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Key Dates 2024:
The Pancake Breakfast and Golf Tournament & Dinner raise funds for the Foundation (501c3). 100% of the proceeds go to scholarships for our Custer County High School graduates.
The other fundraisers raise funds with the proceeds going to help Rotary Youth Exchange, Rotary Youth Leadership Program, After Prom, Elementary School Christmas Bags, 3rd Grade Dictionaries, and many other Rotary community projects (see below).
Golf | Pancake | Medical | Van | Others
33rd ANNUAL Scholarship Golf Tournament
The Wet Mountain Valley Rotary Foundation has sponsored a golf tournament and dinner to raise scholarship money for Custer County High School seniors in Westcliffe, Colorado. Over the period, thanks to sponsors, we have presented in excess of $500,000 in scholarships to graduating students in our county. Scholarships often determine whether a graduating senior continues their education or not.
Annual Pancake Breakfast
The Annual Pancake Breakfast is postponed. Stay tuned for informaiton about our hot dog fundraiser.
This is a major fundraiser for the student scholarships, so please come and support the kids and enjoy pancakes and sausage! 100% of the profits go to local student scholarships.
Medical Lending
The initial idea for the development of Rotary Lending Medical Aids, lnc., came as a need by then former Rotary members, Robyn (Wallerich) Turner and Gene Neiges, collaborating after Turner had an auto accident and was recuperating at home. The lack of durable medical goods within the community was quite evident. Gene Neiges' memory of past years, when his teenage daughter was recuperating from an auto accident, was of an organization called The Three Village Garden in New York provided much of the needed medical equipment (wheel chairs, beds, etc.) for the community. After a brief discussion, the idea to have the Wet Mountain Rotary Club sponsor an organization to provide the community with needed medical equipment was set into motion.
For more on the history, click on the image.
Visit the Facebook page!
To borrow needed equipment, please contact one of the following members:
Dennis Hagerty (415-320-0683)
Rotary Van Service
NOTICE
We are happy to announce that The Wet Mountain Valley Rotary Community Service, Inc., “Rotary Van Service”, will continue service starting in February on a limited basis. Rides for Medicaid recipients will continue as usual. Other rides will be offered for a $25 donation to ride to Pueblo, Canon City, and Salida. Local rides will be available for $10. We will only be offering rides to Colorado Springs for medical reasons for $40. If you need a ride to Heart of the Rockies Hospital in Salida, please contact the clinic first to see if their van is available.
If you cannot afford the donation, ask dispatch (719- 783-2343) if you qualify to receive a sponsorship. Generous local supporters have reached out to donate money to sponsor rides. The Rotary Van Service has been providing rides since June 2004 and is actively working to find additional funding to continue helping the community with this most needed service. If you want to help us as a driver, a sponsor, or volunteer, contact us at 719-851-0913.
The mission of the Wet Mountain Valley Community Service, Inc. (Rotary Van Service) is to provide residents of Custer County with safe transportation within one hundred miles of Custer Conty. The corporation is formed to own, maintain, and operate vehicles for transportation for members of the public who, because of medical or other infirmities or because of financial circumstances, need transportation in and around Custer County and the surrounding areas.
This is a transportation service provided to Valley residents to assist them with trips to visit doctors or run special errands. We have drivers from the Wet Mountain Valley Rotary Club and the community. Many drive more than once a week taking people to Pueblo, Canon City, Colorados Springs, Salida as well as Westcliffe or Silver Cliff.
Drivers are the key to the success of the Rotary Van Service and we have dedicated drivers who are proud of what they do and are appreciated by the people who depend upon them. And we could do more if we had more drivers. If you are looking for a way to truly help your community, apply to be a Rotary Van Driver. Call 719- 783-2343. Someday, you too, may need our service.
For transportation needs, contact Van Dispatch at 719-783-2343
This is a transportation provided to Valley residents to assist them with trips to visit doctors or run special errands. Most of the people in the transportation business did not believe we could run our project with just volunteers. but that is exactly what has happened. We have drivers from the Rotary club and drivers from the community volunteer their time. Many drive more than once a week taking people to Pueblo, Canon City, Colorado Springs, Salida, as well as Westcliffe.
For more history on the service, click on the image to the right.
Rotary Van Service from 2004 (click o the picture for a larger image).
For transportation needs, contact Van Dispatch at 783-2343
Other Projects
Rotary provides a tent and/or table setup for organizations.
Team photo:
Other local projects include giving dictionaries for all 3rd Grade students, Christmas gift bags to local seniors and shut-ins, support for the Summer Youth Jazz Camp, parking assistance for summer programs, ticket collection for school activities, tent and table rental, and other small projects for the community.
We also send Santa Claus with special gifts for local school children.
Be sure to view all the photos in the Gallery!
Extra Projects & Fundraisers
We are involved in many other projects.
- Jazz Camp BBQ
- Highway 96 cleanup
- Small Projects
- New benches for the community
- Planet Walk - Rotary plans to work with Dark Skies to bring a scale model of the solar system to Westcliffe.
Go to the Calendar page for the next fundraiser.
