Past grant recipients from the Port Huron Rotary Charitable Foundation include:

   Baker College of Port Huron Scholarship

   Blue Water Council Boy Scouts

   COA Senior Olympics

   DARE Dance

   Disabled American Veterans

   Earth Learning Adventures, Inc.

   Friday Food for Kids

   International Symphony Orchestra

   Native American History & Culture Assn.

   PHASD Dictionary Program

   SONS 

   SC4 Scholarship

   Sister City Artists Exchange Program

   YMCA of the Blue Water Area

   4H Urban Gardens

In addition the Port Huron Rotary sponsors the annual International Days Parade, the traditional start of Blue Water Festival in July.

The $125 ticket for the Three Grand Slam begins paying off for the purchasing by providing for dinner for two, with the menu options including Filet Mignon, Stuffed Chicken with dill, havarti cheese and prosciutto ham, and Vegetarian options.

But the greater portion of the evening's fun activity involves the silent and live auction items, the 50/50 drawing tickets sales, and the big cash drawings...each $125 ticket is also an automatic entry into a series of drawings throughout the night. 

The cash drawings begin with one-in-ten chances at $100, and continue until the last three tickets are drawn, all for large cash prizes, the final ticket drawn for the titular prize of three grand--$3,000 in cash.

Contact any Port Huron Rotarian for your ticket purchase. 2011-12 Port Huron Rotary Club President Phil Davisson (810.300.2776) or Club Treasurer Karen Farr (810.300.1921).

Port Huron Rotary Club’s next exchange student is VesaSIVULA who  is from Mikkeli, in the southof Finland and north east of Helsinki, the capital city.  Mikkeli is two hours from Helsinki and is inthe beautiful lakes area.  Milleli wasimportant as the center of Finnish defense against the Russians in WWII.

He is 17 years old high school student and has two brothers,a twin and another younger one.  Hisfather is a project development manager for a global construction companycalled Skanska.  He travels a lot and hasa Master’s of Science degree.  His motheris a dental nurse and works in a small private healthcare company.

His favorite sport is soccer but also likes ice hockey, skating,floorball, and beach volleyball.  His favoriteschool topics are math, history and geography. He like cars and global politics. He was elected class president twice.

He says about himself:”I think that I have a pretty positiveway to live….”  He likes all kinds offood and helps preparing food.  Hedislikes pineapple yogurt and bananas which he says is not significant.

His goal is to go to college.  My future job will be something that issocial and meaningful.  I do not have afavorite profession.

Vesa will be with the Port Huron Rotary Club until themiddle of July, 2012. While we have a first host family, Rotary prefers to havethree different host families.  Thereason is that culture is in the home, and this give the student a widerexperience by have more than one host family.   There are a number of conferences that hewill be required to attend and transportation is provided by Rotary for hisattendance.  The student exchange isthrough Central States Rotary Youth Exchange and is sanctioned by the StateDepartment whose rules we are required to follow.  The student is the responsibility of RotaryYouth Exchange.  If you are interestedand what to know more about hosting and Vesa please contact:

Jim Warwick

810-956-6230 cell

810-982-1922 home

810-987-7323 ext. 139 work

August 8, 2011