As part of a district-wide grant from last Rotary year, our club, along with all other Salem-area clubs, provided some volunteer time at the Marion Polk Food Share. Thanks very much to the four East Salem Rotary club members who volunteered their time at the Food Share on Tuesday, November 10th: Maureen Casey, Rhonda Prodzinski,
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Our club has now installed six Little Free Libraries in the east Salem area, including at the Swegle branch of the Boys & Girls Club. Check out this quote from the Swegle Branch director of the Boys & Girls Club: “…the kids LOVE the Little Library. I overhear them asking their parents if they can
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Four club members–Maureen Casey, Pat Mack, Rich Mackie and Catherine Carlson–participated in weeding the beautiful outdoor learning garden our club built in 2014 at the Swegle branch of the Boys & Girls Club. The garden has been in need of some TLC for a while, and we cleaned up at least half of the raised
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Our club now has thirteen Little Free Libraries to distribute to our east Salem community. East Salem Rotary labels are being applied to the libraries and to the books stocked in the libraries. We have installed Little Libraries at the Seymour Family Resource & Child Development Center, the DHS Self Sufficiency Office, St. Vincent de
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Our club has completed the building of ten Little Free Libraries, and three more have been donated for our east Salem community. Thank you to Ken Morin and Ted Mack, who have helped build most of these libraries. Ted Mack has purchased a plaque honoring longtime club member Phil Sperl, and it will be displayed
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Our first group service project of the Rotary year took place at Lee Mission Cemetery, located at 2104 D St. NE., on Saturday, September 5th. Located in the east Salem area, it is Salem’s oldest cemetery, and is in need of a little gardening TLC. This cemetery is closely tied to Oregon history, and is
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Our club has completed the building of nine Little Free Libraries for our east Salem community. Thank you to several of our club members for agreeing to help build some of these libraries. We have had labels printed for the outside of the libraries that indicate they are provided by the Rotary Club of East
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Our annual East Salem Rotary flower basket fundraiser was a great success! We partnered once again with Kamis Nursery, and the money we raised will help us provide college scholarships for local seniors in the upcoming school year. Many thanks to all the club members who helped to make this fundraiser such a success!
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Mission accomplished! Market Street cleanup crew from Saturday, February 22nd. There are 30 storm drains in our section of the street we clean up every quarter and we are doing our part to keep our waterways garbage free. Thank you to club members and friends for taking the time to keep our streets clean and
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East Salem Rotary Club members stepped up once again to participate in the annual Salvation Army bell ringing at East Salem Fred Meyer on Friday, December 6th. This continues our annual tradition of supporting the Salvation Army to help meet the needs of those less fortunate in our community. Thanks to all who participated in
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