Every week at our morning breakfast meetings, we have the privilege of having wonderful speakers sharing a variety of topics. Here are some we have had this Rotary year!
Lake Elmo Rotary Club
Are you looking to make a difference in our local community and the world, while meeting new friends and having FUN? If so, then please consider joining us to learn more about our club and all that we do in and around our community! YOU ARE INVITED!
* Sponsor Ice Cream Social at the July 4th Parade in Lake Elmo
* Kindness Rock Painting and Gardens at local schools
* Donate dictionaries to EVERY 3rd grader at Lake Elmo Elementary
* Helped sponsor the playground at Lake Elmo Elementary
* Donation for refrigeration at Open Cupboard in Oakdale
* Support Cimmaron Community Farm
* Host 2 Red Cross Blood Drives each year
* Sponsor an Adopt-A-Highway stretch and do roadside clean up 2 x per year
* Donate to local organizations and volunteer in our community
Welcome to our Club!
JOIN US FOR A MEETING
* We meet the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays for breakfast and the 4th Wednesday evening we have a service/social night!
Wed. Nov.12th
No morning meeting
Wed. Nov. 19th
7:00 a.m. Breakfast Meeting
Woodbury Rotary joining us!
Barbara Tischart - Rotary International
Wed. Nov.26th
No morning meeting - Happy Thanksgiving!
Wed. Dec. 3rd
7:00 a.m. Breakfast Meeting
Vagabonds Holiday Concert & Brunch at LEI Event Center
Wed. Dec. 10th
No morning meeting
Wed. Dec. 17th
7:00 a.m. Breakfast Meeting
Liz Niehaus and Scott Mercer
Wed. Dec. 24th
No morning meeting
Merry Christmas!
Wed. Dec. 31st
No morning meeting
Happy New Year!
GET INVOLVED
Upcoming and Recent Projects:
Upcoming and Recent Projects:
Lake Elmo Rotary HOSTS annual SAHS Vagabonds Concert and Breakfast Buffet! Join US!
Lake Elmo Rotary WINS the wings contest at our Annual Area 11 District 5960 Cook Off on 9/24/25
SAT. SEPTEMBER 13, 2025
CENTENNIAL STREET DANCE CELEBRATION at Lion's Park/the Old Fire Station hosted by City of Lake Elmo - Lake Elmo Rotary Beer/Seltzer Trailer Fundraiser!
Tues. Aug. 5th, 2025
National Night Out - Kindness Rock Painting with Lake Elmo Rotary Club
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July 4th Ice Cream Social 2025 -
Lake Elmo Kids Parade
Over 1400 pcs. of ice cream served!
Adopt a Highway - Clean Up
THANK YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING AND DONATING AT OUR BLOOD DRIVE ON 4/30/25! Red Cross collected 37 pints of blood to help 111 people!!
Giving Dictionaries to every 3rd Grader at Lake Elmo Elementary School
COMING SOON:
- Lake Elmo Rotary Blood Drive 11/4/25 @ Lake Elmo Inn Event Center
- Kindness Rock Garden being "planted" at Oakland Junior High 10/15/25
Meals from the Heart - Feed Others First!
Meal packing with local Rotary Clubs 9/24/25
2025 Annual Charter Dinner
6/25/25
Rotary District 5960
2024-2025 AWARDS
THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING OUR ANNUAL FUNDRAISER - BIG BUCK BINGO & RAFFLE DINNER! IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS! ** SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SPONSORS **
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NEWS & UPDATES
We have a NEW MEMBER! Introducing Randy Bernal. Randy officially joined our club in May and was recognized at one of our June meetings. Randy is the Health and Wellness Director at the Woodbury YMCA. Welcome Randy!
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- $50 can provide clean water to help fight waterborne illness.
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Interested in being one of our speakers/presenters??
Would you be willing to join us for a delicious breakfast and give a presentation to our club? We have a speaker each week at our meeting. The morning starts with the pledge of allegiance, the 4 way test, announcements, breakfast, "happy dollars" updates from members, and then 30 minutes for our speaker. If you have a job, topic, or organization that would be a good fit, please click below to email our Club Service Chair person to get on the calendar.
Lake Elmo Rotary Club was recently recognized with several awards for the 2023/2024 Rotary Year!
In 2024 Lake Elmo Rotary Club "planted" it's second Kindness Rock Garden at Stillwater Middle School. The students, staff, and parents have loved seeing the positive impact this has had on their campus!
In 2023 our Lake Elmo Rotary Club kicked off our Kindness Rock Garden Project. We worked with Lake Elmo Elementary School - over 700 students and staff to create our very first Kindness Rock Garden outside the school.
We have welcomed a new member! Please join us in congratulating the following Lake Elmo Rotary Club member:
Randy Bernal - 6/11/25
Cole Birkeland
Teresa Moes
Paul Fitzpatrick
Lake Elmo community members came together in June of 2005 with a desire to create service opportunities, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world. On June 30, 2005 Lake Elmo Rotary Club was chartered.
The Lake Elmo Rotary Club is one of about 32,000 clubs in 172 countries and geographic regions. Lake Elmo Rotary Club is one of 68 clubs in Southeast Minnesota and Western Wisconsin with over 3400 members, which comprise Rotary District 5960, one of 526 Districts worldwide.
Founded in 1905 by Paul Harris in Chicago, Illinois, as the world's first volunteer service organization, Rotary quickly expanded around the globe. The first club met in rotation in member’s offices, thus the name Rotary. Clubs meet regularly for fellowship to discuss local and global topics. Clubs are non-religious, non-governmental, and open to every race, culture, and creed.
As Rotarians, we are part of a worldwide group of over 1,200,000 members committed to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
- The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
- High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his/her occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
- The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his/her personal, business, and community life.
- The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional men/women united in the ideal of service.
The Four-Way Test
Of the things we think, say or do...
- Is it the TRUTH?
- Is it FAIR to all concerned?
- Will it build GOOD WILL AND BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
- Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
- Will it be FUN? Our Club added this because we want to have FUN while we serve!
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 263, Lake Elmo, MN 55042
Club #70275
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Lake Elmo, MN 55042
United States of America