Here is a letter sent to the Monrovia Rotary Club in care of President Bill Shieff: Dear Bill, Blessa Chloe Zamora is a happy, healthy 5-year old who loves food and will eat anything, except maybe vegetables. Abandoned by her birth mother as a baby, Chloe blossomed after receiving nutritious Stop Hunger Now meals at…
The Monrovia Rotary Club is pleased to welcome Dr. Katherine Thorossian to speak to the club on Tuesday, January 12th at noon. Dr. Thorossian is the Superintendent of Schools in the Monrovia Unified School District. Her 30 years of experience in education includes serving as Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services in the Glendale Unified…
Not only did Kohls in Monrovia assist the club with discounts at the Santa Clothes event, the clubs investment also resulted in a substantial amount of Kohls cash. In an effort to wring every last ounce out of that Kohl’s cash, event chair Dr. Sylvia Domotor went looking for the best way to extend the good will…
The Monrovia Rotary Club is excited to welcome Chef Alexander Reyes as its speaker for January 5th, 2016. To visit the club and hear Chef Reyes speak please click on the RSVP link in the contact box on the club website. More about Chef Alex from the Saute Culinary Academy website: A passion for food…
For the fourth year in a row, the club’s Santa Clothes event was a huge success. According to Dr. Sylvia Domotor, founder and chairperson of the event, 65 kids, many of them victims of or witness to domestic violence or drug abuse, were the beneficiaries of a department store shopping spree, likely providing them with…
The Monrovia Rotary Club is pleased to welcome Camrin Christensen as the speaker at our regular meeting on Tuesday, December 22 at noon at the Monrovian Restaurant. Camrin joined CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children) of Los Angeles as Director of Volunteer Recruitment and Outreach in January 2015. She is heading up the organization’s…
The Monrovia Rotary Club is pleased to welcome April Kelcy to speak at the regular club meeting of Tuesday December 8th, 2015. April is an award-winning emergency management consultant who helps clients to achieve intelligent and practical preparation for major disasters. This includes positioning them for more effective response to life threatening incidents, and for…
With the assistance of 100+ volunteers, The Monrovia Rotary Club packaged 17,000 nutritionally sound meals to be distributed to areas of need. Stop Hunger Now is an international relief organization that relies on financial donations but also on volunteer manpower to package the meals. The Monrovia Rotary Club has participated for the last two years in…
District 5300’s first ever Pars vs. Polio Golf Marathon will give all Rotary clubs and Rotarians in the District an opportunity to raise money for the worldwide polio eradication campaign and to tell our friends, neighbors and communities about the role Rotary and Rotarians have played in this massive effort. Every club is urged to…
The Monrovia Rotary Club is one of more than 34,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries. 1.2 million Rotarians around the world volunteer to meet local and international needs. Bill Shieff, a long time Rotarian, resident of Monrovia, and Chairman of Move Monrovia, took over the helm of the Monrovia Rotary Club, succeeding outgoing president…