Rotary Club of Incline Village

This is our 45th Year!

Join us for a noon Lunch on most Mondays at 948 Incline Way Except for Dinner on most Third Mondays at varying locations.

To be sure, scroll down to see upcoming meetings.

Co-Presidents Bridget Crowe and Judy Spees Welcome You! Come to our meeting and consider being a Rotarian!

Rotary is an international organization of people with clubs all over the world. By joining Rotary you become a part of a worldwide family. When you travel, one of the highlights will be to attend a Rotary meeting. Your Rotary family anywhere in the world will welcome you warmly. Rotary performs international service, like working to eradicate polio and providing water wells and medical supplies. Our Rotary Club prides itself on its local service like Youth Programs and International Exchange, Incline Village Rotary Flower Garden, building and maintaining bus shelters, scenic benches, gardens, and the Lake Tahoe Overlook. We also support many local charities. Scroll down and you will see Opportunities for You to join in and Serve!

New Year's Resolution: Have Lunch or Dinner with Your Rotary Friends Every Monday!

If you are a Rotarian, come and bring any friends who might make good members! If you are not a Rotarian, join us and find out about a fun social club you can join dedicated to local and international community service.

PLEASE CALENDAR EVERY MONDAY FOR LUNCH OR DINNER!

January 13th Lunch at 948 Incline Way: Linda Offerdahl will fill us in on our Incline Village Crystal Bay Community and Business Association (IVCBA). With 275 members, IVCBA manages the community calendar, website VCBA.org, the Weekly SnapShot newsletter, the Live.Work.Play. seasonal magazine, the Local Heroes 4^th of July Celebration, the Northern Lights Celebration, "Meet and Greets," workforce housing, beautification, and community revitalization.

January 20th: 5PM Happy Hour and Pot Luck Inauguration Social at the Club haus 1200 Altdorf Terrace.

DRESS IN GOLD OR RED, WHITE AND BLUE! BRING PLENTY OF FOOD AND DRINK TO SHARE! No matter how you voted, this is a party for everyone and family and friends! The whole country needs to come together and appreciate our representative democracy, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the peaceful transition of power.

January 27th: Come for Lunch and Ski at Diamond Peak! This is Free Ski Week at Diamond Peak so an IVGID picture pass or

a punch card will get you or your guest a ticket for the day. If you Ski or snowboard, meet at the bottom of the Lakeview chair at 10:00 AM to ski with your Rotary friends. Whether you ski or not, meet in the Fireside Room at noon for lunch. Our speaker will be a member of the Diamond Peak staff and we'll have our usual entertaining meeting with Theme, Thought, Joke, Trivia, great food and Fun!

February 3rd Lunch at 948 Incline Way: Local Leadership Coaching Business:

What if you could grow as an individual, gain confidence, discover your true purpose, and feel fulfilled?

February 10th: TBD

February 17th: TBD Evening Social?

February 24TH: Lunch TBD

February 27th 6PM Joint Rotary Club Social with the Morning Club at the Crystal Bay Club with a Mardi Gras Theme

March 3rd: Lunch TBD

Thursday Night March 6th: Joint Incline Village Clubs music and speech contest at Incline High School Auditorium

March 10th: Lunch TBD

March 17th: Finnegan's Wake 5PM at the Club haus 1200 Altdorf Terrace: WEAR YOUR GREEN! BRING PLENTY OF FOOD AND DRINK TO SHARE! This is our annual St. Patrick's Day Happy hour and Social where we have an old fashioned Irish Wake. Mrs. Finnegan (played by Judy Spees) has passed to the great beyond this year and let's see if our revelry can wake her!

Thursday Night March 27h: Rotary District 5190 music and speech contest at Incline High School Auditorium

When planning your holiday Parties or lunch/dinners out, please support our Rotary Club lunch providers:

Happy Tiers Bakery and Café (info@mysite.com) 775-600-5416
Thania’s Juice Bar 775-298-2858
Sunshine Deli 775-832-2253
Crosby’s Tavern (russell@Crosbyspub.com) 775-833-1030
Liesl Catering (lieslpanke@yahoo.com) 530-588-6463

Report on Our Lunch with Ceramacist Rick Parsons January 6th

Last Monday we heard about the Summer Arts Workshops at the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe. Rick Parsons told us about community access ceramics and drawing classes each semester. He also highlighted the 41st year of Summer Art Workshops, showcasing world class master artisans in many forms of Ceramics, Writing, 2D/3D art, Book Making craft and more. We had a delicious luncheon with our Friends, and enjoyed a fun program with a theme, thought for the day, funny Jokes, and new interesting ideas!

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Opportunities for You to Serve!

We track Club Rotary volunteer hours so tell us about it when you volunteer

(lurn@me.com/or text 510-334-5343)!

