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Beau Chene Country Club

602 N. Beau Chene Dr.
Mandeville, LA 70471
United States of America

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(985) 789-2316

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tom@tomquinn.net

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 246 Mandeville, La. 70470

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Rotarians Socialize at Crawfish Boil

On Saturday, May 14, 2022 the Northlake Mandeville Rotary Club held its annual Crawfish Boil at the Madisonville Park Pavillion. The crawfish and shrimp were delicious and catered by Nan's of Mandeville. Pizza was also provided for those who preferred it. Thanks to Bob Matthews and Cindi Raymond for chairing the event. A good time was had by all!!

Rotary Awards 2022 Scholarships

May be an image of 5 people, people standing and text that says 'මE KONA 20182012 WAITARE Debbie Stuart, Celeste Guidry, Lauren Lacoste, Stephen Guidry and Andrew Beshenich'

On Sunday, April 24, 2022, the Northlake Mandeville Rotary Club hosted its annual "Sunday With Scholars" banquet at the Beau Chene Country Club. Each year two $12,000 scholarships are awarded to area high school students. Every four years another $12,000 scholarship is awared by the Rusty Sexton Foundation. This year a new $1,000 scholarship was initiated by Rotarian Laurie Pennison in memory of her parents. It was awarded to Stephen Guidry shown above. The 2022 scholarship winners were Natalie Lovell and Andrew Beshenich. Other scholars pictured were awarded in previous years. The two 2022 outstanding scholars were selected from over 30 applicants. Criteria used in the selection process were academics, community service, leadership, and financial need. Congratulations to Natalie and Andrew!! Welcome to the Rotary Family!!!

Rotarians Lead Blood Drive

During the early Spring of 2022, the blood supplies in St Tammany Parish were at dangerously low levels. Rotary President-Elect Marty Audiffred identified the need and organized a blood drive through the Blood Bank of Mandeville. He enlisted two partner sponsors - the Beau Chene Homeowners Association and the Beau Chene Country Club.

The Blood Drive was held on Thursday, April 21, 2002 at the Beau Chene Country Club before, during, and after the regular Rotary Club meeting.

Rotarians Support Technical Education

The Northlake Mandeville Rotary Club bought a table at the Chancellor's Sunrise Breakfast on April 14, 2022, to support the mission of Northshore Technical Community College. At the breakfast, Louisiana Commissioner of Higher Education, Dr. Kim Hunter Reed, gave the Keynote Address which focused on the importance of Technical Education in providing a productive pathway for students. The highlight of the Breakfast was the presentation of scholarships to 38 outstanding students. The scholarships were provided by businesses, non-profits, individuals, and many of the employees of NTTC. Representatives from those providing the scholarships gave a summary of their organization and then gave a short biography of each student.

Rotarians representing Rotary were, from left to right, Bob Matthews, Marty Audiffred, and Doug Place. Also attending was Ken McAuliffe.

Rotarian Receives Paul Harris Recognition

Rotarian Debbie Stuart receives her second Paul Harris Fellow recognition at a regular meeting of the Northlake Mandeville Rotary Club. Pictured from left to right are Leanne Truehart, Past President; David Stuart, spouse; Debbie Stuart; and Ed Goodwin, Northlake Mandeville Rotary Foundation Chairman.

The Paul Harris Fellow recognition acknowledges individual Rotarians who contribute $1,000 or more to the Rotary International Foundation.

The Rotary International Foundation helps Rotary members advance world understanding and peace by funding worldwide grants and projects that provide disease prevention and treatment; assist in basic education and literacy; improve water, sanitation and hygiene; alleviate poverty through community economic development; and promote peacebuilding and conflict resolution.

Rotarians Donate Dictionaries to 3rd Graders

Each year Northlake Mandeville Rotarians donate dictionaries to each of the Mandeville and Madisonville Third Graders. Last year we were not able to enter the schools due to COVID, so this year we are donating dictionaries to the Fourth Graders as well.

Presenting dictionaries above is a team composed of Rotarian and St Tammany School Board member Matt Greene and Rotarian Jay Capouch. Each team tells their students about Rotary International and the Four Way Test of Rotary. They then discuss what it means to "Serve." This is followed by helping the students learn to look up words in their dictionary.

In 2022, 15 Rotarians distributed 2600 dictionaries to 3rd and 4th graders at 13 elementary schools.

Although dictionaries are available on the internet, many teachers tell us they integrate the dictionaries into their class work. Some of the teachers conduct races to see which of their students can look up words the fastest. The teachers also tell us that the many of the students cherish having their own book.

