Stories

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Bob Farrington, Ted Campbell, Andy Blanchford, Mason Shaffer, Danielle Scharf, Doug Chandler, Jim Hamilton, Ted Schmidt, Roger Barnes, Steve Hample, I-Ho Pomeroy, Carson Taylor, and Chris Mehl, Sunrise Rotary recently helped the city of Bozeman with receiving a 50-year lease on the land our Park sits on along with working an agreement with a local developer to receive an additional 2-acres of land adjacent to the park for wetlands protection and rehabilitation. And, in the process, helped to facilitate a name change at the state level. Our new park name is now (or soon will be) Glen Lake Rotary Park.  Due to the dedication of these members, and many others, we can now move forward with the next larger phases of our park master plan later in spring 2019. Watch for additional details forthcoming from the Community Service committee.

The MSU SUB Ballroom hosted our annual banquet and auction on Monday December 3. We seated just shy of 200 patrons for the evening, sold 10 live auction items and another 100 silent auction items that resulted in our netting around $54,000, $4,000 more than our original goal. We'll be providing a wrap-up announcement in a couple weeks at a future breakfast and include full details in our e-bulletin.

 

TO SEE A COMPLETE LIST OF ONLINE LIVE AND SILENT AUCTION ITEMS, CLICK HERE FOR THE EVENT WEBSITE  

 

Here are a few pics from the evening's festivities

Our Club enjoyed yet another opportunity to benefit from our partnership with the local Barnes & Noble store in Bozeman. Watch for an announcement soon on the donation that will be coming to our club to support our literacy and book giveaway program from the Nov 24 Rotary Day at their store

Here is a snippet from KBZK showcasing just one of the homes we helped Fix-Up this past Saturday September 22, 2018.  We truly want to thank all these fine companies for their support of this 9th annual event

Welcome our newest inducted members here in 2019.  Left to right, Nancy MacBride (Buffalo Restoration - classification ACCOUNTING), Tom Anderson (Retired DENTIST), Jerry Awe (Awe Financial - classification FINANCIAL PLANNER), and Abby Turner (Children's Museum of Bozeman - Classification CHILDRENS MUSEUM).

 

Of special note, we now have the very first (in our club's history) 3 members from the same family.  Bill MacBride, wife Nancy, and daughter Abby Turner. Also, Tom is brother of BSRC member Bill Anderson, and Jerry Awe is father of club president, Sydney Awe Rick. Thanks everyone for keeping it all in the family.

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