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Centennial
Projects
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Rotary
International has asked all the Rotary Clubs of the world to
do a special project to commemorate Rotary's Centennial.
These special projects will showcase the work of Rotary
around the world. We have asked the clubs in our Rotary
District to submit their projects to be included in this
list. We can all celebrate the great work the Rotary Clubs
of District 5340. If you do not see your club project on the
list, please submit it to hey-jude@prodigy.net. |
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District |
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The
official Centennial Project of Rotary District 5340 is the
Rotary Flag Court, at the new Petco ballpark for the San
Diego Padres. We expect The Rotary Flag Court to be a point of
interest for the television cameras as a bumper photo before
and after commercials.
This will heighten awareness of Rotary in our
District and the work of our clubs since the commentators
will talk about Rotary on air.
The
Rotary Flag Court will commemorate the service to our
country by our military veterans.
Our continuing relationship with the ballpark and The
San Diego Padres will give Rotarians the opportunity to use
the ballpark for special events.
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Blythe |
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The
Blythe Rotary Club has selected the establishment of an
"Official California Visitors' Center" at Blythe
as it's Centennial Project. The Visitors Center would
provide information and opportunities to visitors coming
into California. In addition to materials on the
recreation areas, including Sea World, Disneyland, and other
favorite sites for tourists, it would also include
information on other Cities and Chamber's of Commerce for
California visitors. Envisioned in the project is
information including the time, day and locations of Rotary
Club Meetings in the Southern California area. |
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Borrego
Springs |
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The
Rotary Club of Borrego Springs is building a new snack bar
for the Borrego Springs Little League organization. Our
members are building and helping to fund the project. Next
month we should have the building plans and then we can move
forward with the project.
Borrego
Springs is also partnering with the Mexicali Rotary Club on
their "100 Years, 100 Computers" Project that is
placing computer labs in to the local schools. Their goal is
to place 10 computers into 10 schools. |
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Brawley |
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The
Brawley Rotary Club has chosen to fund a Donor Wall
recognizing those who have donated to the Pioneers Memorial
Hospital Foundation. Our club was an original donor when the
Foundation was organized, and many of our members are
generous supporters. The wall has been completed and is
prominently displayed in the entrance lobby of Pioneers
Memorial Hospital in Brawley, at a cost of $18,000. In
addition to recognizing all donors to the Foundation,
including many hospital employees, there is an area on the
wall displaying the Rotary Wheel, along with an explanation
of Rotary and it's motto of "Service Above Self". |
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Calexico |
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Calexico
Rotary Club is working on a project in Mexicalli with Club
Oeste. Presently we are raising monies this year to
help autistic children there. They did receive a grant
from the Mexican government to build a trailer, but they do
not have the resources to run the program. We visited
the site and took pictures. The plan is to involve the
other Rotary groups in Mexicalli and in Imperial Valley in a
matching grant for next year. The program is run by
donations only. The autistic children that they are
currently helping have been at home somewhat contained to
one room and no one to care for them because the government
has only resources for the physically disabled and not the
mentally disabled. This school or hospital not only
teaches these children but also makes their parents aware
that these children with proper training can lead a somewhat
productive life. |
Carlsbad |
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The
Rotary Club of Carlsbad has generated $64,000.00 in cash and
"in-kind" contributions to help build an
affordable housing project in Escondido for low-income
families. The Carlsbad "Evening" Club has
partnered with Habitat for Humanity and received support
from the Carlsbad Hi-Noon, Vista and Escondido Sunrise
Rotary Clubs.
The
project, located on Hickory Street, will consist of 12 town
homes and is currently 60% completed. To learn how you might
assist in supporting the project please contact Craig
Colburn at 760-930-4056. |
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Carlsbad
Hi-Noon |
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Hosp
Grove Reforrestation
A
joint project between Carlsbad Hi Noon Rotary, Carlsbad High
School Interact club and the City of Carlsbad.
Thousands
of trees in the Hosp Grove in Carlsbad were dying and needed
to be replaced. Rotarians,
Interact members, and city employees planted and nurtured
new trees. They
beautified the grove and are now developing a community
park.
Over
1000 trees were planted. A new irrigation system was installed. More than 10 group work sessions took place in 2003.
Anticipated completion by June, 2004.
A
permanent sign commemorating the Rotary Centennial, Carlsbad
Hi Noon Rotary and the Interact Club of Carlsbad High School
will be erected on the property.
