The Rotary Club of Silver City has announced the following speaker for its Tuesday luncheon meeting in February 2022. Barbara Gabioud, will talk about “A Local Border Story”. The Grant County/Silver City community has supported shelters for asylum seekers first in Deming, then Palomas, MX, and now both. Gabioud coordinates this effort.

On February 8, 2022, Trinity and Beyond, Michael Shinaberry, Education Specialist at the NM Museum of Space History in Alamogordo, will speak about The Trinity Site, the first test of an atomic device, the deployment of the first atomic weapon and its aftermath.

On February 15, 2022, Arturo Barrio, the Assistant Rotary Public Image Coordinator for Rotary Zones 26/27 and District Public Image Chair will speak about: “Public Image=Greater Reach."

This talk will be Online only, but all of the meetings will be hybrid.

If attending in person, it is requested everyone be fully vaccinated and boosted, otherwise please attend via Zoom, by email at: info@silvercityrotary.org for the link.

Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Rotary is the world’s oldest and largest service organization, with more than 1.2 million members in more than168 countries. Since its founding in 1923, the Silver City Rotary Club has provided support and service to numerous non-profit organizations and civic causes in Silver City and Grant County as well as supporting and participating in humanitarian projects sponsored by Rotary International.

The Rotary Club meets every Tuesday at noon in the Sunset Room in the WNMU Student Memorial

Building. To find out more about Rotary or membership in the local club, email: info@silvercityrotary.org.