Follow us this great Rotary year

December 2025

In the realm of service, member Josh coordinated our annual project to outfit preschoolers with winter clothes -- coats, hats, gloves and more. We've lost count, but we're fairly sure we've been doing this for at least 25 years. It started with a Head Start program affiliated with IFCS (back then known as Inter-Faith Task Force) and the leadership of member Dr. Frank Sargent. The school moved to Littleton, and we kept our connection and support.

This year we supplied winter clothing for 27 kids. We have a long connection (10+ years) with an Englewood Walmart coordinator, Kristine Wallen. The school gives us the names and sizes, and she pulls the clothing. It's quite a pile! Thank you, Kristine! Again!

The Englewood High School Girls Basketball team also has worked with us many years. The girls sorted the clothing and placed it in tagged gift bags. We expressed our appreciation with a $300 donation. They plan to buy game balls, which sounds like we met a very real need.

We rang the bell!

Here's another Englewood Rotary tradition. We ring the bell for the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign. For the last several years we've been outside the King Soopers on Broadway in Englewood. The bell ringers were Dawn, Shawn, Elizabeth, Bruce, Gary, Patty and Bob and their grandkids, 12 and 8. (Cute kids bring in extra contributions!)

Dawn Shepherd (at right with Shawn Lewis) is our Great Red Kettle Organizer. She has a long history of serving on the board of directors of the Salvation Army station in Littleton, as well. Hooray for Dawn!

We had a very successful day in December. When the dollars and cents and checks were counted from our kettle, the total was over $800. Wow! We do confess that the club contributed about a third of that. We appreciate the Salvation Army and all it does in our community.