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On Tuesday, November 18th, the Rotary Club of Solon's monthly food pantry at the Chagrin Valley Islamic Center -- made possible through the efforts of Rotary Members, community volunteers, and students from the Interact club -- distributed over 12,000 pounds of food to a record 187 families. Started in 2012, the monthly food pantry has been going for 158 straight months. "While this turnout was a record, it is not cause to celebrate, in my eyes, as too many families in our community are struggling with food insecurity. What is cause to celebrate amongst us, is the fact that we have long recognized the problem and have been part of a solution for over 13 years." -- Jim Hyde, President of the Rotary Club of Solon Read the write-up by Michele Collins in the Chagrin Valley Times below. | ||
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The Rotary Club of Solon invites you to be part of A Night at the Races taking place the evening of Saturday, February 7, 2026 at the Solon Community Center.
Funds raised will continue to assist the hungry and the seniors of our community through our own Solon Mobile Food Pantry.
Below you will find sponsor opportunities and benefits. To become a sponsor, contact Julie at jmostov@hotmail.com or 216-470-1771.
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On Saturday, November 15th, five members of Solon Rotary Interact -- along with immediate past President and Solon Rotary Interact Advisor Judy Caine -- attended Interaction, the yearly conference of Interact clubs. Interact clubs are a high school service organization that is typically "attached" to a Rotary Club. Of Course, Solon Rotary Interact is "attached" to the Rotary Club of Solon, OH! All the attendees learned a lot and made new friends. | ||
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On October 24th, 2025, Rotary Club of Solon was joined by Lowell Perry, Jr. of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission (GCFC), of which he is the Chief Diversity Officer and Vice President of Corporate and Community Engagement. We learned that the GCFC does so much more than film movies here in Ohio. They are responsible for nearly $1.4 billion in gross economic output and have contributed to the created of 7,100+ full-time equivalent jobs. Bob Oborn our District Governor and Phillip Weiss our Assistant District Governor stopped by for a visit too! | |
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What an amazing meeting we had today!!!!
The torch has been passed! Thank you to our outgoing president Judy Caine for all of your hard work, growth, support, and leadership for our Rotary the last 2 years. Jim Hyde has accepted the gavel and now has big shoes to fill taking over for Judy. We have such amazing leadership, kinship, and support in our group.
We also heard from Fareeda Valappil who is the president of the Case Western Reserve University’s Remote Area Medical Chapter. They will be doing a free remote health clinic in February 2026. We look forward to supporting them.
If you want to know how you can give back, Please send us a message and we will let you know how you can join our amazing Rotary team. See photos below!
What an amazing Rotary 101 we had today at Solon City Hall! Great discussions around the importance of Rotary and giving back to our community.
Let us know if you want to give back too!
Proud moment for us at the Rotary Club of Solon. Solon Community Living had an open house today and revealed a beautiful donor plaque. Look at the 4th line down! Thank you to Michelle Ryb and Diane Immonen who attended!
What an awesome meeting! Great turnout of members & guests. We got to learn all about Women of Hope, Inc. from Sheila Locatelli.
We are so proud of our students Maya and Shrivee! They didn’t win in the District 6630 Service Above Self Speech Contest but they are winners to us and they have a bright future! Congratulations!
Today some of our Solon High School Interact students went to Target to shop for the chemo baskets we will be giving chemo patients at Cleveland Clinic. They stayed within the budget we set for them!
They will join other Interact students at our District Conference later this month. We wonder how many baskets will be donated from 14 Interact clubs in our Northeast Ohio District 6630?!
They will join other Interact students at our District Conference later this month. We wonder how many baskets will be donated from 14 Interact clubs in our Northeast Ohio District 6630?!
Our amazing Rotary Club of Solon, Ohio spent the afternoon volunteering at Humble Design Cleveland
If you have the service above self mindset and want to belong to an amazing group, reach out, and we can tell you how you can become a part of our wonderful Rotary team.
