Byesville Rotary plans spring projects

Easter Bunny accepts invitation to Byesville Rotary "Breakfast with the Bunny"

Byesville Rotarians will be busy this spring. Activities include both service projects and fundraising events,

On March 20, Byesville Club members will select a Meadowbrook student to represent the club at the Rotary District Four Way Test Speech contest. The Four-Way Test contest challenges students to think about how personal ethics affects their lives. Each student competing in the speech contest is asked to give a 5-7 minute original speech in which the student applied the Rotary Four-Way Test to everyday relationships

The club’s annual Breakfast with Bunny fundraiser is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, March 31. The menu is pancakes, sausage, and eggs. The Easter Bunny will attend and meet with all children attending the breakfast.

Interact club induction scheduled for April 3 at Meadowbrook High School. Interact is a Rotary organization that encourages and supports high schools students to become involved in community service projects. One of the projects the Interact Club is considering is the ShelterBox program. ShelterBoxes were developed to be delivered to disaster sites. The boxes contain basic tools and supplies that people need for survival after a disaster hits. Boxes were sent to victims of Katrina and to survivors of the tornadoes in Arkansas.

The 2012 Scholarship Committee, chaired by Jim Bakos, has begun to put together scholarship application packets which will be available to Rolling Hills seniors graduating from Meadowbrook High School and from Mid-East Career and Technology Center—Buffalo Campus. A total of 5 scholarships will be awarded.

Plans for the annual Byesville Rotary Golf Scramble are in process. Donation to this event raise funds to support the scholarship program. The outing is tentatively planned for a weekend in May.

Byesville Rotary will work with Southeastern Med to sponsor their 11th Annual Health Screening this spring. Date of screening and information about registering for the screening will be provided at a future date.

Byesville Rotary meets every Tuesday, 7:30 am, at the Stop Nine Senior Center at 60313 (GPS use 60299) Southgate Road, Byesville. Anyone interested in learning more about the Byesville Rotary can call Membership Chairs Marty Patchen, 740-685-3828, or Randy Launder, 740-685-8294.