Rotarians Clean Mandeville Lakefront

On Saturday, February 12, 2022, Rotarians met at the Gazebo on the Mandeville Lakefront to particpate in their monthly Adopt-A-Spot cleaning of the Lakefront. Since the Gazebo is about at the mid-point of the Lakefront, one team goes East and another team goes West.

Bags of trash collected are deposited in trash containers found on the Lakefront. The most common item found is cigarette butts.

Rotary Celebrates Valentine's Day

At the regular meeting, Thursday, February 11, 2022, members of the Northlake Mandeville Rotary Club and their spouses celebrated upcoming Valentine's Day at Benedict's Plantation Event Center. Each spouse was presented with a red rose. During the luncheon a harpist from Baton Rouge provided entertainment by playing romantic songs from Broadway plays. Tom Quinn won the prize for identifying the most songs played. A lovely time was had by all.

Rotary Explores Bike Trail at Fountainbleu

On January 27, the Northlake Mandeville Rotary Club met at the conference center at Fountainbleu State Park. Fouad Harb, Manager at Fountainbleu, gave the club a very interesting history of the State Park, including that the Indigenous people inhabited the park as early as 200 BC. At the end of his presentation, Fouad and Bob Matthews, club member, discussed how Rotary can help build a much needed hike and bicycle trail within the park connecting the popular Tammany Trace Trail to Lake Pontchartrain. Currently families visiting the park must bike or hike on the narrow, heavily travelled main road. This route is very unsafe, especially for young bikers.

Also participating in the discussion were potential community partners in the effort - Jeanne Marino, Director of Grants for St Tammany Parish and also the President of the Mandeville Master Gardeners.

Mandeville Rotary Donates $5,000 to Ida Relief

After the devastating Hurricane Ida, Northlake Mandeville Rotarians and the Northlake Mandeville Rotary Foundation raised $5,000 for hurricane relief.

After investigation, the club found that the people of LaPlace, Louisiana, were particularly hard hit by Ida. In the picture above, President Ken McAuliffe presents Lake Territory Assistant Governor Tom Quinn with the $5,000 donation which was, in turn, sent to the Rotary Club of Laplace for use in their relief and recovery efforts.

Rotary Meets On Zoom Due To Omicron

The Northlake Mandeville Rotary Club met today, Thursday, January 11, 2022 via Zoom. A guest at last week's meeting tested positive after the meeting. Several of our members had interacted with the guest. Out an abundance of caution, our Board of Directors decided to conduct today's meeting via Zoom. Our next meeting will be held at our regular meeting time and place - Noon at the Beau Chene Country Club.

Come join us as we socialize and work to serve our commnity!

2021 BIG GAME Raffle...the time is here!!

It's that time of year again…the 2021 BIG GAME Rotary Raffle is here!! Back and better than ever!
Time to get back out to sports games, restaurants, and more!! Buying a ticket not only gives you the chance to win one of over 40 prizes, it also gives you an opportunity to give to local charities and nonprofits. Prizes include Saints and LSU football tickets, gift certificates for fabulous New Orleans-area restaurants, a ride on a World War II PT-17 airplane, and more!! 100% of our club's raffle proceeds goes to charity. Tickets are $20 each and the drawing will be August 26. You do not need to be present to win. Don’t miss out!!

Click this link to buy YOUR tickets!!

https://rafflecreator.com/pages/30553/2021-rotary-big-game-raffle

Sunday with Scholars

On April 25, 2021, the Northlake-Mandeville Rotary Club hosted its 23rd annual Sunday with Scholars event. The Rotary Scholarship is a $12,000 award, paid to the college of the recipient’s choice in $1,500 semester installments for a maximum of 8 semesters. Rotary Scholars have exemplified outstanding academic achievement and participated in serving our community through various volunteer, school, and civic organizations. Our scholarship goal is to find worthy students where our scholarship will make a difference in helping them realize their potential as a college student and a member of our community. Over the past 22 years we have helped 44 students in achieving their goal of a college education.

This year's event, planned by the club's Scholarship Committee, was held at Beau Chene Country Club. Scholarship sponsors, Rotary members, students, their family members, and local elected officials enjoyed a live DJ, a silent auction, a mask contest, and a program event emceed by Rotary member Reid Falconer. The new scholarship recipients for 2021 are Trevor Fortier, Celeste Guidry, and Lauren Lacoste. Typically two scholarships are awarded each year but this year a third was available because of the endowed Wilson and Jean Sexton Scholarship. The current recipient of that endowed scholarship, Ruston Keller, is graduating Spring Hill College and headed to medical school in St. Louis, thus a new recipient, Trevor Fortier, was announced. The club also presented its 2020 scholarship winners, Isabella Kerth and Emma Santiago, and enjoyed hearing updates from all of our current and past Scholars. A good time was had by all!

