 Get your tickets now for the hottest event this summer!
The Des Moines Rotary Club invites you to attend the 2nd Annual Poverty Bay Blues and Brews Fest. This event is the prime fundraiser for our Music4Life program expanding music to youth in our local schools.
Enjoy a day on the shores of Puget Sound, listening and dancing to the tunes of Little Bill and the Bluenotes, Rod Cook & Toast, Fabulous Roofshakers and Left Hand Smoke together with a variety of fine brews from local breweries.
To complement your blues and brews, we will be barbecuing Bratwurst and B&E Market's famous Tri Tip for your dining enjoyment. The festival will be located on the shores of Puget Sound at the Des Moines Beach Park. This is an outdoor event and will be held rain or shine, you must be 21 or older to attend and no pets will be allowed inside the event.
No outside food or beverages allowed. Low lawn chairs and picnic blankets allowed. There will be plenty of free parking in the Des Moines Marina. While you are in town, you might want to visit the Des Moines Farmer's Market and the Poverty Bay Arts Festival.
Date: Saturday, September 10th
Time: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Tickets are $25 in advance; $30 at the gate. Six tasting tokens included with the price of admission. 100% of the net proceed support the Des Moines Rotary's charitable projects including Music4Life.
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| Left Hand Smoke |
The Rotary Club of Des Moines is pleased to announce the 2011 All Star Entertainment Line-Up for the 2nd Annual Poverty Bay Blues & Brews Fest on Saturday, September 10th. This year's featured local Blues Bands are:
The Festival will be located on the shores of Puget Sound at the Des Moines Beach Park. Enjoy a day filled with local blues together with a variety of fine brews from local breweries. To complement your blues and brews, we will be barbecuing Bratwurst and B&E Market's famous Tri Tip for your dining enjoyment. This is an outdoor event and will be held rain or shine, you must be 21 or older to attend and no pets will be allowed inside the event. No outside food or beverages allowed. Low lawn chairs and picnic blankets allowed. There will be plenty of free parking in the Des Moines Marina. While you are in town, you might want to visit the Des Moines Farmer's Market and the Poverty Bay Arts Festival.
Tickets are $25 in advance; $30 at the gate. Six tasting tokens included with the price of admission.
Date & Time: Saturday, September 10th: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
For more information, please visit www.dmrotary.org.
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| Making a difference One Back Pack at a Time! |
The Des Moines Area Food Bank has partnered with the Highline School District to distribute backpacks of food to children at risk of hunger over the weekends. Of the 5,000 children in the elementary schools in the Highline School District, almost 3,000 qualify for the federal and reduced breakfast and lunch programs. With this program, backpacks filled with 6 kid-friendly meals are delivered to the schools for check-out on Fridays and are returned by the students on Monday. For some children, these are their only two meals of the day. The backpack program represents an innovative way of providing families with additional resources to meet the basic food needs of their children.
Each month, the Rotary Club of Des Moines participates in the Des Moines Food Bank Back Pack program. Club members fill up to 400 backpacks to be distributed that weekend to children in need. Rotarian and Community Service Chair,Steve Swank, brought this program to the attention of the Rotary Club of Des Moines several years ago and it has been an important part of the club's community outreach ever since. "We are thrilled to be giving back in such a meaningful way, knowing that we are helping the children in our community," Swank said at the last back pack program of the season.
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| Taking Care of Business - Rotary Style |
For more information about this program, please visit www.myfoodbank.org .
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| Future Rotarians |
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| "Seeing Cookies" After The First 100 Bags Are Filled! |
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| President Isaac with the 2011 Des Moines Rotary Scholar |
On May 18th, President Al Isaac presented a certificate to Mairin Corkern, winner of the 2011 Rotary Club of Des Moines Scholarship. The presentation took place at the annual Des Moines Dollars for Scholars award ceremony, held at the Des Moines Yacht Club. Mairin is the only birth child in her family of 16 children from five countries around the world. Rotarian, Dr. Bonnie Verhunce, headed the Rotary's scholarship selection committee. For more information on this scholarship and the Rotary Club of Des Moines, please visit www.dmrotary.org.
 On Wednesday, April 27th, the Rotary Club of Des Moines presented the Phil Swanberg Essay Award to three Pacific Middle School students! The Phil Swanberg Essay Award Contest was created posthumously in honor of Phil Swanberg, who was a active member of the Rotary Club of Des Moines and instrumental in the development of this essay contest. This is the fourteenth year the club has given out this illustrious award. Throughout the years, the club has received hundreds of essays from applicants who have written incredible and thoughtful essays which have touched on a number of topics, such as societal issues or personal experiences. The winners are chosen based on their ability to express their views in a clear and concise manner through their writing skills.
The recipients of this year's award are as follows:
1st Place - Lizzy Burton 2nd Place - Keatyn Millard-Smith 3rd Place - Nolan Hendrick
The success of the Phil Swanberg Essay Contest is also directly related to the continued effort and support which the Des Moines Rotary Club receives from the Eighth Grade Language Arts staff at Pacific Middle School.
 Opening day is fast approaching and the Des Moines Farmers Market is poised to start its six season. Coming off its most successful season to date, the market is looking to be bigger and more diversified than ever. Returning will be most all of the vendors from last year along with plenty of new ones. Among them is an organic farm from Snohomish that will be selling fresh lamb, pork, chickens and eggs. Among the new prepared food vendors is local business owner, Marshall Hansen, with his portable wood fired pizza oven. Yummy goodness in two minutes!
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| Wood Fired Pizza Oven |
June 4th opening day will start with a special presentation to manager Rikki Marohl for being named 2010 Market Manager of the year for the State of Washington. Lots of special activities will take place as well, including arts and craft projects for kids. One of the most unique displays will be the “truck farm” with its bed planted full of veggies. So grab your shopping bag, or pick up one at the information booth, and get shopping! “Eating Local” is the Green thing to do because it supports your local small farmer and helps to preserve farm land from being paved over. Besides “when it’s fresh, it’s already gourmet.” The Rotary Club of Des Moines is a proud sponsor of this great local community event! For more information on the Rotary Club of Des Moines, please visit http://www.dmrotary.org/ .
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Get your tickets now for the hottest event this summer! 
