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Gregg Tomlinson, Stapleton Rotary Club President

On Friday, December 16, the Stapleton Rotary Club volunteered at the Food Bank of the Rockies for an afternoon. Members who attended were Tom Wolfe, Evan Brooks, Ed Cole, Jason Postregna and Gregg Tomlinson. The Food Bank of the Rockies receives surplus food from a
variety of sources that is sorted and organized and distributed to needy families throughout the state of Colorado.

The work is fun and social and on top of that we all got some exercise and weight lifting during the afternoon as well as spending some quality time with friends old and new.

More information about volunteer opportunities at the Food Bank can be found here:

http://www.foodbankrockies.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Volunteer

Denver Language School

Mmmmm, frozen yogurt.

Tonight, Monday September 12, from 6:00 to 8:00pm, the Golden Spoon Frozen Yogurt store in Stapleton’s Quebec Square shopping center is hosing a fundraiser to benefit the Denver Language School. Golden Spoon is generously donating 25% or sales to benefit DLS!

Opened just last year, the Denver Language School provides an innovative academic program to reach the highest levels of student achievement through comprehensive language immersion education in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. For more information, visit their website at www.DenverLanguageSchool.org.

The Rotary Club of Denver Stapleton will host our annual Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, June 20th at the Farmer’s Market.  Bring your families (and appetites!) for pancakes, sausage and beverages.  Rotarians will be serving breakfast from 8:30am – 11:30am.

Suggested donations are $5 for adults, $3 for ages 3-11, and children age 2 and under are free.

Proceeds from the Pancake Breakfast support…

• End Polio Now – a campaign to directly support immunization in developing countries where polio continues to infect and paralyze children.
• Rotary Youth Leadership Awards - The Rotary Club of Denver Stapleton sponsors area students to attend a leadership training program for young people.  This summer, our Rotary Club is sponsoring two students from area schools to attend a week-long leadership camp with other students from across the Front Range.
• Westerly Creek Greenway Tree Planting – in April, our Rotary Club purchased and planted dozens of new cottonwood trees in Westerly Creek Greenway.
• ShelterBox – our Rotary Club sent a Shelter Box to victims of the Haitian earthquake, providing shelter and a month’s worth of food & supplies for a family of 10 people .

Rotary International is the world’s first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.