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Arvada Sunrise Rotary celebrated its 30^th anniversary in 2021.  ASR as an organization, as well as its individual members have supported the Arvada community for three decades.  Although the pandemic dramatically changed what ASR was able to do, we continued our focus on service to the community, locally and internationally.  This is consistent with this year’s Rotary theme “Serve to Change Lives”. 

 

Rotary is about service!  Arvada Sunrise Rotarians are always anxious to meet and welcome others who share this attitude of service to others.  Please feel free to join us at Thrive Workplace, 5610 Ward Road #300 in Arvada on the second or fourth Tuesday at 7:10 am. 

 

Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions or just wish to chat about Rotary. 

Mike Litzau

ASR learned that thousands of vulnerable people in Uganda suffer from a crippling parasite called jiggers.  They suffer because they don't own even one pair of shoes.  ASR started collecting over 75 pairs of jeans.   In collaboration with the non-profit Sole Hope, we planned to host a 'Shoe Party' but due to Co-vid, we all got busy tracing and cutting patterns in our own homes.  What an amazing way to benefit the world while being quarantined. Thanks to our District 5450 matching Grant, ASR provided 190 pairs of shoes.  As the winter rolls around, we still find eager Rotarians ready to keep cutting denim.   ~ over 300 pairs of shoes to date. 

 

Speak Up! 2018 is a speech competition among high-school seniors for college scholarships.  It will be held April 19, 2018 from 6-9pm at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities.

 

Six seniors from Arvada, Arvada West, Pomona , and Ralston Valley high schools will be chosen to compete in a speech contest where the winners will be awarded college scholarships based on how well they incorporate the Speak Up! 2018 theme, “Making a Difference”, and the Rotary Four-Way Test into their speech and the overall delivery of the speech.  The winner will receive a $3,000 scholarship and second-place a $2,000 scholarship.  

 

Download the application here.  Please note that you may not be able to save the data you enter, so print a hard copy before closing the form.

 

Application Deadline: February 26, 2018
Interviews:  Feb 26—March 2
Final Selection:  March 9

 

Questions?  Call Elisa Corry, 913-605-2372 or email Paul Danborn  at pauldanborn@friearndt.com.

 

 

Arvada Sunrise Rotary celebrates 20 years of humanitarian service, addressing the needs of our local community and abroad. The club was chartered back in 1991 and is still going strong!  Rotary International has been in existence for 105 years and is the largest service organization with 32,000 clubs and over 1.2 million members worldwide.
  
The purpose of our organization is to bring together professional and business leaders with one common goal: to foster goodwill and peace through our works and live the Rotary motto "Service Above Self".
 
 You are welcome to join us at our next meeting and become a part of another 20 years of service here in Arvada and beyond!
 
In Rotary,

Paul Danborn
President