June Club Roundup

Rotary Club of Scotts Valley
The Denim, Diamonds and Wine event of June 5 was deemed a success by club members. The silent and live auctions raised enough to fulfill the club’s community service projects budget. Additionally, the club drummed up support for international work, including a trip to take medical equipment to two hospitals in Guatemala.
All seven Rotary Club chapters in the Santa Cruz area worked with University of California, Santa Cruz, to charter a Rotaract Club, which is Rotary for young adults.
Several club officers left for Montreal, Canada, on Friday, June 18, to attend the Rotary International Convention, where Rotarians from around the world shared ideas.
In July, the club will slice and serve watermelon for the city of Scotts Valley, march in the Fourth of July parade and work with Save Our Shores to clean up a local beach.
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.
SLV Rotary Club
The club’s meeting schedule for July: July 7, “The Unwritten History of Rotary” DVD by Cliff Docherman; July 14, Anastasia Torres-Gil on foster homes; July 21, Dr. Claude Roge from Scotts Valley Medical Missions to Haiti; July 28, TBA.
The club meets at 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays in the Birch Dining Room on Conference Drive in the Mount Hermon Conference Center. The cost is $10.
Santa Cruz Moose Lodge 545
The Moose Lodge served burgers to its sponsored Little League team, the Express, for the team’s end-of-season party June 3.
A $250 donation was given to the Monterey Bay Horsemanship Therapy Center, which offers therapeutic riding experiences for people with mental and physical disabilities.
On June 6, lodge members prepared breakfast for residents of the Vista Del Lago mobile home park.
The second-year Pink Prom was hosted at the lodge June 12 to raise money for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
Lodge members donated fleece and hard work to make 15 “special blankets” that were given to Project Linus, a group named after the blanket-carrying Peanuts comic strip character, which distributes new, handmade blankets to children who are seriously ill or traumatized.
For Father’s Day, June 20, the women of Lodge 545 prepared and served breakfast to the lodge fathers and their families.
For information:
www.scmoose545.org.
Kiwanis Club of Scotts Valley
Kiwanis and the Scotts Valley Arts Commission are preparing for the 2010 debut of Music in the Park. A free concert Sunday, June 27, will feature Mike Hadley and the Groove, along with a array of vendors who will provide barbecue, pizza, ice cream, wine, beer and sodas. Vendors will contribute half their proceeds to local charities. Concerts are also planned in July and August.
As part of the Scotts Valley Fourth of July celebration, Kiwanis will set up children’s carnival games at Skypark, and each child who plays will win a prize. The celebration also will include food, entertainment and the only fireworks show in Santa Cruz County. The Kiwanis Club’s proceeds from the celebration will become the scholarships that are handed out by the group each year.
The club meets 7 a.m. Wednesdays at Heavenly Café, 1270 Mount Hermon Road, and costs $5. On the second Wednesday of each month, the meeting is at 6 p.m. at the Hilton Santa Cruz-Scotts Valley, 6001 La Madrona Drive, and the cost is $20.
Contributors to this column are Pamela Comstock, SV Rotary; Priscilla Weiss, SLV Rotary; Robert Oneto, Moose; and Joe Miller, Kiwanis. To share news and information about your club, contact a Press-Banner reporter or editor at 438-2500 or pb****@*********er.com.