Kristi Halvorson grew up and lived in Oregon where she worked in a family land development business on various projects in Washington and Oregon. Thereafter, she had a custom homebuilding firm on the central Oregon coast. She and her husband Steve Keppler have been married for 40 years and had an ornamental tree nursery south of Portland. They were snowbirds for several years, and now live in Oro Valley where Kristi is a member of the Saddlebrooke Rotary Club.

Rotary has been a large part of her life for the last 35 years. She was President of the Kruse Way-Lake Oswego Rotary Club, District Governor in 2009-10, and District Rotary Foundation Chair from 2013-16 in Oregon. Kristi is currently the District 5500 Rotary Foundation Chair.

Kristi and Steve have participated in Polio National Immunization Days in Ethiopia and India, traveled to Central America a number of times on various Rotary projects, and have made it to 11 international conventions. Both are Major Donors to The Rotary Foundation and Kristi is a Paul Harris Society member and Bequest Society member.

During her presentation, Kristi provides a brief history of The Rotary Foundation and an overview of all its programs and funding opportunities.

Some scenes from out October 11 meeting.

1-Catalina Rotary Club President B.J. Cordova welcomes members & guests

2-Anita McDonald promotes the upcoming ALS Walk

3-Tom Robertson invites everyone to the annual HeART Works art show

4-Pat Patton updates us on coming service projects

5-Maria Elena McElroy shares her enthusiasm for this year’s Tucson International Mariachi Conference

6-Membership Director Ted Forsberg introduces new members Patricia Heasler & Don Leuenberger

7-New member Don Leuenberger introduces himself

8-New member Patricia Heasler introduces herself to the club

9-Celebrating our two new members – Ted Forsberg-Don Leuenberger-Patricia Heasler-Matt Matthewson-B.J. Cordova-Assistant Governor Ann Huber-PDG Kristi Halvorson

10-Jim Kester hopes to find the Queen of Hearts in the deck offered by Bob DeLaney

11-No Queen today – Bob DeLaney consoles Jim Kester on drawing the 10 of Diamonds

12-Today’s Program Topic

13-Kristi Halvorson begins her presentation

14-Kristi Halvorson shares information about The Rotary Foundation