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The Glens Falls Rotary Community Wellness 5K is a run/walk held each year to benefit local charities designated by the members of the Glens Falls Rotary Club. This year’s race will be held on Saturday, April 20th, 2024, at 9:30am at SUNY Adirondack. There is plenty of parking on campus. Race Day Packet pickup check-in and registration will be at the SUNY Adirondack Student Center from 8-9:15 am.
For additional race information or to enter yourself or teams click here.
Please come join us for a wonderful morning wellness event and support the Glens Falls Symphony and the Glens Falls Youth Center!
 
 
 
Rotary 5K Poster
The Glens Falls Rotary collaborates with local school and SUNY Adirondack.  Come find out about the “Love Stories from a Thousand Years Ago” book.
 
The Glens Falls Rotary club will acquire copies of, “Love Stories From A Thousand Years Ago”, a book published by Jacqueline Touba, PhD, a revered member of The Rotary Club of Glens Falls.  Dr. Touba’s writing is a literary journey and collection of Persian miniature paintings that reside in museums and libraries around the world. The book will be shared with area high schools and SUNY Adirondack as an opportunity for the students and their teachers to learn more about Persian culture.

   

  On July 30, 2018, at 6am, 2 women began a swim to cover the entire length of Lake George to bring awareness and raise funds about Polio. They started their swim at Million Dollar Beach with a goal to end at Diane's Rock at 6am on Tuesday morning (24 hours of swimming). 
 

 

·         32 miles

·         24 hours

·         2 swimmers

This was HUGE!  To learn more or donate please click this link http://bit.ly/SwimToEndPolio.  
Who are We?
 
The Rotary Club of Glens Falls, NY came into existence in 1922 when Rotarians from the Troy area recruited 25 of the top community leaders to form our organization.  Men like Frank Smalley, C.V. Peters, Elmer West, Fred Chapman, and J. Thacher Sears were among the most prominent members of the local manufacturing, educational, theological and publishing industries. Other Charter Members were from the top of the legal and medical professions, public accountants, contractors, bankers and insurance representatives. Today, almost 100 years later, the Glens Falls Rotary still attracts the cream of the community. We are a diverse mixture of men and women from all walks of life. The only criteria that measures us is our desire toward service and the aspiration to make ourselves, our community and our world a better place for all.
 
      The President of the Rotary Club of Glens Falls for 2004-2005 year was Ray Agnew.  He attended the Rotary International Convention in Osaka, Japan that year and came back to the club excited about different opportunities for service that he’d learned about.  Amongst these were water-related projects.    He asked club member, Kay Walter to form a committee to explore how the club could become involved and the wheels were put in motion.
     The Water Committee forged a link with a Rutland, Vermont-based organization called Pure Water for the World (PWW).  They had started life as a club project of a Brattleboro, Vermont Rotary Club and had outgrown one club’s resources.  The project involved supplying bio-sand water filters to villages in Central America and has morphed into an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) that offers a suite of water, sanitation and hygiene solutions.  Those solutions supplied by PWW now include: installation of water filters, building latrines, hygiene education, field technician training, water testing and education amongst many others.
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We meet In Person
Thursdays at 12:15 PM
The Queensbury Hotel
88 Ridge Street
Glens Falls, NY 12801
United States of America
First and Third Thursdays at the Queensbury Hotel in downtown Glens Falls
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We also meet every third Thursday at 8:00 am at Spot Coffee on 221 Glen Street, Glens Falls, NY. Stop by and enjoy a bagel, coffee, and some early morning fellowship with us.
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