La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club members were up to the task of helping nearly 1,500 neighbors take home bags of fresh produce at Feeding San Diego for Rotarians at Work Day on April 26, 2025.
Join us for fun and a fundraiser at Parkway Bowl in El Cajon! Bowlers get a lane, shoes, pizza and a pitcher of beer or soda, plus the opportunity to win fabulous prizes! Foursomes, doubles, and singles are all welcome. Two steps to sign up: Provide your information at the Tickets link and then use the QR code to pay via Venmo.
Did you know that the San Diego State University Rotaract Club is 30 years old and 93 members strong? The SDSU Rotaract Club's First Annual Network Event on April 13 was an ideal opportunity for La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club members and others to connect with this impressive group of student leaders!
SDSU Rotaract Board members provided highlights of their goals and accomplishments
For the second time in a year, the La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club was able to provide funding and volunteer assistance to help young people realize the dream of moving into a place to call home.
Did you know about 40% of all food produced in the U.S. ends up in a landfill? Or that the methane organic waste produces is 70 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide?
Those important facts and others were shared in a presentation on the recent update to the City of La Mesa Climate Action Plan at our meeting on February 7.
On Saturday January 11, 2025, Rotarians and friends went to the Gary and Mary West Senior Wellness Center to serve lunch, assemble blankets to give away, and host a bingo game. Run by the nonprofit Serving Seniors, the downtown San Diego center provides breakfast and lunch to seniors age 60 and over, as well as enriching activities and connections to important resources.
During this season of celebration and gratitude the members of the La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club gave thanks to Craig MacDonald, owner of Hooley's Public House. Club President David Harris presented Craig a certificate of recognition for this five-year partnership at our meeting on December 20, 2024.
Fun while raising funds was the purpose of the November 16th get-together at Ivy's home! Decorating pumpkin centerpieces and taking a chance (or two) on a football pool were the activities, and the good cause was Quench and Connect.
Furthering a Club goal to deepen relationships with organizations receiving Club funding, a small team mounted three Screech Owl boxes in trees surrounding the garden at Chet F. Harritt School in Santee on Oct. 26, 2024.
In loving memory of Club member Fern Platt-Hall, four dozen bags of supplies were put together for distribution to community members living on the streets.
Officers of the San Diego State University Rotaract Club attended our Club meeting on Oct. 4, 2024 to share information on their club's core values, recruitment and application process, and service projects.
On September 28, Club members joined forces with partners to complete work projects in San Diego County and Ensenada, Mexico.
Shannon Coleman, Pubic Assistance Investigator with the San Diego County Bureau of Public Assistance Investigations, was honored as a Public Safety Hero by the La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club. Nominator and Speaker Chair Camille Chenoweth-Moyer and President David Harris presented a certificate and gift card to Shannon in recognition of her dedication to her job and going above and beyond her job description to demonstrate "service above self" to improve conditions in her department and community.
Furnishing a new home can be especially challenging for young people who have experienced disruptions in their lives that led them into the foster care system.
On June 15 the Club extended a warm welcome to new President David Harris, and gave a big thank you to outgoing president Ron Rice for a year of leadership and laughter!
For more than 10 years our Club has provided support to the students at Diego Hills Central and its Learn for Life (L4L) sister schools. In recognition of this continued partnership, L4L Community Liaison Carlos Solorio presented a glass plaque to incoming Club president David Harris at the June 7 meeting. Club members Lisa Youngflesh, L4L principal, and Ivy Blumberg, retired L4L teacher, joined Carlos in expressing gratitude to the Club for providing Diego Hills Central students with college scholarships, a food pantry, and wrapped holiday gifts for their babies and young children.
LMSR Club members showed their support of the NAMIwalk 2024 at Liberty Station and aboard the Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas during the District 5340 conference on April 28. The 60+ Rotary members participating and volunteering at the event raised $17,000 while at the same time joining Kim Pretto and some of her family members in celebrating the memory of Chuck Pretto, a strong supporter of mental health programs.
Rotary members joined more than 30,000 walkers in raising a record $255K for NAMI programs in San Diego and Imperial County, demonstrating the awesome power of partnerships!
For more info about NAMI visit https://namisandiego.org/
Our bowling fundraiser at Parkway Bowl on May 10 was lots of noisy, flashing, bidding fun, and raised nearly $3,000! Thank you to everyone who found items to donate for the raffle, helped with the planning, set up, and clean up, including Marco who brought the giant inflatable Rotary sign. Hooray!!
A small but mighty team of Club members picked grapefruit and lemons from trees at a home in San Carlos on February 17, and oranges and tangerines at the home of Peggy Davis on February 24. The dozens of bags of fresh fruit were donated to the East County Transitional Living Center, a nonprofit that provides meals, training, and therapy to our neighbors in need.
La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club members spent a Saturday morning in January filling bags of potatoes and oranges at the San Diego Food Bank. The 7,000 pounds of produce was destined to be distributed the very next day to families impacted by the recent flooding. Club members were very glad to do their part to help neighbors in need!
Making the season brighter for some little ones was the goal of the La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club on December 8, 2023.
The Club purchased dozens of toys, clothing items, and other gifts for the young children of students in the Learn4Life Network of charter schools.
LMSR Club members hopped on board to tap into a barrel full of fun and fundraising at Citizen Brewing!
The two-stage project began with a brewing lesson and session in November 2023 capped off in December with filling and labeling dozens of bottles of La Mesa Sunrise IPA and La Mesa Sunrise Hefwise.
On September 23, 2023, several of our members gathered at a site between the AAA building and the medical offices building along Alvarado Creek off of Fletcher Parkway in La Mesa. This was to assist with the annual I Love A Clean San Diego Creek To Bay Clean-up day. It is amazing how much trash piles up in just a year! It is also amazing what we find each time we participate! Also helping but not pictured were Laurel and Grant.
On Saturday morning at 8am, our newest member Deirdre Kleske organized several Rotarians (Ivan, Marco, Ivy, Ana, Deirdre, David, and visiting Richard Makao) to move a large mound of compost to the vegetable beds at Tubman Village Charter School. Many of our friends and families volunteered to help that morning as well. The Tubman students will soon have lots of wonderful vegetables to eat and learn about when school starts.
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La Mesa, CA 91942
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