Angalee O'Connor
Club Meeting May 7, 2025 Equador Cultural and Food Forest Excursion
Five Medford Rogue Rotarians spoke about their trip to Equador to support the purchase and planting of over 4000 Cacao Trees. President Rachel Torres, Incoming president George Prokop, Linda Brown, Tim Chesley, Lorenzo Mejia along with a few other non-Rotarians took on the adventure. The economic impact of this project is felt in several surrounding…
Club Meeting December 4th-Southern Oregon Sports and Your Role
Director of Sports Development, Travel Medford’s Darren Van Lehn spoke to club members about community sporting activities and the “Know your Role” movement. First Darren shared with us the amazing economic impact of the Lithia & Driveway Fields and the newly complete Rogue X. Since the opening of Lithia & Driveway Fields in 2008, the…
Club Meeting- November 6th SCORE Small Business Mentoring
Bruce Kelling with SCORE presented on what philanthropic work he is doing for the local SCORE chapter. SCORE mentoring is a free service offered to U.S. Based businesses. Partnering with small businesses to help them overcome hurdles that often come up when either starting or maintaining a small business. SCORE does this by giving one-on-one…
Club Meeting October 9- Medford P D- SWAT
Rotarian Randy Sporacino introduced Lieutenant Don Lane of the Medford PD to speak to the club about the special SWAT force and what their purpose is. The current SWAT Team began in 1990 as the Special Emergency Response Team, to meet the demand for a response to the ever-increasing nationwide problem of violent barricaded suspect/hostage…
Club Meeting September 11- RCC Community Update
On September 11th, Dr. Randy Weber from RCC shared with Medford Rogue Rotarians how the community college is doing since the pandemic. He shared that enrollment numbers are slowing returning at about 75% of pre-pandemic numbers. Stating that economic factors play a large roll in their enrollments since RCC has several courses that give professional…
Club Meeting August 14th- Chelsea Hicks Foundation Awareness
Sometimes tragedy can spur beautiful things. This is the story of Chelsea Hicks, a little girl diagnosed with an illness that would take her life by age 5. Her family spent many days and hours in hospitals, navigating painful and frustrating treatments. But Alison Hicks, Chelsea’s mom recalls that when dress up clothes and costumes…
Paul Harris Recipients July 2024
Ten club members were recognized at the meeting Wednesday, July 24th 2024, for reaching Paul Harris milestones. Bruce Garetto and Greg Jones did an excellent job emceeing the presentation of the awards which included one newer member receiving her first Paul Harris award; Beth Reger. Other club members hitting wonderful milestones included two Paul Harris…
Club Meeting- July 24–RYLA
Dawson Murphy and Piper Ravassipour were sponsored by Medford Rogue Rotary Club to attend this year’s RYLA camp. These two created a video to thank the club for sending them to this life changing event. Watch and enjoy, these two have a bright and beautiful future!
Club Meeting- World Community Serivces
Linda Brown and George Prokop shared insights into their Clean Water Project in Puerto Rico. Amazing success by getting clean water buckets to over 300 homes, which means about 1,200 people now have a clean water source close to home. Along with 300 buckets that filter water, they contributed 2 computers, 5 tablets, and multiple…
Club Meeting-May 22 KOBI TV- 70 Years of Broadcasting
Patsy Smullin has been involved in the success of KOBI channel 5 since she was a small child. Her father taught her at a young age how to run a successful broadcasting business and she has done it well over several decades. She shared some of her personal career highlights of people she had the…