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Announcements The club's 2011 Taste of Woodside on August 21st 2011 was a re-sounding success raising a record amount of money for both international and local community service projects.  Our thanks to the wineries and restaurants who participated and to those who attended the event as well.  Watch this space to see how many lives we change with the proceeds from the event.

District 5150 District Governor, John Bottari, Club President, Sandie Pugh and Nicholas, a Rotary Youth Exchange student from Madrid, Spain enjoying the 2011 Taste of Woodside.  

       The Rotary Club of Woodside/Portola Valley welcomes you to their website.

Rotary is a worldwide organization of more than 34,000 clubs, over 1.2 million men and women in over 200 countries around the world. Through these connections what we can do as both individual Rotarians and members of a Rotary Club are multiplied beyond belief. 
     The Rotary motto of ’Service Above Self' is what inspired me to become a Rotarian.  I realized what an impact one individual (or one small club) could have both here in our own community and in Guatemala, Ecuador, Sri Lanka, Bali, India and other far away places where our club has helped to change, enhance  and save lives. Our club direction is education, locally and internationally, and clean water. Our club has had several clean water projects in Guatemala and Baja, helped build and stock two libraries with books and computers in Guatemala, distributed almost 1,000 hard bound dictionaries to third grade students locally, provided scholarships for five students in Bali, provided classroom supplies to a school in Bali, sent a Shelter Box to Haiti and 1 each year for disaster use, awards annually eight $500 book scholarships to four male and four female college-bound seniors at Summit High School and Eastside Prep, put on our annual  Larry Wenrick Pancake Breakfast on May Day, produced annually a very successful Taste of Woodside fundraiser, provided food service to Day of the Horse and NCEFT events, gathered together for a hands-on work day, Rebuilding Together, in April (along with providing funding and feeding the workers), sent judges to the Woodside Elementary School Science Fair, held the first ever Snowflakes & Pancakes event to support our Veterans Projects, helped to place over 1,000 flags on gravesites on Memorial Day and provided funding and workers for City Trees in Redwood City. Funds for our projects come from a successful Taste Of Woodside.

     In May, I attended the Rotary International Convention in New Orleans. I was able to tour a number of post Katrina Rotary Projects completed with the help of Rotarians from all over the world. It was an inspirational experience. Not only were over 18,000 Rotarians there, so was Bill Gates speaking to us about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helping Rotary with $355,000,000 to go along with contributions over the last 3 years of $200,000,000 by Rotarians in the final push toward worldwide eradication of Polio. We are 99% there and Rotary members over the last 20 years have contributed over $900,000,000. Our club is committed to helping make this happen and I feel very proud to be a Rotarian and incoming president of my club.

   But Rotary International does more! HIV/AIDS, hunger, shelter, clean water, sanitation, literacy, peace, and helping to alleviate pain and suffering for the less fortunate people in the world are all within the grasp of Rotary’s helping hands.

    I invite you to breakfast with us, to hear marvelous speakers, to enjoy fellowship and to become a part of this movement of peace, understanding and brotherhood.  We need your hands and hearts.  We need your commitment to 'Service Above Self.'  The Rotary world needs you.
 
For more information about Rotary International please visit www.Rotary.org or visit our website at www.WPVRotary.org.  I hope to see you at breakfast at 7:30 AM any Wednesday, in the social hall of Woodside Village Church, 3154 Woodside Road, Woodside."

Sandie Pugh

President, 2011-2012

Rotary Club of Woodside/Portola Valley

Rotary Theme 2011-2012 Reach Within to Embrace Change Kalyan Banerjee, President, Rotary International John Bottari District Governor, District 5150 Sandie Pugh President, Rotary Club of Woodside/Portola Valley