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Mondays at 12:00pm
Fargo Holiday Inn
(I-29 & 13th Avenue South)
3803 13th Avenue South, Fargo, ND 58103 - Membership
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- The Fargo West Rotary Club conducts 2 major fundraisers each year to support the many local and international projects we fund annually.
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- Fargo West Rotary is an active group. We hold various socials, fundraisers, and committee meetings throughout the year. Join today and get involved.
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Activities
Red River Zoo Project
Fargo West Rotary conducts an annual ‘Harley Raffle’ with all proceeds being donated to the Red River Zoo. The Harley Raffle started in 1999 with a commitment from Fargo West Rotary to build the ‘Takin Ridge’ exhibit which is home to three Sichuan Takin and four East Caucasian Tur. Currently, there are 38 Takin in ten zoos and only 20 Tur in two zoos. Both species are endangered in their natural ranges of the Tibetan Plateau and Chechnya.
Fargo West Rotary also completed a new ‘Grey Wolf’ exhibit with 5 grey wolves and a Trapper Cabin viewing & educational building. Now complete, Fargo West Rotary has renewed its commitment again and plans to fund another new exhibit called ‘Wings of the Orient’ bird aviary. To date, Fargo West Rotary has donated over $226,670 in support of the Red River Zoo.
Literacy Project
Each year Fargo West Rotarians volunteer their time & talent at Carl Ben Eielson Middle School in Fargo, ND and tutor foreign students. The children are immigrants from many foreign countries. Their families came to the America seeking a better way of live. The students are enrolled in school with one of their classes ‘ELL – English as a Learned Language’.
.Fargo West Rotarians take the months of December, January and February each school year and spend one to two hours each school day with these students. They work one-on-one with the ELL students – playing games, speaking, making introductions, doing worksheets on language and most importantly reading.
Each year we help students from many foreign countries. Twenty-two Fargo West Rotarians participated and volunteered this past year. The best part is we Rotarians gain much more in friendship and goodwill than we give of our time & talents. The rewards make ELL a positive experience for all!
The three Rotary Clubs (Fargo Rotary, Fargo West Rotary & Fargo Moorhead AM Rotary) work together with the Fargo City PTA on a ‘Dictionary Project’ to donate dictionaries to 3rd Graders in Fargo public schools, Fargo parochial schools and West Fargo public schools. In 2009 the Rotary Clubs donated over 2,430 dictionaries to 111 different classrooms in 22 different schools.
Rotary Centennial Universal Playground
The Fargo-Moorhead Rotary Foundation was established by the four Rotary clubs of Fargo and Moorhead (Fargo Rotary, Moorhead Rotary, Fargo West Rotary and Fargo Moorhead AM Rotary) with the initial purpose to help fund the Rotary Centennial Universal Playground located in Fargo’s Lindenwood Park – and received IRS approval as a 501(c)3 non-profit on January 24, 2006. The Universal Playground will be totally paid for in the fall of 2010 having total costs (including In-Kind donations) of $265,000.
The Rotary Centennial Universal Playground is accessible to all children (or parents) of all abilities and is the only playground of this magnitude in this region.
Miracle Field Baseball Field
The four Rotary Clubs of Fargo and Moorhead are now raising funds for the Miracle Field baseball field located at Southside Regional Park in Moorhead, MN for the special needs children in our local communities.
The playing field, or baseball diamond, is the size of a typical tee ball field. Its most unique feature is the rubber turf surface that is accommodating to wheel chairs, walkers, crutches, braces, and so on, unlike sand and dirt. And, like any field, it will have a pitcher’s mound, an outfield – though shorter, dug-outs, scoreboard, and bleacher seating for spectators.
The Moorhead Park Board has donated the land. Many grants have been applied for and funds received amount to nearly $100,000. In-Kind work from local contractors and suppliers made this a reality. The total project value is approximately $275,000. Additional funds and pledges still need to be secured. Visit the website: www.fmmiraclefield.org for more information, or to make a contribution.