Regular readers of this space know that I love to promote volunteers and especially service clubs.
Over the years I’ve been a member of Lions and Kinsmen Clubs, and have been a proud member of the Walkerton Rotary Club for the past three years.
I can say without hesitation that this club is the most active and dedicated of them all. Besides supporting dozens of local projects, members donate time and money to causes throughout the world. And when there’s an international emergency, such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, our club springs to action donating money for supplies and much needed water filtration systems and Shelter Boxes.
Many members travel to Third World countries to help build schools and water projects. The Walkerton Rotary Club is the lead club for a sewer project in a community in Managua, Nicaragua. The project will provide sewer hook up to three hundred families.
In the spring several members will return to that city where, last year they helped build a new water system. With Rotary’s matching grants program, and assistance from eight other clubs, close to $40,000 will be sent to the city.
Rotary International has raised $196 million of a $2 million goal for the eradication of polio.?The deadline to reach the target is the end of June.
Locally, the Walkerton Rotary Club has committed $100,000 to the new health clinic. But, the list of projects supported by Rotary and Rotarians is far too long to fit in this space.
The club is hosting it’s annual fund raising dinner and auction on Jan. 28 (tickets are available) and will once again be major players with this year’s County Towne Players’ production of ‘See How They Run’ in April.
As active as this club is, we’re always looking for new members, if interested contact any Rotarian, or our Membership Chair Dave Cooke.
January is Rotary awareness month and, as the Public Relations director for the club, I just wanted to share some of the ‘good news’ with you.
Now, come next meeting, I guess I’ll have to put in a ‘brag buck’.