Rotary International
2018-2019 Theme
 
Our Meetings
When: Thursday at 6:45 am 
Where: The Marriott
Location: 350 E. Horsetooth Road
Fort Collins, CO  80525 USA
 
Mail address:
PO Box 272728 Ft Collins, CO 80527
 
Club Executives & Directors
President
Ann Bedient
President Elect
Tim (Timothy) Cochran
Treasurer
Fran Lefler
Secretary
Catherine Varra-Nelson
Foundation Chair
Lee Varra-Nelson
Past President
Robert Waltermire
Director
Mark Campbell
Director - International Services
John Trewartha
Director - Membership Services
Michael Labate
Golf Committee chair
John Hanrahan
Peach Festival
David Haase
Scholarship Chair-Centennial
Nat Brown
10K Raffle co-chair
Curt Bear
Peach Sales-Dictionary project
Andy Groeger
10k Raffle-co chair
Patrick Bols
Scholarship Chair-College Program
Craig Campbell
Director - Community Service
Jim Dawdy
Director - Youth Services
Donna Martemucci
PolioPlus Chair
Krishna Murthy
Director - Public Relations
John Hanrahan
 
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Greens Fore Giving Golf Fundraiser
Thanks to our sponsors 
Greens Fore Giving is an annual fundraising golf tournament put on by the Fort Collins Rotary Breakfast Club. Our event this year is on June 14th, 2019 at Colindale Golf course located in Fort Collins, CO.

Schedule of Events:

10:30am – Check-In

12:00pm– Shotgun Start – Box Lunches will be provided

5:00pm-7:30pm – Post tournament cocktail party (*open to all Rotarians – more details coming soon)

This years supported charities include: Fort Collins Habitat For Humanity, Foundation Music School, Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club,Fort Collins Foothills Rotary Club, Fort Collins After Work Rotary Club, Fort Collins Downtown Club (1918 Club) Rotary Club.

Grand Door Prize

Getaway Trip to San Diego, CA

To register click HERE
Purple Pins for Bowling to End Polio Now
The Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast along with the three other Fort Collins Rotary Clubs joined together on January 27 at Chippers Bowling Lanes to raise over $40K for Polio Plus at the Purple Pins for Bowling event.

Lane sponsors, food donations, club members, family and friends and high spirits worked together to make the day a huge success.
Secret Santa
Members of the Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club once again will be making some local residents very happy this holiday season. Through the efforts of Rotarians Gary Turner and Andrew Hensen, the members of the club adopted over 40 families. Gifts were purchased and wrapped and will be handed out to over 100 children who might not have had a bright Christmas. The Club has been adopting families for many years and the numbers grow every year.
Be the Inspiration: The Gift of Mobility
Dave Talbot, Sara Murphy, Marge Mercurio - Crutches for Africa
Do you remember David Talbot from Crutches 4 Africa? He came to our club earlier in May as our program speaker – and a powerful program it was! 

It stirred a “movement.”  Remember lugging in all those walkers, crutches, ski and trekking poles, boots and wheelchairs to meetings so they could be collected and prepared for delivery?  We also approached other Rotary Clubs in Fort Collins and they added devices and encouragement to this collection.

Well, Monday August 27th was the delivery day!!!
 
The van was packed with approximately 100 crutches, 10 walkers, 3 wheelchairs, 50 canes/trekking & ski poles, 10 boots and one leg (guess who donated that?)  At breakneck speed, an hour and a half later, those mobility devises were combined with others from many, many different collection sources. 
Everything will be loaded into a 20-foot shipping container and sent to Africa this fall. These mobility devices will ultimately change the lives of so many people.
 
Thank you for your commitment TO ONCE AGAIN make the world a better place in the name of Rotary!
Website: crutches4africa.org
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Annual Peach Sale
 The Annual Rotary Peach Sale for literacy is over for 2018. Thank you to all who bought peaches this year. Your contribution will provide a dictionary to every 3rd Grade student in the Poudre School District - public, private and home schooled students.
 
Greens fore Giving Fundraiser
Thank you to all who participated in our Greens for Giving Golf Tournament.
 
Total amount raised: $27,000
 
Habitat for Humanity received $6,100 and the Foundation Music School received $3,300
 
Remaining funds will be used in support of Rotary projects here in Fort Collins and around the world.
OVER 2,500 DICTIONARIES DISTRIBUTED TO THIRD GRADERS
Throughout October members of our club have distributed over 2,500 colorful keepsake dictionaries to third graders in the Poudre School District, including students in public, charter, private, mountain and home schools.  Dictionaries were purchased with proceeds from the club's 12th annual peach sale.  Over 26, 350 dictionaries have been donated by our club over the past 12 years.  This picture is from the final distribution at Harris Bilingual Immersion Elementary.  Thanks to the hard work of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast to make this happen again this year.
 
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Congratulations to Natalie Brown!
Congratulations to Natalie Brown, Executive Director of Spirit Crossing Clubhouse in Fort Collins, for being awarded the Dr. Edward Gillette Vocational Service Award.  This annual award is presented in memory of Dr. Edward Gillette, a veterinarian who developed and directed the Comparative Oncology Unit at Colorado State University and was the Chairman of the Department of Radiological Health Sciences from 1989-1998. Dr. Gillette was also a charter member and past president of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast.  Natalie was selected by club members in recognition of her vocational excellence and integrity as leader of Spirit Crossing Clubhouse for 18 years.   Natalie is a great part of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast .
Buddy Benches for PSD Elementary Schools
Thanks to Fort Collins Rotary Clubs, all Fort Collins schools are getting Buddy Benches.  See info about Buddy Benches here. Pictured is the new Buddy Bench at Werner Elementary School. The engraving for Peggy Barnstorff is in memory of the school’s former Occupational Therapist who, after working for PSD for many years, passed away last year. She was the wife of fellow Rotarian Garth Barnstorff.
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Recent News
Member Spotlight: Heather Gossel
Heather Gossel has joined the ranks one of our newest members.
She is the Branch Chief, Internal Communications at USDA, Agricultural Research Service.  Heather has a son, Lane, (age 24) and has lived in Fort Collins for 20 years.
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79 Head Start Children Receive Christmas Gifts
 
For the past nine years, the Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast has helped out with the Head Start Adopt-A-Family program. This year, once again, our club members stepped up to help out children in our community. In this photo are just a few of the ELVES who purchased and wrapped gifts for Head Start families. Every member in our Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast is a Santa with a heart as big as Horsetooth Reservoir! 
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