In the News!
Members of the Auberry Intermountain Rotary Club were hosted to an appreciation breakfast on September 8 by the Central Sierra Historical Society at the museum site in Shaver Lake. The club awarded a $1000 grant this past spring for the purchase of a large screen HD monitor to be used for educational programs at the facility. Dona Mount prepared several delicious entrees for the attendees. Her husband, John Mount, CSHS president, gave a guided tour after breakfast.

Auberry Intermountain Rotary Club opened its first window of the 2011 local grant application process. This is how CSHS was able to request the grant it received. The window opened September 1 and will continue through October 31 2011. All applicants must be not-for-profit or non-profit organizations. The requests must be made in writing and provide a budget on how the requested monies will be used by the organization.

These funds are made available to the local community twice a year. A second window of cpportunity will open January 1 and run through February 29 of 2012. Applications are available on this web site. The club can also be contacted at P.O. Box 874, Auberry, CA 93602.

Funds for these grants are the result of the club’s annual fund raisers. The first and biggest fund raiser just took place. It was the 15th annual Music Festival held on August 27th. It is always on Saturday, the week before Labor Day. The second major fund raiser is held during the month of April. It is a golf tournament held at the local Eagle Springs Golf Course. Funds raised at this event have been used in the past to support Sierra High School’s Sober Grad Nite.

The Auberry Intermountain Rotary Club meets on the 1st, 2nd and 4th Thursday mornings at 7 a.m. at the Pizza Factory in Prather. A dinner meeting is held on the 3rd Thursday each month. Feel free to come as a guest. The club is always looking for new members to join us in providing service to our local communities.
Our First Legacy Grant

First Legancy GrantAuberry Intermountain Rotary Club awarded its very first Legacy Grant of $10,000 to Sierra High School Library.  The grant was awarded to the teacher librarian, Anne Wick, who wrote it on behalf of the high school library.  While the club offers smaller grants twice a year to meet the needs of non profit organizations, it has decided to offer a larger grant once a year.  All monies are generated by the local Rotary Club through annual fund raisers and are always invested in the foothill and mountain community.

The Legacy Grant requires that recipients be able to match the total dollar amount requested as a condition of application. Dollar matches were made by Sierra High School ($3000), Sierra Foundation ($3000), and an anonymous Prather businessman ($4000) for a total of the $10,000 as requested for the project.

Purchasing new books is the most immediate need as the print collection is worn and dated.  The library needs fiction and non-fiction books as well as magazines, newspapers and on line information. Classes from nearly every department and grade use the library. The money will be well used to provide new reading materials for students.

Literacy is a focus of Rotary International and the local club. When it meets each week, the program speaker is asked to sign a book that is donated in the speaker’s name.   Auberry Intermountain Rotary has donated many books to the school libraries over the fifteen years the club has been in existence. For information about Legacy Grants  Email Us