San Rafael Harbor Rotary

Harbor Rotary is thrilled to welcome our newest member Candra Canning. She already has connected with Ryla organizers to use her skills as a corporate coach and leadership trainer to benefit high school students attending RYLA. In addition to that, she has just attended the Basic Prls seminar. Welcome Candra, we look forward to working with you on many exciting Rotary projects in the future !!!

Friends in the Marin Community, please join us: The City of San Rafael, in collaboration with local and state partners, is offering a free tree workshop. Learn about trees, including how to plant a tree and maintain them! Then, join us on March 28 and help plant 100 trees.... Pastries & coffee provided. Please RSVP to reserve your space: [email protected] Learn more

Plant Trees, Heal the Planet! Posted on February 19, 2020 CA Tree Team Workshop Join us to plant 100 beautiful, carbon-capturing trees in San Rafael on March 28! Here’s how to help:... Learn how to plant and maintain trees at a Tree Planting workshop, February 29, 9am, 618 B St. Volunteer to plant, mulch and water, March 28, 8:30 am, McInnis Parkway. Adopt-a-tree. Donate funds to water the trees for the first few years until they are established. (Any amount will help meet the goal of $500 per tree. See donation details below. Thank you!) Come to McInnis Parkway, across the street from the Embassy Suites hotel, for the Planting, March 28, 8:30 a.m. Bring a spade and work gloves if you have them. After sign-in, refreshments, and celebration, some volunteers will disperse to the Canal District to plant 30 trees. Other volunteers will remain to line the north side of McInnis Parkway with 70 trees. The City of San Rafael will have already bored the holes, and Cool Parks will have delivered the trees. Depending on the number of volunteers, we will be done about lunchtime or early afternoon. Everyone interested in any type of tree planting, including this event, is encouraged to come to a Tree Planting Workshop, February 29, 9 a.m. noon at the Community Center, 618 B St, San Rafael. Pastries and coffee provided. Reserve your workshop spot by emailing [email protected] because space is limited. (There will be a similar workshop, March 7, 9 am 12, at the Novato City Hall to train volunteers for another 100-tree planting in that city on April 18.) Tax-deductable donations to adopt-a-tree in San Rafael can be made in one of two ways: Mail a check payable to Sustainable San Rafael, with Adopt-a-tree in the memo line, to: Sustainable San Rafael, 166 Greenwood Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901 Give by credit card at SustainableSanRafael.org. Click the Contribute tab and follow instructions. Check the Contribution only and Other amount boxes, and write Adopt-a-tree in the Snail Mail box. Be a part of San Rafael’s largest single-day tree planting event! It is all in partnership with the City of San Rafael, Harbor and Terra Linda Rotary Clubs, Cal-Fire, California Climate Investments, West Coast Arborists, Western Chapter of International Society of Arboriculture, California Urban Forests Council, Invest From the Ground Up, Cool Parks, Resilient Neighborhoods, Sustainable Marin, and Sustainable San Rafael.

The food at our meetings has improved so much! Come visit and try it. Thank you Stacey Scott!!!The food at our meetings has improved so much! Come visit and try it. Thank you Stacey Scott!!!

No meeting on Tuesday due to power outage

Our newest member Mel Matsumoto!! Welcome Mel.

Please join me in honoring Jim Carriere, our Harbor Rotary member who recently hit a milestone. He has raised over $400,000 in funds for ShelterBox USA, an international disaster relief charity. This has earned him recognition as the organization’s top all-time fundraiser. ShelterBox delivers emergency shelter and life-saving supplies to people affected by natural disasters or conflict around the world. ShelterBox would not be able to help so many families in need of shelt...er without the exceptional efforts of volunteers who have a passion for helping people in need, said Kerri Murray. Jim has truly gone above and beyond and his extraordinary service to raise funds for ShelterBox has resulted in hundreds of families receiving life-saving aid. Carriere, who is senior vice president of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of San Rafael, has been involved with the organization for more than a decade. He served on ShelterBox USA’s board from 2010-2018, including service as board chair in 2017 and 2018. For the last four years, Carriere has hosted a successful fundraising event for ShelterBox called Jimbalaya, in which he treats guests to cuisine from his hometown of New Orleans. In total, the event has raised more than $100,000. A member of the Rotary Club of San Rafael Harbor, he first learned of the organization through its connection to Rotary. ShelterBox is the official Project Partner of Rotary International in disaster relief. Rotarians are often the first point of contact for the ShelterBox Response Team when they arrive in a country that has been devastated by a disaster.

Absolutely wonderful picnic day at McNears Park to install new presidents. We were all having a great time. Harbor Rotary was there in force!!!

Fantastic support from Prinicpal Bob Marcucci and Cecilia Perez

Fantastic morning at Bank of Marin, honoring the hard work and effort of James B. Davidson Middle and Bahia Vista Elementary students in 2018-19.

Finding friends at House of Friendship #rotaryinternationalconvention #TRF #Rotary