Club Roundup

Scotts Valley Host Lions Club
The Scotts Valley Host Lions Club hosts its 11th annual Charity Golf Tournament on Oct. 1 at Boulder Creek Golf & Country Club. Tee time is 1:30 p.m., followed by a barbecue and raffle. Proceeds will benefit youth and community and sight and hearing foundations. For information: 335-9630.
Oct. 15 and16 will be eyeglass recycling and White Cane Days in Scotts Valley. Residents can take used prescription eyeglasses or sunglasses to designated collection areas: Scotts Valley Market, Safeway, Starbucks on Scotts Valley Drive, CVS and Mollies Café.
The club meets at the Scotts Valley Senior Center, 370 Kings Village Road, at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month and at 7 a.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month.
Rotary Club of Scotts Valley
The club thanks those who attended its fifth annual Oktoberfest on Sept. 19. In addition to the money raised for the Falcon Club and Educational Foundation, the balance of the proceeds will be used to assist the poorest of the poor in the community.
The club has planned to equip two hospitals in Guatemala that serve the poor Mayan population. A team will travel to Guatemala in November to determine what is needed and the best way to distribute items.
Upcoming speakers: author Elizabeth Anne Jones, Patricia Morales from Loaves and Fishes; and David Rader, who will discuss “Sand, (Cyber), Sea and Stars.”
The club meets from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Mondays at the Hilton Santa Cruz-Scotts Valley, 6001 La Madrona Drive. Lunch is at noon and costs $16.
Kiwanis Club of Scotts Valley
Kiwanis hosted the third and final of its 2010 Music in the Park concerts Aug. 29, which featured “Extra-Large”, a very popular Santa Cruz County band.
At the concert, BCI Builders provided a barbecue, Santa Cruz Pizza sold pizza by the slice, Baskin-Robbins supplied ice cream and Roudon-Smith poured wine.
The club raised more than $7,000 and plans to continue and expand the event next year.
The club meets 7 a.m. Wednesdays at Heavenly Café, 1270 Mount Hermon Road ($5), except the second Wednesday (Oct. 13), which is a 6 p.m. meeting at the Hilton Santa Cruz-Scotts Valley, 6001 La Madrona Drive ($20).
Santa Cruz Moose Lodge 545
During the Labor Day weekend, members of the Lodge volunteered at its first Hot Rods for Kids day at Ocean Honda. Members helped with the set-up and clean-up, cooked and served BBQ, and prepared food. The event benefited Children’s Hospice.
On Sept 25, members will participate in the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk in Aptos. The lodge has been a part of this event for more than 10 years.
Groups of members are enjoying various activities, such as the recently completed bowling league, attending San Jose Giants baseball games and planning a Cup Cake Contest the night of their Oct. 1 dinner.
For information about the lodge and upcoming events: www.scmoose545.org.
Scotts Valley Exchange Club
Scotts Valley Exchange Club’s 20th annual Golf Tournament and Barbecue sold out at Valley Gardens. The club thanks the sponsors.
This month’s speaker, Sept. 22, was Lou Shelton, president of Bethany University.
The meeting at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 27 will feature a voter forum, and school board candidates will have an opportunity to speak and answer questions. All are welcome to participate. The club meets at noon Wednesdays at the Hilton Santa Cruz-Scotts Valley, 6001 La Madrona Drive, except the fourth Wednesday, when they meet at 5:30 p.m. at the Scotts Valley Senior Center, 370 Kings Village Road.
San Lorenzo Valley Rotary
The club will host a membership mixer from 3 to 5 p.m. Oct. 2 to introduce potential new members to Rotary. From 7:30 to 11 a.m. Oct. 9, there will be a breakfast and barrel-wrap at Second Harvest Food Bank in Watsonville. From 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 24, there will be a multi-district gathering in San Francisco for End Polio Now. Second Harvest Food Bank and all seven area Rotary Clubs will participate in a Grind Out Hunger Skate-a-thon at Twin Lakes Church in Aptos from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Speakers for October: Oct. 6, Jeannie Kegebein, “Our Parks: The Future is Now”; Oct. 13, Sonia Saldana of Loaves and Fishes; Oct. 20, Partners in Service; Oct. 27, Don Fox, Costa Rican Water Project.
The club meets at 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays in Birch Dining Room on Conference Drive in Mount Hermon Conference Center ($10).
Contributors to this column are Karen Shipley, SV Lions; Georganna Drayton Hildebrand, SV Rotary; Joe Miller, Kiwanis; Laurie Grundy, Moose; Chris Perri, Exchange; and Priscilla Weiss, SLV Rotary.