Welcome to Freedom Rotary!

Garden Party Fundraiser

October 21, 2023

Hello and welcome to Freedom Rotary. My name is Steve and I am Freedom Rotary’s President for the 2023- 2024 Rotary year. I have lived and/or worked in South County for 16 years and feel very attached to this wonderful community. Before becoming this club’s president, I was membership chair for the past 2 years.

Our immediate Past President, Trina Coffman-Gomez set the bar pretty high this past year where, with her at the helm, not only did our club break records for recruitment, we also gave a lot back to both our local community, as well as Internationally in a variety of ways.

We stepped up to assist Ukraine with an awesome local concert, as well as assisting Pajaro flood victims locally with donations of gift cards, mattresses and furniture. Though we never know what lies ahead in the coming year, we learned this past year we are ready to jump in and assist when needed.

We will continue with our annual projects including collaborating with our not-for-profit partners starting with a backpack give away with Salvation Army in our downtown plaza, while continuing to provide meal assistance at Loaves and Fishes. I have additional new projects in the works so stay tuned here to see what comes next!

Our 2nd annual Uncorked Corralitos wine/beer walk event is scheduled for October 21st with proceeds going to local nonprofits. We are also looking to launch our 1st annual Poker fundraiser in the first part of 2024!

Yes, we have fun! And we do so all while raising money to support those in need in our community and abroad.

If you would like to learn more about the district’s fastest growing Rotary club, please join us at one of our lunch or dinner gatherings. We have dinner at El Vaquero Winery on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month at 5:15 and lunch is served at 12:15 in the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds Ag History Museum on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month.

Thank you,

Steve

Our meetings are on Tuesdays –

• 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, we meet at 5:15pm for snacks and some great wine at El Vaquero Winery located at 2906 Freedom Blvd in Corralitos
• 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month we meet for 12:15pm lunch at the Agricultural History Project located on the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds
• If there is a 5th Tuesday in a month, we use that as an opportunity to have a vocational visit in our community