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The
Rotary Club Chartered 15 May 1940
Meets Tuesdays at 12:00 noon at
Crex Conventions |
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Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders around the world. Rotarians work to help
build vital communities, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and advance a more peaceful world through understanding, goodwill and service. Our guiding value is
this: Service Above Self!
There are more than 1.2 million Rotarians, members of more than 32,500 Rotary Clubs within 529 districts in 168 countries. The Rotary Club of Grantsburg was chartered on 15 May 1940 with the assistance of the Rotary Club of Rice Lake Wisconsin. The Rotary Club of Grantsburg is part of District 5960. The district is located in western Wisconsin and east central, south central and southeastern Minnesota. District 5960 stretches as far south as Mankato, Albert Lea, Austin, Rochester and Winona, as far northwest as Elk River and Princeton and as far northeast as Rice Lake and Hayward. Along with the Rotary clubs in Siren/Webster and North Branch, the Rotary Club of Grantsburg is in Area 13 of District 5960's fifteen areas. Our meeting place is Crex Conventions. From the intersection of State Roads 70, 48 & 87, go east 3/8 mile on State Road 70, past Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, to the west side of Gateway Plaza. (map) Click here for a list of upcoming and past programs. The Rotary Club of Grantsburg supports community service projects including Christmas caroling at nursing and retirement care centers in Grantsburg, a fish fry in June and a pontoon outing and chicken barbecue in August for residents of Burnett Medical Center's Continuing Care Center, and Adopt-A-Highway cleanup of State Road 70 east of the village. In the area of vocational service, the Rotary Club of Grantsburg sponsors two young people to attend the annual District 5960 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (Camp RYLA), selects and awards the Grantsburg area Teacher of the Year, and provides a scholarship for a graduating senior in the Dollars for Scholars program. For international service, the Rotary Club of Grantsburg participates in Rotary's Polio Plus project which aims to bring about a polio-free world, sponsors outbound and hosts inbound Rotary Youth Exchange students, co-hosts inbound Rotary Group Study Exchange teams, and co-hosts International Night each April with the Rotary Clubs of Saint Croix Falls and New Richmond. |
Rotary Links & Contacts
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For further information about the Rotary Club of Grantsburg, please e-mail us or call Brent Blomberg at 715.463.5400. |
Rotary
was founded by attorney Paul Harris, coal dealer Silvester Schiele, mining engineer Gustavus Loehr and merchant tailor Hiram Shorey in Chicago on the evening of 23 February 1905.
At this first meeting, held in Loehr's business office, these four men agreed to start a club based on the idea that businessmen could and should become personal friends.
"The Rotary Club" name was adopted after the club's original practice of holding meetings in rotation at the offices of club members.
From the beginning and to this day, Rotary is about encouraging fellowship, mutual assistance and above all, friendship.