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A great social and joint farewell party for, Lucia Carballo Hidalgo our RYE (Rotary Youth Exchange) student and 5130 Peace Ambassador of the Year.

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 over 100,000 land mines, plant over 7 million fruit trees and grape vines and restored livelihoods for more than one million people worldwide.

It was so heartwarming to hear about peace for a change.

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! Each child got a letter from Santa and a gift card. The chaperones had a good time too!  Santa got asked some good questions:

Where are your elves? “At the North Pole.”
Where are your reindeer? “On the roof.”
Were you at the teen center last week? “Yes, I was.”
One girl was so happy to meet Santa, she gave her a huge hug.

This year’s annual Veteran’s Tribute was back to being held at the Santa Rosa Memorial Veterans Building.

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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. 

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 Sam Dolcini lent his skills.

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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 from 3:00 to 6:00 that features products and services for women.

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 filled an entire barrel to overflowing! The Food Bank was very excited & incredibly appreciative. The final photo shows Ray behind the bin that we filled with just our donations. Congratulations to our club – job well done!

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 Exchange students—Trent, Lucia, and Eden.

We welcomed Lucia from Spain and Eden from Finland, and we bid bon voyage to Trent, who is heading to Taiwan.

It was a lively community social with three clubs participating—Santa Rosa Rotary, Santa Rosa East/West Rotary, and Santa Rosa Sunrise Rotary—and everyone had a great time.