Archive for January 2025
Peace Pals International Winners and Finalists Faces of Peace for January 2025
January 30, 2025 It’s always so exciting when we check our email and receive photos of our winners and finalists smiling for us all. The young people below include our 1st Place Winner, Elaine Feng, age 6 of the United States. Elaine is one of four 1st place winners in our 27th Annual • 2024…
Read MoreNikoo Pendar Institute Displays Peace Pole Wallpaper on their Phones for the New Year – Iran
January 27, 2025 I am so honored to have received this email from Elham Jalilzadeh of The Nikoo Pendar Institute in Iran. The institute participated in last years, 27th Annual Peace Pals Art exhibition and Award Contest. They chose to download this years Lunar New Year Peace Pole Wallpaper of the The Snake. Thank you…
Read MoreSixty-Eight Rotary Peace Pole Dedication, Rohnert Park, Sonoma, California-USA
January 2025 This was our 68th Peace Pole dedication. It was at the Double Tree Hotel at the Rotary Peace Conference in Rohnert Park. Other Folks were two Rotary Presidents and Samantha Rodriguez, Mayor of Rohnert Park in Sonoma County, California. It was a great event! Peace, Fred Ptucha
Read MorePeace Pole Dedication at the World Peace Conference-Rohnert Park California-USA
January 25, 2025 Larry StroberVice President – Newberg Rotary Foundation
Read MoreRH Dana Elementary School Plants Dana Point’s First ‘Peace Pole’ in Learning Center Garden
January 24, 2025 In a ceremony attended by elementary school-aged children, their families, staff, and city officials, RH Dana Elementary School welcomed the Monarch Beach Sunrise Rotary Club on Friday, Jan. 24, to officiate the first official planting of a “Peace Pole” in the recently finished school garden. As a sign of wanting to provide…
Read MorePeace Poles light up Southfield, Michigan, USA
January 21st 2025Three magnificent Peace Poles each highlighting 8 languages are standing proud on Barbara Talley Way in Southfield, Michigan. A total of 24 languages represent the diverse community of Southfield where the annual Martin Luther King Jr Day has been celebrated for the past 40 years. Barbara Talley founded the Martin Luther King Jr…
Read MoreMartin Luther King Jr Day – 40th Anniversary Event, Southfield, Michigan.
January 20th 2025 Hundreds gathered at the Hope United Methodist Church just past 9am in Southfield MI to prepare for the annual Peace March in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. The diverse community of Southfield showed up in below freezing temperature to march in solidarity in the spirit of peace, justice and freedom. The…
Read MoreSpiritual Teacher and Astrologer plants Sun & Moon in the “heart” of Los Angeles, California-USA
January 15, 2025 I have always wanted to link up with all the Peace Poles around the world. Here in LA, we have just gone through the largest, most devastating fires to date. LA is the heart chakra of the United States, and it is profound to ponder the meaning of the heart chakra on…
Read MoreMay Peace Prevail On Earth International Gifts 200 Peace Poles to Home for Humanity
January 13, 2025 May Peace Prevail On Earth International and The Peace Pole Project have just received a beautiful report from Home for Humanity for the work they completed in 2024. The First Season was focused on Africa, where Peace Poles were planted. ‘May Peace Prevail on Earth International’, our cherished partner organisation in Japan, has extended…
Read MoreSixty-Fourth Peace Pole Dedication Ceremony-Sonoma County, California-USA
Ceremony: January 10, 2025Posted: April, 24, 2025 Hi, Here are photographs from our sixty-fourth Peace Pole dedication ceremony held at Brooks Elementary school in Windsor California. Five students read short articles about peace that they selected themselves. This was a joint effort by VFP #71 and the Windsor Rotary Club. May Peace Prevail On EarthFred…
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