As a part of our District – Ministerial Grant, we worked at the Drexel First Baptist Church Food Distribution that takes place on the second Sunday of each month. Our newest members – Tom and Sheree – joined President Beth…
Past President Jon Mercer inducted our 2 new members – Tom and Sheree. Sheree attended the social at President Beth’s home in January – and that was the start of her learning more about Rotary. They visited a meeting and decided to join…
Our second Memory Cafe for memory loss patients and their caregivers was held on March 22. The speaker, Karen Phoenix with Project Care (WPCOG) talked about a program designed to help caregivers receive potential financial resources so they can secure respite care…
Summary of our meeting…. David Burleson, Burke United Christian Ministries was our speaker for the day. Check out their web site, they are more than just a Soup Kitchen. Joy received her Paul Harris Fellow with point from Bruce H.…
The Rotary Club of Pakuranga invite you to join The Ultimate 17 Day Rotary Tour of New Zealand 6th – 22nd April, 2018. The Tour Key points and Highlights are: The Tour includes 4 Rotary fellowship events. The planned Tour size…
Byran Steen, Burke County Manager, spoke to us today about the direction of the County – All About Advancing and why counties were formed – Health, DSS, Court, Sheriff, Schools, Libraries, etc.
Carolinas HealthCare System Blue Ridge COO Jon Mercer presented CHS-BR’s Facility Plans. Jon is also a member and past president of our club. A lot of details were provided – for the full story see the link below. The Valdese…
Update: Our club donated $1500 to One Head – One Bed. Interact Clubs of Heritage and Draughn are working on their own fundraisers. Tim Barnsback (teacher at HMS) is seeing a lot of homeless/transient kids in the school system (there…
Santa & Mrs. Claus made a special appearance to spread good cheer! Dr John Lafferty (34years) and Pastor Kevin Fredericks (10 years) were given gum for their “Stick-to-itiveness”. The wonderfully talented story teller was at it again this year! Mrs.…
The Rotary Club of Valdese recognized 15 members at different levels of giving. The Valdese Club is a 100% PHF (Paul Harris Fellow} Club meaning each member has donated $1,000 to the RI Foundation or another member recognized them by…