Cheyenne Rotary

Volunteer Opportunity‼️ This Wednesday, September 30, 2026 starting at 5:00 pm.

The Reading Under the Lights literacy initiative was spear-headed by Arp Elementary School teacher Sybil Bustos for the Laramie County School District 1 (LCSD1) South Triad community in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The program aims to promote childhood literacy, foster family engagement, and build a unified sense of community among South Triad schools.

K–5 students and their families gather under the stadium lights at South High School's football field (home of the Bison). Families bring blankets to camp out on the turf, share a meal, cuddle up to read together, and receive free books to take home.

This event typically draws multi-generational attendees and heavily relies on local business sponsors, alongside organizations like the Cheyenne Rotary Club and Blankets for Laramie County Kids, to donate books and handmade blankets.

Book to be handed out to participants: Salt in his Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream.

Volunteer opportunities:
🙌🏼 Hand out books to the kids
🥪 Hand out food (hot dogs, etc.)
📚 Help with reading passages from the book

Contact us to sign up!

This week’s program will feature Dan Fetsco, UW Law Professor, who will be presenting ‘Redemption as Public Safety: Reforming Sentencing Through Evidence and Restorative Justice.’

The American sentencing system often fails to achieve its stated goals of accountability, rehabilitation, and public safety. Mandatory minimums, overly long sentences, and limited opportunities for review frequently overlook human development, misjudge risk, and ignore the strong evidence supporting transformation over pure punishment.

This session brings together a criminology professor from the University of Wyoming, Dan Fetsco, and two system-impacted practitioners, Mark Corbett and Tommy Rivera, who both served decades under an extreme sentence before release, despite many years of extraordinary development while incarcerated. Drawing from research and lived experience, they examine how sentencing practices can unintentionally harm communities, fail victims, and undermine long-term safety. For more information, visit https://cheyennerotary.org

This meeting will start at 12:00, noon at Little America.

Join us Wednesday at 12:00, noon at Little America to hear about Caminos de Accíon!

Caminos de Acción, was founded in 2012 by Laura Hastings and Blanca Escoto de Benitez. These women met during Blanca’s Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Wyoming. Since their meeting, they created CdA and continue to work tirelessly on helping as many individuals within the Los Tehuistes community as possible.

Laura currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors. Blanca has served on the board and continues to support CdA efforts in Los Tehuistes.

CdA's Mission is to work in solidarity with Salvadorans to facilitate community organization in order to address locally identified challenges in El Salvador including social, educational and health related issues. Their Vision is to assist Salvadorans in reaching their full potential as members of and leaders in their families, communities and society.

This week we will be joined by Amy Moon, Rotary District 5440 Governor Elect! Our meeting will begin at 12:00, noon on Wednesday at Little America.

Amy has been a member of the Rotary Club of Star Valley in NW Wyoming since 2019. She has served in club leadership roles including president three times and secretary twice. Additionally, she contributed at the district level with a 2 year term as an Area Governor before being selected as District Governor for District 5440 for the year 2027-2028.

Professionally, she works as a loan underwriter at First Bank of Wyoming, a division of Glacier Bank. Her career in banking began in 2014 when she relocated from Iowa to Wyoming after marrying her husband, Brian. It was this new career in Wyoming that brought her to Rotary due to her employer being a corporate member of the local club. Brian is a full-fledged Rotary partner by helping volunteer at events and fundraisers

Outside of volunteering and work, Amy enjoys outdoor activities such as cycling and cross-country skiing. She enjoys indoor activities like reading mystery or science fiction books and also watching quirky movies with Brian

Amy grew up on a farm in NE Iowa outside the small town of Fayette and has two Bachelor Degrees from the University of Iowa and one Master Degree from the University of Texas at Austin

Rotarians and Friends! Join us in supporting our friends at Rooted in Cheyenne for their Fall Planting Day on Saturday, September 19th, from 7:30 AM to 1:00 PM.

We will be meeting at Cheyenne Urban Forestry Shop as we works towards planting 100 more trees.

Let’s dig in and make a difference together by restoring and shaping the city’s canopies.

Please click the link below for more information and for directions on how to sign up.

https://rootedincheyenne.com/events/fall-planting-26/

2026 Fall Planting - Rooted In Cheyenne Help us celebrate 10 years of making a difference, one tree at a time.

Masaka Global Grant Project Update❗️

We recently received an update from the Rotary Club of Masaka in Uganda where we have partnered to support a Rotary Global Grant. They have completed work on the first of six rural schools where we are installing new restrooms and rainwater harvesting tanks.

We are happy to share photos of the school classrooms, the new restrooms with rainwater storage tanks, and the new rainwater collection system.

With the Rotary Club of Cheyenne, we are not only making a difference locally but we are making a difference around the world!

This Wednesday, we will be joined by Ashley Harpsteith, Executive Director of Wyoming Association of Municipalities.

Ashley comes with news from WAM as she will be presenting on the current issues effecting Wyoming cities and towns. She will share how WAM works for Wyoming citizens.

We look forward to you joining us for this program on Wednesday starting at 12pm, noon at Little America.

This weeks program will be a formal introduction of our exchange students, Neto from Brazil and Elisa from Italy! We will also have a fun presentation from our RLYA students.

We look forward to seeing you at this meeting at Little America on Wednesday starting at 12:00, noon.

Reminder❗️There is no noon meeting this Wednesday. Instead come join us at Little America at 4:30pm and enjoy the Rotary Picnic on Hathaways Patio.

Mark your calendars for our Summer Picnic!

🧺 Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
🍎 Little America Patio
⏰ 4:30pm - 7:30pm
🎵 Live music featuring local Mike Morris

Guests, family and friends of Rotary are welcome to join!