| Posted by Annette Smith on May 18, 2013
On May 18th, during pouring rain and wind, the brave souls of Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club came together to work at the Arboretum. Well....and to party a little bit......and eat really really good food!! We washed the greenhouse, dug rocks, shoveled and hauled topsoil and D1 in wheelbarrows......and generally reaffirmed that our decision to go to college all those many years ago was the right one! I don't think anyone was walking totally upright when we left! And I am sure there was a run on Advil in the drug store! You will never find a harder working group of Rotarians, anywhere!! For More photos - follow this link - Click Here for more Photos 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on May 11, 2013
Whoot Whoot! Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club received one of three awards handed out today! We received the Most Effective Community Partnership Project award for our Juneau Afterschool Coalition Project! Thanks to Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club members and especially Kevin Ritchie for your hard work and financial donations to this project! And you wonder why I call us the Most Awesome Rotary Club!! 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on May 11, 2013
Our very own adopted son, Alex Peterburs, received many applause during and two standing ovations after his presentation at District Conference! He presented with great passion the projects the Juneau Interact Club is involved in! He was so great that he received a long applause after the question was raised about him being a future Rotary International President! Alex.....you rock!! Update! I just uploaded Alex's speech to YouTube. You can see it in its entirety at the below link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAFFiSsRgeI&feature=youtu.be 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on May 10, 2013
Juneau Gastineau Rotarians, along with Rotarians from Juneau Downtown and Glacier Valley are attending the District 5010 Conference in Ketchikan. It is quite a gathering! 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Apr 06, 2013
We have so many talented members in our club! Colleen Torrence, Amy Lujan, Jill Matheson, and our very own adopted son....Alexander Janek Peterburs! And Alex's hair was tamed!! Whoot! The concert tonight rocked!! 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Mar 28, 2013
Our greeter, Linda Blefgen was the Easter Bunny today! She handed out Easter eggs filled with chocolate treats to everyone! Yea!! It was quite a day for the Juneau-Gastineau Rotary Club!! 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Mar 28, 2013
Today we welcomed two new Paul Harris fellows! Chuck Cohen received his Paul Harris +1 and John Wynne received his Paul Harris + 2! Whoo Hoo!! This club rocks! 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Mar 28, 2013
Today, our Happy bucks changed from money to Happy socks! Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club supported the High School Interactors in their sock drive! And did we bring in the socks!! Juneau Gastineau you are awesome! And so are these young people!! What great projects they work on! These socks will be distributed to orphanages around the world, and half of them will stay in the United States and used for disaster relief! You all rock!! 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Mar 14, 2013
Today JG Rotary Club awarded Paul Harris pins to 9 members! Whoo Hoo!! What an awesome group of folks! Many congrats to (from Left to Right) Robert Minch (PH+4), Linda Blefgen (PH+3), Julie Olson (PH+2), Dixie Weiss (PH+3), JoAnn Lott(PH+2), Jill Matheson (PH+4), Claudette Kreuzenstein (PH+2), Annette GE Smith (PH+4), and Dale Staley (PH+2)!! And....we have another 9 awards to be given!! 
