Saturday, July 13, 2013

About The Great Sandpoint Flat Water Regatta

The Great Sandpoint Flatwater Regatta is a fundraiser for The Rotary Club of Sandpoint to help provide scholarships for local high school students. Happening July 11, 2015, the race may be viewed from the Sand Creek Bridge, the Cedar Street Bridge and along the east and west sides of Sand Creek. All participants receive The Great Sandpoint Flat Water Regatta T-shirt. Additional prizes will be awarded to the first two finishers of each race. The paddle board race is cosponsored by Outdoor Experience, your complete outdoor store on First Avenue in downtown Sandpoint.

About Rotary Club of Sandpoint

Located on the shores of Lake Pend Oreille and the base of Schweitzer Mountain, Sandpoint is a great place to live and work. The Rotary Club of Sandpoint is 70+ members strong and growing. The club meets every Wednesday at noon in the Community Room of the Sandpoint Financial Center, 3rd and Church.

For more information on the club, contact: Club President Steve Verby, e-mail steveverby@gmail.com 

Click to see the club's website.

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service
2. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.