Events

🎉 You're welcome to bring guests to join us – the more, the merrier! 🎉

It’s Election Day, so hopefully you’ve already voted! 😉 Our Happy Hour next Tuesday is early enough that no final results will be in yet, so no matter what, there’ll be no losers at this Happy Hour!

We are joining as an exhibitor the South Metro Denver Chamber Non-Profit Fair & Business After Hours! We're excited to showcase our organization and the impactful work we do for our community. Below are the essential details for the event.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Location: Arapahoe Community College-Summit Room 

Address: 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive Littleton CO. 80160
Event Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Promotion Opportunities

We encourage all exhibitors to prepare:

• Please register for the event to include your booth hosts and any others from your organization attending HERE
• Promotional materials, business cards, brochures, or handouts
• Interactive or engaging elements for your booth to help attract attendees and spark conversations

Event Schedule & Networking

This event provides a fantastic opportunity to connect with local businesses, community leaders, and other non-profits. Attendees will be encouraged to visit each booth. The Chamber will provide attendees with a passport card listing all participating non-profits. When they visit our booth, please initial next to our non-profit as you see fit. Attendees will need to visit a minimum of 10 exhibitor booths with initials on their passport to be entered to win door prizes that have been donated to the event. Prizes will be given out toward the end of the event, and you must be present to win!

Important Reminders

• Parking: Parking will be available on site. We recommend parking on the Northwest side of the college in their student parking lot as no tickets will be issued during the event. Street parking is not property of the college so please read signage carefully. You can enter the building on the North or West entrance, but the Summit Room is located on the West of the building.
• Refreshments: Light refreshments and beverages will be served throughout the event.

"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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As the holidays approach, now is the perfect time to give back and help our community prepare for the season. We are looking for six volunteers to join us at SECORCares for a particular service project to support families prepare for the holidays.

Your efforts, whether packing food, organizing donations, or lending a helping hand, can make a real difference in the lives of those facing hardships during this time of year. This is an excellent opportunity to spread holiday cheer and experience the joy of giving.

Together, we can make the holidays brighter for those in need.

After you register, please fill out the following liability waiver google form prior to volunteering in the SECOR warehouse.  

https://forms.gle/ymctoRUt2iPfjSYQ8

SECORCares current protocols include: 

• Ages 10 and over; groups of minors under 12 need to have a 1 adult to 3 student ratio.

• Closed-toe shoes required. Otherwise just comfortable working clothes.

• We ask anyone feeling ill to stay home.

• Bring a reusable water bottle

• Bring a lock and plan on using the on-site lockers to lock up any valuables or personal items

This is our 3rd Anual Englewood High School Football Team Banquet! 

Over 75% of the Englewood High School population participates in the food assistance program. Over 25% of the football team members don't have a proper bed to sleep in and in many cases a home to go home to, being forced to stay on friends couches. With that being said let's put our Santa hats on and serve these students an end of season/holiday party.  

We will be doing the following duties: Set-up, checking in the team and family, serving food, and cleaning up after the event.  

We need 12-16 volunteers to make this event a true success.  

Rotary shirts and Santa hats welcome!

Join your fellow DMS Rotarians for our annual Heritage Porluck.  Bring some food to share that represents your heritage.  If you don't like food from your home land, bring something you like and would like to share,  Bring your own drinks as well  If you are already signed up and know what you are bringing, please, let me know so that I can share that in the final invitation next week.

The Heritage Porluck will be held at

Rich & Melody Sattizahn's

7697 S Roslyn Court

Centennial, CO 80112

on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from 5pm to 8pm

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

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 🔜.

We are having a joint Happy Hour with Five Points RiNo Rotary club. This has nothing to do with Colorado cannabis law, but is a chance for us to get together with other Rotarians in our district.

Food and drink will be available for your purchase.  Come out and meet some new Rotarians.  Guests are welcome!

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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