Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo de Tolosa

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The Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo de Tolosa meets on Wednesdays at noon in the Garden Room of the historic Madonna Inn.

Check the website at rotarydetolosa.org for details.

11/04/2026

Rotary de Tolosa is an amazing source of vitality for our community; join us! Today we recognized our head table, Sandy Hornberg, Tom Zehnder, and Grace Ready. We introduced Kayla Rutland from SLO City Farm and their organization will share our “Raffle for a Cause.” SLO City Farm will be doubling the land available to support local farmers! We presented Kathy Gorchesky for achieving he Blue Badge signifying full club membership. Donna Lewis, our Foundation Chair, let us know that November is Foundation Month. See Donna for detail about how you can support the Foundation. Coralee Macias shared secret details about our Rotary concert to be held at the PAC next year, but the details are secret so stay tuned. Our program today was Jack smith who has skateboarded across the United States several times starting In 1976, 1984, 2003, and 2013! They used the trips to raise money for charities and were very successful. What an amazing adventure!

10/28/2026

Wow, our Rotary club is amazing! Today we welcomed our returning German exchange student Joaquin Rueda and our inbound German exchange student David Nerling. The exchange program is amazing thanks to Amy Kardel. Paul Ready, our Sergeant at Arms was absent this week, so we got Chris Gardner. He was OK, but, it’s tough to stand in for Paul Ready. Our program today was amazing. We had John Couch, a former Apple Computer team member who owns Couch Family Wines in SLO. John’s presentation was truly mind expanding in all areas and brought to life the magic that created and still sustains Apple.

10/14/2026

Today Rotary de Tolosa had the privilege today of welcoming our amazing and energetic District Governor, Margarida Eidson. Governor Margarida is from the Ventura East Rotary club and brought the message of growing Rotary worldwide to 1.25 million members by 2030. We are at 1.2 million members now so we can do this. Governor Margarida also presented past Rotary de Tolosa President Mary Verdin with a special award because our club is SO AWSOME!Governor Margarida really wants to see participation at Rotary district events so she is shifting them to earlier in the day and keeping ticket prices low to encourage us all to attend. We were also thrilled to see Kyle Rizzoli back at Rotary after many months with his daughter Quinn at Stanford Children’s Hospital and she is now home and doing great!

10/07/2026

Rotary de Tolosa meetings are one of life’s great experiences - join us. Today we welcomed Tamra Marriott from the Alzheimer’s Association who will benefit from our 50/50 raffle this month. Tamra shared about the upcoming Alzheimer’s Walk and other services provided by the group. President Bryan presented Cathy Manning with her brand new Blue Badge as a full Rotary de Tolosa member. We welcomed Jack Theodore Summer who was born last month and we look forward to starting his college fund. Paul Ready’s birthday is today so he went crazy with AI photos of members doing things we knew they didn’t do - fun! Our program today was Kris Kingston Barker, an experienced end of life Doula. Kris shared end of life options to help people to thrive through the end of life.

09/30/2026

Today Rotary de Tolosa hosted a SLO City Council Candidate Forum. Thanks to our moderator Garret Olson and all 3 candidates, Michelle Shoresman, Brett Cross, Emily Francis for attending and enthusiastically participating. Thanks also to Cal Poly Political Science Professor Michael Latner for providing a very thorough explaination of the city of SLO's Citywide Sing Vote system. There were a series of topics and candidates were able to select a topic and provide a 90 second answer with another candidate providing a 45 second rebuttal. There were also 2 lightning rounds and a final all encompassing question. Thanks to all who attended and we are providing some photos of the candidates and some of the questions.

09/16/2026

We all love Rotary de Tolosa and each week is an adventure. Join us! This week we heard a craft talk from our new member Cathy Manning. She actually met her husband on Skid Row in LA but it all worked out great. We also announced that our club will be hosting a SLO City Candidate Forum at our meeting on September 30th. Our program today was a fascinating discussion with local business owners Nate Adamski with SLO C***r (2 locations) and Brett Jones with The Nautical Bean (5 locations). Their initial presentations were followed by a fascinating Q & A lead by Lyle Meek. The speakers shared their thoughts on recruiting, managing the business, and the many ways they show their love for our community and the community members show their love them.

09/09/2026

Rotary de Tolosa is a force for our community. Join us! This week we heard an amazing craft talk from Kathy Gorchesky. We are her 6th Rotary club and she is amazing. We welcomed Grace Ready as a new member sponsored by her proud father, Paul Ready. Grace has grown up with this club and knows exactly what she is getting into. We are fortunate to have Grace as a new member. Our program today was Kevin Duffy, the volunteer CEO of Next Adventure, a group working to support young people aging out of the foster care system. There are 20,000 kids who need support to launch into amazing lives. Currently the group has 46 volunteers going through mentor training to make a difference in the lives of foster kids as they become adults.

09/03/2026

Thanks to all who attended our first Business Social of the Rotary year at Jeff Buckingham’s Astound Broadband office. There was a great turnout of Rotary members, spouses, guests and a nice group of kids! We even had two Rotary exchange students. There was beautiful jazz music playing but the conversations were so dynamic that they drowned out the music, although it was enjoyed during cleanup later. The food was catered by Field to Table, and was widely complemented, as were Joan’s chocolate chip cookies. Field to Table will be taking over the restaurant area of the AT Sill University building (formerly the Mind Body building) on Tank Farm Road.

08/26/2026

This is another great week at Rotary de Tolosa. Keep in mind, no noon meeting next week at Madonna Inn. We will meet at 5:00pm at the Astound office at 711 Tank Farm Road Suite 210 (corner of Tank Farm & Broad). Please check your email and register as soon as possible. President Bryan welcomed two new “blue badge” Rotary members, Stephen Leonard and Ross Sprague. We love to grow with great new members! Thursday is a Rotary Fundraiser at Oak & Honor in SLO. Our speaker today was Coach Don Oberhelman who shared the great story of the John Madden Football Center at Cal Poly. Wow, this place is amazing and will really contribute to the Cal Poly football program. 45 million dollars was raised for this facility!

08/22/2026

🍻 Good food. Cold drinks. Bingo. And a great cause.

That sounds like a pretty good Thursday to us.

Join us Thursday, August 27 at Oak & Otter Brewing Co. for Give Back Thursday benefiting Pregnancy & Parenting Support of San Luis Obispo County.

Stop by anytime during the day—a portion of the day’s proceeds will help support local families right here in SLO County.

Then at 6 PM, it’s BINGO TIME! 🎱🎉

The Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo de Tolosa will be hosting Fundraising Bingo, so grab some friends, order a round and come play for a great cause.

📅 Thursday, August 27
📍 Oak & Otter Brewing Co.
🎱 Fundraising Bingo at 6 PM

Eat local. Drink local. Give local. 💙

See you at Oak & Otter!

Address

100 Madonna Road
San Luis Obispo, CA
93405

Website

http://rotarydetolosa.org/

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