
Julia Parranto, 2025 – 2026
DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE WORLD?
We’re a leadership organization of local business, professional and civic leaders. We meet regularly, get to know each other, form friendships, and through that, we’re able to get things done in this community. Membership in Rotary immediately connects you with a broad range of professions and professionals in our Club. We encourage our members to do business with each other because we trust the members in Rotary. Service is what Rotarians do. We change the lives of others in need. Your membership gives you the opportunity, structure, know-how and resources to provide service to others. The benefit one gets helping someone else is extraordinary and life affecting. Rotary empowers our membership to dream large in addressing needs in local and international communities. There is no other organization that has the structure, the network, and the resources that are available to its membership. Individual members create our projects, from our Rotary Children’s Christmas program, to our efforts to aid our sister city in Cherkasy, Ukraine, our members determine our action.
Please consider attending our meetings, meeting our members, and joining our Rotary Family.
Yours in Rotary Service,
Julia Parranto
Rotary Club of Santa Rosa
President 2025 – 2026
Rotary in Action in Wartime Ukraine
Since the start of the war Sonoma County Rotary Clubs have partnered with a local Rotary Club in Santa Rosa’s Ukrainian Sister City to deliver much-needed humanitarian support through their network of all-volunteer Rotarians in Ukraine.
Thanks to generous support of our Rotary Clubs and community, to date our partnership with the Rotary Club of Cherkasy-Centre has raised $275,000, of which $185,000 was used for 6,000 specialized first-aid kits and critical medical supplies, and $90,000 for emergency (more…)

Club Happenings

Farewell Social For RYE Student Lucia – May 31, 2026
Farewell Social For RYE Student Lucia – May 31, 2026 A great social and joint farewell party for, Lucia Carballo Hidalgo our RYE (Rotary Youth Exchange) student and 5130 Peace Ambassador of the Year. This was a joint party between our club and the Santa Rosa East West…

SCARC – Presentation by Heidi Kuhn – January 29, 2026
SCARC – Presentation by Heidi Kuhn – January 29, 2026 What a delightful evening with Rotarian friends enjoying a presentation by Heidi Kuhn. Heidi is a peacebuilder and the founder of Roots for peace. Nominated in 2024 for the Nobel Peace Prize, she has helped remove…

Salvation Army Bell Ringing – December 13 & 20, 2025
Salvation Army Bell Ringing – December 13 & 20, 2025 Another fun annual tradition – Rotarians ringing the bell to help raise money for the Salvation Army. As one Rotarian put it, “We raised quite a bit of money.” (Click on images below to pictures full…

Children’s Christmas Party and Nutcracker – December 7, 2025
Children’s Christmas Party and Nutcracker – December 7, 2025 This year’s annual Children’s Christmas Party and Nutcracker was held at Spreckel’s Auditorium in Rohnert Park. We had 93 children from many local schools. The show was very good, and the children loved it!…

Annual Veterans Tribute – November 14, 2025
Annual Veterans Tribute – November 14, 2025 This year’s annual Veteran’s Tribute was back to being held at the Santa Rosa Memorial Veterans Building. (More details coming soon.) (Click on images below to pictures full size)

Corricks Social – November 18, 2025
Corricks Social – November 18, 2025 Another one of our club’s tradition’s is a Holiday party at Corrick’s Stationery, Gallery & Gifts. This year’s was extra fun — we had a double celebration with Art Source. (Click on images below to pictures full size)

Annual Meat Auction Social & Fundraiser – September 27, 2025
Annual Meat Auction Social & Fundraiser – September 27, 2025 This year’s annual Meat Auction and Social was a blast. Again, it was hosted by the Gospe’s at their perfect party place. The fundraiser went to supporting Youth In Agriculture. Professional auctioneer…

Women In Conversation – September 24, 2025
Women In Conversation – September 24, 2025 Women in Conversation is a program put on by The Press Democrat. They interview prominent women from a variety of fields. It is an hour long conversation. But before the program starts at 6:30pm they have a mini trade show…

Food Bank Protein Delivery – August 29, 2025
Food Bank Protein Delivery – August 29, 2025 As part of our club’s commitment to volunteering and giving back to the community we collected cans of protein to donate to the Redwood Empire Food Bank. On August 29th, Ray & Ann delivered our club’s donations. We…

RYE – Welcome & Bon Voyage – August 16, 2025
RYE – Welcome & Bon Voyage – August 16, 2025 Julie Montgomery and Todd Sheffield from the Santa Rosa East/West Rotary Club welcomed us into their beautiful home—with an amazing view—for a festive evening to say “bon voyage” and “welcome” to our Rotary Youth…