Service Projects

Article by NADIA WHITE
Star-Tribune staff writer

Photos by Marie Celine Stegelman

Shouting "We want to play!" scores of Casper kids stormed the castle Sunday afternoon as Crossroads Adventure Playground opened after a frenzied week of community construction. (Click here for information)

Habitat House

Inbound Exchange

Chairman: Peaches Lynch

The Casper Rotary Club has hosted scores of high school students from around the world; in the last three years we have had students from Norway, Japan, Turkey, Belgium and the Philippines. This year the club is hosting a student from France and Spain. We believe such exchanges promote cultural understanding and have a tendency to bring people together even when they live worlds apart.

Scholarships

Chairman: Linda Blackstone

The Rotary Foundation's Ambassadorial Scholarship program is the world's largest privately funded international scholarship program. More than 30,000 students from 100 countries have studied abroad as Rotary scholars.

Rotary Park

Chairman: Dean Cline, Steve Domonkos and Daron Gruner

Perhaps Casper's most picturesque park is Rotary Park on Casper Mountain. With its waterfall, diverse vegetation and cool flowing water on hot summer days, it has long been a favorite of residents and visitors alike. Future upgrades include a new picnic shelter and a path to make the park more accessible to those with disabilities. Natrona County has been a great landlord and maintains and operates the park on a day to day basis.

Chairman: none

As a further commitment to bettering the community, as well as giving a hand-up to a Casper family, the Casper Rotary Club finished in 1999, a Habitat For Humanity House. Instead of building from the ground up, Casper Rotary agreed to renovate an older house that had been moved to a new foundation; the integrity of the structure was in doubt after the move. Casper Rotary reinforced the roof, replaced all windows, tore out all interior walls except the main bearing wall, poured the basement floor, reinforced the floor joists, placed new plumbing, completely rewired, placed new bathroom fixtures, completely redid the interior walls and ceiling, and provided front and back ingress and egress, including ramp access off the driveway.

Casper Rotary Club

Rotary International District 5440 - Casper, Wyoming USA

Service Projects