We are people of action who come together in their commitment to improving people’s lives and the community while enjoying better connections to friends and neighbors through service projects, fellowship and fun.
We meet the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Wednesdays of the month at 7:00am at the Dana Point Community Center. On the 2nd Wednesday of the month, we meet around town to support local businesses.
Scheduled club meetings and events appear on the club calendar.
Community Projects
Every Rotarian works to improve the quality of life for those in their communities.
Youth Support
We sponsor the high school service club, Interact, as well as fund college scholarships and support youth leadership retreats.
International Projects
Rotary is dedicated to causes that build international relationships, improve lives, and promote better understanding and peace.
The Environment
We get out there to help the needs of our community. We are the leaders in Dana Point and our surrounding communities.
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🩸 Be Someone’s Hero – Donate Blood! 🩸
Not all heroes wear capes. Some give blood. ❤️
Join the Monarch Beach Sunrise Rotary Club and the Red Cross for a community blood drive:
📅 Sunday, June 29
🕗 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 Dana Point Community Center, Room C
34052 Del Obispo St., Dana Point, CA
Every 2 seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood—cancer patients, accident victims, those with chronic conditions. Your donation could save a life. It could even save someone you love. 🙌
✅ Sign up to donate! www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=Monarch%20Beach%20Rotary
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If you want to feel some peace of mind that our future will be in good hands, attend one of our Interact end of the year awards ceremonies and see the amazing kids from Dana Hills and Capo Valley High Schools.
Thank you to Rotarians John Coffman, Allison Peterson, and LJ Cibelli, student advisors for Dana Hills and David Owens as the student advisor for Capo Valley.
District Governor Chris Skorina was also in attendance for the special occasion.
Remarkable efforts with the students from both schools who worked overtime along with their studies. Future Rotarians at work!
Catch up from May 21st meeting. Stan Moore introduced his long-time friend Jim Karel as our guest speaker. Jim has thirty-five years of experience as a financial planner. He began reading The Wall Street Journal and charting stocks while still in high school and over the years has become attuned to the influence of shifting social structures and geopolitical tensions upon the stock market. In understanding the operations and directions of today 's markets, Jim looks for guidance in the writings of two authors, Ray Dahlia and Neil Strauss, and Pam Gregory, as an astrologist. All are focused upon long-term national debt cycles, which left increasing, can lead to economic havoc, and governmental decline. Inflation, plus geopolitical and domestic conflict, have led to a cost of 15% of all U.S. taxes collected to be expended on paying off interest on our current $36 billion national debt; this amount is the equivalent to the entire Defense Department budget, and the national debt ceiling could increase to 20% in the next ten years. Jim said in their 1997 book “The Fourth Turning, An American Prophesy,” William Strauss and Neil Howe tell what the cycles of history tell us about America's next rendezvous with Destiny. They predicted a crisis would happen within the next 5/8 years, and they were right. International transformations and shifts in power and technological advancements have caused a cycle of predictable rising debt patters that coincided with major world events, including the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and WW
Our MBSR meeting had special guests today including Dana Hills High School vice principal John Pejorok and Students of the Month honorees, Sarah Boyle and Eva McClory. Parents Michael and Bonnie Boyle and in addition Mo and Chris McClory and their youngest daughter Anna also were in attendance.
Sarah, with a GPA of 4.26, and eight advanced placement courses, will be pursuing a career in pharmaceutical sciences at the Massachusetts college of pharmacy and Health sciences.
Eva, with a 4.69 GPA also had 8 advancement place courses. She will be pursuing aeronautical physiology at the Embry-Riddle aeronautical University in Daytona Beach.
Both girls were part of the marching band and color guard while attending Dana Hills.
What extraordinary young women!
Monarch Beach Sunrise Rotary is at risk for not being able to hold our blood drive for lack of participation of donors. I hope that our Dana Point friends might help us pull this off. Please share with neighbors, family and colleagues.
Sign up today!
www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=Monarch%20Beach%20Rotary