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Members of the Nevada City 49er Breakfast Rotary Club erected a new animal show and care structure, outdoor classroom benches and gardening boxes Saturday at Nevada Union High School. The service
project was part of a worldwide event called Rotarians at Work Day.
On the last Saturday of April each year, Rotary Club members around the world hold work days for projects in their communities.
In western Nevada County, members from five Rotary Clubs joined an estimated 94,000 Rotarians internationally in the service activity as part of their commitment to live out their motto, “Service Above Self.”
District 5190 Governor Wyn Spiller and other Rotary officers gave this run-down of activities:
• Grass Valley Rotary members painted the agriculture barns at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
• Nevada City Rotary started clearing a nearly 1-acre lot at the corner of Sacramento and Adams streets in Nevada City for Penzance Park, named after the club’s sister city in England, club international chairwoman Carolyn Inglis said. It’s an on-going project they hope will include installing benches and planting bulbs, she added.
• Nevada City 49er Breakfast Rotary built an amphitheatre for outdoor classes, gardening boxes and an animal corral for animal care and exhibition classes at Nevada Union High School. Ralf Swenson, superintendent of the Nevada Joint Union High School District and a 49er Rotarian, said the district spent about $15,000 in grant funds on the project but gained a facility worth two or three times more through the volunteer labor and community donations, Spiller said.
Business donors to the NU project included Caseywood Corp., Hansen Bros. Enterprises, Kubich Lumber, Deschaine Enterprises, Robinson Enterprises, Inc., Roland Meyer Concrete Pumping and Live Wire Products, Spiller added.
• Nevada County South Rotary worked on school beautification projects at Alta Sierra School and Lake of the Pines preschool, and cleaned up at Mathis Pond.
• Penn Valley Rotary pulled up Scotch broom along a mile of Pleasant Valley Road between Lake Wildwood and the dam, working with the Fire Safe Council of Nevada County and the Lake Wildwood Association. They loaded 20 truckloads of the invasive nonnative, club President Dan Halloran said.
• Rotaract, the youth branch of Rotary, cleaned up and replanted daffodils and paperwhite narcissus in the Alzheimer’s Memory Garden on the Litton Trail in Grass Valley. Grass Valley Rotary donated money for supplies, including two bags of potting soil and 13 bags of mulch, Rotaract President Michelle Litton said.
Rotary clubs are committed to humanitarian service, promoting high ethical standards, and working for international understanding and peace.
District 5190 includes 53 clubs in Northeastern California and Nevada, Spiller said.
To contact City Editor Trina Kleist, e-mail tkleist@theunion.com or call 477-4230.
In western Nevada County, members from five Rotary Clubs joined an estimated 94,000 Rotarians internationally in the service activity as part of their commitment to live out their motto, “Service Above Self.”
District 5190 Governor Wyn Spiller and other Rotary officers gave this run-down of activities:
• Grass Valley Rotary members painted the agriculture barns at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
• Nevada City Rotary started clearing a nearly 1-acre lot at the corner of Sacramento and Adams streets in Nevada City for Penzance Park, named after the club’s sister city in England, club international chairwoman Carolyn Inglis said. It’s an on-going project they hope will include installing benches and planting bulbs, she added.
• Nevada City 49er Breakfast Rotary built an amphitheatre for outdoor classes, gardening boxes and an animal corral for animal care and exhibition classes at Nevada Union High School. Ralf Swenson, superintendent of the Nevada Joint Union High School District and a 49er Rotarian, said the district spent about $15,000 in grant funds on the project but gained a facility worth two or three times more through the volunteer labor and community donations, Spiller said.
Business donors to the NU project included Caseywood Corp., Hansen Bros. Enterprises, Kubich Lumber, Deschaine Enterprises, Robinson Enterprises, Inc., Roland Meyer Concrete Pumping and Live Wire Products, Spiller added.
• Nevada County South Rotary worked on school beautification projects at Alta Sierra School and Lake of the Pines preschool, and cleaned up at Mathis Pond.
• Penn Valley Rotary pulled up Scotch broom along a mile of Pleasant Valley Road between Lake Wildwood and the dam, working with the Fire Safe Council of Nevada County and the Lake Wildwood Association. They loaded 20 truckloads of the invasive nonnative, club President Dan Halloran said.
• Rotaract, the youth branch of Rotary, cleaned up and replanted daffodils and paperwhite narcissus in the Alzheimer’s Memory Garden on the Litton Trail in Grass Valley. Grass Valley Rotary donated money for supplies, including two bags of potting soil and 13 bags of mulch, Rotaract President Michelle Litton said.
Rotary clubs are committed to humanitarian service, promoting high ethical standards, and working for international understanding and peace.
District 5190 includes 53 clubs in Northeastern California and Nevada, Spiller said.
To contact City Editor Trina Kleist, e-mail tkleist@theunion.com or call 477-4230.
