Our Polish Rotary Youth Exchange Student visited Nanaimo, BC along with 18 other District 5020 Exchange Students for a jam packed weekend of activities. We arrived Wednesday and returned Sunday, March 12-16. Activities included: bowling, whale watching on speedboats while wearing survival suits, axe throwing, swimming, curling, a hike to a waterfall, attending a hockey game, touring a fire house, and exploring the Malahat Skywalk. Skywalk. We all returned very tired. It was great event!

Silverdale Rotary's annual Turkey Trot - a fundraiser to feed food insecure young people in Kitsap County. This year we had 771 participants!

Silverdale Rotary Turkey Trot. Every Thanksgiving hundreds of runners and walkers gather on Thanksgiving morning at Newberry Hill Heritage Park to raise funds for food programs in Kitsap.

Rotarians had fun at our weekly meeting on October 31! And they gave out candy at the Seabeck Conference Center Rotary Halloween House.

Rotarians raised funds for The Rotary Foundation and increased the percentage of Every Rotary Every Year. Pizza, drinks, snacks, and prizes.

July 2024 - Silverdale Rotary Club with the help of generous sponsors and the public who purchased Duck Tickets, completed our 30th Annual Duck Race on July 28, 2024 at Whaling Days. Thanks to everyone! Click on photo to start slide show and descriptions.

Moving gallery for Duck Season

Another very successful Silverdale Rotary Turkey Trot is in the books!  We were blessed with good weather, a great turnout from our Community, and a great turnout from our Club in the way of volunteering.   About 700 members of our community came out -- 100 more than last year. In December we pack food bags for the food insecure in Central Kitsap School District over Christmas break.

Glen attended a Shelterbox Ambassador Field Experience in September and came back with renewed enthusiasm for supporting Shelterbox as they respond to disasters worldwide.

Silverdale Rotary inducted Colin Arper into the Club on September 28. Colin's Dad Rich Arper, a longtime Silverdale Rotarian, proudly present Colin with a Rotary pin. Colin's grandfather Bob Arper (1919-2004) and great grandfather Edward Arper (1889-?) were both charter members of the Silverdale Rotary Club in 1955!

Our former Rotary Youth Exchange student Matej Kunak (2016-17) and Niky got married in Slovakia, then traveled 20 minutes across the border to the Czech Republic for the reception. Silverdale Rotary Club president Cathy Bisaillon and Phil, Former Rotarian Ellen and Alan Newberg (Matej's host parents), and Chuck Kraining (host parent) all attended.

Thanks to our generous sponsors and the public that purchased Duck Tickets, raffle proceeds will benefit the community far and wide throughout the next year.

Silverdale Rotary Club members hosted a remembrance ceremony on May 29, 2023. Our Rotary Club has maintained the flags for years, replacing them as needed. Thanks to Rich Arper who coordinated the ceremony.

December 15, 2022 - Funded by our 2022 Turkey Trot, pallets and pallets of food were bagged by Silverdale Rotarians, family members, and community volunteers and dropped off at CKSD Operations Center for distribution.

People of Action!

Silverdale Rotary Club provided the labor and carpentry expertise at the viewing platform on the Clear Creek Trail, joining forces with the Clear Creek Task Force, who provided the materials and lunch. Trex planks and a 2' extension - it's gorgeous!

Silverdale Rotarians - People of Action!