Community Service
Columbia Heights Police Department/Fridley and Columbia Heights Rotary Bike Giveaway Donation:
Fridley and Columbia Heights Rotary donated bike helmets as part of the Police Department's annual Bike Giveaway. Twelve bikes were given away to Columbia Academy Middle School students and Valley View Elementary School students.
In support of the City of Fridley's annual community festival, the Rotary hosts a 2 mile Fun Run to kick off the weekend festival. The run leads the 49ers Days Parade on the Thursday evening of the weekend and is a fun way for community members to celebrate health and competition together. During the Friday and Saturday evenings of the festival at Commons Park the Rotary hosts a wine booth serving delicious red and white wines for your enjoyment and as a fundraiser for our community projects.
Dictionary Project
Basic education and literacy is one of Rotary’s six areas of focus. We know that basic education and literacy are essential for reducing poverty, improving health, encouraging community and economic development, and promoting peace. For many years now, the Fridley-Columbia Heights Rotary Club has provided all third grade students in the Fridley and Columbia Heights school districts with their very own dictionaries. The excitement and enthusiasm in the students is apparent from the looks on their faces and their immediate action to begin using the dictionaries.
STRIVE (Students Taking a Renewed Interest in the Value of Education)
The Fridley-Columbia Heights Rotary STRIVE program motivates eligible high school seniors at Fridley and Columbia Heights high schools to discover their own strengths and talents to increase their personal and academic achievement. This program challenges the students in the lower range of class standings who show the greatest improvement in grades in their senior year to improve their work, gain self-confidence and discover the satisfaction of achievement. Scholarships for post secondary education scholarships are awarded to the students who show the greatest improvement in GPAs and a renewed focus on academic achievement.
Volunteering
Each quarter members of the Fridley-Columbia Heights Rotary Club plans a volunteer activity where the group can come together to help our community. We may pack food, do a clean-up project, take on a physical improvement need, as long as we can make a difference and get to know each other better in the process, it is a win for all involved.