Rotary Club of Mission Bay has been a staple of the local community for more than 50 years, meeting every Monday at the Catamaran Hotel. Beach and Bay Press caught up with club president Jim Willis to talk mission, membership and the new Crown Point Pavilion, which will be dedicated today, May 27 at 11:15 a.m. Q: What exactly is the Rotary Club of Mission Bay? Willis: It is an organization of men and women, and their goals are to provide community service to the community and to the world. The object is to encourage and foster the ideal of service to others. Q: Who is in the club? Willis: It can be business members, school principals, teachers, doctors, nurses, or community service leaders. Anybody can be a member if they have the time and want to provide a service to their community or another community group. Q: What are some current projects the club is working on? Willis: One of our biggest projects is the structure at the Crown Point Pavilion. Over the years it has just deteriorated. It has all come down and our club has been working to help raise funds and get this thing built for five years, and finally it’s happening. We’re hoping to get it done by Memorial Day. We give dictionaries to all third-grade students in schools in Mission Bay and a couple of the schools in Clairemont also. We’ll take on a project that somebody comes up with and somebody needs help with. Q: How many members are in the Rotary Club? Willis: We have 19 members right now. We dropped down in size quite a bit from what we used to be. Q: How do you become a member of the Rotary Club? Willis: We would very much like to have anybody that is interested in membership contact anybody in the club or just come to a meeting sometime and introduce themselves. We meet every Monday at the Catamaran Hotel at 12 p.m.