by Ingrid Nova | Jun 25, 2012 | Notable News for Members
We are thrilled to announce that CNN Heroes: Jackson Kaguri is scheduled to air tomorrow — all of the air information is below. You can also find the piece online here – you’ll be able to click on links to see the main piece, read text article etc.
by Ingrid Nova | Jun 19, 2012 | Awards, Community Service Ongoing
The East Lansing Rotary Club is proud to support our community through service. This Rotary year, we contributed over $7,000 to some great programs in our community. Below is a list of our grant recipients.
Women’s Center of Greater Lansing
Purpose: To help in the training of counselors
Girl Scouts
Lansing Regional Center
Purpose: To provide scholarships for scout camp.
East Lansing High School Junior/Senior Activities 2011-2012
Purpose: To help support the post prom party.
City of East Lansing/Robert Landick, M.D.
Purpose: To help fund the installation of Park Benches along the walking trail in the Northern tier of the City
East Lansing Public Library
Purpose: To help fund the needs of the library.
Haven House
Purpose of Grant: To help fund a new boiler.
Back Pack Project
Purpose: To fund the purchase of food for the project.
East Lansing Firefighters Honor Guard
Purpose: To help defray the cost of training people serving in the Honor Guard.
Parkwood YMCA
Purpose: Camp PA-WA-PI Scholarships
American Cancer Society-Relay for Life
Purpose: Relay for Life
Michigan Dyslexia Institute
Purpose: Camp Starlight Scholarship(s)
by Ingrid Nova | May 14, 2012 | Awards, Community Service Ongoing, Youth Initiatives
Today we were pleased to award three East Lansing High School students with our annual Student Excellence Awards. These awards are given to students who have shown great improvement over their high school career, and who have been nominated by their advisors for the award. Congratulations to this year’s award winners!
Pictured above: EL Rotary President Tim McCaffrey, Crystal Branch, Amar Dzomba, La’She Embry, and Rotarian Kristin Shelley.
by Ingrid Nova | May 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
Project Overview
The Rotary Club of East Lansing, in conjunction with the City of East Lansing, is in the process of finalizing the design for the new playground at East Lansing’s Patriarche Park. Input from the community meetings held earlier this spring is being incorporated into an updated design that will: 1) make the playground more accessible to everyone, including children with physical disabilities; 2) utilize equipment that helps build physical fitness, 3) comply with the latest safety standards and 4) be built with eco-friendly materials.
Pancakes-in-the-Park
Sunday, June 10 is the date for this year’s annual Pancakes-in-the-Park breakfast (pancakes, sausage, apples, O.J. and coffee) which will be served from 7 am to 12:30 pm at the pavilion in East Lansing’s Patriarche Park, nearby the playground. Funds generated by the pancake breakfast are used to support the Rotary Club’s community service projects. MSU Women’s Basketball Coach Suzy Merchant and honorary chair for the playground project will be flipping pancakes at this year’s event as the Rotary Club’s “Guest Chef.” Playground sponsors – Meijer, MSUFCU, and Summit Community Bank – have also been invited to participate in this year’s event.
Playground Support Growing
$10,000 from the MSUFCU and $2,100 from the Community Relations Coalition (Taste of East Lansing) are the latest donations in support of the new playground at Patriarche Park. Meijer and Summit Community Bank have also committed to being sponsors for the playground project and grant requests are currently pending with both the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund ($300,000) and the Capital Region Community Foundation ($20,000). East Lansing Rotary Club members have donated or helped secure over $50,000 – including a $10,000 pledge from East Lansing Lodge 480 of the Freemasons – to support the playground project.
In addition, talks are underway with television celebrity and Traverse City native Carter Oosterhouse about supporting the playground project. He’s the host of HDTV’s Carter Can home improvement show and founder of Carter’s Kids, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating and promoting awareness of fitness and self-esteem for America’s youth.
by Ingrid Nova | May 7, 2012 | Community Service Ongoing, Events, Foundation and Fund Raising, Playground in the Park
(L to R: Erin Carter, MSU Community Liaison w/ City of East Lansing, EL Rotary President Tim McCaffrey and CRC’s Olivia Seifert)
The “Taste of East Lansing” sponsored by the Community Relations Coalition raised $2,100 for the playground project. Many thanks to all of the Rotarians who volunteered and worked at this first-time venture by the CRC.
