Huron Township Rotary Club
Goodfellows Community Project
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Over 330+ people participated in sorting, packing, and distributing over the last three days - Fr, Sa, Su. This is an amazing number of people who are randomly called together for this cause of providing gifts and food for 170 families - including 300 children. When you consider that the link is for someone else to have a better Christmas - or to have one - and that it could be a casual conversation, an article in the paper, or a membership in an organization, that gets the word out. HT Rotary certainly demonstrates that they can and do what is best, putting Service above Self.
(Probably the largest volunteered community service project in District 6400!)
Rotary Club - Membership Succees Story
Gained 10 members - 08 09
Goal 10 members - 09 10 |
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Huron Township Rotary Club
DG Neil, President Bill Wiley, AG Lois VanStipdonk
Biker Neil
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The Huron Township Rotary awarded $9500 in scholarships to high school seniors as part of the Huron High School Academic Awards Program held May 20th. R.P. Lilly, a township board member and Rotarian, opened by stating that “selecting the scholarship recipients from the applications is never an easy task, and it gets more difficult every year. Scholastic achievement, community service, and financial need are some of the factors considered in the selection process.”
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GOODFELLOWS EVENT
2008
It can’t be said that the Huron Township sits back and watches. Under the guidance of Rotary wives Linda Burke and Helena Lilly, the club successfully launched and led the annual Goodfellows drive following the theme “No Child Without A Christmas.
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The initiative continued with the sale of the Goodfellow papers on the Saturday following the Thanksgiving holiday. An overwhelming response in giving provided a basis for the gifts that over 162 families, with 323 children, received this year. In addition, the personal donations from others helped this cause. The Huron School District stepped right up to the cause. Brown Elementary offered a mitten and hat tree, Miller Elementary sent just under 3000 cans of food, Renton Junior High sold items in their special pre-Christmas sale that the students had created and donated an overwhelming amount of money. The high school students joined in with the Toys for Tots initiative. But the district did not stop there: the Huron Service Employees, Teamsters 214 solicited their members for support and they began on the day of the Goodfellow paper sale by driving from corner to corner in the mini bus and giving the corner workers a chance to warm up! The mini bus carried the cans from Miller to the high school when the sorting and packing began too.
There are so many people to thank for their efforts and the 173 volunteers on Sunday alone (over the two days of sorting, there were 220 volunteers), ranging from both boy and girl scout troops, Outdoor Challenge, public and fire safety, members of the Honor Society at the high school and the Junior Honor Society at Renton, the Superintendent of Schools, team members from the custodial and maintenance crews, and the donations from Garden City Hospital employees, Apple Charlie’s Orchards, and many more who just heard about the effort and stopped by to give of their time.
But the effort does not stop here. The Huron Township Rotary represents the Goodfellows all year round. And their collection for the following year began in the post-Christmas sales and will stretch through the coming months.
