Thursday May 16 4:30 – 6:30 PM Avon High School
North Coast Rotary
Rotary supports CRS Easter Brunch Bags
Mindy Penn at CRS accepted North Coast Rotary’s donation of 60 dozen eggs for the Community Resource Services’ Easter brunch bags for families in need.
Volunteers from New Westsiders supplied an additional 30 dozen eggs for a successful Easter Brunch Bag project.
On May 14th, Rotarians will help CRS sort and stock donations from the “Stamp Out Hunger” campaign.
Community Support is important to us; thank you to CRS for providing these opportunities to help!
Save the Date Sip and Support Fundraiser
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.
Buy Sip and Support Tickets – $50 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
Holiday Tour, Service, Donations and Socials
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!
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.
You might consider joining us!
Welcome New Members!
North Coast Rotary enthusiastically welcomed three valued additions to our membership: Avon Lake City Schools Superintendent Joelle Magyar, Main Event Sales Manager Diamonds Holsey and French Creek Family Y Membership Director Taylor Robinson.
They have already made a difference in our club and foundation.
In spite of their busy schedules, Superintendent Magyar and Asst. Supt. Jack Dibbee (alternate Rotarian) involved themselves in Rotary’s Pizza Bake-Off Fundraiser at the Avon Lake High School to ensure its success!
Main Event Manager Diamonds Holsey has donated game passes to the Students of the Month from Avon, Avon Lake and Brookside High Schools, and recently hosted Rotarians for a tour and meeting.
Membership Director Taylor Robinson is the Y’s liaison, helping North Coast Rotary with the Blankets for Beds collection, Rotary Garden at the French Creek Family Y and our weekly meetings.
North Coast Rotary has 30 members from various locales with a range of expertise, and all with a commitment to helping our communities, regions and the world to be a better place now and in the future.
Parent Assistance Programs through Local Schools
North Coast Rotary is supporting local schools with their efforts to help families with a variety of parent assistance programs. With Supt. Ben Hodge’s support Rotarians are helping with Avon City School’s SOAR Through Parenting programs with topics geared towards children age kindergarten through 5th grade. In October, parents attended the interactive program and discussion on “Teaching Social Skills & Responding to Bullying”, presented by school social workers Lauren Eigenbrod and Rebekah Bryson. The November program was “Raising well-adjusted children and improving their self-esteem.” Parents engaged with the Social Workers and each other and were appreciative of written and emailed resource material. Rotarians donated the refreshments and helped as needed.
Two more sessions are planned in Avon to include “Distinguishing between generalized anxiety and stressful situations” and “How to teach appropriate use of screen time and social media.” Please reach out to Lauren or Beka if you need more information: eigenbrodl@avoneagles.org or brysonr@avoneagles.org
Adopt-A-Bed The LCADA Way
North Coast Rotary Foundation presented The LCADA Way Key with a check for $600 to Adopt-A-Bed for women in recovery. Adopt A Bed is a one-year sponsorship to support one bed area at The Key Women’s Center. The donation provides a welcome basket filled with toiletries including face and body towels, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste and other sundries and supports each Infant/Child with diapers and formula. This is North Coast Rotary’s third year sponsoring a bed-area. Learn more about the program here:
NWS Volunteers partner on Blankets for Beds Project
Over the past several months Rotary obtained hundreds of imperfect blankets vacuum sealed in bags of 5 – 8 blankets each. They were donated by a Groveport, Ohio manufacturer. New Westsider Club-Volunteers joined Rotarians on four different occasions to unpack, sort for cleaning, sewing or good for the animal shelter. All the immediately usable ones were rewrapped to be distributed to organizations helping those in need. Dozens of imperfect blankets required hours of additional sewing repair and again volunteers from New Westsiders accepted the challenge.
Sixty-five blankets were distributed at the Homeless Stand Down at Sacred Heart Church in South Lorain last week. “Thank you for the blankets, they were wonderful. All of them were gone before the end of the Stand Down!” wrote an organizer of the Lorain County Taskforce for the Homeless (it’s 10th annual event).
We couldn’t have done this without the help of New Westsider volunteers – Thank you!
Great Pizza and Fun at ALHS Bake-Off in Support of Rotary’s Youth and Community Initiatives
North Coast Rotary thanks our community supporters, Avon Lake City Schools, Lorain County Community College, Avon Lake Public Library, First Federal of Lakewood, a host of sponsors and our pizzerias for a very successful fundraiser!
Rotarians, Interactors, Key Club, Emcees Jack Dibee and Joelle Magyar made the evening flow smoothly. The pictures say it all. Thank you!
Congratulations to the Winners at the Great Pizza Bakeoff at ALHS
Our 400 or so guests voted Big M Pizza to receive the Peoples’ choice award!
Dirte Pi, the newest pizzeria in Avon Lake, won the Best Specialty pizza award.
The Best Pepperoni pizza award went to Parker’s Old School Pizza!
The Pro’s choice awardee was Master Pizza.
Awards of Excellence went to Pizza Hut for their cheesesteak pizza and Domino’s for their spinach and feta pizza.
A big THANK YOU to our participating pizzerias for their support of this fundraiser for youth and community initiatives.
North Coast Rotary Club and Foundation 