Welcome to Apple Valley Rotary
 
Apple Valley Fourth of July parade
 
The Rotaract club and Rotarians did an amazing job decorating this year's car to Display at the Apple Valley Fourth of July parade.
 
Bill, Mark, Rob and Son's, Tasha, Tom (not in the photo) And Rotaracts
 
 
Raffle tickets are on sale now! Get in touch with an Apple Valley Rotarian's today. You very well could be the lucky owner of this car -
 
 
Cub Scout Pack 227 of Apple Valley, MN stopped by our meeting this morning with nearly 385 pounds  of pop tops to support the Ronald McDonald house. What a great surprise. Thank you Scouts and Leaders!

We're Moving!

Beginning March 14th, Apple Valley Rotary Club meetings will be held at LaGrand Conference Center at GrandStay Hotel Apple Valley (7083 153rd Street West, Apple Valley, MN  55124).   

Apple Valley Rotary is a group of engaged community members. We have fun while serving our youth and our local and international communities.

Posted on May 11, 2017

PROJECTS WE'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT: FOOD

Our club cares about food security. We have ongoing projects, as well as annual projects to help feed people that need it in our neighborhood and our world. We raise money, collect, pack, and serve.

Feed My Starving Children

Each year, we participate in Feed My Starving Children. Back in February, we participated in the South Metro Mega-Pack at the old Rainbow Foods. During our two-hour shift, we helped pack 978 boxes containing 211,248 meals - enough to feed 579 kids feed for a whole year. 
 
 

Loaves & Fishes

Every month, a few of us meet at Easter Lutheran Church in Eagan for Loaves & Fishes. With this program, we serve well-balanced meals to hungry members of our community.

 

 

The Food Group

A few times every summer, we head up to the Minneapolis Farmers’ Market to help out with Produce Rescue, organized by The Food Group. Through this program, we visit with the farmers at different stalls to learn whether they have any produce they’d like to donate. Many oblige, providing delicious, fresh produce that they don’t expect to sell before it goes bad. We collect it, sort it, box it, and have it delivered to food shelves in the metro area. Boxing quite literally TONS of food every week, we get a pretty good workout in, too.
 

360 Communities

We support 360 Communities’ area food shelves in a variety of ways. Last year, we partnered with Rosemount Rotary to purchase a giant refrigerator for the Rosemount Family Resource Center. This enables them to provide local families with fresh fruits and vegetables (see Produce Rescue!).
On the first Wednesday of every month, members bring food donations from their cupboards and we “pass the apple” to collect money for food purchases.
 

 

Have ideas for more ways for us to get involved in food security in our community and the world? Let us know!

Posted on Mar 04, 2017

projects we're passionate about: Youth

We believe that children are our future. A number of our service projects and many of our donation dollars focus on youth - particularly kids right here in Apple Valley.  
 

Interact Club

In 2015-2016, Apple Valley High School students launched their own Interact Club (think of it as Rotary for high schoolers). Despite being such a new group, they’ve already begun to change the world. Last year they raised money to assemble Wapis. In places without access to clean water, these are used to purify water, without needing to bring it to a boil. They’ve just wrapped up a blanket drive for those in need in our community, and are gearing up with a fundraiser and food drive that will culminate in some of their favorite teachers and Rotarians being attacked by pies. If that wasn’t enough, they’ve grown their group through marketing, designing their own shirts! Below they're being recognized at the State of the City for their dedication to making this world better.
 
 

STRIVE Program

We work with the AVID class at Apple Valley High School through Rotary’s STRIVE program. Rotarians and other community members visit as guest speakers, talking with kids about topics ranging from time management to personal finance. At the end of the year, we award a scholarship to help students continue their education.

Student of the Month

Every month students from the three Apple Valley Middle Schools - Valley, Falcon Ridge, and Scott Highlands - are picked by their teachers and recognized by Apple Valley Rotary. Hearing about their intelligence, kindness, and generosity give us hope.

 

Dictionary Project

Literacy is another passion of ours. With a few other groups, we ensure that all third graders in District 196 get their own Dictionary. Each fall, we visit third grade classrooms, teach excited kids about Rotary, and uncover fun facts. Did you know the longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters?

Book Drive

In 2015-2016, one of our members spearheaded a book donation drive. We collected 4,000 books. In 2016-2017, we got tired of counting after 6,000. These books are distributed throughout our community – to Head Start classrooms, ELL (English Language Learner) classrooms and more. We are proud to live in a place where literacy is so highly valued and are happy to further the cause!
 
 

Cub Scouts

We are the charter organization for Apple Valley’s Cub Scout Pack 227 and love the continued involvement with this great group of future leaders. Together we clean up Redwood Park (and enjoy hot dogs and hamburgers!) and we were honored to be asked to be part of their fundraising efforts for a new trailer. Watch for it soon!

 

Have ideas for more ways for us to get involved with youth in Apple Valley? We’d love to hear them!

Posted on Jan 03, 2017

Support Apple Valley Rotary through Amazon Smile!

Looking for another way to give to the organization you love so much? When you shop on Amazon, use Amazon smile!
First, visit https://smile.amazon.com/ch/41-1855981 - this will set up Apple Valley Rotary Scholarship Foundation as your charity of choice. 
 
Then, whenever you're going to buy something on amazon, visit smile.amazon.com (rather than simply amazon.com) to search for and purchase all the things you want and need. A portion of each sale will benefit our club.
 
We appreciate your support!
Posted on Apr 01, 2017

We're on facebook!

Visit us at https://www.facebook.com/AVMNRotary/ to see more of what we're up to!

 
 
Meeting Information

Apple Valley
We meet Wednesdays at 7:00 AM
Grandstay Hotel - LaGrand Conference Center
7083 153rd Street West
Apple Valley, MN  55124-6066
United States
Email:
AppleValleyMNRotary@gmail.com
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Sep 26, 2018
Book Drive and Dictionary Project labeling
Offsite meeting at Apple Valley High School
Oct 10, 2018
Tour and demonstration of the Fab Lab
No outside speaker
Oct 17, 2018
Student of the Month
No Morning Meeting
Oct 24, 2018 7:00 PM
Evening wine tasting and World Polio Day presentation 7 - 9 p.m.
No Speaker - Club Assembly
Nov 07, 2018
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Upcoming Events
 
Club Executives & Directors
President
Lance Miller
President Elect
Greg Higgins
Secretary
Jessica Fields
Sergeant at Arms
Brian Bessler
Treasurer
Ed Corbett
Club Service
Tom Lawell
Community Service
Gloria Myre
Vocational Service
Robert Braun
Membership
Terry Merritt
Public Relations
Ben Brekken
The Rotary Foundation Chair
Eva Cheney-Hatcher
Bulletin Editor
Gwen Aaberg
Club Fundraising Chair
Bill Butler
AVRSF Board Chair
Scott Ramsdale
Executive Secretary
Clint Hooppaw
AVRSF Board Member
John Dusek
AVRSF Board Member
Terry Merritt
AVRSF Board Member
Sharon LaComb
AVRSF Board Member
Eva Cheney-Hatcher
AVRSF Board Member
Robert Braun