ABOUT HOOD RIVER ROTARY
Rotary is an international network of community service clubs, working locally - serving globally. We're Hood River Rotary, serving Hood River, Oregon, and the Columbia River Gorge, since March 1927.
Hood River Rotary conducts numerous events to support community causes.
Our work is fun! Annual events like Ski Night (January.) Rose Sale (April) and Rotary Golf Tournament (September,) raise money to make our community - and our world - a better place.
Hood River Rotary proceeds benefit charitable causes here, and in communities all around the world.
Rotary International is dedicated to eradicating polio and has a long track record of delivering polio immunizations to third world counties.
Join our local-to-global community service projects. Join our club. Donate. Volunteer. Get involved!
Ski Night at Mt. Hood Meadows Resort
Every January we partner with Mount Hood Meadows Ski Resort to offer a low cost lift ticket on MLK Monday to get more families and friends up on our amazing mountain - and to raise money for local Rotary service projects.
The event partnership has raised more than $320,000 in the last two decades - about $12,000 per year on average - for community causes.
Chipping in for Scholarships annual golf tournament
This annual tournament at Indian Creek Golf Course is our major annual fundraiser, supporting scholarships for local Gorge students.
Each year, Hood River Rotary scholarships support continuing education to high school seniors, to help them pursue their dreams.
Every year, we donate between $30,000-40,000 in local scholarships. It’s not just a donation. It’s a wise investment.
Because youth are the future leaders of our planet.
Interested in helping?
Details HERE about Hole sponsorship
CHILDREN’S PARK. Our Heart and soul. Hard work and partnership.
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rae, Hood River News
Amazing things happen when we work together for a common good. Rotary asks of its members: “Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all involved?”
We built. And we built goodwill together. From ground zero during fundraising to construction to opening day September 22, 2018, we were there at Children’s Park, as it was rebuilt from the ground, up.
We were proud to partner and share. Thank you to all the volunteers, agencies and sponsors that made this amazing community service project a reality.
ROTARY PEACE POLES ACROSS HOOD RIVER
2019-20 President Emily Curtis with longtime Rotarian Chris Strader, at the Jackson Park Peace Pole.
Peace Poles are hard to miss, standing 7 feet tall, inscribed with the words “May Peace Prevail on Earth.”
We’ve planted three Hood River Peace Poles in high profile locations of our community to help spread the word.
You’ll see one as you take the Hood River stairs next to the downtown waterfall at 2nd and State Streets. That’s the place where the annual Hood River holiday tree lights up the sky.
There’s a Peace Pole at Jackson Park, inscribed in eight languages, representing the countries of our exchange students through the years - English, Spanish, Chinese, Thai, French, Indian, Danish, and Swiss.
Our third pole was added to Hood River Waterfront Park.
Peace Poles initially started in the country of Japan, and have spread worldwide with dedicators including Mother Theresa, the Dalai Lama, Pope John Paul II, Coretta Scott King, and the Presidents of many countries.
The Rotary Four-Way Test of the things we THINK, SAY and DO:
Is it the Truth?
Is it fair to all concern?
Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
Will it be beneficial to all concern?
