Your Rotary Club of La Conner contribution at work

Posted by Sandy Stokes 
 

Some of the local programs La Conner Rotary funded in the current 2009-2010 fiscal year:

$10,000  La Conner High School graduating senior scholarships

$2,500 La Conner Sea Scouts

$2,500 Skagit River Poetry Project

$1,000 La Conner Middle School aviation class

$1,000 La Conner Boys & Girls Club

$1,600 Salvation Army food bank, Anacortes

$1,500 La Conner Regional Library

$800  Dictionaries for every 3rd grade student in La Conner Elementary

$400 for the La ConnerHigh School Senior Class

$300 to La Conner Co-op Preschool

$300 to La ConnerMiddle School

 

 

In addition, for local children the Rotary Club sponsors the annual Halloween pumpkin painting party and the Christmastime Santa Breakfast.

 

Regionally, the club pays for programs that send SkagitCounty youth to leadership seminars and young professional adults on overseas exchanges.

 

Internationally, La Conner Rotary supports a mobile library that serves rural areas of Guatemala where children have little access to reading material. And the club donates money to the Rotary International Foundation, which is working to eliminate polio, provide safe drinking water and improve the lives of people throughout the world.

 

Individually, club members donate time in many local and international causes. Each week Rotarians tutor La Conner children who have trouble keeping up in school. And several times a year local Rotarians pay their own travel expenses to help to administer polio vaccines and provide medical care for children born with birth defects in developing nations.