By Susan Motander via Monrovia Weekly The Monrovia Rotary Club in collaboration with the Monrovia Community Adult School (MCAS) and Bowden Development has created a new scholarship fund. The Fred Bowden Family Vocational Scholarship is the newest Rotary scholarship fund to benefit adult learners in the Monrovia Community. It may seem rather strange for the Monrovia Rotary Club to…
Rotarians and Interact students from Monrovia High School met last Saturday morning to package food for the hungry in conjunction with Stop Hunger Now. Over the 2 hours, they managed to work together to package over 14,000 meals! Everyone attending the event came away stating how fun and rewarding the experience was.
The Monrovia Rotary Club and MHS Interact Club will be holding a Stop Hunger Now food packing event at Monrovia High School on November 11, 2014 to assemble over 12,000 meals to help support ongoing school feeding programs that sustain lifelong change. Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief agency that has been fulfilling…
The Monrovia Rotary Club and the Monrovia High School Interact Club teamed up on Saturday, October 25, 2014 to clean up Rotary Park on E Lime Avenue and S California Ave in Monrovia for the annual Make a Difference Day. We cleared out overgrown plants and trimmed them down to 4ft high to allow for…
Action on Film will present a showing of “Behind the Gate”, a documentary film which examines the changes in the Horse Racing Industry. Narrated by Joe Pesci, the film also features some of the biggest names in the industry, many of them local to the San Gabriel Valley, including Oscar De La Hoya, Bob Baffert, Doug O’Neill, Laffit…
We are pleased to be able to conduct a Holiday Food Drive for the Foothill Unity Center. Please bring the items (listed below) to our regular meeting on July 29th or the Unity Center will gladly accept a cash donation. Foothill Unity Center is a 501(c)3, and your donations are tax deductible. President Earll is…
July 1 is a day where around the world, new Rotary Presidents are taking on their appointed leadership role. Today was no different for Monrovia Rotarian Bryan Earll. Bryan Earll, Monrovia Rotary’s 95th President, is the current President and Owner of Apex Fasteners located in Monrovia, CA and is also a resident of Monrovia with his…
On Saturday, May 17, 2014, Rotary District 5300 held its annual George Hensel Ethics Speech and 4-Way Test Essay Contests in Palms Springs, CA. Two local Monrovia high school students won awards in each contest. Sarah Noor (an 11th grader at MHS) took home the grand prize of first place in the The George Hensel Ethics Essay Contest and…
The Rotary Club of Monrovia will once again be helping out local children in need for the holiday season. On December 7th, 50 disadvantaged children identified by Santa Anita Family Services will get a special treat this holiday season. Through the assistance of the Rotary Club of Monrovia, Kohl’s and Wells Fargo, the 50 students…
Dear fellow Rotarians: As we all know, on November 8th the worst recorded storm to make landfall flattened entire coastal towns and villages in the Philippines. Thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands more are struggling to survive without access to food, water, and shelter. I know we all want to help. I…