At our meeting this Thursday, we will be honoring the students receiving scholarships from the funds raised at our February auction. Thirteen high school seniors from eight area schools will each receive $1500. In addition to the high school awards, the club offers past awardees the opportunity to renew their scholarship. This year, nine students will be awarded $500 grants to continue their education at Oregon universities. 2010 high school award recipients: Crow: Dakota Rich Elmira: Matthew Lay Harrisburg: Ellen Haxby and Natalie Mathers Junction City: Katia Ames and Lianne Steinmetz Monroe:...

Are you looking to make plans for this weekend or for the Memorial Day holiday? Considering staying close to home and enjoying time in Eugene, Florence or another destination in Lane County? If you are, you should check out the new Travel Lane County website. Travel Lane County has recently revamped their website to provide visitors and residents of Lane County an easier way to find fun activities in the area. Take a look at the new site here. You can also follow Travel Lane County on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. *This week’s photo came from Travel Lane County’s Flickr page....

The latest issue of the Rotarian magazine highlights the story of a Rotarian from Michigan and his friend who set off on the Mongol Rally last summer to find adventure and raise money for the construction of a Mongolian kindergarten. Learn about their adventures and how they supported the work of Rotary clubs in the United States and Mongolia. Last summer, a young Rotarian from Michigan, USA, set out to drive a 2001 Chevy Metro with 140,000 miles on it from England to Mongolia. The Mongol Rally – equal parts charity fundraiser and lunatic odyssey – was dreamed up by two bored Englishmen...

Local entrepreneurs, investors, business students and other community members gathered at the McDonald Theatre for the Willamette Angel Conference, an investor conference connecting early-stage and seed businesses in the Willamette Valley with investors. After seven businesses presented their plans before the investor panel, the winner was selected: Good Clean Love, a Eugene-based company that manufactures high quality all natural/organic intimacy products which provide sustainable sexual solutions for healthy relationships. Learn more about the conference at its website and check out a recap of...

Believe it or not, Rotary District 5110′s District Conference, “Cruise the Mediterranean,” is just around the corner. Have you registered? If not, now is the time to ensure you’ll be attending the conference and taking part in the numerous seminars, plenary sessions and meals that will give you an opportunity to learn about the work of Rotary clubs in our district and those around the world. You won’t want to miss this event! Take a look at the conference schedule, speaker biographies, seminar descriptions and more at the conference website, where you can also register...

This Friday, we’re featuring a photo and story from Rotary International about one Illinois Rotary club’s efforts to provide orthopedic care for children in Belize: By Arnold R. Grahl, Rotary International News Rotarians in District 6510 (Illinois, USA) have helped hundreds of children from Belize to receive orthopedic care through a program now in its fourth decade. The Belize Children’s Program was established shortly after Eugene Verdu, a member of the Rotary Club of Belleville, went to the country as a papal volunteer with the Catholic church in 1976 and was struck by the number...

Did you know that the “Rotary Wheel,” an artificial reef in Lamon Bay, Philippines, is the world’s largest artificial reef? Constructed in October 2009 by Rotarians, fisherfolk and community members in the area. After illegal fishing over the past few decades had deprived the bay of much of its native marine life, the community rallied together to create the reef and encourage the growth of life in the bay. After being constructed on on land and then sent into the bay, the reef was about four meters high, 21 meters in diameter and weighed about 85 tons. In addition to being the...