Stories

 

On June 21, Holladay Rotary Club members gathered at the Holladay City's park pavilion to hold our June meeting and celebrate our events and achieved goals from the past year as well as welcome our new Holladay Rotary president. Cathy Mullaly, our current president, proudly served our club for the last year and rang her last meeting bell during this event. We celebrated the many successful service projects and fundraisers organized under her leadership. 

 

 

This month, the Holladay Rotary Club supported the Coats For Kids Car Show organized by the Bountiful Rotary Club. This two-day event was full of fun activities for all families! Our Holladay Rotary members supported the ticket sales on Friday, June 16, and Saturday, June 17.  With the funds collected, the Bountiful Rotary Club will purchase many winter coats to be donated later in the year, and some of the purchased coats will also benefit the organizations we work with, like the Hispanic and Latino Club.

We continue to collect money donations or winter coats (new or in gently used condition) that can be used for our Coat Drive later this year. Coat donations can be dropped off at the Midvale Community Building located at 49 W Center St, Midvale, UT 84047.

 

 

 

A few of our Holladay Rotarians gathered to power-rake and clean up the Olympus Pines park today. We were a small but mighty group, taking just over two hours to complete. Thanks to all that participated in this annual event!

It was a beautiful morning for our service with Memorial Estates! We had lots of choices for breakfast foods and drinks! A great turn out with a speech from Mayor Rob Dahle and the Utah Pipe Band Honor guard! We hope to make this a yearly tradition.

 

What a wonderful evening sharing in with Rotarian friends and their guests - we had 64 attendees! We enjoyed a delicious meal and a thought-provoking presentation from our guest speakers, Michele Meiners and Jim Morse about "The Secret of the Uintah Basin". We also celebrated a few of our members who received well-deserved awards. Congratulations to all award recipients!

 

 

 

Thank you to all our Holladay Rotary members who joined our past two Tree Planting events celebrating Arbor Day! Both schools, Howard Driggs Elementary and Crestview Elementary, welcomed us and allowed us to interact with the kids as we learned how to care for trees together. We want to thank Holladay City Tree and Tree Utah for your support and collaboration in making these events a success! Here are some fun pictures of the two events.

 

“We care for trees, and they care for you right back."

 

 

This July, we had our first Potluck Social at the Holladay City Hall with members from other local rotary clubs.  We welcomed Mary French as our special guest, who spearheaded The Dictionary Project, which the Holladay Rotary Club has supported annually for decades.  The Dictionary Project is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that is working toward providing a dictionary to every student in the United States.  The goal of this program is to assist all students in becoming good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary.  Meeting with Mary was a delight, and a great reminder that each of us can make an immense impact on the world with dedication and perseverance. 

For our June service project, we shopped for food for the Cottonwood High School food pantry, which services 90-120 students and their families twice each week.  We also unpacked, sorted and stocked food for the St. James Food Pantry.  The St James Food Pantry is an arm of the Utah Food Bank. Anyone is welcome to use the St. James Food Bank, there is no required residency or ID needed. If you need food, you can visit on the 2nd & 4th Sundays of the month, from 1 pm to 3 pm.  If you would like to volunteer for a restocking or distribution day, please email office@stjamesutah.com directly, or join a volunteer day with our Holladay Rotary Club!

The weather finally cooperated for our annual cleanup of Olympus Pines Park, home of the the largest Austrian Pines in the United States.  Rotarians de-thatched the grounds, picked up trash, pulled weeds and filled up over 20 trash bags to rebeautify the park.

The Holladay Rotary Club had planned for a group litter cleanup for our March service project, but unfortunately the weather forecast rained on our parade and the project had to be pushed to April.  Luckily a few of our amazing members were still able to get out before the storm hit and cleaned up the Holladay Plaza.