EAT SEE'S CANDY TO SUPPORT CHARITY. Buy your Valentine's Day Candy by January 31st to have it delivered on time anywhere you want! Just click on this link to visit our online store: https://www.yumraising.com/secure/rotaryfoi_eat_candy_to_support_rotary_charity95/Frafra7648/candy

We need volunteers to buy See's Candy and have it delivered to yourself, your friends, or your family. Then, EAT the candy and buy more! The proceeds go to our club's local projects. Just click on this link to visit our online store: https://www.yumraising.com/secure/rotaryfoi_eat_candy_to_support_rotary_charity95/Frafra7648/candy

HELP PREPARE TAX RETURNS OR BE A GREETER. Two types of volunteer positions are available. Tax Preparers work with people to prepare and submit their tax returns. Greeters greet clients, help them fill out an intake form and direct them to a Tax Preparer. On-site support is provided to help all volunteers provide high quality, accurate services. As a VITA volunteer, you:

➢ Get free training to put on your resume,
➢ Gain experience that can help with employment,
➢ Get information to help you with your own tax return,
➢ Work one-on-one with families,
➢ Help families get all of the tax credits and refunds they are entitled to, while saving money on fees, and
➢ Help our community by bringing in more dollars for the local economy.
For more information, or to sign up, contact: Tahoe Family Solutions at (775) 413-5145 or leslieb@tahoefamily.org.

HOST A CLASSICAL MUSICIAN THIS SUMMER. Lu and Rick Sweeney are doing this for the third summer! Accommodations are needed for 2-3 weeks, starting on July 19, 2025 and ending on Aug. 10, 2025. Accommodations must include a private bedroom and bathroom, as well as a quiet space to practice. A separate entrance is preferred but not necessary. Housing hosts are provided with 2 tickets to see Classical Tahoe perform live. If you already subscribe, you can share your tickets with friends. Please contact Joanne Taylor, development director at Classical Tahoe: joanne@classicaltahoe.org, 208-283-2740.

Hurricane Helene has caused widespread devastation in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas, leaving countless families in need of urgent assistance. Rotary Zones 33/34 are responding swiftly, and your support is crucial in helping the hardest-hit areas. Please use the donation links below to contribute to recovery efforts.

Here is the donation link: Zone 33-34 Foundation (superform.app)

Rotary Zones 33-34 Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization (EIN 81-3880345). Rotary Zones 33 and 34 are in the southeast coastal areas of the US. The next Zones to the west are 30 and 31 which support that same foundation. There are also: The American Red Cross: Donate to Disaster Relief | American Red Cross Samaritan’s Purse: U.S. Disaster Relief (samaritanspurse.org) and Team Rubicon: Home - Team Rubicon (teamrubiconusa.org)

Our Rotary Garden is next to the Chevron Station on the corner of Tahoe Blvd. and Village. Walk by and take a look! We don't need any gardening right now, but in the Spring we will expand the garden towards the sidewalks. Do you like to garden? If we had more gardeners we could expand to other corners in Incline Village!

Hispanic Outreach Personalized Approach (HOPA). You would be a mentor to specially selected high school students to teach them about your profession. This would require about 30 to 60 minutes per month, October through June, coordinating with the organization and school. You would guide and support your student in exploring professional paths, applying for scholarships, building a resume, seeking letters of recommendation, and preparing for interviews. Email Ana Porras at ana.porras@washoeschools.net and let her know what your areas of expertise are so she can look for a good match with a prospective mentee.

Read with Me - From our club, Joan Ellen, Lu and Rick do this. Now is Your Chance to join the program! Thursday September 19 at 3:30 p.m. was the first Read With Me training session. Just fill out these online forms:

(Online, now): Read With Me office
(Print, bring in to the high school): WCSD Volunteer Application

This is the perfect time of the school year for anybody to get active, so tell others to get in touch with John and Sharon at inclinereadwithme@gmail.com (They can accommodate new volunteers anytime during the school year, too.)

Conversacion Cafe - THS ESL practice sessions now on Mondays from 5-6pm hosted by St. Pat’s in town. No training needed. coordinator Lucille Wang

Help Host Our Rotary Exchange Student - You can be a host family or “kidnap an exchange student for a day, evening, event…” opportunities with our new RYE exchange student from Germany.

Another way for volunteering is Club service: Let Lu or our Presidents know if you have interest in being part of:

a) What Charities our Club donates to?

b) Club Public Relations?

c) Youth - Interact, Rotary Youth Exchange or Music and Speech contests?

d) Inviting New Members?

e) Organizing "Fireside Chats" which are socials where we learn about Rotary?

f) Vocational Service, which is honoring members or community members for their vocational service?

g) Community service, which is finding or creating community service projects for our club members?

h) International service like Polio Plus or other projects and the Rotary Foundation?

i) Planning Social Activities like holiday socials?

j) Planning the Veteran’s Luncheon?

k) Greeting members and visitors at our meetings?

l) Brainstorming and inviting great speakers for our meetings?

m) Local Heroes Parade/Community Fair?

n) Duck Drop (end of May to day after Labor Day)?