Rotary Club of the Blue Ridge

04/28/2025

Attention: our Facebook presence will be significantly diminished moving forward. Please refer to our LinkedIn page for all Rotary Club of the Blue Ridge updates: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rotary-club-of-the-blue-ridge/

Rotary Club of the Blue Ridge | 17 followers on LinkedIn. Service Above Self, Strengthening Communities in the Roanoke Valley | Chartered in February 2012, Rotary Club of the Blue Ridge has been serving the Roanoke area for over a decade. Originally named "Rotary Club of the Blue Ridge - New Ge...

04/26/2025

Today's the day! Join us as we host Rock Haven at Black Dog Salvage, 3:00 PM to 10:00 PM, tickets just $10. All proceeds go to support Brain Injury Solutions!

04/22/2025

🚨Sponsor Spotlight🚨
Our 2nd Sponsor Spotlight goes to Invoke Design and Lamar Advertising Company. Invoke Design created our awesome logo, flyer, and banner designs for the event, and Lamar Advertising helped us advertise these designs to the Roanoke Valley. Rock Haven thrives thanks to our amazing sponsors. Your support makes all the difference in creating this unforgettable event!

03/26/2025

Another successful Greenway cleanup in the books! Thanks to Rotary Club members and friends for making this a success.

03/03/2025

Tickets are on sale now for our annual Rock Haven music festival, once again benefitting Brain Injury Solutions. Be sure to read on below for more information, such as our exciting venue change!

Website: https://www.rockhavenva.com/
Date: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Venue: The Dog Bowl at Black Dog Salvage
Cost for General Admission ticket: $10
Lineup: Small Town Royals, Music Road Co., and Phat Laces
Food trucks: Chris's Coffee & Custard and Paper Dragon
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rock-haven-2025-tickets-1242779710569?aff=RockHaven_website

Sponsorships are still available! Please reach out if you or your organization is interested in supporting us on April 26!

This one-day celebration of music, food, and fun aims to support traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors and their families by raising awareness and funds for a local organization: Brain Injury Solutions.

02/20/2025

The snow couldn't keep our club from meeting last night and having a wonderful member spotlight from our President-Nominee Kaila Elam Barrett. Kaila, who joined Rotary Club of the Blue Ridge during its first year in 2012, shared about her family and her career as a mortgage banker at Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group.

Additionally, we voted on our 2025-2026 Board of Directors! On July 1, the new administration will be ushering in a new Rotary year.

President - Lydia Meadows Aluise
Vice President - Chip White
President-Elect - Kaila Elam Barrett
President-Nominee - Mack Johnson
Treasurer - Deanna Palatucci
Secretary - Natesha Ross
Sergeant-at-arms - Sam Grant
Director-at-large - Jessica Preston
Immediate Past President - Tony Aluise

02/06/2025

Flashback to last Wednesday when club members dominated the third round of TV cartoon trivia at Twisted Track Brewpub! Nothing quite like a group of millennials showing off their knowledge of the best '90s and '00s shows from Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.

Interested in learning more about Rotary Club of the Blue Ridge? Join us for any of our regular club meetings at Twisted Track, the first and third Wednesday of every month starting at 6:00 PM.

01/17/2025

On Wednesday, we had the privilege of hearing from Tyler Godsey, the visionary behind 5 Points Music Sanctuary in Roanoke, VA. Tyler shared the inspiring history and mission of 5 Points Music, a space dedicated to fostering community through music and the arts. 🎶

His passion for providing a welcoming environment for musicians and music lovers alike truly resonated with everyone in the room. It was a powerful reminder of the importance of creative spaces that bring people together, inspire growth, and support local talent.

Thank you, Tyler, for sharing your story and for all the incredible work you do at 5 Points Music! 🙌

12/19/2024

🎉 What a memorable evening! Our Rotary Club’s annual holiday gathering at Olde Salem Brewing Company was a huge success! 🍻🎄

We enjoyed a fun-filled night of music bingo, great conversation, and plenty of holiday cheer. It was wonderful to see so many members bring their friends and family along to join in the festivities. And the highlight of the night – a surprise performance by local high school carolers who filled the brewery with beautiful holiday music! 🎶🎤

Thank you to everyone who came out to make this event so special. Here’s to another year of service, friendship, and community! ✨

12/09/2024

Over the weekend, several members of our club shopped for toys to donate to the annual Christmas Shop at the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southwest Virginia. The Christmas Shop is a special event at the House where residing families can select toys and games to gift to younger siblings of those children being treated at the various Carilion and LewisGale facilities in Roanoke.

Gift donation is a yearly tradition for the Rotary Club of the Blue Ridge. We use our Happy Dollars every December to purchase toys for the less fortunate (Happy Dollars are a result of club members donating a dollar to share good news at the end of each regular club meeting). This year, we collected $210, which was well spent on many toys from Ollie's for the benefit of our local Ronald McDonald House.

We'd like to thank club members Lydia Aluise, Tony Aluise, Blaine Elliot, Sam Grant, and Mack Johnson for giving their time on Saturday to go shopping. We also want to give a special thanks to Kristina Smith, Ronald McDonald House volunteer, for joining us on our shopping trip.