Dear Members and Friends,

As President of the Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo, it is my pleasure and honor to welcome you to our Club website. For over 100 years, our Rotary Club has served the community, both locally and internationally. Rotary Clubs like ours play a key role in promoting and maintaining quality of life for all. In a world consumed with problems ranging from war and peace to clean water and adequate food, Rotary clubs like ours offer fellowship and opportunities to serve. This unique opportunity is not only helpful to the broader world but vital to maintaining a personal connection to others and to our planet. One Club member described our weekly meetings as 90 minutes of sanity.

This past year our Rotary Club has been active on a variety of fronts. Locally, we: helped feed the unhoused and the needy, provide books for local school libraries, repair and maintain local infrastructure, provide over $50,000 in scholarships to students, and over $10,000 to other non-profits. Our Club “brand” places special emphasis on youth and the arts, music in particular. Internationally, we continue our 30+ year partnership with the Rotary Club of Compostela, Nayarit, México. Over the years, this partnership has yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars for needs ranging from helping disabled students, to providing clean water and wheelchairs, to buying school buses and an ambulance. This past year we also helped fund a clean water well in Uganda, via Aid Africa.

Looking ahead, we have a very exciting year coming up. We will continue local partnerships such as with the People’s Kitchen and the SLO Food Bank. We will work with local schools to identify scholarship candidates and local non-profits to enhance what they do. We pIan a revival of our “Home of Distinction Tour” in Spring 2026. In Mexico we plan: a spay/neuter clinic for local dogs and cats, creation of an inclusive park where children can play together with friends and family, and a possible Global Grant to purchase a pumper truck that would be used in fire suppression as well as
providing a source of potable water. We welcome your support and participation in a variety of ways. Please consider
joining us as a member of the Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo. Think about our projects, both domestically and internationally, and see how you might fit those priorities into your own. Donate time or money as a Rotary community partner. Rotarians serve and we have fun. Please feel free to contact me at any time, if you have ideas or suggestions.

Yours in Rotary, Brian A. Reynolds
President, Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo, 2025/26