Byesville Rotary distributes over 300 Xmas food baskets

Pictured: Interact and Byesville club members filling food boxes.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Don't forget Santa will be here for breakfast at the Senior Center on Saturday, 8:00am--11:30.

Byesville Rotary members celebrated the holiday season by giving back to their community. On Saturday, club member distributed over 300 food baskets to families in the Rolling Hills School District.

 

The food basket community service project is one of the club’s largest annual projects. Club members began raising funds for this project several months ago. Part of the funds raised by their chicken BBQ’s support the food baskets. Fundraising also includes bell ringing and soliciting local individuals, organization, and businesses for donations. The club also received a grant from Rotary District 6690.

 

Food baskets included both non-perishable and perishable foods. The Meadow Brook Interact club, sponsored by Byesville Rotary, helped fill the baskets by sponsoring a canned food drive at all the schools in the Rolling Hills School District. Club members and Interact members spend the day preceding the food basket distribution sorting cans and filling baskets with non-perishable food items.

 

Early on the morning of food basket distribution day, club members accepted deliveries of perishable food items including turkeys, milk, oleo, eggs, and produce. As families arrived to collect their baskets, perishable items were added to the food baskets. Friends and family members, Interact students, as well as several members of the Byesville VFW and members of the Phi Chapter of the Alpha Pi Sigma sorority joined Byesville Rotarians to share the Christmas spirit and help load baskets into cars.

 

The club meets 7:30 am every Tuesday 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 Evelyn Spring, 740-439-4343.

Meadow Brook FFA team teaches Byesville Rotary how to hold a meeting

Pictured: The Meadow Brook FFA Parliamentarian Team—back row: Erica Showalter, Dakota Burris, Miranda Miser, Andrea Kackley, Olivia Anderson; front row: Sarah Mercer, Connor Frame, and Taylor Modro.

The Parliamentarian Procedures Team from the Meadow Brook FFA chapter demonstrated how to hold a meeting and showed their expertise in applying Robert’s Rules of Order. And, wow, can these kids hold a meeting. They were effective, wasted no time, were courteous to each other even when they were disagreeing, and each person who wanted to express an opinion got a chance to.

The team competes at the state level and their demonstration was impressive. At a competition, the 8 person team has 15 minutes to present opening and closing formalities and a meeting during which the team must correctly use at least 6 points from Robert’s Rules of Order. For example, the Meadow Brook demonstrated how to make and 2ed a motion, make an amendment to a motion, discuss pros and cons of the motion, and vote on the motion.

Each member of the team wore the official FFA uniform: a dark blue jacket with the FFA and, a white blouse or shirt with a blue tie or scarf, black slacks or skirt, black shoes, and black stockings.

Dr. Joe Smith, who often serves as a judge for the parliamentary competitions, pointed out that standards are high for the Parliamentarian competitions. He explained that the meeting secretary was actually taking minutes during the competition and that the minutes will later be reviewed by competition judges for accuracy. He noted that judges are strict. Teams can lose points if jackets are not zipped to the correct height or if FFA members display more than two pins. One member later open up her jacket to reveal that she stores the other dozen or so pins she has been awarded on the inside of her jacket.

The goal of the FFA Organization is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing a student’s potential for leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.

The club meets 7:30 am every Tuesday 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 Evelyn Spring, 740-439-4343.

Byesville Rotary donates toys to Interact Angel Tree

Pictured: Byesville Rotary members donate toys to the Meadow Brook Interact Club for their Angel Tree project.

 

No reading assignment for next meeting.

 

Reminder:
Call Bob Long or Denis Harding to volunteer for bell ringing. This effort raises funds to support the Christmas food basket program. We have around 160 families to provide baskets for.

 

 

Mark the dates December 14 and 15. Celebrate Christmas with other club members by helping pack and distribute food baskets.

 

 

Byesville Rotary members celebrate the holiday season by giving back to their community. At their Tuesday meeting, club members brought toys to be donated to the Rolling Hills Interact Club in support of their Angel Tree project. This project insures that about 40 students from the Rolling Hills elementary and middles schools will be getting Christmas gifts from Santa this year.

 

On Friday, December 14, Interact club members will return the favor by joining Byesville club members to fill Christmas food baskets. Basket filling day takes muscles and stamina. Interact students and Rotary club members will begin their day by collecting hundreds of pounds of canned goods from each of the Rolling Hills schools. During November, students from Rolling Hills School District have collected canned goods and other non-perishable items to contribute to the food basket project. Once the canned goods are delivered, cans will be sorted and up to 200 baskets will be filled. 

 

Christmas Food Basket distribution will begin on Saturday, December 15, at 7:00am. Club members will arrive early to pack another 200 baskets with perishables including milk, eggs, and turkey. Baskets can only be given to families who have signed up. Bob Long, chair of the Christmas Food Basket project, stated that the food basket program is open to any family living in the Rolling Hills School District. Families who would like to receive a basket and have not yet signed up can call him at 740-685-3620. The deadline to sign up for a basket is Wednesday, December 12. 

 

On Saturday, December 22, Byesville Rotarians will ring in Christmas week by hosting “Breakfast with Santa.” Breakfast will be served between 8:30 am—11:30am at the Stop Nine Senior Center in Byesville. Santa will be at the breakfast to talk to the children attending the breakfast. 

 

The club will be serving pancakes, eggs, sausage, juice, milk, and coffee. Cooking again this year are Rich Dair, Head Chef, and Larry Miller, Pancake Specialist. Breakfast is $5.00. Pictures with Santa are complementary with the purchase of breakfast. Funds raised at the breakfast will be used by the Rotary to support local service projects such as providing dictionaries for every third grader in Rolling Hills or supplying Christmas food baskets.

 

The club meets 7:30 am every Tuesday 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 Evelyn Spring, 740-439-4343.