Dear Fellow Rotarians,
We were pleased this past Thursday to have our fall Teachers Recognition award. The recipient was Veronica Flores who is a 7th grade English as a second language teacher at La Colina Jr. High. She had her husband and the Principal from La Colina join the event along with our long-time collaborator from the county, Steve Keithley. We were reminded that we’ve been supporting this initiative since 1983, which is a tremendous track record for honoring our local teachers.
As you may have seen in an email from Stephanie Ornani, we’ll have a service opportunity next Tuesday from 8am - noon helping our own Nate Grotenhuis decorate a room for a neurodivergent client, Sylvia, in the community. In conjunction with a grant that our foundation provided, ArtLabbe is doing a home makeover project that’ll be turned into a documentary. The hope is to submit the documentary to film festivals, bring awareness to the concept, and then raise additional funds to continue to do more home makeovers for the neurodivergent community in the future. It’s a great concept that our own club is a key player in initiating. If you’d like to assist on Tuesday morning, please reach out to Nate at nate@artlabbe.org.
Lastly, we had the pleasure of hearing from local realtor, Adam Mckaig, on his non-profit initiative, Adam’s Angels, that has had a profound impact on the local community in providing basic needs to the homeless and low-income people that are on the fringes of society. It was spawned out of the pandemic, and has become a robust operation that serves our community where the government and other organizations have been unable to do so and is 100% volunteer.
Please note our next meeting will be Thursday, November 19th, where we’ll have the Fire Chief, Chris Mailes, as our guest speaker.
Dan Aldrich
Club President
