The Rotary Club of Austin-Southwest meets at DK Maria's Tex Mex located at
Join us on Saturday, May 16, for one of the most fulfilling service projects we participate in! We will be working alongside Texas Ramp Project to construct a wooden ramp for a local resident in need of home wheelchair access. Our club has funded the material costs of this project and has participated in the ramp program several times in recent years. These ramps have always been impact projects supporting a local family in need. No construction skills are needed! The location for this year's build is southeast Austin (near the airport). Please contact Jack Gabig if you are planning to come. Join us on Saturday, May 16, for one of the most fulfilling service projects we participate in! We will be working alongside Texas Ramp Project to construct a wooden ramp for a local resident in need of home wheelchair access. Our club has funded the material costs of this project and has participated in the ramp program several times in recent years. These ramps have always been impact projects supporting a local family in need. No construction skills are needed! The location for this year's build is southeast Austin (near the airport). Please contact Jack Gabig if you are planning to come. 
The 27th Annual Charity Golf Tournament is a wrap. As you know, this tournament funds all our service projects and vocational scholarships. It was a beautiful day at Grey Rock Golf Club and what a pleasant experience coordinating with the staff of Grey Rock. From the hanging of the large new banners, to answering all our pesky questions, to providing us with a delicious fajita dinner, everything was smooth. Thank you Nate Mast, Director of Sales and Marketing, and the entire staff at Grey Rock.
A huge thank you to Roger Beasley Mazda for 26 years of support as our Title Sponsor! Thanks also to the Rotary Club of South Austin for sending a golf team and to PDG (and former City Council member) Ronney Reynolds for additional Rotarian support.
Thank you to all our golfers and sponsors!!!
We had a hugely successful New Home for Styrofoam on this past Saturday, May 2. Another trailer-full collected just like that! Besides our normal setup, the Swamys got to go on a field trip to the City of Austin's Recycle and Reuse Center to see the Styrofoam air-extruder in action removing the air from the material and then pooling it out into a semi-liquid that then gets formed into the blocks that are bought by wholesalers for reuse in park benches, insulation, picture frames, etc. Also, friends from the newly chartered Rotary Club Novus Ortus District 2101 from Naples, Italy, came by for a flag exchange! Massimo and Francesca have visited the club before, and they brough their daughter, Paola, to our booth as well. 
Our club had a fun, quick and efficient service project for Rise Against Hunger on Saturday, March 28! In just a couple of hours our club members helped package 10,000 meals that will go to families in need of assistance. This was an awesome service project that we are so thrilled we could sponsor. It is a massive impact with an organization that has figured out all the logistics for us. That allowed us to have a fun, social time with excellent music jamming and kids excited to hit the gong (gong hit every time we hit another 1,000 meals packaged!) Thanks so much to our club members who took a few hours out of their Saturday for this amazing project, and also thank you to the Rotarians who joined us from the South Austin club as well!