They also enjoyed some quality time at Mavis Public House in Solon
Saturday March 14, The Rotary Club of Solon sponsored the regional tournament of Power of the Pen for middle-schoolers. It was held at Solon Middle School and many schools from two Power of the Pen districts created the regional tournament. Valerie Parillo, SMS 7th grade English teacher and Power of the Pen Coach announced the awards and Rotarian Dan Margheret and Judy Caine, President handed out the awards. As Valerie mentioned, the tournament would not have happened without The Rotary Club of Solon!
Solon's team won second place overall! The top two individual finishers go to the state tournament. Additionally anyone in the top 25% of seventh or eighth grade in the region has the opportunity to go to state.
Congratulations to All!
Our Rotary Club of Solon, Ohio had a wonderful meeting this morning and learned so much from Elaine Price of the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission about trails, growth, and what’s coming to Cuyahoga County. If you want to be a part of our meetings, and give back to those in need, please message us to learn more about the rotary.
The Rotary Club of Solon, Ohio had the pleasure of hosting the Solon Schools Service above Self awards and 4 way speech contest this evening at Signature of Solon Country Club. Congratulations to all of the participants on a job well done.
Friday morning our Rotary Club of Solon, Ohio had a great meeting at ace pickleball in Solon. If you have not checked it out, we encourage you too. It was a fun time.
The ice storm did not stop us from having an AMAZING Night at the races at the Solon Community Center. Over 175 Rotarians and guests enjoyed a wonderful evening of fundraising, great food, horse racing, and more. Proceeds benefit The Solon Benevolent Fund, a nonprofit created to assist individual Solon families in need. Additionally, funds raised will continue to assist the hungry, the homeless and the senior community in Solon and Northeast Ohio. If you would like to know more about being a part of our Solon Rotary, please feel free to message us. We look forward to seeing you next year!
We had a FABULOUS 2025 with Humble Design Deco Day at a house on the Cleveland/Lakewood border. We were able to award them a generous grant last year and they were able to purchase FOUR dressers, bath towels, a hand mixer, an 8x10 rug and fully fund a Deco Day! Yes that is Mayor Ed Kraus who spent the day with us. And who else? Bryce Bauer! It was so great to spend the day with him. I know I speak for everyone when we say, "We'll be back again!"
Purchase tickets, tables, horses and Super Bowl squares below:
The Rotary Club of Solon invites you to be part of A Night at the Races taking place the evening of Saturday, February 8, 2025 at the Solon Community Center.
This year, funds raised will support the Solon Benevolent Fund and its mission to provide financial assistance to a wide variety of Solon programs, institutions and individuals in need. Additionally, funds raised will continue to locally assist the hungry, the homeless and the senior community in Solon and Northeast Ohio.
Below you will find sponsor opportunities and benefits. To become a sponsor, contact Julie at jmostov@hotmail.com or 216-470-1771.
Images Below from the First Responders Night Dinner 2024
The Rotary Club of Solon welcomed the Solon 100's, Joanne Palicka and Russ Bowen. They spoke about the organization and its mission to support first responders. Thank you Joanne and Russ!
The Rotary Club of Solon had members volunteer with local non-profit, Humble Design, for their weekly, “Deco Day” on March 29th.
To learn more about Humble Design, donate or volunteer, click HERE or visit: www.humbledesign.org
On November 29th the Rotary Club of Solon held a member event at the recently opened X-Golf of Solon. Members enjoyed food and drinks while socializing. Some even gave
X-Golf's state-of-the-art technology golf simulators a couple of swings!
X-Golf's state-of-the-art technology golf simulators a couple of swings!
On October 27th, 2023 Julie Brandle, Rotary’s District Governor, attended our breakfast meeting. She learned about our club and we learned about her goals regarding empowering women, focusing on mental health and positively impacting the environment. Julie even installed our newest member Laurie Delgado, from, Spry Senior!
