Nevada City loves a parade and Nevada City Rotary had a great afternoon with Andrea, Pearce, Walt, Dolly, Lassie and Timmy, John, Paula, Stacy, Tom Milam, Cathy, Robin, Tom Ryan with photo-bashful Allie, and Gloria. Fun visibility for our Dolly Pardon Imagination Library, Pumpkins for Polio Palooza, and Paws and A Cause projects.
And of course our esteemed President HW Bush!
At Bodhi-Hive on Thursday, our program will be a final walkthru of the program and plans for Paws and A Cause on Saturday.
Judy and her expanded team of talented artists — including our own members — continue to paint pumpkins. The two workshops were fun and yielded some fabulous pumpkins. If you can paint more let Cathy and Judy know ASAP. A selection of painted pumpkins go on display in local shops and businesses on October 1 ahead of our Oct 15 Pumpkin Palooza!
And thank you John Boyer Productions for our photos!
7:30am - 9:00am Setup of fencing and staking site layout, etc.
9:00am - 10am Setup our 5 Nevada City hosted booths
10:00am - 12 noon - Other organizations and food vendors set up.
1:00pm - Opening Welcome, Parade and best dressed awards
2:00pm - 3:30pm Competitions continue in Bandshell
Doggie Corner Presentations
Games and activities in booths
3:30pm - 4:00pm Judges Choice, Drawings, and Thank yous.
4:00pm - done Teardown and cleanup
Tail wagging delight! National Dog Week September 21-27 climaxes with the 2nd Annual “Paws and A Cause” Community Event on Saturday, September 27, 2025. The celebration will kick off at 1:00 pm with the parade in Pioneer Park, Nevada City. Read Paws Parade Press Release
A line up of dogs of all shapes, sizes, and personalities will be strutting their stuff in the opening WestMuttster Parade. Dog (and pals) costumes are encouraged but not required. The parade will be followed by competitions and demonstrations going on at a plethora of 25 animal loving booths and special guest Jon Provost, aka Timmy from Lassie! Doggie Corner presentations from 2:00-3:30pm include:
Ask A Vet – Dr Paula Aycock, Dr. Paula’s Mobile Clinic – Pose curious or pressing urgent questions to Dr Paula, a compassionate veterinarian in an open Q&A forum.
Jon Provost, aka Timmy – reconnect with tales of Lassie and gain insights to Hollywood, and more.
Leeron Liftik – Learn and observe as local Dog NERD, aka Behaviorist, demonstrates how to identify emotions and modify your dog’s behaviors.
All hands on deck September 27 - volunteer sign up sheets are circulating at each meeting! Thank you all! Please see Robin if you have not signed up. A big shout out to Walt for recruiting Ghidotti Future Business Leaders and SAEL Interact for voluteering their Community Service support!
Check out our updated Paws and A Cause page for ticket locations around the area and our furr-ific list of participating sponsors and booth hosts. Invite friends to come with or without their dogs!
Our September 25 lunch meeting is all about Paws and A Cause. We will walk through details and final plans!
What a fun painting pumpkins for our Pumpkins Palooza.October 1 you’ll start seeing them around Nevada City in the lead up to our October 15 Palooza Family Celebration and Pumpkin Auction.
Painting Workshops are complete but the painting continues! Most of our artists have pumpkins at home that we are finishing and will bring them to Miners Foundry on October 15 for our auction. Additional painted pumpkins are needed. Please see Giudita if you can paint additional pumkins!
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Nevada County — Now Accepting Enrollments!
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Nevada County continues to expand enrollments for children ages 0-5! Books will shipping any day now to over 500 Nevada County children. A big shout out to our lead partners, Dolly Parton Imagination Library and First 5 Nevada County and the generous donations from our community!
Click here to get more information on how you can become a Champion for Literacy in Nevada County!
Board Meetings are held on the second Monday of the month. Our next Board meeting is October 13 at 5:30pm via Zoom.
Not a Board member but want to join us? Contact Robin or reply to this Rotario for instructions. All club members are encouraged to attend a meeting. Location/schedule is subject to change, please ask.
Bodhi-Hive
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Nevada County continues to expand enrollments for children ages 0-5! Books will shipping any day now to over 500 Nevada County children. A big shout out to our lead partners, Dolly Parton Imagination Library and First 5 Nevada County and the generous donations from our community!