| Posted by Warren Bobrow
The Rotary Art, Music and Speech Contests are here! Entrants must currently be enrolled inhigh school (Westchester or St. Bernards) or home schooled at the highschool level in Westchester or Playa del Rey.
Acceptable media for the art contest: Oil, watercolor, drawing, photograph, sculpture.The music contest is open to musicians of orchestral instruments and to singers. Applicants must provide their accompanist if necessary. For the speech contest, speeches shall be between 4-6 minutes with a 30-second grace period. Contestants will be disqualified if the speech does not fall within the allotted time. Speaker shall identify a current challenge within their family, school, community, state, nation, or abroad and answer: “How can one solve this problem by using Rotary's Four Way Test?"
Entrants will compete at the Westchester Club level during February 2012. Club winner will win a cash prize of between $200 and $1,000 for each discipline, in the sole discretion of the Westchester Rotary Club vocational chairman. Club winners in each discipline will advance to the district finals on or about March 3, 2012. Awardsof $1,000, $500, and $250 will be given to the top three district finishers. District winners in each discipline should be available to attend at the District 5280 Annual Conferencein San Diego on Saturday, April 21, 2012. Art work will be displayed at conference.
Applicants must complete application, which includes parental permission for contestants under age 18.
For details and an application, you may contact Edgar Saenz, Westchester Rotary Clubvocational chair, (310) 753-1668.
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
You can support the Westchester Rotary Club as a calendar ad sponsor. Contact Rod Tyler for details and how our members and friends will see your ad for a full month! Use the link below to purchase your ad today ($200 for Black and White, $300 for Color).
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
This year's Progressive Dinner is a SELL OUT! Thank you for helping us raise money for the Westchester YMCA's Youth & Government program.
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
Join Westchster Rotary for a night of amazing food, drink and fellowship as we're hosted by four hotels on Century Blvd for a progressive dinner. All proceeds go to benefit the YMCA Youth & Government Program. Tickets are $95, are limited and go fast, so don't miss out! To purchase tickets, please contact Laurie Hughes (lhughes@gatewaytola.org) or click on More. Note that there will be a 4% surcharge for using PayPal.
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
The 57th annual Westchester Rotary Booksale is 5/27 to 6/4 in the Ralph's parking lot at Sepulveda and Manchester. All proceeds to towards supporting our community and international service programs, such as Teacher Mini-Grants, scholarships and clean water projects. If you have books to donate, contact Rod Tyler at 310 677-6132 or look for our barrels at the YMCA and around Westchester. |
| Posted by Warren Bobrow
Our annual fundraiser at the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach is Friday, February 11th from 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm. Proceeds go towards supporting our community service (Home Makeover) and international service (Thai clean water and orphanage) projects. Tickets are $75 each. To purchase tickets, please contact Heather Martillo at (310) 622-4821, hmartillo@renovagroup.com
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
Check out local exchange students working on the Rotary float for this year's Rose parade here. |
| Posted by Warren Bobrow
Our Extreme Home Makeover project is coming Jan 27-30, 2011. To donate to the project, click here. Volunteer information will be coming soon.
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
Join us and the LAX Coastal Young Professionals for the Heal the Bay Beach "Clean & Crawl," EXCLUSIVELY sponsored by the Rotary Club of Westchester, on Saturday, September 18 at 10 am at Toes Beach in Playa del Rey. The clean-up will go from 10 am-12 pm, followed by a local restaurant "crawl" from Outlaws Bar & Grill to Mo's Place and finally, to The Shack. Help us serve our community and support local business simultaneously!
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
Our Club welcomed 35 New Zealand students (and two chaperones) on the first leg of their International Youth Exchange. They went to Disneyland/CA Adventure and Universal studios during the day. In the evening they were hosted for dinner by our Club on one night, and by the Westchester/St. Bernard's/El Segundo Interact Clubs the other night. You can see pictures at
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
In response to the disaster in Haiti, Westchester Rotarians donated generously to purchase 3 ShelterBoxes for the survivors. Visit ShelterBox's website ( http://www.shelterboxusa.org/) for more information on how you can donate.
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
This year's progressive dinner to benefit the YMCA's Youth in Government program will be held on Sunday, August 9th beginning at 5pm at the LAX Marriott. Every year the food and fellowship are great, and this year's will be no exception. If you've reserved tickets, but haven't yet paid, you can use your PayPal account by using the Add to Cart button. Or, you can pay by check to the Westchester Rotary Foundation, PO Box 91543, LA, CA 90009
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
Westchester Rotary and the Westchester High, St. Bernard's and El Segundo High Interactors welcomed 44 New Zealand International Youth Exchange students and their chaperones Mel and Zandra Cook to Los Angeles for 4 days.
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| Posted by Stephen Van de Wetering
Thanks to everyone who made this Halloween a little better for some needy kids. |
| Posted by Warren Bobrow
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| Posted by Stephen Van de Wetering
The Westchester "Read to Kids";Literacy program for Spring 2008 startedearly April and ended in May. It was geared to the primary grades at 7local schools, 18 volunteers from the members, spouses and friendsspent time reading to the first grade kids. Each volunteer read to atleast one classroom per visit, many of them made more than 2 visits atdifferent schools. The books were read separately during a 30-minutevisit. Each classroom received a copy of each book that was read. Ourgoal is to interest children in reading and it has been anothersuccessful program that we have done in our community. |
| Posted by Geoff Maleman
Westchester Rotarians joined a band of more than 130 volunteers to makeover the home of Jackie Hunt and her 17-year-old son, Wesley. In 2001, at the age of just 46, Jackie suffered a massive stroke that severely affected her speech, left her bound to a wheelchair and changed her life forever. Once vibrant and active, she struggled to do the things we all take for granted - brushing her teeth, cleaning her house and using her nearly inaccessible bathroom. To make matters worse, Jackie is slowly losing her eyesight as a result of retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited disease that is gradually shrinking her field of vision. |
| Posted by Warren Bobrow
You can pay your dues or for other Rotary events using the Pay Now button below. Note that a 4% handling charge will be added to the amount.
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| Posted by Warren Bobrow
ClubRunner makes it easy to publish your eBulletin, and send to all your members and friends. |