Welcome to the South Bay Sunrise Rotary Club!
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UPCOMING SPEAKERS

SOUTH BAY SUNRISE ROTARY

UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS

  • Sept 9 - Deatra Handy, Program Director, Restoration Diversion Services - Human Trafficking
     
  • Sept 16 - Dr. Joe W. Ramos, Pres & CEO of Lundquist Institute
     
  • Sept 23 - Archie Hogan, Beacon House
     
  • Sept 30 - No breakfast meeting - 6pm
     
  • Social event - Details to follow
 

WEEKLY MEETINGS
Normally:
Wednesdays, 7:15am
DoubleTree Hilton Torrance
21333 Hawthorne Blvd
Torrance, CA 90503

Networking: 7:00am

Breakfast: 7:15am

Meeting Starts Promptly
7:15am - 8:30 am

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  • Oct 1 - District 5280 - Fellowship on the Pier- 5-9pm @ Shrimp Lover, Redondo Beach
     
  • Oct 3 - Food Bank - LA
     
  • Oct 16-18 - RYLA
     
  • Nov 8 - District 5280 Foundation Celebration: 4-8pm @TAGLYAN Complex (1201 Vine St, Hollywood)
     
  • Nov 14 - Rise Against Hunger - Torrance YMCA
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About Our Club

Our Signature Projects

Special Highlights

We Are A Sustaining 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club!
  • Dictionary Project - providing Student Dictionaries to all 3rd graders in the TUSD
     
  • Rise Against Hunger -
    providing over 60,000 nutritional food packets to distressed areas
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South Bay Sunrise Rotary Podcast!
PHOTO GALLERY OF OUR PROJECTS
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
DICTIONARY PROJECT
2025 Torrance Business Expo
2025 Torrance Business Expo
Our club members and representatives from well deserving community non-profits after we presented checks to them from our Hot Summer Night Fundraiser. They included:
  • PV Land Conservancy
  • Mychals
  • ICAN
  • Friends of Torrance Exceptional Athletes
  • Paddle Our Plastics
  • Peninsula Seniors
South Bay Sunrise Rotary
with Hot Summer Nights Fundraiser Recipients
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
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Club Information
Welcome to our Club!
South Bay Sunrise

Service Above Self

We meet In Person
Wednesdays at 7:15 AM
Doubletree Hotel, Torrance
21333 Hawthorne Blvd
Torrance, CA 90503
United States of America
Phone:
(310) 753-0929
Email:
dhenseler@socal.rr.com
Doubletree Hotel Torrance
District Site
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Club Executives & Directors
President
David Henseler
Immediate Past President
Yuko Saito
Treasurer
Diane Sivas
Secretary
Ruth Kurihara-Kelsey
Club Service
Jim Beardsley
Community Service
Pat Sandt
Vocational Service
Marianne Kelchner
International Service
Karen Greenberg
Youth Service
Rosy Riera-Schwartz
Rotary Foundation
Karen Greenberg
Membership
Warren Kelly
Peace Chair
Ruth Kurihara-Kelsey

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