Rotary Elsewhere

Rotary clubs help fill empty stockings this Christmas

rockdalenewtoncitizen.com

CONYERS — This holiday season, the Rotary Club of Rockdale County is partnering with the Rotary Club of Conyers and Rockdale Emergency Relief (RER) to make sure no child in Rockdale County faces an empty stocking on Christmas morning. Together, the two Rotary clubs aim to raise $16,000 — each club

A Rotary fundraiser to help community heroes

Julie E Greene, Herald-Mail Media

Batgirl, Wolverine, Harley Quinn and Gamora showed up at Sunrise Rotary-Hagerstown’s (Maryland, US – D 7360) fundraiser Sunday to help some real community superheroes. Sunrise Rotary picked a superhero theme for its annual big fundraiser. This year, Sunrise Rotary will share proceeds with The Boys and Girls Club of Washington

Rotary sponsors breakfast for junior school students

Chicago Tribune

The District 54 Education Foundation is pleased to announce that the Rotary Club of Schaumburg-Hoffman Estates (Illinois, US – D 6440) is sponsoring the breakfast programme at Keller Junior High for the second year in a row. The club’s $10,000 donation to the Foundation’s Food 4 Thought programme will provide

Rotary invites people to ‘Dine Out for Polio’

The Courier

Dine Out to End Polio was held on Tuesday, October 23, at Cedar Valley restaurants to support the Rotary Club of the Cedar Valley’s (Iowa, US – D 5970) efforts to eradicate polio. This is the sixth year Rotary Club of the Cedar Valley hosted this fundraising event. Restaurants throughout

Rotary, UNICEF fight to eradicate polio

Sarah Ferguson, Forbes

Polio is a highly contagious, paralysing and potentially fatal disease that can strike at any age, but mainly affects children under age 5. Polio is incurable, but easily preventable with a simple vaccine. In September, the World Health Organisation declared Nigeria polio-free, leaving only two countries in the world that

Rotary to host Careers Afternoon for students

Cowra Guardian

The Rotary Club of Cowra (New South Wales, Australia – D 9700) are excited to announce that they will be holding a Careers Afternoon on Thursday, October 25, 2018 from 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm at the Cowra Bowling Club. The idea of Club President Bill Murphy was to gather

Pancake breakfast at Homecoming Parade

Journal Gazette & Times Courier

The annual all-you-can-eat Rotary Pancake Breakfast will be served Saturday morning in conjunction with the Eastern Illinois University Homecoming parade. Charleston Rotary Club (Illinois, US — District 6490) members will be serving pancakes, sausages and drinks from 6.30 am to 10 am on Saturday in the parking lot at Dirty’s

A Rotary club gets ready for mega auction

Linda Provost, The Duncan Banner

The Duncan chapter (Oklahoma, US – D 5770) of Rotary International is hitting the bricks to get their largest fundraiser ready to hit Duncan’s TV for the 61st year. The Rotary Christmas Auction is hosted on the week of Thanksgiving each year. During the four-day frenzy, thousands of items are

RYE student enjoys a slice of Aussie culture

Donna Ward,Tenterfield Star

How daunting would it be to be far from home and stand up in front of an audience to deliver a speech in a language you’re only just coming to grips with? Rotary youth exchange student Tsumiki Katsuragawa handled the challenge with aplomb when she addressed the assembly of Tenterfield

Rotary club hosts annual Spaghetti Dinner

The Telegraph

It was “Spaghetti City” for a 45th consecutive year on Tuesday, thanks those at the Rotary Club of Nashua West (New Hampshire, US – D 7870). The Nashua Senior Center was filled with the aroma of Italian food. Hundreds of people representing all age groups gathered together, slurping up strands

Rotary kicks off childhood literacy programme

Twilla Johnson, petoskeynews.com

Every baby born at McLaren Northern Michigan hospital is receiving a board book and Early Literacy Guide as part of the Rotary Club of Petoskey’s (Michigan, US – D 6290) recently launched “Born to Read” programme. The programme was launched in September, Rotary International’s Literacy Month. Besides a board book