We had a hard-working crew for the Market Street cleanup on Saturday, August 21st. Club members who helped out included organizer Rhonda Prodzinski, Ken Morin, Kris Trachsel, Pat and Ted Mack, Keith Martin, and Catherine Carlson. Participants are shown in the photo below displaying our new East Salem Rotary Club safety vests. Thanks to everyone […]
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A big salute to the East Salem Rotary club members who volunteered on Tuesday, August 17th at The Kroc Center for the Back to School event for families served by the Oregon Department of Human Services. Children were very excited to pick out their school supplies, and they also received backpacks and selected clothing items.
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The former Salem Sunrise Rotary Club planned this bike project last year and completed most of the activities in May, distributing 45 new bicycle helmets and 5 refurbished bikes to children in the Grant and Highland school communities. Since a planned bike rodeo at Grant Elementary was not feasible due to the pandemic, club members
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Our nine installed little free libraries in the east Salem area are getting lots of use, and we are in great need of children’s books. Thanks to all of our club members and family members who have adopted these wonderful resources to keep them stocked for area children. Please contact Maureen Casey or Catherine Carlson to donate new or
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Our community service committee co-chairs, Maureen Casey and Rhonda Prodzinski, have helped oversee our club’s service projects for this Rotary year, and it has been quite a productive year. We have conducted an average of one project per month, with a wide variety of projects to appeal to club members’ interests. We have provided many opportunities
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We now have another little free library, built and installed by club member Ken Morin, located near the Redeemer Lutheran Church on north Lancaster Drive. The library is right in front of the community garden containing the raised garden beds we built originally at the now-closed La Placita Community Center. It is also located next
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This project, sponsored by the former Salem Sunrise Rotary Club, was organized by Rhonda Prodzinski, Bob Thomas, and Evan Sorce. As of May 8th, 45 new bicycle helmets and 5 refurbished bikes have been distributed to children in the Grant and Highland school communities. A total of 50 new helmets and 5 bikes will be
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We had six club members and three Blanchet students show up for our Market Street cleanup session on Saturday, May 8th. The work was completed in about an hour and a half, and our awesome volunteers included three students and East Salem club members Rhonda Prodzinski, Kevin Mannix, Ken Morin, Keith Martin, Evan Sorce and
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Blanchet Catholic School is conducting a book drive this week for our Little Free Libraries. Classrooms have book collection bins, and students will collect the books, place East Salem Rotary labels in them, and deliver them to the East Salem Community Center for distribution to the libraries. We appreciate the support of Blanchet students to
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Four hard-working Blanchet Catholic School students showed up on Wednesday, April 21st to help weed and clean up the La Casita Community Garden in preparation for spring planting. The learning garden for children was built approximately 9 years ago by members of the Rotary Club of East Salem. Joining the students were club members Maureen
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