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On Tuesday, October 7, our lunch speaker will be fellow club member Cort Vaughn. Cort will be giving an update on the state of Rotary’s efforts to eradicate polio worldwide. Cort Vaughan is a Polio survivor. He and his wife Tonya have two sons and two grandsons. Cort joined the Rotary Club of Greater Bend … Continue reading Rotary Lunch Program: World Polio Update

Join us Tuesday, September 30th from 4:30 to 6:30PM for Happy Hour at Ballers & Brews with your fellow Greater Bend Rotarians! Bring your spouse, significant other, or a friend interested in Rotary. Address:

On Tuesday, September 23, our lunch speaker will be Josh Burgess, who will be speaking about the Central Oregon Civic Action Project that brings together people from across demographics and political divides to solve problems. Josh Burgess is founder of the Central Oregon Civic Action Project, a public private partnership creating vibrant communities through deliberative … Continue reading Rotary Lunch Program: Josh Burgess – Central Oregon Civic Action Project

On Tuesday, September 16, our lunch speaker will be Rachael Scdoris-Salerno, who’ll be giving a talk about Mushing in Central Oregon – Running the Iditarod. Rachael Scdoris-Salerno is a four-time competitor in Alaska’s famed 1,000-mile Iditarod dog sled race and a legally blind Paralympic tandem cyclist.   In 2006, she wrote the book No End … Continue reading Rotary Lunch Program: Rachael Scdoris-Salerno – the Iditarod

On Tuesday, September 9, our lunch speaker will be Ty Rupert, Interim Deschutes County Sheriff. Note: you MUST sign up for this meeting (including guests) as we’re expecting a fairly large turnout and the Riverhouse needs to plan the meal accordingly. Sign up for lunch here.   Rupert, a United States Marine Corps veteran, has … Continue reading Rotary Lunch Program: Ty Rupert, Interim Deschutes County Sheriff

We extend our heartfelt thanks to Sun Country Tours for donating two rafts for a thrilling whitewater rafting adventure for our Bend/Belluno Summer Youth Exchange students. We also deeply appreciate Hayden Homes Amphitheater for providing them with tickets to the Tedeschi Trucks and Whiskey Myers concert. Thanks to the generosity of these businesses, our students … Continue reading Thank You to Our Generous Community Partners

  On Tuesday, August 19, our lunch speaker will be Dr. Jeremiah Deboever, who’ll be talking to us about the evolving electric power grid and the opportunities and challenges that this industry is facing. Jeremiah is currently a senior technical leader at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), an international non-profit organization supporting the energy … Continue reading Rotary Lunch Program: Dr. Jeremiah Deboever, Electric Power Research Institute

On Tuesday, August 12, our lunch program will be our own member Heidi Wright, who’ll be talking to us about the current and future state of news sources. Heidi is currently the Executive Director of the Independent Newspaper Group (ING), an industry association committed to supporting the continued vitality of independently owned news organizations.   … Continue reading Rotary Lunch Program: Heidi Wright – the State of News

On Tuesday, July 22, our lunch program will be a presentation from Dr. James Knox, Professor of Music at Central Oregon Community College, on the Estonian Singing Revolution. The Estonian Singing Revolution was a powerful nonviolent uprising in which Estonians used mass singing and cultural defiance to reclaim their independence from the Soviet Union between … Continue reading Rotary Lunch Program: Dr. James Knox presenting the Estonian Singing Revolution

On Tuesday, July 22, our lunch program will a presentation from Captain Brian Beekman, Investigations Branch Captain with the Bend Police Department. The Investigations Branch consists of around 45 police department employees that includes detectives, school resource officers, community service officers, traffic enforcement officers, canine teams, drone operators, crime analysis, and the Bend Area Real-Time … Continue reading Rotary Lunch Program: Captain Brian Beekman, Bend Police