Vienomari, our inbound exchange student from Finland, enjoyed a visit to the capitol this week with club member and local representative Kevin Mannix. It was a great opportunity for her to see the beautiful capitol building and get to watch legislation in action.
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East Salem Rotarians volunteered again this year for The Fostering Hope Initiative, which recently hosted a holiday event with pop-up shopping and gift wrapping for local families in need. For many of these children, the gift from the event will be the only one they will have under their tree. Parents received gifts, stocking stuffers,
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Ranae Quiring, principal of McKay High School, welcomed East Salem Rotary members to the school for our meeting on Friday, December 16th. We had a fun time, and it was nice to continue this tradition of meeting at McKay right before the holiday break. We also celebrated Rotary students of the month from Waldo and
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After a break in hosting foreign exchange students due to the pandemic, East Salem Rotary is happy to welcome our current inbound student, Vienomari from Finland. She arrived here on August 21st and has been getting to know her first host family and signing up for classes at Blanchet Catholic School, which she will attend
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Our book drive at the Book Bin in Salem started last Friday, and will continue until September 23rd. Books are on display for customers to purchase and donate for our 11 busy little libraries in the east Salem area. Our book drive was recently featured in the Salem Reporter–CLICK HERE to read the article.
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The Rotary Club of East Salem has built and installed eleven Little Free Libraries in the east Salem area. Club members have adopted each of these libraries and refill them with books on a regular basis. These libraries, which are heavily used, help build literacy skills that enable children to be ready for kindergarten, graduate
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Seven East Salem Rotary Club members and a group of youth from the Boys & Girls Club’s Oregon Youth Corps removed trash from Market Street on Friday. These youth are participating in a summer internship that provides workforce opportunities to underserved youth that focus on conservation and restoration projects. We appreciated the help from such
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This month, East Salem Rotarians once again provided literacy materials for children at the second annual Northgate Park Fun Fridays event. This is a summer-long community event sponsored by the Hallman Neighborhood Family Council. Our club members provided a free book for each child who stopped by. We are very grateful that the Salem-Keizer School
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Volunteers conducted a cleanup of the learning garden located at the Boys & Girls Club Swegle branch on May 11th. East Salem Rotary members built the garden in 2014, and it was overgrown with grass and weeds. East Salem Rotary club members, two staff members of the Boys & Girls Club, and three students from
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Three hard-working Blanchet Catholic School students joined East Salem Rotary club members on April 6th to clean up the learning garden the club built in 2012 for children served by the Family Resource Center located next to the garden. The students received a tour of the center and learned about how it supports the needs
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