Nominate a local volunteer for the Wilsonville First Citizen Award

The Rotary Club of Wilsonville is now accepting nominations for the 2018 First Citizen Award to honor a local community member or couple for exceptional volunteerism and community service.

The club will announce three to five finalists in advance of Stars of Giving: The 2019 Heart of Gold Awards Dinner & Auction, which will be held Saturday, February 23, 2019 at the Wilsonville Holiday Inn. The finalists will be honored that night and the winner announced.

Wilsonville Rotary Summer Concerts bring out the crowds

The Wilsonville Rotary Summer Concerts completed their 17th season in 2018, with great performances by eight headline and supporting acts. The series in Town Center Park raised more than $6,600 for End Polio Now, a project by Rotary International and its partners (including the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) to eradicate the crippling disease. As of October, the disease has had just 18 reported cases in three countries in 2018 and the goal is to reduce it to zero. Since 2007, the Rotary Club of Wilsonville has raised more than $72,000 for the cause. 

Wilsonville Rotarians display their ‘eggspertise’

Rotarians worldwide have many tools in their arsenal — from the eyedropper for polio vaccines, to the filter for giving communities clean water, to the Shelter Box for providing life-saving assistance when natural disasters strike. But for Wilsonville Rotarians, their...

Wilsonville club reactivates Rotary Exchange program

The Rotary Club of Wilsonville is reactivating its Rotary Exchange program, and five students have been chosen to participate. Two Wilsonville students will travel abroad in the fall on full-year exchanges, two others will travel abroad this summer on short-term exchanges, and one Swiss student will be coming to Wilsonville for a year.