Citizen Of The Year Award Winner Salutes Community, Honoring Dylan Terrell, Founder & Executive Director Of Caminos De Agua

By Robin Loving

“This work has never really been about water,” said 2025 Citizen of the Year Award Honoree Dylan Terrell, founder and executive director of Caminos de Agua. “It’s about community. I arrived in San Miguel (with) no intention of working in water. But … it became very clear, very quickly, that water was the issue,” he continued.

He went on to say that solutions do not come from outsiders but from communities understanding their challenges, organizing, and taking ownership of solutions. As well, he credited his family for giving him the ability to believe that what matters most is making a meaningful impact. He closed with, “Come together around a shared problem and refuse to just accept that things have to say the way they are.”

This was the 19^th Citizen of the Year ceremony sponsored by the Rotary Club of San Miguel de Allende-Midday. Coordinating the event were Mark Hager and Vice President of Club Services Robin Loving coordinated the event with the assistance of MC Joe Ruffino, President Andrea Spessard, Alex and Kerry Fautsch, Gael Sherman, Co-Sergeants of Arms Carla Espinoza and Elizabeth Adlung, David Miller, Tech Wizard Diego Vargas, Beverly Hill, Co-Vice Presidents of Membership Joyce Grenis and Kathy Zapata, Secretary Phillip Jares, David Bossman, President-elect Joe de Anda, Donn Zellet, Pat Laird, Enrique Orvañanos,and other volunteers.

Rotary is where neighbors, friends and problem-solvers share ideas, join leaders, and take action to create lasting change. This club’s meetings take place in the Sala Quetzal in the Biblioteca Pública on Tuesday mornings at which opens at 8:15 a.m. via the Relox entrance near Insurgentes. They are also broadcast via Zoom. Cafe Zenteno serves breakfast before the meetings for $150 mxn cash.

For more information, contact President Andrea Spessard at aspessard@rotarysmamidday.org and/or Robin Loving at nonprofitrobin@icloud.com, and see Rotarysmamidday.org.