This project will be a major contribution to the
preservation of natural open space and the enjoyment of the
community. |
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Coronado |
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As
part of the city of Coronado's Business Area Development
Plan, the city intends to enhance and enlarge the current
Rotary Park in the center of the village on Orange Avenue.
Rotary Park will become Rotary Plaza which will become a
focal point and pedestrian centerpiece of the village.
Rotary
Club of Coronado will present the village with an
old-fashioned post clock to be placed in the plaza to
commemorate Rotary International's Centennial Year. It
will be a two-sided Howard Post Clock that will be a little
over 11 feet tall with a 2 foot diameter face. It
will be Coronado forest green with gold trim. In the
center of the face will be the Rotary emblem. The
numbers will be old Fashioned Roman style except for the
four which will be IIII instead of the traditional IV.
The clock adjusts automatically for daylight savings
changes, and if power is interrupted, it resets itself when
power is restored.
The
clock has been ordered and is scheduled for dedication on
Wednesday February 23, 2005, a regularly scheduled club
meeting day, and the 100th Anniversary of Rotary
International. |
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Del
Mar |
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The
San Dieguito River Park plan for constructing the main
entrance to the Park at the north edge of the San Dieguito
River in Del Mar’s back yard has been started, yet the
financial resources to build the interpretive signs had not
yet been secured. Our project is to assist in this endeavor.
The
San Dieguito River Park is a 55-mile-long river preserve
spanning the San Diego River from the ocean at Del Mar to
the mountains north of Julian—a bold vision begun 15 years
ago that is now well on its way to becoming realized.
Currently 2/3 of the 50,000-acre river park planning area is
in protected public ownership and is under the management of
a Joint Powers Authority of six local governments. When
complete, the Park will be one of the San Diego region’s
most noble achievements, perhaps rivaling the San Diego Zoo,
and an undertaking on the scale of a national park. It is
already a widespread community resource with miles of
hiking, biking and equestrian trails, nature interpretive
centers, and access to open space that will continue to
enhance the lives of all San Diegans.
Rotary
Club of Del Mar’s Centennial Project will construct the 18
exhibit bases for the nature interpretive signs being
prepared by area biologists and install them along the
beginning of the path looking out over the lagoon in front
of the park headquarters. The club will also build the path
leading from the parking area to the hiking trail in front
of the interpretive exhibits. |
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Del
Mar Solana Beach Sunrise |
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The
Del Mar Solana Beach Sunrise Club has chosen to fund the
expansion of the Solana Vista School Garden classroom by
building an 8 X 12 greenhouse, a permanent shade teaching
area, a picket fence mural, an arbor entrance and a plaque
to commemorate the project.
Solana
Vista School wanted to deviate from the typical
classroom-based teaching environment. "We were
interested in developing a unique program that would not
only provide students with a new found respect for the world
they live in, but would also expand their knowledge of
real-life necessities," said Steve Ludwiczak, principal
at Solana Vista.
As
such, the school chose to have its students learn from an
actual environment, bringing to life the "Growing
Discoveries Garden" program. This consists of fourteen
raised garden beds tended to by the students. The garden
program provides high quality, creative, hands-on
experiences to connect academic concepts with real-life
circumstances, developing an active construction of meaning
based on prior knowledge and learning. Consequentially, the
connections created between academic subjects and nature
incorporate the curriculum standards for all grade levels. |
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El
Cajon |
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Dictionary
Project
El
Cajon Noon Club will distribute approximately 1900
dictionaries which will be published in both English and
Spanish to all the third grade students in the El Cajon
School Districts. |
El
Camino Real |
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The
Rotary Club of El Camino Real is pleased to announce its
Centennial Project for the Rotary Year 2004-5. Our club has
completed the fundraising and has implemented the following
literacy project. We are donating 100 books to each of the
elementary schools in the Oceanside Unified School District.
They are books published by Scholastic Books and are age
appropriate for the second, third and fourth grade levels.
These books are donated with the intent to have them as part
of the classroom libraries at each school, and will be
periodically rotated from classroom to classroom so that
each student will have access to all 100 books prior to the
end of the school year. The teachers have enthusiastically
welcomed this project, and publicity in local newspapers has
resulted in donations from community members. For further
information contact RHayes0421@aol.com. |
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Encinitas |
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Working
with DEMA (Downtown Encinitas Merchants Association) and the
city of Encnintas our club will be installing six (6) of the
old historic Mission Bells along Historic Highway 101. A
bronze 8x10 inch plaque will be placed in cement at the base
of the pole highlighting Rotary's Centennial celebration.
