Central Lakes Rotary has signed on to assist with the Pine River CommUnity Meals! Please contact Stephen Blenkush if you can join us on the 3rd Monday of the month at River View Church in Pine River at 3PM.
Central Lakes Rotary holds hybrid meetings on Tuesday mornings. Join us for breakfast and fellowship at 7am, followed by our club meeting and an informative presentation at 7:15am.
Join us in person at:
Brenny Funeral Chapel
31283 Front St, Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
Or join via Zoom by clicking on the link below, or launching the Zoom app and entering the meeting ID and password when prompted:
Meeting ID: 710 2819 9606
Password: 4waytest
Club Email Address:
Club Mailing Address:
PO Box 587
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
Club Contact:
2023 District Conference to be held in conjunction with Districts 5950 and 5960 at Madden's on Gull Lake!
https://imagine.rotarymidwest.org/schedule/
Calling volunteers to help ensure REHT (Rotary Ends Human Trafficking) Music Festival July 28-29, 2023 is a success!
This is a huge undertaking and we need your help! Please contact Stephen Blenkush (stephenblenkush@gmail.com) if you're interested in joining our volunteer ranks!
Central Lakes Rotary has signed on to assist with the Pine River CommUnity Meals! Please contact Stephen Blenkush if you can join us on the 3rd Monday of the month at River View Church in Pine River at 3PM.
Mar – Susan & Simon
Apr – Dave & Dan
May – Kurt & Stephen
Jun – Pete & Harlan
Jul – Linda & Lynn & Cindy
Aug – Mary Kay & Marcia
Sep – Steve & Quinn
Oct – Bob & Keith
Nov – Bruce & Mackenzie
Dec – Patty & Diane
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President
Secretary
President-Elect
Treasurer
International Service
Foundation Chair
Membership Co-Chair
Public Image Co-Chair
Public Image Co-Chair
Immediate Past President
Interact-Pequot Lakes HS
S.T.R.I.V.E. Chair
Webmaster
Public Relations
President Nominee
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Click here to nominate someone for the Brainerd Lakes Area Rotary Clubs Service Above Self Award:
Central Lakes Rotary Club was chartered in 1992, and we are proud to provide both financial and hands-on support to many community and international projects. Throughout the years, Central Lakes Rotary has donated to many area programs, including Ryan's Well, Bridges of Hope, Kinship Partners, Grace House, Interfaith Volunteers, Ski Gull Scholarship Program, 3 Area Food Shelves, Salvation Army, Junior Achievement, The Outreach Program of Brainerd Lakes, Alex and Brandon House, Mid-MN Women's Center, H.A.R.T. Animal Rescue, Adoption is Love Fund, PRB CommUnity Meals, Mounted Eagles, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, Teen Challenge, The Shop (youth center), Timber Bay Youth Program and holiday gift baskets to local families. One of our Community Service Projects was the purchase and installation of playground equipment in the Pine River Dam Park.
We are highly involved in the S.T.R.I.V.E. program (Students Taking a Renewed Interest in the Value of Education), mentoring and providing scholarships to students in both the Pequot Lakes and Pine River-Backus high schools. Over the last few years, we have been able to award approximately $40,000 in scholarships to more than 130 area students, thanks in large part to generous grants received from organizations that include the Crosslake-Ideal Lions Club 
and Lakes Area United Way 
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and Lakes Area United Way .Each year, Central Lakes Rotary provides dictionaries to 3rd grade students in Pequot Lakes, Pine River-Backus, Crosslake and Nisswa Elementary Schools, and our largest literacy effort was the completion of an Early Childhood Literacy Project in cooperation with St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd, MN. More than 700 gift packages were presented to parents of newborns, containing a book, blanket and literature showing the importance of beginning to read to babies right away.
Our International Projects have included partnering with other clubs for construction of clean water wells in third-world countries, clothes washing station with sanitation facilities at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, construction of schools, a Korean ambulance project, Micro Loans for Ethiopian Women, a poultry project in Haiti, Cows for Cambodia and Shelter Boxes.
Our current projects include purchasing benches for placement in Pine River parks, building a school in Garde-Saline, Haiti and refurbishing/recommissioning four water plants in Haiti.
Rotary International is the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 35,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who donate more than 16 million hours to work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
Posted by Diane Collins; updated by Patty Baltz 1/26/2021
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Club Visioning
Brenny Funeral ChapelJun 22, 2023
4:30 PM – 9:00 PM -
REHT Festival 2023
Lakes Music and Events CenterJul 28, 2023 12:00 PM –
Jul 29, 2023 9:00 PM
- Is it the Truth?
- Is it Fair to All Concerned?
- Will it Build Good Will & Better Friendships?
- Will It Be Beneficial to All Concerned?