Rotary Club of Colville

06/17/2026

Thanks to the Stevens County Windermere offices for their help! Epic Day of Service this year was focused on helping the Colville Valley Animal Sanctuary with several outdoor improvements to their grounds. With help from numerous community volunteers, Colville Rotarians built a set of steps along a path, installed some chain link fencing, addressed some drainage issues around the main building, and pulled a lot of weeds. Thanks to all for the help! Our Colville community again shows that it is truly Epic!

06/14/2026

How's everyone doing on their Colville Physical Therapy Stronger Together Challenge step goals as mid-month hits?

Thanks for supporting the Backpacks to Bellies program to help feed at-need elementary kids!

06/14/2026

This week's speakers (Thursday, but I got behind) were Katie Heck and Curtis Vaagan of Vaagan Brothers Lumber ( https://vaagenbros.com/sustainability/ ) to talk about salvage logging and the impact of wildfires on the local logging industry. Over the past several years, contracts with the Forest Service to take damaged trees out of fire areas have increased dramatically; salvage logging not only allows the use of those logs but helps prevent the pile-up of down timber that could make the next fire in the area even hotter.

An important aspect of the Vaagen Approach toward sustainable forestry is optimal resource utilization. Our goal is to make the best use of as much of the harvested log as possible. For example, bark, chipped logs, and wood fiber are processed and utilized in the paper and landscaping industries. Ou...

06/01/2026

05/25/2026

An update on the Epic Day of Service projects at Colville Valley Animal Sanctuary: after considering the weather forecast CVAS and Rotary have decided to postpone Epic Day for one week. Setting aluminum fence posts and rebar stakes in a thunderstorm just seems unwise!

Our plan is to just move everything one week to June 5-6. Please still RSVP through the website or to Dave Bales so we know how much lunch to bring!

https://www.epicdayofservice.org

Click on Find a Project, then in the search box for "Club" enter "Colville" or "99114"; the "Project at Colville Valley Animal Sanctuary" will pop up in results. Click on that for more information on how to volunteer or donate funds toward material costs.

Join the EPIC Day of Service and be part of a global movement to make a difference.Together, we ignite a ripple effect of kindness, innovation, and lasting change. In one powerful day, people worldwide unite to create real impact in the communities. Be the spark. Take action.

05/22/2026

Our guest speaker this week was Gregg Deponte of Ola Aina Farm (https://www.olaainafarms.com/ ) to chat about some of the complications of being a small farmer in the current economic climate. He touched on choosing and establishing the correct forage for the field, and the livestock for the forage, and some of the difficulties for custom meat producers like regulatory limitations on selling individual cuts vs. whole carcass. We are looking forward to his next visit to discuss composting and soil amendment!

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05/15/2026

Our guest speaker today was KS Brooks, who has pokers in a bunch of fires - movie and short film making; song (and parody song) writing; film festival organization; writing for local newspapers; photography; author of books for adults and books for kids; traveler... visit her site https://ksbrooks.com/ for more.

KS is a cofounder of Lost Falls Film Collaborative, with a mission to support film making in rural areas. (https://ksbrooks.com/lostfalls/). They are always looking for more people to join their projects, especially for actors in their upcoming films.

KS would like to invite everyone to the -Vue-Drive-In-Theatre next Thursday (May 21) where they will be screening 12 shorts filmed locally. Gates open at 7, show starts around 9. Free admission! (So buy some concessions to support the theater, please.)

05/14/2026

Join the EPIC Day of Service and be part of a global movement to make a difference.Together, we ignite a ripple effect of kindness, innovation, and lasting change. In one powerful day, people worldwide unite to create real impact in the communities. Be the spark. Take action.