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| Posted by Paul Dick on Mar 09, 2013
Foodland IGA, Super Bear and Fred Meyers. Help us fill the shelves of the Southeast Alaska Foodbank! The results are in!! And Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club won!! - Juneau Downtown Club (Fred Meyers) 1,110 pds
- Juneau Gastineau with Rotaract (Foodland IGA) 2,390 pds
- Glacier Valley Club (Super Bear) 1,514 pds
Total brought in was 5,014 pounds! That's amazing And the FoodBank sends its thanks to all the Rotary Clubs for their work!! Great job, everyone!! |
| Posted by Annette Smith on Mar 07, 2013
On March 7th, we were honored to host Governor Bill Sheffield as our guest speaker. He spoke on the InState Gas Pipeline, HB4. After, he took time to talk with all our club members who wanted to ask further questions. And, he took time for some photo opportunities. Here he is with our two Outbound Foreign Exchange Students. 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Feb 08, 2013
WOW!! We had a fireside on February 8th at Rockwell and what a turn out!! We were treated to some awesome hors' douevres and tasted wines and beer! Conversation was great! How could it not be with such an amazing group of people there!! 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Feb 07, 2013
Today we had the great honor to host Governor Sean Parnell at the Juneau-Gastineau Rotary Club. We were prepared for a speech on oil taxes, but he surprised us by asking us what we wanted him to address. Subjects ran from off shore oil revenue sharing, education funding, SLAM funding, health care with the new affordable health care act, his goals for this session, etc. He addressed each subject thoughtfully and clearly had thought out his positions taking the best interest of the State at heart. We appreciated the fact that he took time out of his busy schedule (especially during the Legislative Session) to spend time with us! What a great way to start the day!! 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Dec 27, 2012
Wow! We didn't have a meeting on the 27th, but did have the Glory Hole cooking project! And boy, did we ever have a great turn out! What an amazing group of people we have in this club! And they brought their kids! I can honestly say...dinner was prepared by the youth! Our members have awesome kids (well...ok....they really are awesome young adults!)!! 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Dec 20, 2012
Thursday night the Juneau Rotaracters assembled 200 Christmas dinner boxes for families who would not be able to have a Christmas dinner without them. This is an amazing project managed by our young people! The budget is $10,000 and they collect enough Super Bear Price Smashers to pay about $3,000 of it. Each box contains a turkey, stuffing, dinner rolls, pie crusts, jello, celery, onions, potatoes, yams, green beans or corn, whipped cream, candy canes, cranberry sauce, marshmallows, evaporated milk, canned fruit and a bunch of other stuff. There were fifty boxes that will have a surprise gas card in them. Northland Services provides space and pallets, and trucks, etc. These young adults are truly amazing!! What an awesome project! And....they had the boxes all put together in less than 1/2 hour! See More Dinner Box Project Photos 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Dec 20, 2012
Well! Santa's elves were very busy planning our annual Christmas meeting! It was a time of fun and laughter and good food and wonderful Christmas carols and stories of Chrismas in Germany.....and....and... We even had homemade Pfeffernuesse cookies! What a great meeting the Christmas committee put on! 
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| Posted by Claudette Kreuzenstein on Dec 15, 2012
Members of the Juneau-Gastineau Rotary Club shared in the fun of bell ringing for the Salvation Army. You could even hear some of them singing!!! View more photos. . . .
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Dec 13, 2012
The Juneau-Gastineau Rotary Club put on our Christmas Program for the Juneau Pioneers' Home on December 13th. We provided the tree, presents for each of the residents, and sang Christmas carols. It was loved by all. . .but Santa (Eric) was the biggest hit of all!! Thanks to Marie for all her amazing work for organizing this wonderful annual event! 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Dec 06, 2012
Thanks to our very own Deb Barry (owner of Rockwell) who provided the incredable Hors d'ouevres, and John DeCherney (Specialty Imports) who provided a great variety of wines. The three Rotary Clubs of Juneau had an amazing reception for our District 5010 Governor, Peggy Pollen! 
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| Posted by Annette Smith on Oct 13, 2012
 In the pouring rain, the worst weather possible three of our unsung heros completed the fencing and gate at the Arboritum! Lloyd Coogan, Eric Carver and James Bibb took time out of their busy season, braved really rotten weather and completed our Arboritum project! They did such a great job, the Arboritum wants them to do another gate project! You guys rock!! |
| Posted by Claudette Kreuzenstein on Nov 09, 2012
 The JDHS Interact Club annually sleeps outside in cardboard boxes, to bring awareness of the more than 200 homeless teens currently living in Juneau. The money raised during this fund raiser goes to help provide simple, basic necessities for these Juneau teens.
