Colonial Heights Rotary Club

06/16/2026

Here's an update on our club for this week and for the upcoming weeks. Many thanks to Debbie for sharing this with club members. For those who join us from outside the club we hope this Facebook post will reach you and provide that broader application that encourages you to come join your friends at Colonial Heights Rotary.

Our meeting this week (Thursday, June 18, 2026) will be at El Rey Tequila located at 3420 Boulevard, Colonial Heights, VA. We look forward to seeing everyone at 5:30 as we do a wrap-up on the 25–26 Rotary year and discuss Rotary year 26–27 that starts onJuly 1.

Thanks to everyone that came out to the two "End Polio Now" Rotary Night Baseball games. Everyone seemed to have a great time, and we made a difference to the kids of the world as we work to eradicate polio.

Upcoming schedule and events:

July 2 - No Meeting - Happy 4th of July Holiday weekend
July 11 - District Awards and Change of Leadership—Williamsburg, Virginia. Registration for the event is on the DacDb calendar.
July 16 - Club Meeting, location to be determined.
August 6 - Club Meeting, location to be determined
August 15 - Area 6&7 club picnic (our club will provide some refreshing watermelons)
August 20 - Club Meeting, location to be determined

Come join us on Thursday for Rotary. And if you're not a member of a Civic Club, and even if you are, consider joining the Colonial Heights Rotary Club. Rotary, around the world, does a lot of good for a lot of people. Each Club does their parts and each part is important. And if you don't join rotary, participate with your church or some other social group or civic group to do something good for others.



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06/08/2026

Join is this Wednesday for the Tri City Chili Peppers End Polio Now baseball game on Wednesday, June 10 at 7pm. Gates open at 5:45. Tickets can be purchased via the link below. Come support a great cause while enjoying some great baseball.

05/21/2026

04/28/2026

Over the weekend, our Rotary Club collaborated with local organizations to clean up trash in Colonial Heights. It was a fantastic effort, with Treasurer Nick Stafford and myself (Jessica Gonzalez) actively participating. Our President, Tim Stafford, was so efficient that he missed the chance to be in the photo! Together, we made a positive impact by clearing debris from over 8 drains, contributing to the preservation of the Chesapeake Bay. Thank you for your support in our mission to keep our community clean and environmentally friendly.

Help in your own way,join the Colonial Heights Rotary Club. It's a great organization that does a lot of neat projects in and around our community. We often team with other area clubs on projects and touch the area in many different ways. Call Dave Merritt 804.382.4597 for more info about becoming a Rotarian.

Special thanks to Jessica for the newsy update and photos.

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03/18/2026

Get Ready for our Rotary Club Raffle. For just a $10 donation, you get a chance to win one of our great donated prizes. And please, support the companies who so kindly donated to our semi-annual fundraising event. Our club supports many great causes, largely with service projects. However, some of those efforts take some money too and this is the way we raise funds to support those efforts. Support these companies if you can and please, get several tickets through multiple $10 donations.

Colonial Heights Rotary Club Raffle
Draw #1: 2-night get away at The Hotel Roanoke
with breakfast
Draw #2: Richmond Marriott Overnight + a $75 gift card
Draw #3: One night at the The Hotel Petersburg
Draw #4: 4/day+1/Cosmic (May 28, 29 or 30)
to Tri-City Chili Peppers
Draw #5: Gift Basket from Raising Canes
Draw #6: Gift Basket from Mission BBQ
Draws #7+ Donations still inbound... More draws likely!

Winner need not be present to win
Donation: $10.00 per ticket
Live Facebook Drawing on May 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Search for "Colonial Heights Rotary Club" to View Drawing
Raffles for Less

08/10/2025

Two Tri-City Chili Peppers Cosmic Baseball players visited the Colonial Heights Rotary Club on Thursday, August 7, 2025. They were invited by club president Tim Stafford and Past District Governor Debbie Wall to share their experiences with what’s been invented in Colonial Heights and is quickly spreading across the country. It’s Cosmic Baseball and it’s adding entertainment back into what some think has become a boring sport - baseball. It’s baseball alright, but it’s played at night and in the dark under blacklights…. No well-lit stadiums - dark.

