Our club is starting a new international service project: sending a container of donated medical supplies to healthcare facilities around Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Lake Atitlán. The supplies come from Project C.U.R.E., which began in a Colorado garage in 1987 and has since sent more than 2,000 containers to over 130 countries. Our club most recently sponsored a C.U.R.E. container to Burundi, a project led by Dr. Bill Timpson.
10-28-26: Susan Brand presented a $1,000 Community Grants check to Kirstin Kaines, Executive Director of KickStart Self-Defense. KickStart staff provides Fort Collins' middle and high school students with free, trauma-informed personal safety training sessions that build confidence, increase situational awareness, encourage boundary settings, and teach practical skills to escape to safety. Rotary funds will be used to procure educational banners and training materials in English and Spanish to use beyond training sessions.
Oct. 14, 2026: Maureen Maguire, Grant Chair for Friends of Laughing Buck Farm, received a RCFC Community Grants check for $3,000 from Jeannie Benson. Funds will be used to help build a new ADA-compliant bathroom and associated road.
Joe Siple is the award-winning author of the USA Today-bestselling Murray McBride series. His books have received a wide range of recognition, including Book of the Year from the Maxy Awards and the National Indie Excellence Award for Friendship. He is a television sportscaster turned novelist and speaker who lives in Colorado with his wife and two daughters.
Our Teacher of the Month for November 2026 is Diana Fields! Diana is an art teacher at Olander Elementary.
Ian Fowler joined the Colorado Avalanche Information Center in 2021. He grew up in the avalanche and ski mecca of England where a deep snowpack was 6" and the ski club would park an old tractor on the hillside to create a rope tow. Travels as a kid taught him about the wind slabs in Scotland and the wide-open bowls of the European Alps. He has worked in New Zealand, the Alps, Canada, Alaska, and Colorado as a ski patroller, mountain guide, and avalanche educator. During this period he gained his IFMGA Mountain Guide Certification through the American Mountain Guide Association. Ian moved to Colorado in 2008 and started patrolling at Eldora. He lives in Louisville with his wife and two daughters.
