The Strongsville Rotary Foundation will award several college scholarships to high school seniors who live in Strongsville. One is reserved for a parochial student and one is reserved for a Polaris student.
The City of Strongsville held a ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony for the Strongsville Town Center Initiative. The Strongsville Rotary has pledged $50,000 towards the project, and current Rotary Club of Strongsville president John Turnbull participated in the ceremony. Proceeds from StrongFest benefit this project among other local and international projects, and we look forward to hosting future events at the new facilities. 
The Rotary Club of Strongsville and Rotary Club Kraków have completed a joint project and purchased two ambulances for Ukraine.
Students who attended were introduced by Mike Rodak, who has guided them through the program, told a little about them and their initial meeting in the program, then each student had the opportunity to share their story about how they have grown with the help of the Connections program and how Mr. Rodak has helped guide them through some of the challenges they’ve faced. 
From Warsaw to Częstochowa to Krakow, we are accomplishing our mission in Poland 
Update: Medical supplies and donations delivered to our Polish Rotary groups. The funds will be used for a much needed ambulance, medical supplies and family refugee support.
Everything here is very well organized and running smoothly. The refugees are well taken cared for and provided many of their needs. Many of whom are returning to their families in Ukraine. Highly encouraged by the Polish Rotary groups, Pat and I are on a tour today to visit Auschwitz, Birkenau, and the Oskar Schindler Factory.
Rotary Club of Strongsville sponsored the Strongsville High School's Connection Program Alumni Reward Luncheon on Feb 25th, 2022.
Thanks to Manjit and his family who organized a truck to take supplies down to Kentucky, including blankets he purchased, and CVS donated 500 first aid kits, sanitizers and 240 boxes of face masks, along with donations for the local Rotary Clubs.
After hearing about the tornados in Kentucky the Rotary Club of Strongsville immediately launched into action with a call for blankets that could be delivered to Kentucky. At our Friday meeting we collected blankets, and on Sunday member Chuck Cury loaded his truck with 110 blankets to take to Mayfield.
The Rotary Club of Strongsville once again manned the kettles at the Giant Eagle Market District in Strongsville for a day to raise money for the Salvation Army. This year there was $1,254 in the kettle, which is almost exactly the same amount raised last year, and better than prior years. Thank you to all who donated.
Art Basa, charter member of the Strongsville Rotary Club, provided an update on the artesian wells that were funded by a matching grant from Rotary International in partnership with the Western Pampanga Rotary Club. The pictures show one of the 22 artesian wells that were built.
Following our previous donation of firefighter gear from Strongsville, Strongsville Rotarians Dan Sage and Pat Greco worked with the city of Middleburg Heights to make a similar donation of their obsolete fire gear which can be of great help in Honduras.
Mike Rodak of the Connections program at Strongsville High School reached out to us about a student who needed some help finding a car so she could get to work and to school.Strongsville Fire & Emergency Services maintains a commitment to fire safety education with their Firepup® Program.
The Strongsville Rotary Foundation is donating $600 to the program to distribute educational materials the cover a broad range of topics including general fire safety, burn prevention, dial 911, smoke alarms, senior safety, and many other topics for 300 children.
The Rotary Club of Strongsville was able to provide support to ship old firefighter gear, no longer of use to Strongsville, to the firefighters in Honduras. The used equipment no longer meets US safety standards, but is priceless to the firefighters in Honduras due to their lack of funding. Read the full story at http://www.thepostnewspapers.com/strongsville/local_news/helping-brothers-in-need/article_08669ff6-b4bd-54fb-b148-272b5cdc7aaf.html
The Rotary Club of Strongsville worked together with the Club Rotario de Tegucigalpa and Rotary District 6630 to fund a computer lab and school library to serve the Zambrano community about 40km north of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. This will be used to aid in the education of young women of integrity to break the cycle of poverty.
The Strongsv
ille Rotary Foundation on September 12 presented a $5,000 donation to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Strongsville Post 3345.
View media coverage here from the Strongsville Patch and the Strongsville Sun Courier.
The donation includes $2,500 raised at the foundation’s annual golf outing on August 12. The other half of the donation was a match by the foundation, a non-profit organization affiliated with the Rotary Club of Strongsville. Along with the donation to the VFW, proceeds from the golf outing will fund $17,000 in student scholarships next year.
Find out why Rotarians from NE Ohio are passionate about Rotary. If it sounds interesting to you are welcome to be a guest at one of our meetings Friday mornings at 7:15 at the Strongsville Senior Center, or contact us to learn more.
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