Kent Pollock
“Service Above self with open minds for new service opportunities while having fun”
Community Service
Our Projects include working with the Historical Society and the San Dieguito Heritage Museum to help them with beautification of grounds and structures and supporting the SDHM Haunted Ghost Town at Halloween. Also much work with students to include SDA Interact, Model UN, and RYLA. More information on these interactions can be obtained from Mike Walsh, Ron Lieberman and Emily Andrade.
Encinitas Wine and Food Festival – Over 900 folks attended this year’s event which provides a framework for 14 local non-profit organizations to benefit from the profits that were raised.
The El Nito Project – Providing families in the town of El Nito in the Philippines with much needed solar lighting so that the children are able to study at night.
Red Shoe Day in support of the Ronald McDonald House and helping families stay close to loved ones as they receive care from our local Children’s Hospital.
Stamp Out Hunger – Working with the Encinitas Post Office and the Community Resource Center to collect food and monies to support the less fortunate folks in our community that are in much need of food and nutritional products.
Project Mercy – Working with project Mercy to build a home in Tijuana for a family of 3 that were housed in less than desirable living conditions.
Encinitas Street Fair – Supporting the Hwy 101 Commission in ensuring the overall success of this event. Promoting Rotary and hwy 101 businesses.
San Elijo Lagoon Restoration – Helping to sustain the environment of this beautiful nature preserve in planting indigenous plants and trees throughout the lagoon.
Encinitas Rotary Club Hotshot Team – Support of the Surfrider Organization in cleanup of litter, cigarette butts and the very invasive nature of microfiber and microplastics in our community.
Lillian Rice Orange Picking Event – Working with Produce Good to provide much needed fruit to Community Resource Centers throughout San Diego County for the families they help to feed.
The Magic Show – Bringing magic to San Diego County through our local Magician, Paul Dwork and his peers, to raise monies for the various charities that we support locally and internationally.
San Elijo Clean-up – The Encinitas Rotary Club has adopted this Lagoon to ensure that at least on a bi-yearly basis that our Rotarians cleanup after the run off into the lagoon deposits hundreds of pounds of litter and waste products.
Senior Center Breakfast – Supporting our local seniors in providing help and financial support for a pancake breakfast that highlighted our HOME TEAM and the many resources available to them to help out with much needed home projects.
The Heritage Tree Lighting and Holiday Parade – Partners with the City of Encinitas in supporting both the Holiday Parade and the Heritage Tree Lighting Ceremony.
International Services
What We Do –
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Our 46,000+ clubs work together to:
- Promote peace
- Fight disease
- Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
- Save mothers and children
- Support education
- Grow local economies
- Protect the environment
Rotary’s programs are developing the next generation of leaders, providing funding to make the world a better place, and making peace a priority. And our programs are not just for club members. Learn how you can make a difference in your community through Rotary.
Elderly Services
Rotary Home Team –
• Replacing light bulbs in hard to reach areas (ceilings, ovens, refrigerators)
• Replacing batteries on smoke detectors (usually on ceilings)
• Leaking faucets
• Toilet tank malfunctions
• Squeaky doors and windows
• Damaged or torn screens
• Blown fuses or GFI resets
• Loose handles or drawer pulls
• Water heater adjustments
Youth Services
Youth services encompasses a lot of what our club does year in and year out
We sponsor and support an Interact Club @ San Dieguito Academy and have for over 40 years.
We sponsor the Rotary “ 4-way Speech Contest” each year for high school aged kids and last year supported the overall District 5340 Winner who earned close to $1000 towards schooling or …
We sponsor High School Students in the Model UN and have done that for about 10 years, it is one weekend and our students are given a country to represent and a topic to research the country we are representing and their views, in 2022 we had Russia right after the Ukraine invasion as an example
We Sponsor 6-8 Juniors in High School each year to RYLA, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, a 3 day event for team bonding and leadership skills in the Lake Arrowhead area, about 200 kids from the district go each year ( except COVID)
We sponsor or 2-4 8th Graders from Diegueno and/or Oak Crest Middle schools , chosen in part by the school, to a leadership development and leadership skills conference for 3 days locally
We typically give 7-10 scholarships to kids in High School to attend College ( or sometimes trade school) 2 or 4 year schools, including involvement with MAEGA ( Mexican American Education Guidance Association) who we work hand-in-hand with on selecting the recipients.
We also support various youth activities at the YMCA and local schools, like Encinitas Education Foundation,
We have also done Summer Camps, bringing in youth 15-19 years old from around the world for a 1-2 week stay here with a Rotary Host Family to experience life here and go a couple of “ projects “, in the past beach clean-ups, working at Animal Shelters, etc. to explore life here in the USA
We have also taken kids to the Rose Bowl Parade Float Decoration in Pasadena among many youth activities we sponsor, support and work at/with.
Meet Our Team
Daphne Fletcher
President Elect & Int. Service
Nancy North
Secretary
Goals & hopes for the year: “Survive. Keep improving my skills of communication”
Favorite thing/memory about being a Rotarian: “First day I came to a meeting and “observed” the “Animal House Table” and I knew I was in the right place because it would be awfully hard to “embarrass myself ” in this club”
Roger Bolus Ph.D
Co-Chair, Community Service
Goals & hopes for the year: “Introduce more major projects to the club, create easier way to sign up + track attendance at meetings and insure that events are better advertised.”
Favorite thing/memory about being a Rotarian: “Friendship!!! Favorite memory is my year as president (2010) and seeing the Home Team last for over 13 years.”
Dennis Herald
Treasurer
Greg Day
Club Service
Mark Berning
Youth Services
Goals & hopes for the year: “Ryla, Lead, Model UN, Interact – SDA, Hands of peace.”
Favorite thing/memory about being a Rotarian: “Community Service is my favorite thing. Thoroughly enjoyed watching students from Palestine, Israel and the US interact with each other for the first time.”
Dennis Cook
Foundation (TRF) Co-Chair
Goals & hopes for the year: “Increase giving so every member gives every year”
Favorite thing/memory about being a Rotarian: “The Encinitas Rotary cup Soccer Tournament and hearing thousands of kids having fun”
Ingrid Pasco
Interact
Heather Bradshaw
Communications and Marketing Chair
Goals & hopes for the year: “Bring our outward-facing image as up-to-date as possible as it comes to our website, social media, and newsletter. I hope this will streamline communication for the whole group! :)”
Favorite thing/memory about being a Rotarian: “I love our foundation of Service Above Self. It guides me in many aspects of my life. I truly believe that when you live your life to serve others, that love will come back to you 10 fold”
Steve McQuerry
Membership
Goals & hopes for the year: “Continue Roger’s legacy, add 20 quality new members and have fun with the process!”
Favorite thing/memory about being a Rotarian: “Everything!”
Robert Blumberg
Peace
John Simonelli
Former President
Ron Lieberman