Rainier Valley Rotary Club

PROJECTS & RECENT PROGRAMS

LITERACY:

Bringing Literacy to the Youths of Rainier Valley. We are proud sponsor literacy programs at Franklin HS, Rainier Beach HS, Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK Jr.), Kimball & Van Asselt Elementary Schools. Current Projects:

Little Free Libraries-for home fronts, schools and businesses in Columbia City/Hillman City.

xbot robotics - Franklin HS team xbot, a nationally recognized competition robotics team. Each year, FHS students work side by side with professional engineers: design, build & program 120 lb robotis in six and 1/2 short weeks!
850-page Picture Dictionaries distributed to third graders at S. Shore, Graham Hill, St. Edwards Elementary Schools.
Financial support for SEED's application for a low-power FM Radio License
MLK Robotics - Fun with Lego Mindstorms
Kimball Cougars – Fun with WeDo Robotics
MLK Elemantary Teacher Grants

Providing COMMUNITY, INTERNATIONAL, & VOCATIONAL Services
for Rainier Valley of Seattle.
Sadly RVRC is on pause as we restructure and recruit new members
RVRC will post meeting dates/times as soon as the restructuring is completed.

March 17 - Limbs for U - Rick Toms

Start: 03/17/2015 - 07:30

End: 03/17/2015 - 08:30

There are literally thousands of children in Sierra Leone (on hold until medical crisis changes) who need new braces or limbs. Limbs for U recycles and refurbishes braces and limbs in the U.S. for children who need them.

http://www.limbsforu.org/home

On one of my many visits to Soweto – the largest black township in South Africa – in a particular section called White Center, I happened to witness a school bus full of children who were being dropped off. As the children were getting off the bus I noticed one particular girl. Her right leg below the knee had been amputated.

March 3 Program: Sally Bailey - SE Seattle Tool Library

Start: 03/03/2015 - 07:30

End: 03/03/2015 - 08:30

Do you need tools for repairs, upgrades, tune-ups, gardening? Are you short of space to store all the tools you already have?

Sally Bailey, Co-Founder, SE Seattle Tool Library

Mar 10: Lori Marcoux: "Transforming Your Work With Service"

Start: 03/10/2015 - 07:28

End: 03/10/2015 - 08:31

Lori Marcoux is serving as Vocational Service chair for the 3100 Rotary club members in the Seattle area - and their 50 Rotary Clubs. Her vocation is leadership training, with a focus on intensive many-day immersion workshops - learning to lead on a relationship model instead of the traditional top-down model taught in business schools.

Come find out how transforming your work through service to your community helps relieve boredom, burnout, and more...

Calendar

Feb. 3 Mtg. - Club Projects and Events Planning

Start: 02/03/2015 - 07:29

End: 02/03/2015 - 08:29

Location: Donna Lew's home.

Please bring your ideas on program speakers we'd like to see in 2015.

Jan. 20 Program - Crime Prevention Through Enviornmental Design (CPTED)

Start: 01/30/2015 - 07:29

Crime Prevention Through Enviornmental Design is taught in all architecture schools.

Jan. 13 Program: Fred Quarnstrom, DDS "Open Wider - Your Wallet, NOT Your Mouth"

Start: 01/13/2015 - 07:28

End: 01/13/2015 - 08:31

Fred Quarnstrom, well-known S.E. Seattle dentist, and formerly a member of the Governor's Dental Quality Board, relates his experience watching too many of his colleagues become overcome with greed.

The numbers of gullible patients seem never-ending, as the flood of needless extractions, root canals, crowns, and cosmetic "smile fixes" increases each year.

January 6 Program: William "Bud" Wurtz: How To Benefit From "Reinventing" Yourself

Start: 01/06/2015 - 07:31

End: 01/06/2015 - 08:32

REINVENT YOUR FUTURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HOW TO CREATE THE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE - by William "Bud" Wurtz

Dec 23 Board Meeting @ Donna Lew's home

Start: 12/23/2014 - 07:32

End: 12/23/2014 - 08:32

Dec 23 Board Meeting @ Donna Lew's home. Send email to Dec 23 info@rainiervalleyrotary.org for address.

Bring your projects and ideas for the 2015 New Year!

Calendar

Dec. 16 Program - Marlena Nip: Seattle Tilth's "Just Garden"

Start: 12/16/2014 - 07:30

End: 12/16/2014 - 08:31

Just Garden educates and builds low-income families subsidized raised vegetable gardens. From the months of March-September, we host a Saturday build day where we build beds in a number of backyard, multi-family, giving and faith gardens. Every month we are looking for volunteers to help with the builds.