Events

Our own Laura Mitchell will present fascinating new technologies to assiste caregivers with in-home care.

Help support North County Lifeline's Adopt-A-Family Community Drop Off Day.  Collect and organize the gift that are being dropped off for Adopt-A-Family Recipients.  Dress festively and wear comfortable shoes as you will be pushing carts and unloading gifts from cars dropping off gifts.

Help deliver the cashier checks for families in need at the 9 Carlsbad Elementary Schools.  Everyone will meet up at Kelly Elementary School at 11am and we will all deliver the checks to Kelly and take photos and then we will divide up into 3 groups and each visit 2-3 other schools. Please be festive and wear holiday attire and help spread some holiday cheer!

It's going to be a great night and our RCC board is excited to tell you that we have a....

🎁 Surprise! Members pay only the regular meeting cost of $37.
The club is covering the up-charge for this special event AND…

🎁 EVERY MEMBER CAN BRING ONE GUEST AT NO CHARGE!!
Bring a spouse, partner, friend, family member — our gift to you! (Additional guests are welcome, but you must pay for them, approx $65).

Be sure to indicate on your RSVP if you require a vegan meal -- we can honor these requests only if reserved in advance.

Can't wait to see you there!

Please contact Kelly at kjl.schafer@gmail.com for any questions. I have answers!!

State of the club. Where are we now -- 6 months into the Rotary year.

Mark your calendars to help build a home for a family in Tecate Mexico. More details to come. Contact Bastel Wardak for info.

Yum! Come show off your chili cooking recipes. It's a cook-off with blind tasting. We'll also be looking for contributions of cornbread, salads, and desserts.

Elena Romine will give us a sample of a course that she teaches at the Osher School on Blue Zones. Also, we will have reps from Osher briefly tell us about the upcoming semester and how to get involved.

Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary had invited us to join fellow Rotarians, family and friends to participate in their Harvest Pack Meal Packaging service project. We will package twenty thousand units of food which will be donated to the San Diego Food Bank to help meet the food insecurity needs in SD County.

 Sign up here: 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B044FAAAF2DA4FF2-61624340-harvest

Time to say thank you to the Carlsbad Brewing Company for being one of our amazing vendors at our wine and food festival!! Enjoy some drinks or food or both!
 

Enjoy the long weekend!

Celebrating all the good that the Rotary Foundation does in the world.
Register at Rotary5340.org/events

Our club is supporting the Rotary District 5340 Youth Instrumental Music Competition and invites members to attend our local evening competition round. Student musicians will perform, and our club will select two students to advance to the next level of the district competition, with our support.

Join us for an enjoyable evening of music and youth talent.

President-Elects are treated to an amazing weekend of leadership skills training and inspirational speakers in preparation for their upcoming club presidencies. By invitation only with advance reservations. 

Wishing Brian Crumbaker a fantastic weekend!

Carlsbad Rotary Club will be throwing a Prom Dance Party fo seniors attending the Carlsbad Senior Center -- this is a joint effort with the Sage Creek InterAct Club.  The theme is Starry Night -  “think- stars, silver, gold, black, navy, glittery things”.

The event will start at 1pm in the Auditorium, but we need volunteers to help set-up and decorate from 11am - 1pm and also to help with the photo booth and other activites during the event.  Our very own Mario will be DJing and we encourage everyone to attend and enjoy hanging out with our seniors and supporting the event. Online link to this event https://ca-carlsbad.civicrec.com/CA/carlsbad-ca/catalog?filter=c2VhcmNoPTIyMzcxNzk=

Ray Pearson is bringing mentors and mentees from CHS together to talk about this valuable program. We will hear about how these partnerships are preparing high school students for the world beyond graduation.

We will also be hearing from a young student entrepreneur who has created an intriguing game and is trying to get it to market. 

Note the time! 5-7PM.
Let's mix & mingle with the Hi-Noon Club! Bring an appetizer that serves 6 people.

BYOB, as usual. 

Registration will open mid February for head-count purposes.

Author Gary Powers will speak to us about his book, Spy Pilot.

Meet at Tommy V's in Bressi for happy hour with your RCC friends!

Mary and Bob Meigs have been supporting this amazing school for years, through their Foundation, but also through personal student mentoring and hands-on help at the school. Find out why this school, that serves underprivileged students, has such an outstanding reputation and why its students have a graduation and subsequent success rate that exceeds the results of standard public schools.

Also -- come to hear our exchange student, Fem Govers, recap her year in Carlsbad. She'll be returning home soon afterwards, so this is your chance to wish her bon voyage.

There is something for every member at the district training assembly. 

Very important if you are a board member.

Essential that we have at least two people doing the grants training. We cannot get district or global grants if we don't have people training here!

Provide and serve food to underprivileged at Holiday Park.

Eliot Weitz will lend us his expertise and experience in avoiding internet scams. Come learn how to protect your identity and your assets.

Sunset is at about 7:30 now, so let's take advantage of the beautiful afternoon.

Join fellow RCC members at the beach stairs north of Carlsbad Village Drive. We'll walk for up to an hour, collecting beach trash (if any). Then reward ourselves at Norte at 6:30 in the bar for happy hour or dinner.

Can't wait to hear about this organization! Their mission is to inspire, educate, and empower system-affected and homeless youth to achieve academic success through music education, sound engineering and multimedia production.

TBD

This is our big project. An epic project... where we will build 20 beds for Carlsbad/North County kids who don't have them. Some of them are sleeping with their parents or with siblings. Let's give them a good night's sleep! Get excited to make a big impact!

We will be cutting wood, sanding, staining, drilling. If hands-on work like this is not for you, you can still help by donating twin size sheets, blankets, comforters, and pillows. 
Bring to any Rotary meeting prior to May 16. 

Sign ups will be limited to 50 people total between our club and the Hi-Noon Rotary. I know this will be a popular project, so we will have to limit to Rotary members only at this time. Look for the sign-up link coming soon.

This is the craniofacial clinic in Tecate that our club has participated in for a number of years. The spring clinic always starts the third Thursday in May. Dave Tweedy and Jan Zachry are the mainstays of this clinic. Others who would like to attend need to inform Dave two weeks in advance so that he can arrange appropriate job duties.

This paella festival is a fundraiser for Rotary Club of Tecate. Enjoy paella, wine, music in at in beautiful Tecate. So much fun!!

Deliver books and goods to Niños de Baja in the morning.

More details to come!