"Will you get your food and a mimosa and we'll get started…" With that unusual opening for a breakfast meeting of Pearl Rotary, President Jonelle Anderson welcomed a full room of Rotarians and guests (see posed group image) to the fourth annual International Women's Day celebration (3/8/22). Joining on Zoom were Rotarians visiting from other […]
Our PPRC podium--whether in person at Ecotrust or through virtual presentations--brings critical topics before Rotarians. Take the 2/8 and 2/15 meetings (the urgency of two speakers about the issues was apparent). A youthful perspective on climate change was presented Feb. 8 by Luna Abadia, a Rotary youth exchanger from two years ago to Japan (and […]
For Luna Abadia, a successful Rotary youth exchange experience in Japan (2019-20) was hardly any closure in her young life--despite having to return to Portland four months early due to Covid-19. Rather, in the Feb. 8 introduction by PPRC y.e. chair Dawn Schneider, that experience helped shape the Lincoln High School senior's activism for climate […]
nager, Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu, and his Tutsi wife, the show depicts how more than 1,000 Rwandans' lives were saved by their heroics.
Portland Pearl Rotary's annual wine exchange was smaller than usual), but we still netted about $400 for the Pearl Fund!
The 2021 Rotary Golf Tournament was a big success. Of the $36k that was raised overall on Aug. 23, $15k went to the clubs' primary beneficiary, LEAP.
Commissioner Sharon Meieran speaks to the Portland Pearl Rotary Club about homelessness in Portland, outlining her ideas.
Co- Red Door founder Lesli Mones spoke to Pearl Rotary Nov. 30, with a historical look back to outreach programs Hands Up ) and Cop Out
How are your trivia skills? This Portland Rotary Club (Pearl Rotary) had its members test their skills in this holiday contest
