AHS Interact students participated in our annual 2025“Rake n' Run” event cleaning up yards for those families in need. Over 32 yards were raked and cleaned up in this effort led by our own Melissa Keener Foster a Teacher at AHS.
On the first Wednesday of every month in conjunction with The Aurora Middle & High Schools, the RCA celebrates the Students of the Month. Each student receives a $40 Amazon gift card and presents to the Club a brief bio about themselves and their future goals. For the month of November, we were delighted to hear from Sage Braydich and Henry Trook students at Harmon Middle School accompanied by Principal Mark Abramovich !
Pictured left to right: Mateo Hernandez, Principal Abramovich, and Grace Nagy.
I am honored and humbled to fulfill this role as 2025-2026 President of the Rotary Club of Aurora.
The Rotary Club of Aurora is a Humanitarian Service Club full of volunteers of diverse backgrounds but with like minds. This makes for a terrific mixture of ideas and approaches for contributing within our community. I would like to run our club more as a business and less as a hobby. Rotarians want to be and to have an avenue to be able to assist the community. There is strength in numbers for a team approach and there is the banner of Rotary from which we are given a pathway to achieve our goals. Some of the 2025/2026 goals for our club include the following:
Putting together a 5 year Strategic Plan to give us a mission and guidance to achieve the goals that we set forth.
Developing a formal budget in accordance with Rotary International guidelines.
Increase membership by at least 10%. What if each member recruited one new member this year?
Fundraising, by holding two fundraisers each year we can increase our fiscal resources to better support all of the programs that we contribute to in the community and nationally.
Grant submittal, for matching funds to support focused donations in our community
Public Image, continue to grow our presence through marketing and public relations, involvement with the Aurora Chamber of Commerce, continued posting on our social media sites and creating marketing content promoting our efforts,
Disaster Relief and First Response activities working through the District Committee and through the Red Cross and local FD and PD to provide assistance in food and water handling and distribution, welfare checks on the indigent and elderly during power outages.
All of these goals stem from the Rotary 7 Areas of focus.
1. Promoting Peace
2. Fighting Disease
3. Providing clean water
4. Maternal and child health
5. Supporting education
6. Growing local communities economically
7. Environment & Sustainability
On a final note, I want the Rotary year ahead to be fun and to enjoy the fellowship that being a Rotarian in a strong club such as ours brings. come see what we are all about!
Yours in Service Above Self and with kind regards,
Charlie
