Rotary Club of Wilsonville is now accepting nominations for the 2023 Wilsonville First Citizen award. The deadline is January 31, 2024. Nominations can be submitted to www.wilsonvillerotary.com/nominate.
After receiving 12 nominations of incredible Wilsonville volunteers, the Rotary Club of Wilsonville has selected four finalists for the 2022 Wilsonville First Citizen award.
The First Citizen award honors a local community member for their exceptional volunteer service to the local community. A committee made up of Rotary and other Wilsonville community leaders reviewed the nominations. Each of the finalists will be recognized and the 2022 Wilsonville First Citizen will be announced at the club’s annual Heart of Gold Dinner and Auction to be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 6, 2023 at Oregon Golf Club, 25700 S.W. Petes Mountain Rd, West Linn. This year’s theme is “Wings of Service.”
The four finalists are Casey Carpenter, Greg Artman, Molly Kalekilo, and Tammy Sue Bradley.
The Wilsonville Rotary Summer Concerts benefitting End Polio Now will return for 2022 with a lineup that features pop/R&B vocalist CJ Mickens, blues band Sister Mercy, guitar virtuoso Jennifer Batten with her band Full Steam, and ’80s music tribute Radical Revolution.
The Rotary Club of Wilsonville celebrated its yearly changing of the guard on June 30 with the installation of a new board for the 2022–23 Rotary Year. Kyle Bunch, owner of Kyle Bunch Agency Goosehead Insurance in Wilsonville, became the club’s 49th president, taking over for Curt Kipp.