Meeting News
March 21, 2025: Salvation Army-COAD
Mary Stebbins, RN, has been a registered nurse since 1977 and has a Master of Science Degree in Nursing with a specialty in Community Health Care Systems. Before 2002, she focused on professional development for [...]
March 14, 2025: Building a Healthier Future-The Impact of El Rio Health
Brenda Goldsmith, Executive Director, El Rio Foundation Brenda has over 25 years of non-profit leadership experience. She joined El Rio in 2004. Brenda is passionate about health equity and works to ensure that vulnerable populations [...]
March 7, 2025: Bringing Light to Those Without
Jennifer Sprung describes how the Rotary Club of Tucson Verde and the Durango Daybreak Rotary Club are partnering on a project to bring small solar light units to remote homes on the Navajo Nation. The [...]
February 14, 2025: Partnering for Peace
Partnering for Peace (PFP) is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization with a goal of fostering partnerships between Rotary International and the United States Peace Corps. A formal partnership was first established in 2015 and was recently [...]
February 7, 2025: Update-Imbabazi Center for Women and Children
Merle Anderson retired in 2000 from River Valley Cooperative where he served as Manager. He spent a thirty-seven year career in senior management for farm supply and grain marketing cooperatives in western Illinois and eastern [...]
January 24, 2025: The Border Patrol
Border Patrol agents Pete Bidegain and Teresa Fast provided an overview of the Border Patrol operations in the Tucson Sector. Some scenes from our January 24 meeting. [...]
Member News
Catalina Rotary Club Tucson recognized for support of Ukrainian & Haitian relief efforts
Catalina Rotary Club Tucson is now a Gold “ShelterBox HERO.” This is the highest level of recognition offered by ShelterBox USA. ShelterBox provides housing assistance in the form of shelter and related supplies. Since 2000, [...]
Celebrating Rodeo Beer Sales Success
On March 27, 2022, the Catalina Rotary Club sponsored a social event to say "thank you" to all the volunteers who helped us with beer sales during the Tucson Rodeo. Over 45 members and guests [...]
Catalina Rotary Air Force Vet & His WWII Navy Vet Dad Are Memorialized
Ed Matthewson couldn't enlist with his buddies when they all graduated from high school in 1943, because he was only sixteen. As the only 5th grade student in a one-room schoolhouse, his teacher had moved [...]
Partners in Service: Habitat for Humanity & Catalina Rotary Club Tucson
Partners in Service: Habitat for Humanity & Catalina Rotary Club Tucson By Andrew O’Sullivan When I joined the Catalina Rotary Club of Tucson, AZ in January 2021, I had a purpose in mind: I wanted [...]
Catalina Rotary Racial Justice Work Group Update
Catalina Rotary Club of Tucson Racial Justice Work Group Project Status Update - December 12, 2021 RJWG Committee members continue to work diligently on our three initiatives, despite the pandemic and other challenges. Here’s what's [...]
Catalina Rotary Member Promotes Japanese Culture
Did you know that folding paper helps you practice patience and enhance concentration? Or that it's also a source of healing? The ancient Japanese art of origami is all those things - and thanks to [...]