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Rotary Responds to Disaster
Rotary and Shelter Box USA are both helping after the severe earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.  You can donate to Rotary's efforts to help Turkey and Syria (or other projects), or you can donate to Shelter Box directly.
 
Click below to donate to Shelter Box's efforts.
Randy Hatlen named Ripon Commonweath's
Person of the Year!
Randy Hatlen, a long-time member of the Ripon Rotary Club, has been named Person of the Year by the Ripon Commonwealth Press!  We are all so excited for Randy!  This honor is so well-deserved!  Randy is always there to lend a helping hand.  Click below to see all the ways Randy has helped the Ripon community over the years!
How can you shop online AND give to the Ripon Rotary Club?  Here's how!
So many of us shop online.  There is a way to do that and to support the Ripon Rotary Club at the same time!  iGive is a site that lets us shop at many of our favorite stores; part of what we spend is then given to the Ripon Rotary Club.  There is no catch.  The prices are the same as always. 
 
Just click below to enroll.  Then, when you visit a participating retailer online, it will automatically ask you to activate iGive.  That's it!  Simple.  You shop; Ripon Rotary gets money!  You can't go wrong with this.
 
Enroll now, using the link below - and start shopping!
Thanks to our Road Crew that helped clean up the highway leading west out of Ripon! Our leader, Tony, is taking the photo and gets all the thanks for taking our bags to the dump. It looks cool but was really a nice day on May 13 to spend an hour making our community look better!
Rotary has been working tirelessly to make sure no one else suffers the ravages of polio ever again!  Rotary's goal is eradicate this awful disease from our world!
 
We are 99% of the way there!  With your help, we can banish polio from our Earth!
For more information about Rotary's fight against polio, click on the following link:
https://www.endpolio.org/

 
Remember, the way to end polio is the same as the way to end COVID-19:  GET VACCINATED!!!
Ripon Rotary has with with Fr. Wally Kasuboski in Panama for many years to build a dam and provide water to hundreds of homes.  It is with projects like this that Rotary is able to change the lives of and bring hope to so many people, all over the world.
Rotary has clubs in over 200 countries around the world.  Aarti lives in India, but was able to use video-conferencing to speak to us here in Ripon!
 
Rotary strives to bring the world closer together.  We celebrate all the ways we are similar, as well as what each of us can contribute to others!
At Ripon Rotary, we are always looking to work with other groups to improve lives, help our community and work together.  Let us know if you have an idea for a project!
Thanks to all Rotarians, Ripon College students, and community helpers that volunteered to assist with the RC2 community 5K, 10K and half marathon that took place on May 6. Kevin Mundell, co-president, is proudly showing off his crossing guard stop sign. Much thanks to Cassie Bornick for spearheading the Rotary volunteer effort!
At Ripon Rotary, we welcome everyone!  Period.