vocalist from SRJC, local trumpeters and a bagpiper.

Club members should purchase a ticket for themselves as well as a ticket for a veteran. If they don’t know a veteran to invite, their second ticket will be donated to a veteran. We strongly encourage inviting relatives of veterans including partners, parents, widows and sons and daughters.

Tickets are $20 and lunch will be provided by Oakmont Village Market. We have 390 seats to fill at Garrett Hall at the fairgrounds, so we encourage you to buy your tickets early. And, if you can’t attend, please buy two tickets to be donated to veterans.


Captain Crozier’s excellent book Surf When You Can: Lessons in Life, Loyalty, and Leadership from a Maverick Navy Captain will be on sale at the event by Copperfield’s Books. He currently works as an advisor to a veterans nonprofit and is Managing Director of a start-up company.
 
To purchase or reserve tickets for the event, call or text Dan Lambert @ (707)-484-5808. Veterans are welcome to a free lunch but must reserve a ticket in advance.  
View flyer HERE

 


Where Have All the Flowers Gone - English/Ukrainian

By Sunday, September 1, 2024
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Early in 2023 Peter Yarrow and Maria Burmaka, a Ukrainian peace activist and singer, collaborated to produce a music video of the song Where Have All the Flowers Gone in Ukrainian and English. The history of this song is a bit convoluted but was first recorded by Pete Seeger and subsequently by numerous other artists including Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, and Marlene Dietrich. The original version of the song originated in Ukraine or in the Don River area of Russia just east of Ukraine.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/799684684


Continuing Support for Ukraine

By Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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As the Russo-Ukrainian War continues unabated; as winter approaches; and as the needs of Ukrainians continue to increase; our consortium of local Rotary clubs is again seeking funds at the specific request of Cherkasy-Centre Rotarians:

  • $25,000 Children’s Trauma Relief program
  • $50,000 Emergency power equipment for medical centers (battery packs & generators)
Send your tax-deductible donation today!
Donate via PayPal or Credit Card:  
 

Checks Payable to: Rotary Club of Santa Rosa East/West Foundation
                                  PO Box 2785, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
                                  Please write Ukraine on the memo line
Contact: 707-484-5808
501(c)(3) Nonprofit Tax ID# 68-0374168

Your generous contribution will make a difference.

Our partnership includes Rotary Clubs:
  • Santa Rosa East/West
  • Santa Rosa
  • Healdsburg
  • Rosenheim-Innstadt, Bavaria, Germany
  • Cherkasy-Centre, Ukraine
  • Rotary Districts 5130 USA, 1842 Germany, 2232 Ukraine 
Shortly after the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022, Rotarians and friends from Cherkasy, Ukraine, Santa Rosa’s Sister City, contacted us seeking humanitarian assistance.

Through a partnership of local Sonoma County Rotary Clubs and the Rotary club of Rosenheim-Innstadt in Bavaria, Germany, we have to-date raised $275,000 for first aid kits, generators, portable battery power units, medical supplies, etc.


Unreliable power presents countless challenges, whether in the operating room of a field hospital or a health clinic.  Last winter, Sonoma County Rotary Clubs with our partners in Rosenheim-Innstadt, Germany delivered over 7 tons of generators and battery packs for emergency power through our all-volunteer network of Rotarians.




 

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Power for the People - Ukraine

By Sunday, January 15, 2023

Our club joined with the Rotary Clubs of Santa Rosa and Rosenheim-Innstadt of Bavaria, Germany, to purchase and deliver over $90,000 worth of generators and portable power units (battery packs) to the Rotary Club of Cherkasy-Centre, Ukraine. The equipment was sourced in Germany due to the differences in European and American electrical power and to simplify the transport to Ukraine.

 
Power for the People (pdf)
Life without Electricity in Ukraine (pdf)


 

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Ecuador Project

By Wednesday, July 28, 2021
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I had the opportunity to visit a project that our club supports in Chone Ecuador.  The Agricultural Training Center provides education to farmers and agricultural students on sustainable farming.  Their primary crop is bamboo, but they have 17 crops on the farm for diversity and crop rotation.  The education of diversity is important, as it is not intuitive for the local farmers.

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The Dictionary Project

"From set up to delivery, everybody had a wonderful time. I really enjoyed going to the schools and meeting the children. I especially loved it when their faces lit up and how they couldn't stop talking about their new dictionaries. A very worthwhile project." Chris Parr-Feldman

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Multi-Cultural Center

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In 2014 Rotary Club of Santa Rosa West donated both time and materials to help the Multi-Cultural Center install a new playground for the kids.

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Rotary Club visit to Sunrise Lima Peru

Thursday, June 16, 2016
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Milagros Ott visited CIMA, and attended the board meeting and the Rotary meeting today at Sunrise Lima.

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History Of Our Club

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SANTA ROSA WEST ROTARY CLUB

The Club was chartered as the second club in Santa Rosa on April 15, 1965.

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Emily Rainsford

Emily Rainsford, President 2024-2025

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Upcoming Events

October 22nd 2024 9:00 am
Hands On Project
Speaker: Andy Lopez Unity Park - Maintenance
Topic: This park needs some loving maintenance again.
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October 22nd 2024 6:00 pm
Board Meeting
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October 24th 2024 10:00 am
Santa Rosa East/West Dictionary Delivery Day
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October 25th 2024 9:15 am
Santa Rosa East/West Yulupa Dictionary Assembly
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November 7th 2024 11:30 am
Santa Rosa Veterans Tribute
Speaker: Captain Brett Crozier, USN Retired
Topic: Veterans Tribute Luncheon sponsored by the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs of Santa Rosa
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