{"id":52,"date":"2017-05-02T18:52:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T18:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsite.swdurhamrotary.org\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:07:11","slug":"speak-to-our-rotary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/index.php\/get-involved\/speak-to-our-rotary\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak to SWDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.59.04-PM-750x487.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.59.04-PM-750x487.png 750w, https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.59.04-PM-350x227.png 350w, https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.59.04-PM-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.59.04-PM.png 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/>Southwest Durham Rotary meets every Thursday at 12:30 pm, during which we have a program presented to the club. Rotary hosts a diverse range of speakers and programs, including non-profits, authors, historians, artists, activists, students and scholars, community members and more. This is a great opportunity if you work or volunteer for a non-profit organization to let us know what you&#8217;re doing and how we could potentially help you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.57.09-PM-350x230.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.57.09-PM-350x230.png 350w, https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.57.09-PM-750x493.png 750w, https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.57.09-PM-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.57.09-PM.png 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>If you&#8217;re interested in potentially coming to speak to our Rotary one Thursday, please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:swdrotary@gmail.com\">email us here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Past programs have included:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The marketing of art<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Oak City Lockpickers<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The History of Durham<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Stories of Holocaust Survival<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Robotics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Raleigh Ghost Hunters<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Caring House<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Woodworking<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">North Carolina Department of Justics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The Hubble Telescope<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Medieval warfare<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Artificial intelligence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.58.07-PM-350x233.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.58.07-PM-350x233.png 350w, https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.58.07-PM-750x500.png 750w, https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.58.07-PM-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2026-03-29-at-2.58.07-PM.png 978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>The importance of laughter<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Durham Symphony Orchestra<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Honduran Water Project<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Families Moving Forward<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Local animal shelters<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Transplanting Traditions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Shelterbox<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Boys &amp; Girls Home<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Urban Ministries<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Durham Performing Arts Center<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Durham Tech<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Habitat for Humanity<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Vegetable Gardening<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Durham Rotary meets every Thursday at 12:30 pm, during which we have a program presented to the club. Rotary hosts a diverse range of speakers and programs, including non-profits, authors, historians, artists, activists, students and scholars, community members and more. This is a great opportunity if you work or volunteer for a non-profit organization &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/index.php\/get-involved\/speak-to-our-rotary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speak to SWDR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/978"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swdurhamrotary.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}