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Bangalore Eye Hospital benefits from club grants

FORT COLLINS, September 24, 2016 ― More children in Bangalore, India, are seeing
the world through healthy eyes, thanks to grants of nearly $153,000 given to a
renowned eye hospital by Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast, Rotary Club of
Bangalore NW and Rotary International.

Member Spotlight: Patty Cantrell

Patty joined our Rotary club to give back to the community and meet people who want to make the world a better place for others. Patty is a 3rd generation Coloradoan and loves Colorado. She lives with her husband Glen who shares her love of the mountains. Patty's favorite place to visit is Grand Lake.

Welcome to the Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast Patty!

Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Donates Dictionaries

Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Donates Dictionaries
to 2,500 PSD Third Graders
Dictionaries Purchased with Proceeds from 12th Annual Peach Sale

Fort Collins, CO – October 20, 2015

Throughout October members of Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club are handing out colorful keepsake dictionaries to 2,500 third graders in the Poudre School District, including students in public, charter, private, mountain and home schools. Each year the Rotary Club selects a celebration school for the dictionary giveaway. This year’s celebration school is Bennett Elementary where PSD Superintendent Dr. Sandra Smyser will help distribute dictionaries at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27th.

Greens Fore Giving raises over $18,000 for Charities!

On June 18, The Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast hosted the 2nd annual Greens Fore Giving charity golf scramble at Collindale Golf Course. Financials have been posted and we are pleased to announce that more than $18,000 will benefit the following charities: Foundation Music School, Spirit Crossing, Book Trust, Centennial High School, Habitat for Humanity and Breakfast Rotary Foundation. The day concluded with a patio happy hour, golf ball drop and silent auction that raised $2,000. Our event wouldn’t have been made possible without the support of our title event sponsors: Charles Schwab, Warren Federal Credit Union, Commerce Mortgage, Domino’s Pizza, Northern Colorado Real Estate Brokers, ERA Herman Group, Ed Carroll Motor Company, Mathnasium, Waddell & Reed, Old Town Media, Home State Bank and Klick & Associates. Thank you to the 106 golfers who played and our wonderful team of volunteers.

Marci White, Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast.

Rotary Sells Peaches for Dictionaries

Fort Collins, Colorado. July5, 2015 – The 2015 Annual Rotary Peach Sale is here! Every year for the past 12 years

the Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club has brought over 45,000 pounds of peaches to Fort Collins in its

quest to give a dictionary to every 3rd grader at both public, private, charter, and home schools in the Poudre

School District. In total they have distributed over 18,000 of these keepsake dictionaries thanks to this event.

This year the 20 pound boxes of ‘Grade A’ Palisade, Colorado peaches are available for $39 per box. Every box

sold buys one dictionary. Excess funds will be used for literacy projects and other club projects. If you don’t

enjoy delicious Palisade, Colorado peaches, you can choose to donate $10 to buy a dictionary. You can even

donate your boxes of peaches to the Food Bank for Larimer County.

To order your peaches visit RotaryPeachSale.com or call 970-460-6481 by August 15th. The peaches will be

available for pickup on August 22nd at Hughes Stadium between 9am and 1:30pm. The pickup will be on the

south side of Hughes Stadium with entry from the road to Dixon Lake (CR 42C). By making this delicious

investment in the future of our community, you will get the Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club closer to their

goal of 2,300 boxes of peaches for 2015. This year’s major sponsors are The Coloradoan, TRI-

102.5/Townsquare Media, Learning Express Toys, and Overland Sertoma Club.

Also mark your calendar for the Peach Festival on August 22nd at Hughes Stadium. The festival includes a 5K

run/walk, live music, contests and entertainment throughout the day. The Peach Festival is presented by the

Rotary Clubs of Fort Collins. Parking is $5, but if you have pre-ordered a box of peaches parking is FREE!

Visit FortCollinsPeachFestival.com for more information.

Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast Contact:

Kathy Miner

kathy.miner@comcast.net

970-412-2273

2015 District 5440 Conference - Coloradoan