Encinitas Rotary Club

For the past 23 years, Encinitas Rotary Club's Encinitas Wine & Food Festival has been our biggest fundraiser of the year. The 2026 EWFF raised $133,000 benefiting 17 charitable organizations. Key beneficiaries include causes dedicated to youth development, education, the arts, environmental stewardship, animal welfare, and community wellness—such as the Encinitas Educational Foundation, Casa de Amistad, the Rancho Coastal Humane Society, and Solutions for Change.

Visiting granddaughter baby CeCe, daughter Perla and Josh in Portland.

Vote for your favorite Former Encinitas Rotary Presidents group photo. First photo or second photo?! Posing at the demotion party and roast of beloved Rotary year 25-26 president, Mark Berning. Mark Berning was our president, who led the way to represent!

Our Project Mercy, House in a Day story, will run in the Encinitas Advocate June 12 issue.

From shacks to stability: How Rotary’s ‘House in a Day’ partnership is changing lives in Tijuana Proving that compassion knows no boundaries, the Encinitas Rotary Club, in a long-standing partnership with Project Mercy Baja, successfully constructed a complete home recently for a vulnerable family in a single day. The humanitarian…

We used to call him Bob...now we're not sure anymore...Karen?

Congratulations to Suzie Perry, recipient of the 2026 Senior Citizen Service Award presented by the City of Encinitas and the Encinitas Rotary Club!

From mentoring volunteers and supporting Head Start students to providing hundreds of books to local children each year, Suzie’s lifelong dedication to service continues to make a lasting impact throughout our community. ❤️📚

Suzie will be honored at the Encinitas City Council meeting on June 10, 2026. Thank you, Suzie, for your compassion, leadership, and incredible commitment to helping others!

House in a Day - built in Tijuana, Baja Ca, by the Encinitas Rotary Club and Project Mercy, with help from Interact, on May 2nd. Completed in a record time of 4 hours. A true act of love and compassion to provide a new home for a family that had been 'living' in a shack.