The Bridge That Unites Us

Service Above Self

Grand island is all about bridges - most of us use one or the other bridge each day.

Grand Island Rotary is about bridges also - bridges of friendship & joint service join our Members in fellowship.

Rotary Club of Grand Island has 'Flexible Meeting' Concept, with 2 meetings per month, one AM, one PM. During current pandemic we are meeting by Zoom session. Please see Calendar attached to this Web Site for Club meeting schedule and venues.

Club News
You're Safe Here! opens with Rotary Help
You’re Safe Here! - Now has a home on Grand Island
A long-awaited, full-time, satellite branch of the Family Justice Center on Grand Island was dedicated Saturday, June 12, 2021. Using the donated ‘old parsonage’ of Trinity Church, re-hab’d and modernized, the Center will provide convenient, local, access to services for domestic violence sufferers, and for teens or entire families, in crisis. Grand Island Rotary has provided both hands-on help and financing for much of the landscaping of this Family Justice Center satellite on Whitehaven Rd. near Trinity Church. Rotary Members Dick Earne, Christine Learman, and her husband Kent Richardson, prepared the flower beds before Wayside Nursery placed the extensive plantings. Later Rotary President Sherry Miller and Member Michelle Lockett presented FJC Director Mary Travers Murphy with a check to cover the Wayside Nursery expense. Rotary is proud to join other Island organizations and businesses in giving the Family Justice Center, with its motto: You’re Safe Here!  an easy-access site on Grand Island.
  
 
Morning Meeting Featured Interact President
Excellent morning meeting (by Zoom) for Grand Island Rotary this week (June 9). The meeting featured Sophia Terlecki, President of the G I High School Interact Club during this 2020 /21 school year. Ms. Terlecki acknowledged the challenge of ‘Covid required’ restrictions – no in-person meetings, a mixed year in High School – some school time all virtual, some mixed sessions. Through it all, she and approximately 30 other students did accomplish virtual (Zoom) meetings, and more importantly, accomplished several unique projects: ‘pen-pal’ writing notes to younger students encouraging ‘buddying’ to avoid depressive loneliness, collecting travel size toiletries (since no-one was traveling!) for homeless and families in crisis. Those efforts plus the student help for Rotary’s ‘Adopt-a-Hiway’ cleanup along Beaver Island Parkway gave them a rewarding year. Ms. Terlecki and the whole Interact Club certainly exhibit the Rotary motto of Service Above Self.
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