Membership

Rotary club members are part of a diverse group of professional leaders working to address various community and international service needs. Through community service and other means, Rotary club members help promote peace and understanding throughout the world. Our members are our most important asset. They are the force that allows Rotary to carry out its many humanitarian efforts and achieve its mission. Why Join Rotary? Each Rotary club strives for a membership that is an up-to-date and progressive representation of its community's business, vocational, and professional interests. Membership in Rotary offers a number of benefits, including:

• Effecting change within the community
• Developing leadership skills
• Gaining an understanding of--and having an impact on--international humanitarian issues
• Developing relationships with community and business leaders

Rotary membership is by invitation of local clubs. If you would like to be considered for membership by Rotary Club of Windsor, please contact us.

Board of Directors

President: Ardin Wright

Past-President: Ron Clark
Secretary: Dorothy Simmons
Treasurer: Mike Warne
At-Large: Dan Lueschen
At-Large: Bruce Florquist
President-Elect: Susan Van Deren

About Rotary

ROTARY CLUB OF WINDSOR COLORADO
The Windsor Rotary Club meets for lunch at noon each Thursday at the Windsor Recreation Center located at 250 N. 11th Street in Windsor.

E-mail: info@WindsorRotaryClub.org
Mailing Address: 229 Cattail Bay, Windsor, CO 80550
Phone: (970) 674-1880

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Rotary International is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 31,000 Rotary clubs located in 166 countries.

The main objective of Rotary is service--in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development.

The motto of Rotary is Service Above Self.

More About Rotary
The History of Rotary

OBJECT OF ROTARY
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

• FIRST - The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service


• SECOND - High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society


• THIRD - The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life


• FOURTH - The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service

ROTARY DISTRICT 5440
The Rotary Club of Windsor is part of Rotary District 5440 which serves all of Wyoming, Western Nebraska, Northern Colorado and Eastern Idaho.

Our Projects

Some of our recent and ongoing service projects:

CASA HOGAR LOS ANGELITOS
Manzanillo, Mexico
Casa Hogar Los Angelitos



AERODENTISTA
Mulege, Mexico
Mulege Dental Clinic

9 HEALTH FAIR
9Health Fair promotes health awareness and encourages individuals to assume responsibility for their own health. As Colorado's largest community health fair program, and the largest community health, wellness and prevention effort in the nation, since 1980, 9Health Fair has helped save thousands of lives by providing free and low-cost health screenings and educational programs.

HABIC
The love of a companion animal is uncomplicated and unconditional, naturally received and returned by people of all ages. It is in this spirit that Human-Animal Bond in Colorado (HABIC) was founded. Established in 1993 at Colorado State University's College of Applied Human Sciences--School of Social Work, HABIC is a program that effectively uses the powerful human-animal bond in therapeutic settings.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY
For more than 60 years, United Way of Weld County has been the most effective and efficient way to make a difference, to do what matters. And today, United Way of Weld County is still the best way to make an investment in our community.

Literacy Carnival

DAFODILL DAYS
One of the first flowers of spring, the daffodil is a symbol of hope. To the American Cancer Society, the flower represents the hope of a world free from cancer. The Rotary Club of Windsor's support of Daffodil Days helps give life and hope to millions of Americans facing cancer.

SENIOR CAKE DAY

INTERACT CLUB
Windsor High School

ROTARY YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARDS
RYLA is a leadership training program for young men and women where leadership skills and principles are learned, developed and enhanced in an atmosphere of trust and respect. To encourage and assist youth leaders and potential leaders in methods of responsible and effective leadership by providing them with a training experience. In Rotary Districts 5440 and 5450, RYLA is a 5-day leadership conference held at the YMCA of the Rockies, in Estes Park.