Bellevue Rotary Club

• Planting flower beds in Riverview Park
• Helping to install a boat landing in the cities downtown parking lot
• Various beautification projects
• Marking the site of the Bellevue War with a plaque
• Sponsoring the annual Halloween parade
• Duck raffle to help finance the scholarship fund
• Stone signs at 3 entrances to Bellevue which cost several thousand dollars
• Bellevue church signs on the highway
• City cemetery clean up and repair tombstones
• Coordinate Red Cross blood drive four times a year
• Award scholarships to a Senior in each high school in town
• $1300 for a Giant TV set for the Jackson County Care Center
• Pizza night with the residents of the Jackson County Care Center
• Polio plus
• $2,400 to the International Rotary Foundation for Polio Plus


* The Bellevue Rotary Club was the honored organization in this year's Bellevue Heritage Days celebration, the community's big bash of the year.

Bellevue Rotary Club president Larry Fruhling was the grand marshall of the parade. Rotary was honored because of its 100th anniversary observance.

* The Bellevue Rotary Club would like to thank Marilyn Schwickerath of the Mason City River City Sunrise club and Allen Ernst of the Waterloo Crossroads club for helping the Bellevue club sell its annual "Duck Race" raffle tickets. Marilyn's and Allen's willing cooperation was greatly appreciated.

District 5970 Vicki Mallory addresses the members of the Bellevue Rotary Club on her club visit October 3, 2005. There was a good attendance to listen to the Governor talk about her experiences and vision as District Governor.

Rotarian Gus Glaser is presented his 3rd Paul Harris Fellow Award for making yet another contribution to the Rotary Foundation. The Rotary Foundation is used to fund the humanitarian projects all over the world that Rotary is involved in.