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Community Service

Community Service is the most visible of the four Avenues of Service, as well it should be. The Rotary Club is organized at the local level, with its members coming from the business and professional community who live and work in the Ebbetts Pass area.

Some of our activites, like the maintenance of White Pines Park, are long-standing annual commitments. Others, like the bus shelter project, occur through year-round efforts. Still others, like our Peace Pole Project, occur once. When a person becomes a Rotarian, he or she does so with the understanding that it is the commitment to "Service Above Self" that is the yardstick by which both he, and the Club, will be judged, not just by Rotary, but by the community as well.

The Arnold Rotary Club is proud to be celebrating Rotary's Centennial by spearheading construction of an ampitheater in White Pines Park. Designed by Dave Hitchcock of Aspen Street Architects, the project is scheduled for completion in 2006.

White Pines Park

Al Vick, our gardening expert, has led the way in helping to maintain Rotary Cove at White Pines Lake. Here, he is planting bulbs for spring color. We also spend several summer meetings each year cutting down weeks and cleaning up the picnic area, and have supported the Sierra Nevada Logging Museum during its annual Labor Day Logging Jamboree. The Arnold Rotary also cleans the picnic area, and maintains and repairs the tables, plumbing, fountains and fire pits. During the years when trees were available through Project Planet Earth, the Club planted over thirty trees at the park and has continued to maintain them as part of its overall maintenance program.

Dennis Downum, sheriff of Calaveras County, talked to the Club about his time and experiences in Iraq, training new police officers for that country.

Sami Rhodes of Sierra Health Resources spoke to the club of AIDS concerns in older Americans.

Lonnie Allison of the US Forest Service updated us on the Interface Plan around Arnold

Gene Spencer represented the club in making a donation to Christine Greenberg, the librarian at Avery Middle School.

PAWS

One of our more interesting trips was to the home of PAWS, a "home" for retired performing animals located near San Andreas. Hosted by Pat Derby and Ed Stewart, who operate the shelter, we were treated to an up-close and personal visit with animals who have spent most of their lives in circuses and in the movie and television business.