What do Burbank Sunrise Rotarians do when it’s 100 degrees and they’re bored?? They go fill our tiny libraries!! Thank you Lee and Maye!!

 

We are excited for the new Rotary year with the theme Rotary Opens Opportunities! It does indeed as Rotary provides us with many opportunities to serve and make life better for others. Rotary International President Holger Knaack, from the Rotary Club of Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln in Germany, explains that Rotary’s many opportunities enrich our own lives as well as those in the communities we serve. 

 

The Club was able to hold a properly distanced demotion party on Saturday night! It was the first time we had been able to get together since the pandemic began! Incoming President Kelli Lowers pinned outgoing President Mindy Brandt with her Past President Pin. Thank you Mindy for a great year!! You led us through our first ever pandemic and the dawn of the Zoom Meeting! Your compassion and your humor carried the day! Also thank you for all your hard work with our Burbank Sunrise Rotary Jack Forsch Memorial Scholarships!!

 

We’ve been busy!!! We have been meeting regularly virtually and even attended the first ever virtual District Assembly training!! We have been supporting local organizations such as Family Promise and The Burbank Temporary Aid Center with donations of money and food, and DVDs for Kids Community Dental Clinic. We participated in a contactless food drive for BTAC, and supported Glendale Sunrise Rotary with a donation to feed the clients at Ascencia Homeless Center. We wrote letters of encouragement for seniors as part of care packages for those in senior living.