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
Petoskeynews.com
Should you order a glass of champagne at the Rotary Club of Petoskey’s (Michigan, US – D 6290) Diamonds and Denim Dinner and Dance Gala on Saturday, Sept 22, it may contain more than just bubbles. It could also be a chance to win a one-carat diamond valued at $6,000.
Adrienne West, The Connection
The Rotary Club of Great Falls (Virginia, US – D 7610) will host their third annual Oktoberfest fundraiser event at the River Bend Golf and Country Club on Oct 20. From 7 pm till midnight, the tastes and sounds of Bavaria will come alive with traditional music, dancing, yodeling, and
Grace Kennedy, Peace Arch News
This September, 90 North Delta kids will be sure of getting enough to eat on the weekend. The North Delta Rotary Club (British Columbai, Canada – D 5050) and Deltassist have teamed up for the third year of North Delta’s Starfish Backpack programme, an annual campaign that provides at-risk students
Frank Deaver, The Tuscaloosa News
With more than $900,000 now having been raised and contributed to community projects by the Rotary Club of Tuscaloosa (Alabama, US – D 6860) during the past 45 years, the club paused last week to recognise its first project. That was a $60,000 investment in the Rotary International Student Centre
Christopher L Istace, Westman Journal
Despite the growing use of electronic technologies among readers, the Rotary Club of Brandon (Manitoba, Canada – D 5550) is still attracting hundreds of bookworms with the organisation’s biannual book sale. The local Rotary club will host its Fall Book Sale on Sept 13 to 15 at the Victoria Inn’s
Austin Cozicar, Dawson Creek Mirror
Have a child under five who needs to get reading? The Rotary Club of Dawson Creek Sunrise (Canada, D 5370) may have the solution. They have opened up the latest branch of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, an initiative which gives children under five years old a new book every month,
Ian Jacques, Delta Optimist
Local teachers in British Columbia (Canada) with vocational training are being sought for an upcoming Rotary Foundation initiative in Kenya. Tsawwassen Rotarian John Anderson has been selected as chair of the District 5040 vocational training team committee. Vocational training teams are groups of professionals who travel abroad either to teach
South Coast Register
Rotary clubs all around Australia have joined forces and partnered with Channel 9 and the National Farmers’ Federation to raise $10 million to assist the NSW farmers through the current horrific drought crisis. Notwithstanding this, Rotary is still maintaining its other local and international humanitarian service work and youth programmes.
Patrick Armijo, The Durango Herald
Anna Mier found a tour of Manna soup kitchen’s garden and learning kitchen an inspiring example of community building and a model her Rotary group in Juárez, Mexico, might replicate to help some of her hometown’s poorest residents. Mier and the 24 women in the Juárez Campestre Rotary Club (Mexico,
Desmond Devoy, Perth Courier
The Rotary Club of Perth (Ontario, Canada – D 7040) has received $1,000 from a first-time visitor to its annual Ribfest event. This year’s festival, held at Last Duel Park, having moved from the Perth Fairgrounds, was a new experience for Lois Worthen. “I hadn’t been to one before,” admitted
