2020-21 RI Theme
Until further notice: all meetings are through Zoom
Our Meetings
When: Thursday at 6:45 am 
Where: The Marriott
Location: 350 E. Horsetooth Road
Fort Collins, CO  80525 USA
 
Mail address:
PO Box 272728 Ft Collins, CO 80527
Speakers
Tim Cochran Zoom Meeting
Mar 04, 2021 7:00 AM
Club Assembly
Kim Miller, Community Education Leader, City of Fo
Mar 11, 2021 7:00 AM
Update on Recycling Programs - Zoom
Adrian Miller, Author and former White House Chef
Mar 18, 2021 7:00 AM
The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families,
G Brown Colorado Music Experience founding directo
Mar 25, 2021 7:00 AM
History of Music Scene in Fort Collins
Tim Cochran
Apr 01, 2021 7:00 AM
Club Assembly
Mary Ericson, Development Director, CASA of Larim
Apr 08, 2021 7:00 AM
Update on CASA
Peter Boukaert, Owner, Purpose Brewing (former bre
Apr 22, 2021 7:00 AM
A History of Beer in Colorado
Tom Cochran
May 06, 2021 7:00 AM
Club Assembly
CSU President Joyce McConnell
May 27, 2021 7:00 AM
Update on CSU
Tim Cochran
Jun 03, 2021 7:00 AM
Club Assembly
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Club Executives & Directors
President
Tim Cochran
President Elect
Sara Murphy
President - Elect Nominee
Andy Groeger
Treasurer
Fran Lefler
Secretary
Catherine Varra-Nelson
Past President
Ann Bedient
Foundation Chair
Krishna Murthy
Director
Mark Campbell
Director - International Services
John Trewartha
Director - Membership Services
Lee Varra-Nelson
Director - Vocational Service
Nat Brown
PolioPlus Chair
Krishna Murthy
Peach Sales-Dictionary project-Co-chair
Michele Marquitz
Director - Community Service
Andy Groeger
Director - Youth Services
Vic Purdy
Peach Sales-Dictionary Co-chair
Heather Gossel
Scholarship Chair-College Program
Craig Campbell
Director - Public Relations
John Hanrahan
Links
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2021 $10K Raffle
The Annual $10K Raffle Is Open
Ticket Sales END this Friday March 5
 
The Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club will be holding its annual $10,000 raffle. Tickets are now on sale and can be purchase at www.rotaryfcbreakfast.org.
 
Each ticket is $100 and we are only selling 500 tickets so your chances of winning $10,000 are really good. The winning ticket number will be drawn on March 5, 2021 starting ay 7:30 pm with the winning number coming at 8:00 pm. The drawing will take place through Facebook Live and will be available on this channel: facebook.com/fcbreakfastrotary
 
You need not be on the event to win.
 
All proceeds will support our People of Action projects.
2020 $10K Raffle
                       
 

We had so much fun in 2020, jump here to buy tickets for 2021:

 https://rotaryfcbreakfast.org/

 
Reading Program with Book Trust
 
Rotary District 5440 Governor Chris Woodruff and Karoline joined several Breakfast Club members for their monthly reading program at Laurel elementary School in Fort Collins. The students were thrilled to have a near "Santa" look alike reading with them. The reading program is a cooperative project between the Breakfast Club and the Book Trust organization.
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School is Cool Backpacks
 
Kathy Phifer from the CSU School is Cool Backpack Program presented an over view of their efforts to make sure that all students have the necessary material that they need to have a successful year regardless of their economic status. For the 2019-2020 school year, they gave out 2614 backpacks at 51 schools using the $51,000 donated to the program. Each backpack contains the appropriate material for the particular grade level. Each backpack contains anywhere from $75 to $150 worth of material, depending on the grade. With the help of the CSU Bookstore, each pack costs only $25 for the pack and material.
 
The program started in 1991, with 60 backpacks and 5 schools.
Gifts Galore
 
Thirty five families and almost 100 children will have a bright and merry holiday season as the members of Breakfast Rotary came forward to supply presents. This gift giving program has been going on for many years in conjunction with the Poudre Head Start.
Peach Festival Donation
 
On September 19, 2019, the Rotary Clubs in Fort Collins donated $10,000 from the proceeds of the 2019 Peach Festival to the Boy's and Girl's Club in Fort Collins.
Peach Sale 2019
 
The 2019 Peach Sale for dictionaries was a huge success. Over 1300 boxes of peaches were sold on August 24 with an additional 400 boxes sold at the Fort Collins Peach Festival. Every 3 rd grade student, public, private and home schooled, will be receiving their dictionary in the next 2 months.
 
This was the 14th year of selling peaches to purchase dictionaries. Over all those years 22,500 students have received dictionaries within the Poudre School District boundary.
 
We thank all of our customer, both new and returning, that have made this a fabulous fund raising event.
Greens Fore Giving Golf Fundraiser
Thanks to our sponsors 
Greens Fore Giving is an annual fundraising golf tournament put on by the Fort Collins Rotary Breakfast Club. Our event this year is on June 14th, 2019 at Colindale Golf course located in Fort Collins, CO.

Schedule of Events:

10:30am – Check-In

12:00pm– Shotgun Start – Box Lunches will be provided

5:00pm-7:30pm – Post tournament cocktail party (*open to all Rotarians – more details coming soon)

This years supported charities include: Fort Collins Habitat For Humanity, Foundation Music School, Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club,Fort Collins Foothills Rotary Club, Fort Collins After Work Rotary Club, Fort Collins Downtown Club (1918 Club) Rotary Club.

