Our meeting this week, Oct 9, at Crazy Uncle Mike's has been cancelled due to the impending hurricane. However, we look forward to seeing everyone next week as usual on Oct 16, 2024.
We are thrilled and honored to be a finalist for the Men Giving Back Golden Grant Award! This is the third year in a row that our club has been chosen as a finalist for the MenGiving Back Golden Grants! Men Giving Back is an organization that is all about fun and philanthropy. Men Giving Back of South Palm Beach County was conceived in February of 2020 by a small group of motivated men – from business, finance, health care, hospitality, and law backgrounds – who quickly realized that they had something in common: a love of their [...]
We will be collecting items for the Changing Lives Boutique at our weekly meeting next Wednesday, 9/11/24 Changing Lives is a non-profit that is dedicated to transforming the lives of our area's homeless population. They provide basic needs, resources, health and wellness referrals, mentorship, employment placement and so much more. The goal is to help these men and women transition from a life of hopelessness to hopefulness and, most importantly, independent and self-sustaining living. Recently they opened Changing Lives Boutique, a second-hand shop with all the profits from sales going to Changing Lives. This week we will be [...]
The Rotary Club of Boca Raton has Lost One of Our Own It is with profound sadness that we share the news that our dear friend Spencer Siegel left us on Saturday, August 24th. We have lost a friend, a Rotary brother, OPAL Chair, a father and husband, and an amazing human being. The Spencer Siegel Scholarship Fund has been established for those interested in donating in his memory. Please click the link below. https://tinyurl.com/Spencer-Siegel-Scholarship Please keep his wife Dara and three children, Bennett, Layne and Sabrina in your hearts and prayers. May his memory be a blessing. [...]
We meet at noon on Wednesdays at Crazy Uncle Mike's. Anyone who is interested in joining us for lunch or wants to learn more about The Rotary Club please reach out - 561-945-3773! This week's speaker is Rabbi Sholom Kessler. Rabbi Sholom, originally from Montreal, Canada, and Itta Kessler, a Boca native, founded Friendship House in 2020 with a mission of bringing friendship and support to individuals with special needs within the greater Boca Raton community. They are both proud to be a part of Friendship House, where they can make dreams come true. Dreams of a fully [...]
We were pleased to have Doug Mosley of ESPN join the club. Doug joined ESPN in April 2014, and helped launch the inaugural Boca Raton Bowl, a postseason college football bowl game owned and operated by ESPN Events, played annually at FAU Stadium, located on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla. Since that time, the game has logged successive years with cumulative viewership surpassing 25 million households and total sponsoring value just under $250 million. Mosley came to Boca Raton with more than 25 years’ experience in on-campus roles in intercollegiate athletics and also a [...]
The Club was pleased to induct Stacy Bradford as a new member. Stacy grew up in Wellington, FL. After high school she began working as a teller at what would eventually become Bank of America. Over 11 years, Stacy worked her way up to private banking on the exclusive island of Palm Beach handling banking, investing and portfolio management, high net worth lending, and trust and estate management. Eventually one of her biggest clients asked her to join him in starting a new software company in Boca Raton. He had recently sold his mission critical computer storage company to [...]
Sandy L. Burkart PT, PhD has been a Rotarian for more than 30+ years. Sandy has sought out a purpose with Rotary that would bring him and his family joy. He has dedicated his time as a Rotarian working with Youth Exchange and International Service, where he and Lisa Talley were instrumental in introducing District 6930 to Youth and Peace in Action (YPA), a vital peacebuilding, educational movement spanning across fifteen states, 300+ high schools, and more than 5,000 students. His presentation was entitled, “Art and Peace: Finding Tranquility and Mindfulness in a Moment of Chaos with Henri Matisse [...]
On Wednesday, December 21 the Rotary Club of Boca Raton held its weekly meeting at the S. E. Wimberly Library on the Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Linda Marie Golian-Lui is the Dean of Libraries, and an active Rotarian for over 11 years. The Wimberly library includes group study rooms, a graduate study lounge4, seating for over 1,200 users, an electronic classroom, ADA workstations, an audiovisual media center, and three computer labs. Signature collections include the Marvin & Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection, Arthur & Mata Jaffee Center for Book Arts, the Recorded Sound Archives, [...]
We were delighted to do a Craft Talk with Todd Halls. Todd grew up in Motley, MN. Small town of a few hundred people. He is thankful to have had some amazing teachers at Motley that didn’t give up on him. He attended college at Minnesota State University Mankato and Graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management after a longer than normal college career. He had a pattern of doing construction and pouring concrete in the summer and was a bar manager the other half of the year for a family that liked him and helped [...]