The first bell was installed in Los Angeles in 1906. As the
program grew they marked the route traveled to reach all the
21 missions from San Diego to San Francisco. |
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Escondido |
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Rotary
Club Safety Park is a new type of park that promotes safety during
recreation, and safety in all phases of the child’s
life. Our
goal is to help prevent accidental injuries and death by
educating children through an entertaining, involving,
hands-on experience.
Safety
Park will
be a 3-acre, child-sized, miniature town replica teaching
venue where Police Officers, Fire Fighters and other safety
professionals will teach kids important safety lessons in a
way that enables them to remember the safety lessons.
It will have a full-size classroom and several
appropriate indoor and outdoor teaching venues for
street, earthquake, fire, pool and water, electrical,
bicycle and recreational safety, plus how to make a 911
call. |
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Fallbrook |
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The
entry way into Fallbrook downtown is being re-done by the
county and roads are being re-routed. This will leave an
opportunity for a park and entry way into the downtown area
of Fallbrook. Fallbrook Rotary has been in discussions with
interested parties in Fallbrook and The County to make sure
that we can put together the entry part and/or entry
gateway. We are working with them to do this. This will be
our centennial project! We are very excited about this and
giving Rotary a beautiful presence within the entry way of
Fallbrook.
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Fallbrook
Village |
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The
Fallbrook Village Rotary has adopted "Improving
Children's Lives" as the theme for our centennial
project. The project focuses on health and emotional needs
of the children in our community. Type 2 on-set diabetes is
growing at an alarming rate nation-wide -- to epidemic
status! 1/3 of all children born this year will become
afflicted. Over 1/2 of all children from latino families are
at risk. Our club has created a community collaborative with
the Fallbrook Healthcare District, Fallbrook School
District, and local pediatricians to develop a community
education campaign, as well as medical screenings and
follow-up care, for all at risk children in our community.
To date, we have screened over 400 children and have made a
positive impact in the lives of several families. In
addition to our diabetes project activities, we are hosting
a Community Health Fair that is child-centric. Finally, we
are partnering with the Fallbrook Music Society to conduct a
special fund raiser to bring more music into the lives of
our children.
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La
Jolla Golden Triangle |
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The
La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club celebrates Rotary
International's Centennial by engaging members in all four
Avenues of Service to establish sister Rotary courtyard
clocks in two grade schools, Doyle Elementary in San Diego,
California, USA, and the Rotary School that the Club and its
donors have built in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. A plaque on
each clock reads
Sister
Cities Jalalabad and San Diego
Sister Schools Jalalabad Rotary School and Doyle Elementary
Under
the same sun and stars
We look upon this clock
And know that across the continents
Others are going to school,
learning lessons,
and going home to their families.
We
are citizens of the world.
February
2005
Rotary International Centennial
La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club
The
Jalalabad Rotary School was funded by foundation grants,
Rotarians and private donors. It was conceived, designed and
constructed through the efforts of the La Jolla Golden
Triangle Rotary Club, with assistance from the Uni-Town
Rotary Club in Peshawar, Pakistan and The Abdul Haq
Foundation.
The
identical two-sided forest green Howard post clocks are 11
feet tall with 2 foot diameter faces bearing the Rotary
wheel. One face in each clock will be set to San Diego time,
the other to Jalalabad time. A small plaque will dedicate
each location. The Jalalabad School clock will be powered by
battery, ensuring service without interruption.
The
clocks are being configured, and are scheduled for
dedication in February 2005, the 100th Anniversary of Rotary
International.
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La
Jolla Sunrise |
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La
Jolla Sunrise Rotary has initiated a twin club relationship
with the Rotary Club of Tiruchirapalli to provide
educational materials, uniforms and transportation to 500
children who will attend school for the first time ever
(working closely with the club president and the District
3000 Secretary)-providing a solution that has measurable
results.
In
conjunction with the Foundation for Women, La Jolla Sunrise
Rotary commits to bringing education to children of
microcredit borrowers for the first time in southern India
(matching grant completed November 2003)-a clear and
identifiable need.