Grand Door Prize

Getaway Trip to San Diego, CA

To register click HERE
Purple Pins for Bowling to End Polio Now
The Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast along with the three other Fort Collins Rotary Clubs joined together on January 27 at Chippers Bowling Lanes to raise over $40K for Polio Plus at the Purple Pins for Bowling event.

Lane sponsors, food donations, club members, family and friends and high spirits worked together to make the day a huge success.
Secret Santa
Members of the Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club once again will be making some local residents very happy this holiday season. Through the efforts of Rotarians Gary Turner and Andrew Hensen, the members of the club adopted over 40 families. Gifts were purchased and wrapped and will be handed out to over 100 children who might not have had a bright Christmas. The Club has been adopting families for many years and the numbers grow every year.
Be the Inspiration: The Gift of Mobility
Dave Talbot, Sara Murphy, Marge Mercurio - Crutches for Africa
Do you remember David Talbot from Crutches 4 Africa? He came to our club earlier in May as our program speaker – and a powerful program it was! 

It stirred a “movement.”  Remember lugging in all those walkers, crutches, ski and trekking poles, boots and wheelchairs to meetings so they could be collected and prepared for delivery?  We also approached other Rotary Clubs in Fort Collins and they added devices and encouragement to this collection.

Well, Monday August 27th was the delivery day!!!
 
The van was packed with approximately 100 crutches, 10 walkers, 3 wheelchairs, 50 canes/trekking & ski poles, 10 boots and one leg (guess who donated that?)  At breakneck speed, an hour and a half later, those mobility devises were combined with others from many, many different collection sources. 
Everything will be loaded into a 20-foot shipping container and sent to Africa this fall. These mobility devices will ultimately change the lives of so many people.
 
Thank you for your commitment TO ONCE AGAIN make the world a better place in the name of Rotary!
Website: crutches4africa.org
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Greens fore Giving Fundraiser
Thank you to all who participated in our Greens for Giving Golf Tournament.
 
Total amount raised: $27,000
 
Habitat for Humanity received $6,100 and the Foundation Music School received $3,300
 
Remaining funds will be used in support of Rotary projects here in Fort Collins and around the world.
Congratulations to Natalie Brown!
Congratulations to Natalie Brown, Executive Director of Spirit Crossing Clubhouse in Fort Collins, for being awarded the Dr. Edward Gillette Vocational Service Award.  This annual award is presented in memory of Dr. Edward Gillette, a veterinarian who developed and directed the Comparative Oncology Unit at Colorado State University and was the Chairman of the Department of Radiological Health Sciences from 1989-1998. Dr. Gillette was also a charter member and past president of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast.  Natalie was selected by club members in recognition of her vocational excellence and integrity as leader of Spirit Crossing Clubhouse for 18 years.   Natalie is a great part of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast .
Buddy Benches for PSD Elementary Schools
Thanks to Fort Collins Rotary Clubs, all Fort Collins schools are getting Buddy Benches.  See info about Buddy Benches here. Pictured is the new Buddy Bench at Werner Elementary School. The engraving for Peggy Barnstorff is in memory of the school’s former Occupational Therapist who, after working for PSD for many years, passed away last year. She was the wife of fellow Rotarian Garth Barnstorff.
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New Members!
Claire Bouchard
Claire Bouchard, Vice President of United Way of Larimer County is our newest member.  Previously she held positions as a national marketing director for SAFEbuilt; co-founder of Slate Communications, a Fort Collins-based marketing and creative firm; and Public Relations Coordinator for the City of Fort Collins.
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Jeana Burton
Our new member, Jeana “J” Burton, Editor and Publishing Consultant at Language Is A Superpower joined our club in September. She and her husband Matthew moved to Fort Collins in 2006 when she was accepted into the MFA (Master of Fine Arts, Fiction) program at CSU.
 
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Jen Parker
Our new member, Jen Parker, Executive Director, KRFC, 88.9 FM is a veteran marketer with extensive experiences in the multimedia industry working in both Europe and the U.S. for leading companies, such as such as Future Publishing, Ziff-Davis, Imagine Media, Raycom Media/NBC and iHeartmedia.
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Mark Eversole
Let’s welcome Mark Eversole, retired PSD principal, currently a new business owner of Sole Realty Services LLC.  They provide measuring and drawings of floor plans for residential and commercial realtors as well as photography and drone videos.Mark has lived in the Fort Collins area for 27 years.  He has “been happily married for 40 years to the love of my life Laura. We have three grown children, Mitchell, Lauren and Conner, a son-in-law Ryan and a grandson Wylie. Grand kids are the best!!”
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Joe McCarthy
Joe McCarthy new Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast memberMeet Joe McCarthy, owner of JDI Consulting, LLC (that stands for “Just Do It.”) He's ex-Hewlett Packard (like many others), and is now active in traffic safety/integrated crash analysis. Joe has lived in Fort Collins for 15 years and prior to that lived outside the US for almost 20 years, in France, Singapore, Egypt, and Dubai.
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Brooke Corbel
New member Brooke Corbel joins Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast!Our new member Brooke Corbel is Director of Development and Marketing at Arsenal Colorado- The Fort Collins Soccer Club.  She has lived in Fort Collins for five years and some of her hobbies include cooking, intramural sports, comedy, paddle boarding, brewery hopping, live music, board games, and movies.
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