The
Club has sponsored and
financially supported numerous
local and international
community projects and entities
during it's 3 1/2 years of
existence.
Click here to see a list for
2007-2008.
The Monterey County Food Bank;
Dictionaries for every Seaside
3rd grader; Scholarships for
Seaside High School; Christmas
Gift Bags for Dorothy's Kitchen;
Rancho Cielo Youth Campus; 2007
San Diego Fire Victims; Annual
Dance for Gateway Residents; 2nd
Chance Youth and Families;
Seaside High School Sober Grad
Night; Seaside Interact Club;
Community Hospital of the
Monterey Peninsula Blood Bank;
Rotary Foundation - Polio Plus
Partners to Eradicate Polio;
Seaside Boys and Girls Club;
Rotary Club of Monterey
International; Developing
Communities, Inc.; Warm Coats
and Sweaters for Dorothy's
Kitchen Residents and Homeless;
Rotary Youth and Leadership
(Camp Royal); Shelter Box USA;
Angola Project - Million Dollar
Dream; Rotary Club of Ensenada
Centenaria, Mexico - Matching
Grant for Public Middle High
School Van, School; Library
Books for Luis Donaldo Colosio
Elementary School, Ensenada,
Mexico; City of Monterey Storm
Drain Stenciling; City of
Monterey, Colton Hall Christmas
Decorations; Monthly Recreation
Trail Clean-up ("Adopt a
Trail"); and Youth and Education
Miniature Golf Course
Renovations, Seaside. |
WAPIThe
reusable WAPI (Water Pasteurization
Indicator) is a simple, low cost device
containing a special soy wax that helps
users determine when water has reached
pasteurization temperatures. The wax
melts at the same temperature as the
water is pasteurized.
Students making WAPI's. 344
total WAPI's (172 WAPI bags with two
WAPI's per bag). Learn more at
www.makewapis.blogspot.com
Blood Drive 2007
Here’s the low-down on the Blood
Drive:
7 Clubs participated, bringing 82 donors
total. All Monterey Peninsula clubs
participated except Seaside.
21 donors were brought by Monterey
Pacific = 26% of donors.
Monterey Pacific wins the traveling
trophy!
Holiday Gift Bags for Less
Fortunate
For the 2005 Holiday season,
Monterey Pacific pulled together their
resources and filled over 50 bags with
much need necessities for the less
fortunate at
Dorothy's Place in Salinas. Items
included sun block, coffee mugs,
toothbrushes, socks, razors and the all
important chocolate candy. Members also
added a personal touch by taking the
time to decorate each of the holiday
bags with cards, stamps, markers,
glitter and festive ribbon. Not only did
the club have a wonderful time pulling
together the bags but the recipients
were more than grateful to have their
own little bag of goodies. This will
more than likely be an ongoing December
project for Monterey Pacific.
Adopt a Trail
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Monterey Pacific Rotary has adopted
a piece of the Monterey Recreational
Trail. The club cleans up the trail
every second Saturday at 9 a.m. in
front of the Monterey Bay Aquarium
from Prescott to Hoffman streets,
near Cannery Row.
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Adopting Colton Hall
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Our
club also has joined forces with the
City of Monterey to adopt the
historical Colton Hall during the
holiday season. December, 2004 was
our first exciting experience with
this historical treasure. Our club
assisted in decorating for the
holidays and also volunteered at
their annual “Christmas at the
Adobes.” We have decided to make
this an annual volunteer opportunity
for our club.
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Dictionary Project
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Members of Rotary Club of Monterey
Pacific helped raise money to place
brand new dictionaries into the
hands of 3rd graders. |
Storm Drain Project
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Members of Rotary Club of Monterey
Pacific helped raise awareness among
Carmel Citizens to avoid dumping
anything into the storm drains.
Members helped clean the concrete
near the storm drain then painted
onto a small service near the drain
"No Dumping, Flows to the Bay." Many
people don’t realize that storm
drains empty into Monterey Bay
untreated. By marking the storm
drains, we reduce the illegal
dumping of used motor oil, yard
clippings and other pollutants into
the storm-drain system. It was a
wonderful day and the members were
happy to raise awareness.
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Summer Food Drive
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With one in four
residents of Monterey County using the
food bank in a year, this became a
project dear to our hearts. Geoff Cook
and Tamara Mims co-chaired the 2007 food
drive and it took on the name “Hunger
Doesn’t Take a Summer Vacation” They set
a goal of 5000 lbs and with the help of
Rotarians, citizens in our local
community and Seaside High
Schoolers, they exceeded their goal
and ended up donating a total of 6448
lbs of food! |
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