In the last 50 years, Pride has grown from a riot against police brutality to a global movement for LGBTQ justice. Fernando López will walk through the history and evolution of Pride, both globally and locally, and the role of Pride in San Diego today. Caroline Dessert will discuss the ongoing efforts to serve and…

After an extensive national search and recruitment effort, the SANDAG Board of Directors announced in September 2018 that Hasan Ikhrata, a widely lauded transportation and planning expert, had been selected as their new Executive Director. Ikhrata was previously the Executive Director of SCAG, the Southern California Association of Governments (Los Angeles), for more than a…

Come and enjoy President Suzy's send-off by our Past Presidents and the Roast Committee!

We will welcome 2019-20 President, David Oates, the club's 110th president. Please join us as our newest leader shares his vision for this exciting new Rotary year.

On Friday, November 13, 2015, Ferry attended a concert by the “The Eagles of Death Metal” at Le Bataclan Theatre in Paris. A terrorist attack during the concert took the lives of 89 fellow attendees and left 300 wounded. The emotional scars are felt by everyone who was there, including Ferry.  It was a night…

Entering its 15th year, the annual International Youth Symphony is a partnership program between the San Diego Youth Symphony and Rotary District 5340 International Youth Exchange. It brings musicians from across the globe together with SDYS’ most advanced musicians for a two-week intensive music experience. This summer, twenty-four international musicians representing ten countries will join…

Dr. Peter Hanson came home to La Mesa and joined Grossmont Orthopedic Medical Group in August of 1992 and has enjoyed all aspects of his orthopedic practice, which includes sports medicine, arthroscopy, shoulder reconstruction and lower extremity total joint replacement including introducing the anterior hip approach to East County. He has been Chief of Orthopedic…

Robert S. Brewer, Jr., a decorated Vietnam War veteran, former prosecutor and prominent San Diego litigator for decades, was sworn in on January 16, 2019, as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz. As the United States Attorney, Bob is the chief federal…

Celebrating Where San Diego and California Began This is an important year for the City of San Diego. On April 11, 1769 the first seaborne contingent of a Spanish settlement arrived at a quiet harbor in San Diego aboard the ship San Antonio.  Just a scant three months later, these Spanish soldiers and missionaries, led by a…