Photo by Mitch Lehman / TRIBUNE
The Rotary Club of San Marino recently distributed its community grants to six local nonprofits. San Marino Rotary Foundation Chair John Jones provided background on the process and the group heard from members of the recipient organizations, each of which received a grant of $3,500 for a total donation of $21,000. The organizations are Beat the Streets; Give, Mentor, Love; Families Forward; Cancer Support Community; Villa Esperanza; and Pasadena Village. Recipients included Josue Aguilar from Beat the Streets (from left to right); Donna Pierson of Give-Mentor-Love; Peggy Smith of Cancer Support Community; Liz Kwong of Families Forward Learning Center; Barbara Bice of the Rotary Club of San Marino; Gioia Pastre of Villa Esperanza; and Tom Polenzani of Pasadena Village.
