The Rotary Club of Walnut Creek has performed a number of projects and support activities for the City’s premier park – Heather Farm.  An early project was a new Kiosk (2003). The Club was asked by the City to design and construct an information Kiosk for park visitors. About 20 club members were involved in… Read More »Heather Farm Park (ongoing)

This library was named for a long time Walnut Creek Rotarian who donated the property and funds to the City for a library in North Walnut Creek. After the building was completed in 1975 our Rotary Club donated $8000 to furnish the meeting room which was named for his wife Nell Casey. In  2007 the… Read More »Thurman G. Casey Library (1975 & 2007)

Since 2008, the Rotary Club of Walnut Creek has been a major sponsor of Challenge Day at Northgate High School. In 2008, the Northgate’s Parent Faculty Club (“PFC”) decided that the atmosphere of bullying and intimidation at Northgate needed to change. They looked into different alternatives and decided that Challenge Day was the organization needed… Read More »Challenge Day at Northgte High School

Back in September, 2013, many fire fighters from the Contra Costa Fire Department were fighting the Morgan Fire on Mt Diablo. The entire crew from Fire Station 7 in Walnut Creek was included in that effort. While that crew was away, someone broke into the fire station and stole personal property of the fire fighters.… Read More »Fire Station 7 Alarm System

The Concord RotaCare Clinic began offering free health care to the most needy, uninsured, of our community in September of 2009.  This was after a two year research and effort to create a business plan, raise funds, recruit personnel and establish relationships with health care providers. Since beginning to provide urgent care, the program has… Read More »Concord RotoCare Clinic (beginning 2009)

The new Walnut Creek Library was a joint project of a non-governmental citizen’s group and the City of Walnut Creek.  The citizen’s group raised major portions of the state of the art facility situated near City Hall and adjacent to Civic Park. The Rotary Club of Walnut Creek contributed a total of $25,000 for an… Read More »New Walnut Creek Library (2008-2009)

Meals on Wheels is an organization that provides hot meals for house-bound elderly and disabled clients. Clients pay for these meals on a sliding scale, with more affluent clients paying full price while low income clients paying minimum rates. In 2005, Rotarian Bob Romero began looking into having the Club do a Meals on Wheels… Read More »Meals on Wheels

Borges Ranch is a Walnut Creek City Park nestled in the hills of Eastern Walnut Creek.  The farm was a homestead established by the Borges family in the late 1900’s .  Today, the park is a favored venue for learning about family life in the early days of Walnut Creek.  The Rotary Club of Walnut… Read More »2004 – Borges Ranch

President Barry Slavin (2000-2001) selected this as his major hands on project.  Club Members helped design the project with the City Architect.  (The plans were subsequently used at an amphitheater at Borges Ranch.  See separate article.)  The city supplied the material and the club supplied the labor. The project was placed in a natural bowl… Read More »Sugarloaf Open Space Amphitheater (2001)

Adopt-A-Highway Advertising Day Alexander Lindsey Museum Amphitheater at Borges Ranch Amphitheater at Sugar Loaf Anniversary Celebration Annual Crab Feed Aqua Nicaragua Project Arbolado Park Bandstand at Civic Park Battered Women’s Alternative Bancroft Garden Boy Scouts Buffalo Soldiers Burkina Faso Water Project Camp Royal Camp Venture City of Walnut Creek Civic Park Flag Poles Contra Costa… Read More »Partial List Of Community Projects That The Rotary Club Of Walnut Creek Has Supported:

Since 1999, the Rotary Club of Walnut Creek has provided the “Diablo Assistance League” with service projects and financial support to help achieving their mission.  The League’s mission statement is “a nonprofit member volunteer organization dedicated to improving lives in our community through hands-on programs.” President Russ Anderson (1998-1999) selected as his major project the… Read More »Assistance League of the Diablo Valley (Since 1999)