The black lights mounted on multiple poles that surround a ball field are small but powerful and provide awesome coverage as they illuminate the ball, bat, players uniforms, shoes, hats, and all the stuff that goes with baseball. If you haven’t seen one of these games, you have got to get yourself a ticket. But wait, every game is sold out. These teams are filling major league stadiums as they travel to major cities to play baseball. And don’t think this isn’t going to expand to soccer, rugby, ice hockey and a host of other sports. It’s different, it’s entertaining, and it’s brought fun back into the sport. And equally important, the players are engaging with the fans. There is much more interface than there ever was between players and fans. The good news is that if you’re a season ticket holder for the Tri-City Chili Peppers, you get to go to all the home games, including the cosmic games, enjoy a free meal, and have a great time.

So, if you live close to the great city of Colonial Heights, consider expanding your sports activities to include some fun at Sheppard Stadium and while you’re at it, join the members of one of the area Rotary Clubs for breakfast, lunch, or dinner meeting. They would be glad to have you.

This past Thursday, the Colonial Heights Club was joined by Dalton Hurst and Chazz Kirkland from one of the two cosmic teams playing out of Colonial Heights. Both are college degrees and are entering the world of baseball in a relatively unconventional way, but they love it. They love interacting with the fans and they love what it’s doing to the sport of baseball. Enthusiasm was the order of the evening at our club meeting, and we were pleased to be joined by Mark Creech from Prince George; Jennifer Spraggins from Chester; Rick and Kim Maddux from Petersburg Lunch; as well as Richard Taylor and Kelli Parker from Petersburg Breakfast. It was a great Rotary meeting that could only have been better if it had been at a Cosmic baseball game. As you can see from the photos, two of the major Cosmic fans, Debbie and Stan Wall came dressed with Rotary pins on the Cosmic “black light activated” shirts and made Dalton and Chazz feel quite welcome!

To top the night off, Past District Governor Debbie presented a District 7600 Check to Colonial Heights Club President Tim Stafford for some $6000.00 to support a historic and education opportunity at Violent Bank in Colonial Heights. This project, to be completed in conjunction with the City of Colonial Heights, will provide better security for what is essentially a nation historic treasure located in Colonial Heights, Virginia.

05/01/2025

It's time to pitch in and help clean up The Boulevard in Colonial Heights. Thanks to the Interact Club from the Colonial Heights High School we had some help. These two high school juniors recognize the value in the need to volunteer and do stuff does that's not much fun, but good for others. Many many thanks.

03/31/2025

Rotary Colleagues and Community Friends - Here's a note from President Debbie....

This week our club meeting will be Thursday, April 3, at 5:30pm at Carini's.

We have Food Pantry project at Colonial Heights Food Pantry on Thursday, April 10. Please try to arrive by 5:15 for assignments. Please let me know by Monday 7 if you will be volunteering for that project.

Other upcoming events

Tuesday, April 1st is Giving Tuesday to The Rotary Foundation and all donations up to $100 made online that day will be matched with foundation points. Please see Stan or myself with any questions.

On Saturday, April 12, the District Training Assembly at Virginia Wesleylan starts at 9am. All officers for the 2025-2026 Rotary year are requested to attend with PE Tim as all Rotarians are invited to attend. Registration is open on DacDb for the event and if you have any questions please see Tim or me.

The Richmond Flying Squirrels End Polio Now Game will be on Thursday, May 1, 2025, at the Diamond. I have a block of tickets for our club. Please let me know how many tickets you need. Tickets are $12 each. Please invite family, friends, co-workers to come out to the game with you for a great evening of baseball and fellowship at the Diamond. This will be the last Rotary Night at the Diamond as they will be in their new stadium next year.

Have a great week. Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday.

Yours in Rotary Service,

Debbie

12/18/2024

This week our meeting will be at Captain Tom's Seafood at 5:30pm. This will be a open discussion meeting and a meet and greet to potential members. Let's all think of others that you can invite to join us this week. We will also finalize our plans for the club's social after the holidays, which will be on January 17. Please come up with two suggested locations so we can finalize plans as this will be our last time together at a meeting for the year 2024 and before the holiday social.

Upcoming Schedule

January 2 no meeting
January 9 Monthly Food Pantry project
January 16 - no meeting will have holiday social on January 17
February 6 - regular club meeting

09/05/2024

It was definitely a work day as a multi-club team of Rotarians gathered at a park near the city of Matoica. Rotary club members, and several Friends of Rotary, from Petersburg (both clubs), Colonial Heights, and Chester gathered together to work on a path in the woods. That path led to a beautiful aluminum bridge that crossed a creek. After 3 hours of shoveling dirt and gravel, over 100 ft of pathway had been laid down. It was an impressive display of what Rotary can do to make a community even better than it is. Thanks for all the rotarians who came and worked to help others. This path will soon be paved and used by visitors from all these municipalities and more. Great job Rotarians!