North Coast Rotary’s Wine Tasting (and signature fundraiser) is back! Tri-C Westshore Campus (Sip & Support’s Presenting Sponsor) is hosting at their campus just off Bradley Road.
Tickets purchased in advance are $50 each; the door-price will be $60 each.
Tickets include unlimited samplings of 30 wines from around the world supplied by Heidelberg Distributors; Gourmet appetizers provided by Aramark; entertaining music, an artwalk and more! Buy Sip and Support Tickets – $50 each
Rotarians kicked off the 2023 Holiday Season with a grand tour of Green Circle Growers, an expanding 50+ year-old family owned company providing seasonal indoor plants, succulents, and much more!
Rotarians and Friends Tour Green Circle Growers
We joined with Lorain County Community College’s Veterans Services Ryan Murphy, Veteran and Military Service Officer to provide toys for military families.
Blankets for Beds – Thanks to our community donors and Ridge Cleaners, we donated more blankets to Good Knights and 45 comforters to Lorain Coordinated Entry, a central point of access to homeless services.
For the CRS teens’ holiday program, we donated $200 in gift cards!
Continuing our support for Parent Information Nights at Avon Middle School we donated refreshments and assisted with childcare.
The Club hosted a get-together with pizza for Rotarians and friends at Avon’s Wine Room; beverages, good wine or beer, casual conversation and support for our Instant Bingo Fundraiser.
But the best was when President Joe Matuscak and Maggie generously hosted the club-members and spouses and friends for a holiday social at their home. Guests enjoyed a catered meal and a “tour” of Joe’s many collections.
MESA – Medical Equipment and Supplies Abroad is a 501(c)3 organization formed in 1981 by the Rotary Clubs of Ohio District 6600. North Coast has been supporting MESA with used but usable medical supplies, clothing, educational resources and more donated by our community members, donors from Community Resource Services, and local businesses and stored in a trailer made available by Rotarian Doug Maurer. Sprenger Healthcare Towne Center also collected equipment and supplies, stored them locally and made them available for a collection day in August. At MESA’s warehouse in Fostoria, Ohio, donations are sorted, stored and subsequently into a shipping container destined for a port of a local rotary club for distribution. This year over 30 containers have been shipped including 12 to Ukraine.
Rotarians also provide financial support and participate in MESA’s annual bike ride fundraiser. This year cyclists rode through our service areas and Tri-C Westshore generously hosted North Coast Rotarians and the MESA bike riders for lunch.
North Coast Rotary will be continuing to collect used but usable medical supplies for MESA.
Students representing Avon, Avon Lake and Brookside High Schools challenged themselves in the North Coast Rotary 4-Way Test Speech Contest, now in its tenth year. Dr. Cathy Pugh, Rotarian and speech contest judge said, “The students were an impressive group, poised and prepared and they chose interesting and timely topics.”
Dylan Roof, Avon HS earned 1st place recognition and will proceed to the Rotary District Speech contest. Camryn Evans, also from Avon HS earned 2nd place. Both Avon Lake HS student Seamus Sinclair and Brookside HS student Sabrina Bibb tied for 3rd place. Read more here: Rotary Four-Way Speech Contest
The North Coast Rotary Club and Foundation is pleased to announce a new initiative to help those in need stay warm! The drive to collect Blankets for Beds begins today March 1, 2023 and the goal is to collect 2,500 blankets to give to local non-profit organizations that will distribute them to people in need. The organizations that will be benefitting from this project are Blessing House, Community Resource Services, Good Knights of Lorain County, Neighborhood Alliance and Valor Home. “North Coast Rotary is committed to our motto of Service Above Self,” Joe Matuscak, President of North Coast Rotary said. “We are excited to partner with these organizations to provide the gift of warmth to many local residents.”
Donna Kelly Sprinkle, Rotarian and Manager of the Avon Library gave Rotarians a hands-on, comprehensive tour last week of the newly opened library. Everyone was very impressed! See it for yourself at 37485 Harvest Drive, Avon, OH 44011.
Rotarians and the North Coast Rotary Foundation supported various community and youth initiatives in November and December 2022.
Financial support included $250 in cash donations to the Sheffield Lake/Sheffield Village Holiday Baskets program, the $250 purchase of 50 cans of Parmesan Cheese for the Avon Lake/Avon CRS Spaghetti Dinner baskets, $100 in gift cards for the Avon and French Creek Foundation tree lighting festival raffle and $70 in gift cards for the Camp Imagine 14th Anniversary Benefit Celebration. Rotarians also volunteered at the Holiday Basket food and toy sorting, and as drivers and soup-servers for the Empty Bowls by the Lake event at the Avon Lake High School.
Youth projects include recognition of Students of the Month from Avon, Avon Lake and Sheffield/Sheffield Lake Schools. Recognition includes a presentation at our monthly rotary meeting, certificate of achievement, gift card to a local pizzeria and passes to Main Event. Upcoming youth projects are the 4-Way Test Speech contest for high school students, and the 4-Way Test Essay contest for 7th and 8th graders.
Serving Soup at Empty Bowls by the LakeGift Cards for Camp ImagineGift Cards for Avon Tree Lighting RaffleToys for the Holiday Baskets
Enjoy sampling pizza, voting for your favorites, and participating in a few raffles tonight from 5 PM to 7 PM at the Avon Lake High School commons. A big thanks to our participating pizzerias: Marcos Pizza (Avon), Domino’s Pizza (Avon Lake), Romeo’s Pizza (Avon Lake), Pizza Hut (Avon Lake) and our newest area pizzeria Old School. Expect some surprises with the traditional and specialty pizzas they offer! Raffle prizes include, jewelry, autographed football, autographed cap, Red Tail golf for four, and Main Event games package. Hope to see you there!
Several weeks ago, North Coast Rotarians heard updates on Camp Imagine, a very special non-profit created in 1987 in Avon Lake. Involved since 2009, Frank Krempasky explained that the program is a combination extended school year service and camp experience for developmentally disabled children in pre-K through 12th grade. This year they enrolled 108 children from 9 different area school districts. Learn more about Camp Imagine at: http://www.campimagine.org
Celebrating with more than 1000 cities in 120 countries around the world, musicians, musical groups, singers, and performers entertained guests at Veteran’s and Bleser Park on Make Music Day Avon Lake on June 21st the summer solstice. Despite temperatures in the mid-90’s people of all ages gathered to enjoy the multitude of performances at locations including the Bleser main stage, the porch of the Folger house, the grassy areas outside the ball fields, and the gazebo. Make Music Day Avon Lake was the inspiration of Marilyn Zeidner, Executive Director of Music on a Mission and co-founder of Project DREW. For the 2022 event, North Coast Rotary assisted Marilyn in planning, organizing, marketing, fundraising and staffing. Read more here – Make Music Day Avon Lake!
North Coast Rotary Club and Foundation 