At The Rotary Club of Solon's Friday, July 14th meeting, members wrote cards of encouragement for distribution by Project White Butterfly. Project White Butterfly is an organization that helps those living with addiction in order to provide them with support and resources. To learn more about Sara Szelagowski's (Founder) remarkable story and for additional information, please visit projectwhitebutterfly.org
The Rotary Club of Solon, Ohio installed new officers for 2023-2025 term, on June 29th, 2023. Scott McRill and Dan Margheret (pictured below) also honored our outgoing President, Jim Hyde. Our new officers are:
Judy Caine, President
Scott McRill, Treasurer
Adam Zelwin, Youth Protection Officer
Dan Margheret, Sargeant at Arms
Emma Bella, Executive Secretary and Director
Michelle Ryb, Membership
Bryce Bauer, Co-Secretary and Public Image Chair
We are excited for the future of our club!
Solon Community Living Groundbreaking
Congratulations to Rotarians Ara and Leslie Bagdasarian for the groundbreaking of Solon Community Living! The Rotary Club of Solon helped raise funds for this campus. Rotary was well represented by Jim Hyde, Judy Caine, Michelle Ryb, Mario Sinicariello, Councilpersons Nancy Meany and Macke Bentley, Diane Immomen, John Moeschberger and Honorary Member Mayor Ed Kraus.
For more information on this project, please visit www.soloncommunityliving.org
Project White Butterfly
An inspirational, educational and powerful meeting yesterday as Sara and Gary Szelagowski detailed their family’s journey through Sara’s heroin addiction and recovery and their nonprofit Project White Butterfly.
For more information go to www.projectwhitebutterfly.org
Rotary Club of Solon and "Drink Local Drink Tap"
This past week Bud Thomas with an assist from Sue Gable and Warren Gable, presented a session on water conservation to Aurora Middle School. It was funded by the Rotary Club of Solon under the direction of Drink Local Drink Tap.
Ben Jurek Education Director for Drink Local Drink Tap (DLDT) was on site to deliver a unique live feed from Uganda. Erin Huber Rosen (CEO of DLDT) - spoke to the kids by live feed from Uganda for about 20 minutes on the importance of water conservation, education and preservation. She was able to showcase the beauty of Uganda, sharing images of one of DLDT's operational wells, and the community gathering water for their families.
The students then went to the track to simulate what carrying water is like - each sixth grader carried between one and two gallons of water for about 1.5 to 2.0 miles. This simulation was designed to have the students gain an appreciation for (1) how important water is to life, (2) appreciate how hard it is to carry water for an extended period of time and (3) realize how fortunate we are in this country to have plentiful and clean drinking water.
The kids were incredibly engaged and seemed to leave this experience, coupled with the in-classroom event of three weeks ago, with a real appreciation for the importance of clean water and how each of them can make a difference.
Our Club’s Service Above Self Speech Contest was a huge success with 60 families, friends and Solon High School faculty in attendance! Our winner goes on to the District contest. Thanks to the MCs and judges (pictured below). To us, ALL the students are winners!
At a recent Rotary lunch meeting, Danielle Green-Welch, Academy Director with First Star at Kent State Academy spoke.
She shared information on First Star and the Purple Umbrella Program. These programs assists young adults when they age out of the foster care system.
On February 11, 2023 the Rotary Club of Solon held it's annual fundraiser, Night at the Races. One hundred fifty people had heavy appetizers, drinks and fellowship! We helped raise money for Solon Community Living and also raised money to help build a pediatric emergency room in Pakistan.
Additionally, we inducted two new members! It was a very special evening!
Treasurer Scott McRill said:
"Our goal this year was to raise $20,000 and early returns show that we have in fact exceeded that goal and have set a new record for this annual Night at the Races event. Thanks once again to all of our sponsors and attendees for your support!"
Thank you to everyone who came out to Night at the Races!
Members of the Rotary pivot during Covid and start a drive-up Mobile Food Pantry. We serve between 30-80 cars per month representing up to 200 people fed.
Members of the Rotary at a holiday gathering celebrating our successful year serving Solon, surrounding communities and international needs as well.
Rotary members at the Solon Farmers Market promoting Rotary to the community.
Participating at the Solon Chamber of Commerce Golf Outing.
So proud of Rotary Membership Director Judy Caine!
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