Yakima Rotary

A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 703 Central Avenue, adjacent to the Southeast Community Center.

SPECIAL OLYMPICS BASKETBALL . . . The Lewis & Clark Middle School Special Olympics Basketball Team will be joining others next week, February 13, at West Valley High School for a tournament. The fun begins at 9 a.m. and ends around 2 p.m. Come ...

Winners get to proclaim they are victors and that is what fans of Washington State University are doing today. The Downtown Yakima Rotary club fundraiser called U Rule Yakima was won by WSU allowing school colors to be painted along Yakima Avenue and banners to fly around the downtown area...

Dozens gathered Saturday afternoon to dedicate the opening of Kiwanis Park on land that was once an eyesore. The renovation started about six years ago. It was funded by grants and donations from the Yakima School District and the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs...

Rotary District is looking for team members between the ages of 25-40 to participate in a vocational exchange to Germany in 2013.  The all-expenses-paid, month-long trip to Germany is scheduled for May 18 to June 15, 2013.  As a member of the Rotary Group Study Exchange (GSE) team, four young professionals, guided by a Rotarian Team Leader, will spend a month traveling throughout the partner

Some $285,000 in scholarships will be awarded to 41 Yakima Valley students at the Yakima Rotary Club meeting on June 7. The scholarships are from the Mary Monroe Davis Educational Trust that was created three years ago. Mary Monroe Davis gifted $20 million for a scholarship program to be administered by the Yakima Rotary Trust with her vision being to help local students in need...

ROTARIAN'S GIVE BOOKS TO ELEMENTARY STUDENTS Members of the Rotary Club of Yakima are spending the next three weeks in and out of elementary classrooms throughout the Yakima School District.  Before they are done, every kindergarten through third grade student in the district will have received a brand new book of their own to keep...

Applications are now available for the Yakima Rotary Trust’s Mary Monroe Davis Scholarship.  Scholarships are awarded based on financial need, academic achievement and leadership, and are renewable for up to four years.  Applicants must be a U...