What do you get when a USA-based non-profit combines with Rotary International (and other organizations like the Peace Corps) to improve education? The result: better classrooms for students on six islands in the Eastern Caribbean. On Sept. 14, Pearl Rotarians heard about "Hands Across The Sea: Cultivating Childhood Literacy in Developing Nations" from its director, […]
Portland Rotarians from the Portland Pearl Rotary Club gathered yesterday evening to hear a presentation by John Pearson about eliminating nuclear weapons. John provided a brief history of nuclear weapons, the current worldwide arsenals, risks posed by the existence of nuclear weapons, and current attempts to reduce or eliminate the weapons. As you can see, […]
An intrepid group of Portland Pearl Rotarians donned bike helmets and rode about 11 miles of the scenic highway through the Mosier tunnel for a BBQ lunch at an "historic" (or, so says the property owner, Alan Bacharach) property just outside the bustling Mosier town center. The story, according to Alan, is that the main […]
Principal Peyton Chapman can't escape the challenges of the present as a new school year begins at Lincoln High in Portland. Yet the focus of the veteran school administrator is also on the near future: the new Lincoln structure is one year from opening. Speaking Aug. 31 to Pearl Rotary (where she's an honorary member), […]
Pearl Rotary fundraisers -- back to Bet on the Pearl and now with the annual golf tournament -- have seen remarkable support from wineries. 2021's event, in conjunction with the New Generations RC, was no exception. Eight Willamette Valley vineyards contributed multiple bottles of quality wine to PPRC (many were in the $50-75 range retail). […]
Nick Fandel's decision to leave the banking world and form his own business was sound. The timing? Not quite. It was Jan. 1, 2020, and the sounds of the economic-silencing pandemic were showing. For Nick Fandel and his mortgage brokerage firm, anxiety and "sleepless nights" prevailed. But the support of family (wife, Molly and their […]
A contingent of Pearl Rotarians joined business associates, friends and family of Jerry Baysinger to salute the former club president's retirement. The event Sept. 9 was threefold in purpose: Jerry's half-century career as a Portland architect is winding down; his firm, Baysinger Partners Architecture, has been acquired by Matthew Lillard (also in Pearl Rotary) and […]
Yet another fun gathering of Portland Rotarians (from the Pearl) at Brix Tavern.
Donors, hole sponsors, volunteers, wine contributors, 132 golfers--that combined force produced a winning team at the Aug. 23 Pearl-New Generations Rotary Clubs' fundraising tourney. "A lot of people worked really hard on this," reported Pat Mahoney, PPRC's lead member on the committee. "Everyone contributed to a very big success." PPRC President Jonelle Anderson concurred, citing […]
