What a Monday with Evening Rotary actually feels like.
Pull up a chair. Eat a real dinner. Hear a real program. Stay for the dram (or the sweet tea). Leave knowing forty new neighbors.
"It's the best Monday of the week — and I didn't know a Monday could be that."
— First-time visitor, October 2024From the parking lot to a dram.
Doors open.
Grab a name tag, say hi at the table, find a seat. Visitors get a small star sticker — so people know to come introduce themselves.
Pledge, prayer, four-way test.
The President bangs the gavel (it's a real gavel). We do the Pledge and the four-way test. Quick announcements. Sometimes a song — depends on the week.
Dinner.
Country-club kitchen plates a real dinner for everyone. Visitors are guests — your first meal is on us. Conversation gets loud. Nobody minds.
The program.
Could be a local nonprofit pitching a partnership. Could be a member presenting a project. Could be a senator, an artist, a researcher. Always interesting; nobody overstays.
Club business & "Happy Bucks."
Brief updates. Sign-ups for upcoming service days. Happy Bucks — members drop a few dollars in the kitty and share a happy moment (a grandkid, a sales win, a recovery). Inexplicably the best part of the night.
Adjourn.
Gavel down. Most folks head home. A few of us linger downstairs at the bar for a dram and a story.
It's social. It's a program. It's a working club.
Fellowship is the foundation.
Painting socials. Family picnics. Holiday gatherings. The Whisk(e)y DRAM fellowship for the whisky-curious. A Rotary night is half service, half neighbors becoming friends.
Speakers worth your Monday.
A roster of local leaders, partner nonprofits, district officials, and the occasional surprise guest. Programs are sharp, on-topic, and never run long.
Stuff actually gets built.
Backpack packs. Habitat builds. Patio dedications. The Christmas bicycle build. Decisions made on a Monday show up in the community on a Saturday.
Where Mondays lead by the weekend.
Habitat for Humanity build day
25 bikes built at Christmas
Oktoberfest in Hutchinson Square
Backpack Buddies pack-out
Cheering on the Miracle League
Whisk(e)y DRAM — a fellowship within the club.
Our Whisk(e)y DRAM Fellowship is a chartered Rotary fellowship for members who appreciate a good dram and a good story. We pour, we taste, we donate proceeds back to End Polio Now. It's the only Rotary fellowship that smells this good.
See you Monday?
Drop us an email so we can save you a plate and a name tag. Or just walk in — we'll figure it out.