Doing
service to the poorest of the poor living on less than $1
per day is a priority.
Current
goal in microcredit is to reach 100 million of those living
on less than $1 per day by the MicroCredit Summit 2005 (as
reported in December 5, 2003 issue of Barrons, 57 million
are currently being served).
A
partnership has been established between Vidiyal
Matriculation School in Trichy and La Jolla Country Day via
a pen pal program educating the students about each other
and both schools about Rotary, Trichy Rotarians are invited
to become involved in the school; La Jolla Sunrise Rotarians
invited to sponsor a child’s education in India for $25
per year and correspond with that child-active participation
by Rotarians and their children.
In
conjunction with the Foundation for Women, La Jolla Sunrise
Rotary is committed to the capital campaign and is actively
seeking partnerships to complete this first school building
in Trichy as well as the playground area.
System
of regular photos and emails keep the twin clubs connected
and involved; yearly visits to India scheduled.
In
February 2005 plaques to be given simultaneously to La Jolla
Sunrise Rotary, La Jolla Country Day and the Vidiyal
Matriculation School to commemorate the Rotary Centennial as
well as making the NGO in India a Paul Harris Fellow. For
more information contact Deborah Lindholm, Deborah@foundationforwomen.org
or phone 858-483-0400. |
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La
Mesa |
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Two
possible projects exist.
One is clocks in the downtown area of La Mesa.
The other is deploying defibrillators into the
community. |
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La
Mesa Sunrise |
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The
La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club has donated an ethics library
shelf unit and books to Helix Charter High School in La
Mesa. This ethics library has been incorporated into the
High School's existing Learning Resource Center. This ethics
library consists of books that assist readers in the
development of an ethical focus towards community service,
career, school, faith, and leisure activities. This library
unit also has a plaque of the Rotary 4-Way Test and the
Rotary Wheel mounted on the side. The books provide valuable
information for teachers, students, administrators, parents
and community members as they address various ethical issues
in their lives. |
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Poway |
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Boys
and Girls Club Playground
The
Rotary Club of Poway will finance and construct the
playground at the new Boys and Girls club of Poway.
Contribution in funds and labor valued at $30,000. |
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Ramona |
Rotary
Club of Ramona will place safety signs near all Ramona
school locations that say "Drive Carefully - Protect
Our Children". An auxiliary sign will be placed below
each sign saying "Ramona Rotary Club". The
fluorescent signs are 36" x 24". Between the
"Drive Carefully" and "Protect Our
Children" is a large Rotary Wheel. You can see a
picture of the signs in Russell Hampton Catalog No. 702,
page 112. When completed this Rotary year, Ramona Rotary
will have placed about 10 to 12 signs around town as a
legacy to the Centennial Year of Rotary. |
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Rancho
Bernardo |
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The
Rancho Bernardo Rotary Club is donating to the community a
Pedestal Clock to be located at the entrance to Webb Park.
The clock will be visible from Bernardo Center Drive and
conspicuously noted as a Rotary Clock. The cost of the
donation will be approximately $ 14,000 with the funds
coming from our club foundation and the Club accounts. It is
currently planned to have the clock installed this Rotary
year. |
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Rancho
Bernardo Sunrise |
The
Rancho Benardo Sunrise Rotary Club is proactively responding
to a community need for transportation provided to senior
citizens in the Rancho Bernardo/Poway area. As part of the
Rotary Centennial Project, RB Sunrise Rotary is working in
collaboration with the newly organized "Rides and
Smiles" program created by Jewish Family Services (JFS).
"Rides and Smiles" was created in direct response
to local and San Diego County cutbacks to the senior citizen
transportation program previously offered to seniors in this
geographic area. Literally NO organized program is offered
thru governmental subsidy effective in 2004, leaving
hundreds of seniors without the capacity to get to doctor's
appointments, shop or take care of the basic necessities of
life. The RB Sunrise Rotary has partnered with Jewish Family
Services, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization, to fill the
huge void left when the County took away senior buses. RB
Sunrise Rotary gave a grant of $5000 to JFS, representing
$100 per RB Sunrise Rotary Club's 50 active members
(symbolic of the Centennial number 100) to assist in
covering for the startup costs of "Rides and
Smiles". In addition ALL 50 active members of the RB
Sunrise Rotary will provide 2 rides each to needy seniors
totaling 100 rides for the Rotary Centennial Year! |
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Rancho
San Miguel |
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Rancho
San Miguel Rotary is working with the Heritage of the
Americas Museum to provide opportunities for children to
come to the museum by hiring buses to take approx 4th grade
students from local low income schools on field trips to the
museum. The classes that participate will be included
on a Rotary plaque that is going to hang in the museum.
