The Sunrise Rotary Club of Watertown supports:

Local Projects

Rotary's Handicap Camp- Sunrise Rotary holds events annually raising money to send several kids to handicap camp each summer.   Events include:
         Pancake Breakfast     Rotary Rose Sales      Spaghetti Dinner  (Pictures from 2005)     Golf Tournament
        Radio Day: One day each year, WATN 1240 donates money raised from advertisements to the Jefferson County.  This year its May 13th.  Businesses can buy 2 30 second $59 commercials for this day only.  Please call 782-0103 to buy an add.
        Rotary Camp for Children with Disabilities. Local Rotarians solicit advertising from area businesses and read the spots "live" on Radio Day.

For More information about the work we do for Handicap Camp, please click here

Rotary Youth Leadership: Each year, we sponsor local students to attend the RYLA conference. The students attending the conference receive in-depth leadership and communication training to assist them in their future careers.

Relay for Life: The Watertown Sunrise Club proudly participates in the local Relay for Life event held each June. Over 40 participants, including 3 members who are cancer survivors, helped raise over $5,000 in 2001.

Watertown Sunrise Rotary's Centennial Project will raise money for the Children's Corner at Flower Memorial Library.  One of the International Goals for 2005 is literacy improvement. 

Annual Donations to organizations and the local community! 

Past Projects:

    Adopt-a-Park: Rotarians helped to improve a local city park which had fallen into disrepair.

    Bike Rodeo: This event allows youth to practice bicycle skills by maneuvering through a series of obstacle courses.        
    Safety checks of bikes are done. Helmet use is reinforced along with safe bike handling skills. Prizes and helmets are
    awarded. More than 300 children participate.

International Projects

Polio Plus: Every year over 4,000,000 children die needlessly from childhood diseases which can be controlled by immunization. Polio Plus is a Rotary International program developed to immunize against polio and five other communicable diseases for all children by the year 2000. To his end, our club, with other clubs in Rotary have raised over $240,000,000. Now, after a few years in the program, the Americas and Europe are virtually polio-free, and many Asian countries have made significant strides to this and, and improvement is also evident in Africa.

International Educational & Cultural Exchange: Activities are achieved by a number of means.
Our current project is to help clean up the water supply in El Salvador. 
We participated in the Noon Rotary Club in sponsorship of a Fish & Rice Project in Panama. We hold an International Dinner, attend international meetings in Canada, and canvas for the Ambassadorial Scholarship Program.
 

Group Study Exchange: We support the group study exchange of young professional and business people. They visit a foreign country to study the conditions and methods related to their own professions in that country. In return, we host "Group Study Exchange" team members in other countries.

PICTURES From Recent District Conference in Kingston