Rotary's work at Safe Haven makes international newsletter!

The work of the Northlake-Mandeville Rotary Club and District #6840 was featured in the February 2021 issue of the RAGMHI newsletter. RAGMHI stands for Rotary Action Group on Mental Health Initiatives. Other countries whose Rotary mental health projects were featured include India, New Zealand, Lithuania, England, and more. The story focused on the club's recent tour of the new Crisis Receiving Center on the grounds of Safe Haven.

Safe Haven Pavillion

One of our club's important missions is our mental health initiative to address the growing mental health needs in our area. Our club is committed to developing the recreation and meditation areas at Safe Haven, a multi-agency collaborative effort currently being developed on the grounds of the former Southeast Louisiana State Hospital. The club's efforts are dedicated to Ken Thompson, a very special Rotarian who died suddenly last year while serving as Rotary District #6840 Governor. Our club refurbished this lovely pavilion. Pictured here are our club members celebrating the "crowning" of the pavilion with our Rotary Wheel. Not long after we had our Annual Crawfish Boil here!

Rotary Connects the World

Rotary isn't just a local organization. It includes 1.2 million members in 35,000 club spread through the world! With a mission is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian service and to advance goodwill and peace locally and also around the world. It is a non-political and non-religious organization open to all people regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, or political preference.

Pop-Up Social!!

Rotarians love to have fun!! These are some of our members enjoying a "Pop-Up" happy hour at the Beach House in Mandeville. A good time was had by all!

Visits by our Rotary Scholars!

One of the most gratifying things our club does is host the Northlake-Mandeville Rotary Scholarship Program. In its 20th year, the program awards two $12,000 scholarships to local graduating seniors based on a combination of their merit, need, and community service. Our program doesn't just involve giving a check. Our "Rotary Scholars" as they are endearingly referred to, come back every semester to give us an update as to how they are doing, their academic and social achievements, and more. Our Scholars have expressed repeatedly how much being part of our Rotary Family means to them.

On the far left is Rotary member Boyd McPhail and on the far right is Evans Spiceland. In the middle, from left to right, are some of our current Rotary Scholars including Ruston Keller, Kari Ousterhout, Ashleigh Touchard, and Isabel Baird.

We are so proud of our Scholars

Work project in Cozumel

In May, 2019, members of our club attended a multi-district meeting that took place on a cruise. Attendees included Rotarians from Mississippi, Louisiana,and Texas! In addition to some fabulous speakers, members also participated in a service project. We helped to renovate a drug treatment center in Cozumel for at-risk youth. Great way to put service into practice, especially at a Rotary event!

2019: Installation Luncheon

On Thursday, June 27, 2019, the Northlake-Mandeville Rotary Club had its Installation Luncheon and Reid Falconer served as the Master of Ceremonies. Outgoing President, Steve Saux, gave his President's Farewell and presented a variety of awards to members as shown in the pictures below. Assistant Governor Vicky Magas swore in the new Board of Directors, its officers, and incoming President Leanne Truehart. Incoming District #6840 Governor Bob Haeuser and his wife Jamie Haeuser also addressed the club to congratulate its new officers, highlight the club's achievements, and present Rotary's new emphasis of making Rotary events more family-inclusive. The lunch was prepared by Chef Hosie at the Beau Chene Country Club and a good time was had by all. We look forward to a terrific year ahead and invite you, visitors to this website, to join us at a meeting and come experience the wonder, fellowship, and fun of Rotary!

NAMI 5k Walk 2018

The Northlake-Mandeville Rotary Club was the leading fundraising team at the NAMI 5k Walk on May 19, 2018 on the Mandeville Lakefront.

Mandeville Rotary Scholarship Program

The Northlake-Mandeville Rotary Club will award $12,000 College Scholarships to two local high school seniors. We have awarded over $375,000 to 37 local students. Rotary selects two graduating seniors from local high schools for whom the scholarship will have the "greatest impact." Rotary scholarship students must display: academic ability, community service and a need for financial assistance. Please help these local students and invest in our Northshore community's future. Eight of our former students or current students are medical doctors or nurses or studying to be doctors or nurses.

Please help Rotary raise the needed funds and please attend our Annual "Sunday with Scholars" banquet on April 22, 2018, 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Beau Chene Country Club in Mandeville. Join us for a gourmet buffet dinner, open bar, soft piano music, a silent auction and fun for all. Our charity is 100 % volunteers, with no paid employees.

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