The flight will leave from LAX on Friday, April 22nd, returning on Sunday, April 24th. Anyone interested to be part of the welcoming committee can meet at LAX at Terminal 1 at 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, April 24th. Jim and Mark will be taking hand-written cards to provide to the veterans from Rotarians that wrote kind messages to thank them for their service to our country.

WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS! The Niguel Botanical Preserve & The City of Laguna Niguel are coordinating an Earth Day Celebration on Saturday, April 23rd from 8:30am - 11:30am. Please click on the "I'll be there!" button below. We would love to have our Rotary Club represented by having as many volunteers as possible! We will meet at the Crown Valley Park Amphitheater by 8:00 a.m. to check in. They are asking for volunteers to plant, weed and clean up so I hope to see you all there so we can work together to keep our community looking beautiful!

As our Covid restrictions are minimized and we are finally meeting in person on a regular basis, it is time to celebrate and call for a Rotary Social Event! Our fabulous Membership/Social Committee Chair Caroline Swift, along with her committee members, would like to invite Rotarians to our first social, "Spring is in the Air" event on Thursday, May 12th at 5:00 p.m. at the new OC Local Taproom, located at 30100 Town Center Drive in Laguna Niguel! This social event will take the place of our regular meeting on Friday, May 13th. Please feel free to invite friends and guests to be introduced to Rotary and to hear all about the great things our club has to offer! We are hoping this will be a great post-Covid social event to mingle, socialize and to get to know each other again so we hope to see you all there! Caroline also announced that the Membership/Social Committee is working on our next "New Year, New Board Social" event to be held at the end of July so stay tuned!

Saturday April 23, 2022: City of Laguna Niguel Earth Day Celebration

Sunday April 24, 2022: Honor Flight Network Return to LAX

Thursday, May 12, 2022: Rotary Social at OC Local Taproom, Laguna Niguel

Saturday May 14, 2022: "We Are Fearless" District 5320 Conference, Lakeview Senior Center, Irvine

June 4-8, 2022: Rotary International Convention in Houston, Texas

June 25, 2022: District 5320 Denim & Diamonds End of the Year Celebration & Transition Dinner, Tanaka Farms, Irvine

Dr. Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg is Faculty President and Full Professor of GIS, Social and Environmental Sciences at University of Massachusetts Global. She is an author and editor most recently completing a co-edited volume entitled, Resilient Communities Across Geographies that ESRI Press just released in 2021 and

GIS Research Methods for ESRI Press (2015). In 2016,

she co-edited Extreme Weather, Health and

Communities: Interdisciplinary Engagement Strategies for Springer Press. Dr. Steinberg has been active in Rotary since 1998 when she joined in Silver City, New Mexico and has also been a member of the Areata Noontime Club in Humboldt County, the Orange Club in Orange, CA and is Past President 2019-20 of the Irvine Rotary Club. Dr. Steinberg has served in multiple rotary District 5320 roles including Chair of Vocational Service of the District. She is currently an Assistant Governor for the District. Her research focuses on the connections between people, places and environments considering local knowledge, networks and the power of community engagement.

28241 Crown Valley Parkway

11:45 am - Socialize

In a continued response to the deepening refugee crisis, the Rotary Foundation Trustees have decided to prioritize contributions made to the Disaster Response Fund until April 30, 2022, to support disaster response grants for districts affected by these events. These expedited disaster response grants can be used to supply water, food, medicine, shelter, and clothing. This is primarily an appeal for individual donations so please feel free to give any amount possible. Please follow the link below if you would like to make a person donation for this worthy cause.