Upscale Prom dinner helps fund scholarships
The Rotary Club of Pulaski County (Club #58661 of District 6080) teamed up with Vidies Bistro to provide local Prom couples an all-inclusive, upscale meal in downtown Waynesville.
The Rotary Club of Pulaski County (Club #58661 of District 6080) teamed up with Vidies Bistro to provide local Prom couples an all-inclusive, upscale meal in downtown Waynesville.
Waynesville High School’s Interact Club hosted its first International Night, which featured soldiers from Egypt who are stationed at Fort Leonard Wood. After enjoying Egyptian cuisine, the soldiers provided information about their country, and the students shared their view of the United States through their teenage eyes.
The Warrensburg Rotary Club was honored to receive Missouri’s first Rotary Peace Fellow, Margaret Carolla Maues, as featured speaker during its meeting this week. Margaret was selected to join the first cohort of Rotary Peace Fellows in November 2001 which led her to studies at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2003.
Congratulations to those clubs in District 6080 that achieved President Sakuji Tanaka’s Presidential Citation for the 2012-13 year.
Oklahoma Rotary Districts 5750 and 5770 have now established a 501(c)3 fund. Contributions to the fund will be applied toward disaster relief and recovery from the massive tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma earlier this week.
I have received word of several not-for-profit agencies that are actively involved in meeting the immediate disaster needs in Moore, Oklahoma. Several of these organizations are represented within our Rotary membership. You may wish to consider them in your response to this crisis.
The film documentary “Deadline in Disaster” is a testament to their dedication in covering the unexpected and unfathomable disaster and its aftermath. The film foreshadows many of the impacts, emotions and challenges that will be experienced by residents of Moore, Oklahoma in the coming weeks.
Help the “Don’t Meth with MO” program earn $10,000 to do more good work within our district! Vote online for Assistant Governor John Horton to be the national “Safeco Insurance® Community Hero.”
In 2013, Marshfield Rotary Park was chosen as the Readers’ Choice Winner for Best Park. In 1982, the dream of the Rotary Park of Marshfield was made into a reality. What began as an unwanted piece of swampland is now a beautiful park that includes several pieces of playground equipment, tennis courts, softball and soccer fields, horseshoe pits and a walking/biking trail and the Rotary Park Peace Pavilion.
It’s May. We’re nearing the end of a Rotary year and the DGs around the world are getting squirrely. You see, we’re within two months of the end of the Rotary year and there are many thousands of dollars yet to come in to The Rotary Foundation. In District 6080, we need nearly $90,000 to