Events

🎉 Join Us for a Memorable Celebration! 🎉 

It’s time to mark a milestone and come together to celebrate the anniversary of the chartering of our incredible Rotary Club of Denver Metro South! 🎈 Since our charter on September 21, 2021, we’ve made an impact as the newest club in District 5450, and we’ve already been honored with several awards. Now, it’s time to commemorate how far we’ve come! 

This celebration is not just about our club’s journey—it’s about the people who’ve been part of it. Whether you’ve been here since the beginning or joined along the way, we want to celebrate YOU! Feel free to bring your spouse or another special guest to join in the celebration.

We can’t wait to celebrate together! 🎊

Cost $31 per person

You will be ordering off the menu for your dinner selection. Cash bar.

Help Assemble the Donation Bags!

Join us for the kickoff of our volunteer project by helping make the bags we’ll be distributing to the Highlands Ranch Golf Club neighborhood for our donation drive.

We need 8 volunteers to make this a breeze! All supplies will be provided—just bring your enthusiasm and be ready to work in a fun “assembly line” style.

And of course, we’ll keep things lively—BYOB and enjoy the camaraderie!

👉 Sign up now and be part of the fun!

Join us for an inspiring session about the powerful work of the Rotary International Foundation! Mike, our District 5450 Foundation Chair, will highlight how Foundation funds are used to create meaningful change both locally and globally. This presentation is sure to spark new ideas for our club’s future projects, as we explore ways to make a greater impact together. Don’t miss this opportunity to be inspired and motivated to take action! More information to come!

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Let’s Get These Bags Out for Filling!

It’s time to distribute the donation bags to our generous neighbors in the Highlands Ranch Golf Club community! We need 6 to 9 volunteers to help make sure these bags get delivered quickly and efficiently.

Working in teams of two or three, we’ll make this a well-coordinated, fast, and fun process. You’ll be delivering the bags to doorsteps, setting the stage for a successful collection of food and hygiene items in just a few days!

👉 Ready to get involved? Sign up now and be part of this impactful effort!

Calling all Rotary members and friends! We're gathering donations from the Highlands Ranch Golf Club neighborhood, and we need 12 volunteers to make it happen. This is your chance to roll up your sleeves, make a difference, and have a blast doing it!

Here’s the plan:

• You’ll team up in groups of three (one driver and two pick-up champs) to collect donation bags from porches.
• Donations will be sorted at Mike & Mindy’s house to prep for delivery to Integrated Family Community Services (IFCS).

And what’s a Rotary event without some fun? We’ll wrap it up with a pizza party at our house to celebrate your hard work—BYOB!

👉 Ready to help out? Sign up now and let’s make a difference together!

"UFOs:  Fact and Fiction," by Peter Van Arsdale, Ph.D.

The talk will begin with the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book during the 1960s. It was based at C.U.-Boulder, tasked with nation-wide UFO research, and involved Van Arsdale as a student researcher.  As a hobby, he has continued investigating these phenomena since.

   Sociological, anthropological, and psychological themes will be featured.  Some of the most well-known events, like Roswell, and some of the interesting — and often unusual — people he's met over the years will be highlighted.  These include scientists, astronauts, believers, and skeptics — and purported UFO correlates, i.e., “earthly oddities” like cattle mutilations, alien abductions, Bigfoot encounters, and Foo Fighters.

   His published work covers perceptions of UFOs, from believers to skeptics, and a remarkable case from Colorado covered in his 2022 book “Encounters,” under the title “The Charlatan.”  (Spoiler Alert:  He does not believe there are aliens among us.)

   An intriguing array of photos also will be included. 

Bio: Peter Van Arsdale is an applied cultural anthropologist, member of the Rotary Club of Denver SE, and a retired university professor.  He currently assists Regis University on a pro bono basis.  He is co-chair of the Rotary District 5450 WASH Action Group.

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Join your fellow DMS Rotarians for our annual Heritage Porluck.  Bring some food to share that represents your heritage.  Bring your own drinks as well

The Heritage Porluck will be held at

Rich & Melody Sattizahn's

7697 S Roslyn Court

Centennial, CO 80112

This was a lot of fun last year, and will be again this year.  Nobody went home hungry.

No Meeting in December With the holiday season in full swing, we're taking a break from our regular schedule. We will not be meeting this month to allow everyone to enjoy holiday gatherings and spend time with loved ones. We'll resume our guest speaker series in January. Wishing you a wonderful holiday season!

In December, we take a break from hosting guest speakers 🎙️ as the holiday season ❄️✨ approaches. This gives us all time to slow down, celebrate with loved ones 🕎🎉, and recharge for the year ahead. We’ll be back in January with fresh opportunities to engage and connect 🔜.

You're invited to join us via Zoom for an inspiring talk! We'll begin with exciting club updates, and then dive into an engaging presentation from our guest speaker. Whether you're a member or a guest, we welcome you to be part of this dynamic session.

Topic: Without the help of pollinators, our lives would be fruitless…literally! This talk will give pointers on how to identify the many insects that pollinate flowering plants and how to create healthy pollinator habitat in your own backyard, including the perennials and shrubs you can plant now to attract them. 

Speaker Bio: Amy Yarger, Butterfly Pavilion horticulture director, has worked in the public horticulture field since 1996.  She received a bachelor's degree in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine and then went on to study plant-animal interactions at the University of Michigan, where her master's thesis concerned the effects of invasive weeds on pollinator-plant relationships.  Amy currently leads Butterfly Pavilion’s local pollinator habitat initiatives and partnerships, such as the Baseline Pollinator District, Manitou Springs Pollinator District and Cool Boulder. Her work at the Butterfly Pavilion, where she has worked since 2000, touches on many of her passions: plants, insects, habitat conservation and science education.   ​

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