Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues:  peace and conflict prevention/resolution; disease prevention and treatment; water and sanitation; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; economic and community development

                                                    
ROTARY CLUB OF HALF MOON BAY PRESIDENT 2024-25 
Dr. Irwin Cohen
 
 
Dr. Irwin Cohen, originally from Brooklyn, N.Y.  has been a podiatrist in Half Moon Bay since 1975.  He was in the Rotary Club of East Palo Alto in 1973 for about a year and half and then rejoined Rotary in 1982 in Half Moon Bay through the introduction of Dr. Eric Shapira. He was president of the HMB Rotary Club in 1994. He has lived in El Granada since 1979 and is married to Nancy Wolfberg who has just joined Rotary in 2024. He has a daughter, Mira and a grandson Saulie.  He enjoys ocean kayaking, mountain bike riding, jazz, movies and traveling
 
This year his goals include 
  • Help re-establish emergency services on the coast side
  • Collaborating with the Pacifica and San Mateo Rotary Clubs and Sea Huggers in a joint project to eliminate plastics from beaches and waterways 
  • Make the accomplishments of the HMB Club more visible to the community 
  • Make meetings compelling by bringing in exciting speakers that will educate, entertain and inspire
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Club Information
Welcome to our Club! We meet in person at the HMB Library. But check here in case there is a special venue.
We meet In Person
Thursdays at 12:00 PM
HMB Library
620 Correas St
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
United States of America
Meeting This Week, November 14 at HMB Library at Noon Speaker - John Muller "Farmer John" has been a shining light and the backbone of our community for many years. He will share some history and wonderful stories of the Coastside.
 
 
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IT'S ALL ABOUT WHAT WE DO!
 
                                                               Monthly Community Breakfast
 
 We are cooking and serving breakfast to the underserved in our Community once a month. Below is a picture of some of our Club members who cooked, served and cleaned up for the Community Breakfast Program in October. The whole crew this month included Paul, Warren, Joe, Heather, Susan, Dennis. 
                                
 
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HMB Art and Pumpkin Festival, October 2024
It was showtime, and Rotary was in the house! 
 
 
 
 

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Magic of the Coastside Lobsterfest

Annual HMB Rotary Club Foundation Fundraiser

It was FANTASTIC!!!!

Thanks to all our guests, supporters, and members for making this a fun and successful event!

Both of the special projects we selected this year were funded:

  • 80 low-income students to attend three school break camps (Thanksgiving, Presidents Week, and Spring Break) requested by the Boys and Girls Club of the Coastside
 
  • Purchasing improved and innovative tools and equipment for cleaning our beaches and outreach efforts requested by the Sea Hugger organization

The Rotary Club of Half Moon Bay Foundation

“Magic of the Coastside” Fundraiser 

 It was a night of fun, food and entertainment; Thanks to all who helped fund  two new special community organizations' projects (read more below), and our Foundation Chart of Accounts Projects: Local Student Scholarships, Disaster Relief, Community Service, and International Service  

 We were thrilled to host our fundraiser to bring together our community to support two local projects  as well as our own Rotary Foundation Ongoing Projects.  A special project sponsored by The Boys and Girls Club of the Coastside can now fund 80 low-income students to attend three school break camps (Thanksgiving, Presidents Week, and Spring Break.)  The camps integrate traditional activities like sports, art, STEM, cooking and walking field trips to unveil the resources that our community has to offer.  

The second great cause that is now funded is for Sea Hugger, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and healing the marine environment from plastic pollution.  They requested funds to enhance their capabilities in beach cleanup and outreach efforts through the acquisition of innovative tools and equipment. 

THANKS TO ALL WHO DONATED TO FUND THESE IMPORTANT PROJECTS!

 

Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues:  peace and conflict prevention/resolution; disease prevention and treatment; water and sanitation; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; economic and community development

 
Beach Clean Up
Thanks to Susan, Warren, Mike, Heather and Dennis and other volunteers for collecting 50 pounds of garbage at Dunes Beach during our September Beach Clean Up!
 
What an AMAZING RELAY!
The sun was shining, our team was there and we made a difference by participating in yet another Relay for Life! We walked, we talked, we sang, we danced, we ate and we had fun. This year we honored our friend Wendy Smittle by presenting her with 1000 paper cranes.  She was beyond honored and touched.
 
Our club with support from team members, family members, friends, community members, and business partners has raised almost $16,000! We are second on the list for raising funds this year!!! We need to send a special thank you out to Robin Kirby who donated $5000 to our team (via Renee), TWICE!!!!!!!  We also need to send a special thank you out to our own Renee Lewis who continues to work her magic by hosting a fundraiser each year to raise money for this event, which brought in another $2500+. Renee, you are our inspiration!! Bless you for keeping up the good fight!
 
Thank you to those who were part of the team and those who walked yesterday:  Wendy Smittle, Mitone, Renee, Joe, Teri, Barb, Teri, Liz, Paul, Ed, Anita Currer, LindaVaughn, Kathy Monozon.  Thank you to those who donated to our team: Mary, Stacy, Susan, Joe, Ginger, Dianne,  Anne Campbell, Tammy Dale, Kellie Morlock, Michael Boos, Kirsten Hagen, Hannah Vaughn, Charles Shafae, Sheppard Family Dentistry, and to those who donated to us individually!! Thank you to our community services director Susan for getting us involved in this event again this year!
 
Our club also sponsored the event so we were featured on one of the posters around the track.  Way to go Rotary Club of Half Moon Bay!  WE ROCK!
PP Liz
 
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Helping in Mexico Again This Year
Our club has a team in La Paz, Mexico, Baja California Sur this week supporting a medical clinic. Today they delivered gifts to the director and helped move a donated mobile unit to the clinic property.
Our team in La Paz worked at the Fundacion Astra again today.
We split the work — two club members put activity packets together for the children and three of us started to strip the newly acquired mobile medical clinic in preparation of its facelift. We ended the evening with a farewell dinner for our hosts…. Until next time!!