Meetings are Tuesday's at noon at the Lake County History Center. Please join us if you are interested in finding out about Rotary or joining the club!
January 29, 2026
We were invited to join Mentor Rotary at Taste of Auburn, the restaurant run by the Culinary Arts students at Auburn Career Center. We had a great buffet lunch of salad, salmon, kielbasa and cabbage, stuffed philly steak peppers, grilled vegetables and garlic toast and a blackberry coffee cake for dessert. The students did a great job and Dr. Galvan (Superintendent) spoke about the programs and improvements made in the past year at Auburn. It was a great change of pace to go to an off-site meeting.
The Culinary students who prepared and served our food. Other pictures can be found in the photo album, Taste of Auburn. December 13, 2025
The Painesville Rotary has been ringing the bells for the Salvation Army Red Kettle Fundraiser for many years. Here are some pictures of members who were able to participate this year.
Stu Lucker, President Elect, made some free time to ring the bells.
Dave McCall and Christy Maygar having some fun!
Dan Garry, President showing his grandson how important service above self is.
Dave Franz and friend (ringing the bells for the first time).
December 16, 2025
Every 3rd Tuesday of the month Painesville Rotary partners with St. James Church and The Western Reserve Junior Service League to provide a hot meal for those people of Lake County who face hunger and other challenges. Please join us, to help prepare the meal, serve, and clean up. Preparations begin at 3:30 and clean up is usually done by 6:15-6:30.
The crew this week. The meal is done, just waiting to serve it and clean up. Save the date: This year's fundraiser is scheduled for April 25, 2026!!
November 15, 2025
Today, at the Perry Outdoor YMCA a bench was donated in memory of our long time Rotarian Dr. Donald Lucker. For several months we have been collecting plastic film, and the hard work finally paid off in early October, we received a composite bench. We knew after Don's passing that the bench would be donated in his honor, we just didn't know where.
In early November, Dan Garry was approached by the parents of Sydney Brown, Brad (past Painesville Rotarian) and Becky Brown with an idea; because their daughter Sydney and Dr. Lucker were so close, why not place the bench near the tree that they planted in her memory at the Perry Outdoor Y. So the wheels were in motion and on Saturday November 15th the bench was placed. Dan will attach the memory plate at a later date, recognizing "Doc" and his 57 year contribution to the Painesville Rotary.
Dan Garry and Stu Lucker, standing; Brad and Becky Brown, sitting on the bench.
A picture of the tree and the proximity of the bench.
January 17, 2026
To avoid interfering with other Holiday parties, we decided to have our party in mid January. Fun was had by all, with great fellowship and food. We also had a white elephant gift exchange. There was lots of wine, some alcohol but boy did Pam and Chris flip over the O'Cedar spin mop. Pam stole it from Dick and then Chris stole it from Pam (they use to friends, but I guess "mop" before "top" buddy rules).
Chris will NOT let Pam have it.
Here are some pictures from the party. Those people who could not make it to the party were missed.
Others besides Chris went home with some great presents.
The food was excellent as always, more dinner like than our usual lunches. Beckie and Dan did a great job with the desserts.
