George Prokop

For more than 40 years, Rotary and it’s partners have delivered vaccines globally. In your neighborhood and around the world, Rotary is ensuring children grow up safe from preventable diseases. Oct 24th is World Polio Day, come to our event Vines and Pints, and support the eradication of polio! Rogue Ales Patio at the Schoolhouse…

🕸️🎃 Spooky Rotary Fact! 🎃🕸️ Did you know that Rotary International has a chilling connection to the poles? 🌍❄️ In 1922, Admiral Richard Byrd, a brave Rotarian, carried a Rotary flag over the South Pole. Four years later, he took another flag to the North Pole! 🧭✨ As we celebrate the spooky season, let’s remember…

More on Immunizations by Dr. Bud Bergstrom. I hope you all saw, or will see, Dr. Gary Newland’s excellen Heath article last week, & follow his recommendations. The currently recommended Covid vaccine is not “just another Covid booster shot”, but rather a new vaccine developed to be active against the new “variants”, which the antibodies…

ACCESS Rogue Powerpack is back and in full swing. Last Friday, Oct. 11th, was the third pack of the ’24-25 school year. About 20 volunteers packed 691 bags for distribution at 24 local schools last week. Once the food is packed, additional volunteers then distribute the bags throughout the county. The ACCESS Rogue Powerpack Program…

Angalee O’Connor, Angela Durant and Tim Chesley are awarded for Polio Plus this week. Your donation helps Rotary reach every child with the polio vaccine. Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 30 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever. As a founding partner of…

Ben Crittenden – Assistant Airtanker Base Manager shares the details and key elements of a collaborative wildfire protection strategy developed in partnership with local, state and federal agencies. The Medford Airtanker Base boosts firefighting capabilities across five counties—Jackson, Josephine, Coos, Curry, and Douglas—ensuring our communities are better equipped to tackle wildfires. Oregon Department of Forestry…

This year’s Medford Rogue Rotary Pickleball Fest was our most successful tournament to-date. Our signature fund raiser event raised $32,000 in donations from sponsorships. All money raised from sponsorships goes toward funding local youth programs. Special shout out to Lithia4Kids, this year’s Title Sponsor, and a sponsor of this fundraiser all four years of its…

Sixteen people, including fourteen Rotarians, attended our new member social on Tuesday, October 10th. A great fellowship opportunity for all attendees to get to know each other better, especially our newer members in attendance, Jessica King and Karen Fitzgerald. Thank you Kellie Hill for hosting.

A few future leaders of Medford Rogue Rotary club hanging out with our District Governor Nelson Maler at Rotary Leadership Institute training in Ashland this past weekend. Congratulations Angalee, Fawnda, Kevin and Tim

Health Note: Covid-19 Vaccine Everyone ages 6 months and older should get a 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine. The new vaccine protects against new circulating sero-types The COVID-19 vaccine helps protect you from severe disease, hospitalization, and death. It is especially important to get your 2024–2025 COVID-19 , if you are ages 65 and older, are at…

Today our speaker was none other than Dr. Ron Worland, who was introduced by the elusive Darren Ravissapour. Ron regaled us with stories from just a small amount of his volunteer service around the globe. Including projects with Operation Smile, Rotoplast, running a clinic in Oaxaca, MX for over 19 years and more. With over…

Thank you to all our volunteers who helped make our 2024 Medford Rogue Rotary Pickleball Fest a great success. Over 40 club members and folks from the Pickleball community volunteered time prepping the courts, staffing registration and information booths, making sure players had water and snacks, helping with tournament logistics and doing daily set-ups and…

Did you know Rotary … September isn’t only about back to school, for many it can also mark the time clubs like ours around the world open their doors to Youth Exchange Students.  Since 1929, Rotary International has sent young people around the globe.  Students learn a new language, discover another culture, and truly become…

Our Club’s 2024 Pickleball Fest finished up on Sunday, September 8th, after 3 days of play and was our most successful tournament to-date. This year’s signature event raised $34,000, with $32,000 earmarked in support of local youth programs. KOBI-TV stopped by and spoke to players and organizers on Friday, opening day, and did a great…

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…