Robotics Club Receives Grant from WGA Club

Our club is distributing turkeys at The Bridge on Tuesday evening, November 21, from 5:30- 7.  If you have an extra turkey that you would like to donate to needy members in our community, please bring it to The Church of the Nazarene on State Road.  If you would like to donate but are unable to drop off your turkey, please contact us using the link above.  Thank you!

Our club has long supported literacy within the community and one of our primary beneficiaries has been the Avon Grove library.  This year our funding was used to support the library book drop.  Stop by the library to view the new addition to the services offered by the library!

At Lynn Klingensmith's installation, we recognized three club members who have maintained perfect attendance for many years.  They are Larry Thompson (25 years), Dick Chambers (52 years) and Calvin Pickel (48 years).  To give you an appreciation of this level of dedication, 52 years of perfect attendance translates to about 2500 meetings!  This would be equivalent to perfect school attendance from K-college.  Dick Chambers, I think that you have earned a doctorate in Rotary!

 

Thank you to all the WGA Rotarians for coming out to volunteer at Project CURE on April 30.  We had amazing club participation and I am very proud of our club.  We really work well together!

 

We recently had three new members join our club, Diane Murphy, Gail Hudson and Peg Gober!  Diane is the Director of Marketing for BRS Insurance Services, Gail is a retired nurse and Peg is retired from a career in Occupational Health.  These new members have demonstrated the meaning of "service above self" in their careers and volunteer activities.  We are very fortunate to have Diane, Gail  and Peg join our club.

 

 

Learn more about Rotary and what we do in the community by attending our membership event on March 15 starting in the community room of the AG Library.  After a brief introduction, we will walk to the Family Promise Day home (at the previous ABVM convent), meet the director, Sue Minarchi, and tour the home.  The van that we helped to purchase for Family Promise will transport us to The Bridge, a family needs distribution center located at the Church of the Nazarene.  We will return to The GARAGE for refreshments and fellowship.  This event is free and open to anyone who would like to learn more about our club.

If you would like to list your business in the Rotarian Business to Business Directory, click on the link below:http://7450.rotarianb2b.com/index.php?menuid=11&rnum=865487734

On October 20 our club sponsored Family Literacy Night at Avon Grove Intermediate School.  The program began with an overview of the importance of regular reading at home. Literacy specialists reviewed topics such as how to select "just right" books for children to read independently. Parents were invited to attend two workshops of their choice while their children were entertained by a local storyteller. He kept students actively engaged in a series of enchanted tales as their parents were busy learning about literacy.

 

During the workshops, parents learned specific tips and techniques to use with children at home. After participating in the two workshops of their choice, parents joined their children in the cafeteria for some final storytelling.  The children were then invited to choose a book to take home.  These books were provided by the WGA Rotary.