The initial program is for this school year and next. |
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San
Diego |
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Rotary
Flag Court at Petco Park.
This is also the District Centennial Project. See
description at the top of this page. |
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San
Diego Downtown Breakfast |
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Senior
community Centers of San Diego
Donation
of kitchen equipment, patio furniture, raised planter beds
so that seniors can enjoy the outdoors and plant vegetable
and flower gardens. The
Center’s mission is “To provide quality and
compassionate services for the survival, health,and
independence of seniors living in poverty.”
They serve 1,000 meals daily not only to their
residents, but to other homeless seniors as well.
Any additional funds raised will be used to fund the
meal program. |
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San
Diego Paradise Valley |
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The
Rotary Club of San Diego Paradise Valley will hold a Global
Medical Mission in nine(9) medical camps in the Philippines,
Thailand, and Vietnam from June 22 to July 10, 2005. This
Global Medical Mission, in addition to its Misyones
Rizalinas Medical Mission for the eyes, is a yearly
undertaking of providing free medical treatments and free
medications to the underprivileged members of society.
Misyones Rizalinas treats patients suffering from Diabetic
Retinopathy, Macular Degeneration, or Retinal Detachments
with the Green Laser machine which the club owns and brings
to the missions. Misyones Rizalinas also owns intra-ocular
lenses which its volunteer ophthalmologists implants on
people with cataracts. The missionaries are volunteers from
the club and associates in the medical field who devote
their time and precious resources to this medical mission.
The amount of $100,000.00 have been budgeted for this Global
Medical Mission. Their main sponsor, Paradise Valley
Hospital, along with Healthcare Professionals and
Pharmaceutical companies donate both financially and their
products to this mission. |
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San
Marcos |
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The
Rotary Club of San Marcos has joined with the newly
renovated San Marcos Senior Center to enhance the "Tot
Lot", which is an area dedicated to seniors who can
relax, socialize, and interact with young children. We
needed to develop a concept, which was affordable to
implement and maintain. By securing a matching grant from
the San Marcos City Foundation, we were able to accomplish
both goals.
With
the creative guidance of San Marcos Rotary Community Service
Chair, Stephanie Mathews, a whimsical and friendly
seven-foot tall topiary dragon was designed by Topiary
Designer, Pat Hammer. The curious dragon appears to have
burrowed under the fence surrounding the "Tot
Lot". He is positioned so through his wire rim glasses
he can watch the children as they play and run underneath
his huge curving body. In addition, his positioning gives
the feeling that he can eavesdrop on a good story being read
by a doting grandma.
Ground
breaking was done on July 20, 2004. The dragon will be
installed, with plants positioned to fill in the enormous
frame. In spring of 2005, an unveiling party will be
celebrated at the San Marcos Senior Center with the members
of the community, San Marcos Rotarians, senior citizen and
their families.
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Torrey
Pines (La Jolla) |
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As
Centennial Project, the Torrey Pines (La Jolla) will sponsor
the painting of a mural at St. Vincent de Paul Village. |
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Uptown
San Diego Sunrise |
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The
Community Health and Immunization Project is an excellent
choice for Centennial Project of the Uptown club. This
project designed a wallet record on which to record an
individual's adult immunizations.
The
wallet record, with its education message emblazoned on it,
was unveiled at a local health fair. The next weekend
educational outreach to their high risk community was
presented at the Hillcrest Farmer's Market.
The
message of don’t wait, vaccinate was marketed quite
successfully by this project. |
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Valley
Center |
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The
Rotary Club of Valley Center will donate 100 new books to
the Valley Center Library.
We will select suitable books and put bookplates in
each of the books selected.
The Valley Center Library would receive matching
funds for any donation so that would enable them to purchase
100 additional books as a result of this participation.
We propose that the project be ongoing over the next
two years with a goal of continued contributions to enhance
this brand new community facility.
The collection will be housed in the Valley Center
Public Library on
Cole Grade Road
in
Valley
Center. |
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