Club Information
Welcome to our Club!
La Mesa Sunrise

Service Above Self

We meet In Person
Fridays at 7:30 AM
Hooley's Grossmont Center
5500 Grossmont Center Dr.
La Mesa, CA 91942
United States of America
We meet at Hooley's in Grossmont Center the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month. Please read and comply with our COVID/Disease prevention protocols when you attend or if you will be visiting our club.
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Club Executives & Directors
President
Ivy Blumberg
Secretary
Lisa Youngflesh
Treasurer
Laurel Nishida
Director
Elly Dotseth
Director
Jo Ann Bergquist
President Elect
Ron Rice
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Joint Project with Destiny Hands International
Joint Project with Destiny Hands International
On February 25, members from La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club, Rotary Eclub of San Diego Global, and Destiny Hands International convened at Elly Dotseth's home to fill colorful backpacks with multiple personal hygiene items. There were 50 backpacks. These will be brought to
Just In Time  For Foster Youth, to be given to young adults aging out of foster care. It was a very cold and rainy day, but we all still had a great time!
The following Friday, Jo Ann Berquist, Elly Dotseth and Benjamin Kettor convened at Elly's garage, loaded the backpacks in our cars, and drove to Just In Time For Foster Youth to deliver the backpacks. We were joined there by Tori Rice and Camille Chenoweth-Moyer, got a tour of the amazing facilities, then drove to the warehouse to unload our precious cargo!
 
Thank you Destiny Hands for creating and purchasing the backpacks, and to the La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club Foundation for the $3,000 used to purchase the supplies!
 
 
 
                    
 
      
                                                             
 
             
  
  
 
 
 
Healthy Food and Gardening at Tubman Village Charter School
Got Worms?
 
LMSR Club went to great lengths to introduce Harriet Tubman Charter School students to the wiggly world of worms. Instead of opening science books, 3rd graders got down and dirty with earthworms in January, provided by San Diego County Master Gardener Judith Hayes-Zavala. Students learned about the mysteries and marvels of this awesome annelid, and how this small creature plays such a large role in creating healthy soil to grow our food.
 
Tubman Charter is inching closer to setting up items purchased with LMSR funds: a Can-O-Worms worm farm and two tumbling compost bins, which will be used to teach the students about turning food leftovers and garden trimmings into nutrient-rich worm tea and compost to feed the garden.
 
LMSR funds recently provided two potting benches where seedlings will be nurtured, and two hand and produce washing stations so students can taste what they grow right in the garden. Plans are also underway to bring student-grown produce into the school meal program. 
 
LMSR funding and connections are continuing to bring to life the vision of the Tubman Real Food Revolution!
 
                                      
 
 
                                                                                 
Shoveling Compost at Tubman Charter School
On Saturday morning at 8am, our newest member Dierdre Kleske organized several Rotarians (Ivan, Marco, Ivy, Ana, Dierdre, David, and visiting Richard Makao) to move a large mound of compost to the vegetable beds at Tubman Village Charter School. Many of our friends and families volunteered to help that morning as well. The Tubman students will soon have lots of wonderful vegetables to eat and learn about when school starts.
 
 
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Donate to LMSR Foundation
The Rotary International Foundation funds International Grants. Our own La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Foundation funds our own club projects.
If you prefer to mail a check, you may make it out to La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Foundation and address it to La Mesa Sunrise Rotary Club,  P.O. Box 3277, La Mesa, CA 91944.
If you prefer to pay by credit card, you can use this Pay Pal button below.
How to Join our club
We are meeting in person and are interested in growing the membership. We continue to use Facebook Live to broadcast our meetings, which can be accessed any day, at any time. 
If you think you might be interested in becoming a Rotarian, please come join us at a few meetings to see what we are like.
 
If you are still interested, please send an email to Board Member Elly Dotseth (Membership Chair). She will bring your interest to the Membership Committee and you will be promptly contacted for an interview.