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| Posted by Claudette Kreuzenstein on Sep 15, 2012
Thank you Juneau Rotary for a fabulous event. Already looking forward to it next year. President Annette and Deb Barry work the RotaryBulbs.com booth during the Brewfest. If you haven't ordered your bulbs yet, visit RotaryBulbs.com to place your order or contact a Rotarian.  |
| Posted by Claudette Kreuzenstein on Aug 03, 2012
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August 9 - October 1
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| Posted by Candy Behrends on Jun 02, 2012
 Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club Day at the Lake last week was a huge success! We sold all the hot dogs, all the chips and all the soda! It certainly made for a quicker clean up! As always it was a big team event and most club members participated. The community turned out in their rain gear and kids were having great good fun fishing, eating and winning prizes at the carnival games. |
| Posted by Candy Behrends on May 10, 2012
Our very first exchange student, from Vladivostok, Russia, returned for a visit last week. Twenty years ago this August, Sasha became Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club's first exchange student. Since returning home he became an emergency room physician, married and has a lovely teenaged daughter. He told that club that being an exchange student made a huge impact on his life. |
| Posted by Claudette Kreuzenstein on Jan 20, 2012
Peggy Pollen, 5010 District Governor 2012-2013 shared that India just passed its one years anniversary with no cases of polio reported! What great news and you are all a part of this success. And if that wasn't good enough, at the Rotary International Assembly on January 17, 2012, John Germ, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, announced the Foundation is giving Rotary a grant for $50 million dollars as a THANK YOU for the early closure of the last matching grant they presented to Rotary. |
| Posted by Claudette Kreuzenstein on Jan 19, 2012
Please join us at the Juneau Rotary Club’s 11th Annual Wine Tasting & Auction February 10, 2012, 6:00 - 8:30 pm at Mendenhall Auto Center. |
| Posted by Claudette Kreuzenstein on Jan 18, 2012
Today we loaned $1,339.29, in 13 loans in Kenya, South America, Samoa and Eastern Europe. We completed a number of loans enabling the money to be disbursed to the applicants. Click more...to view a world map of where we have Microloans through KIVA. |
| Posted by Candy Behrends on Dec 10, 2011
Pawel and John W took a shift at Fred Meyers ringing the Salvation Army bell. Always a friendly competition between the Rotary clubs to see who can collect the most money in our pots, but the winner is the Salvation Army and the good they can do in the community with the money we collect. |
| Posted by Linda Blefgen
Let's keep up the momentum and go for a 2012 Highest per Capita Giving Award! Get ready to bid and bid high at the JGR Foundation Auction - Thursday, December 15th! Auction donations continue to be accepted - the more the better! 
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| Posted by Candy Behrends on Oct 03, 2011
It's almost time once again for our amazing Foundation Auction! Foundation Chair Colleen will be gathering items to auction off. Just this last weekend, lucky bid winners of the Italian progressive dinner cashed in. Amy, PeggyAnn and Pam put this dinner up for auction, and it was amazing! |
| Posted by Claudette Kreuzenstein on Oct 10, 2011
ClubRunner Mobile App Now Available! Download it free on the Apple App Store. Read More. Not all functions are available, but it's great having access to the member directory, stories, and club locator while on the go. |
| Posted by Candy Behrends on Sep 04, 2011
Pawel was anxious to learn American football. Looks like he's a natural, scoring a touch down in his first game! Follow Pawel's exchange student adventures in the Photo Journal section of this web site. |
| Posted by Candy Behrends
Fun and fellowship while we packaged bulbs for the distribution on Saturday. It just wasn't the same without our perennial bulb queen, Gayle. We managed to make it through the sale as well as the sorting and packaging without her amazing organizing skills...but we sure do miss her! See more photos in the Photo Journal! |
| Posted by Margie Germain on Apr 29, 2011
- November 5-13, 2011 – Literacy
- December 10-18, 2011
- January 7-15, 2012 – Vision
- February 18-26, 2012 - Interact
- March 10-18, 2012 – Literacy
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| Posted by Candy Behrends
Every bulb chair puts their spin on the job. All have been fun and unique and this year is certainly no exception! It's going to be a lot of fun! |
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| Posted by Candy Behrends on Oct 03, 2011
Members of the Juneau Gastineau scholarship committee attended the scholarship breakfast at the University of Alaska Southeast last week. Student recipients gathered with scholarship donors at a breakfast hosted by UAS. We had a wonderful opportunity to visit with one of the recipients of our JGR scholarships as well as with Olivia, a recipient of the Downtown Rotary clubs scholarship. How fun too that Olivia is good friends with Marianna, our exchange student...5 ,students ago! |
| Posted by Carl Ferlauto
Where do I find things on this Site?
This site is still relatively new and growing. While we organize the information under sections, some of it may be harder to find. Click on this story to access the INFO guide. |