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Wednesday, July 28, 2021  6:00 PM CT/7:00 PM ET  (90 minutes)
Silver linings: New Opportunities for Doing Rotary: 
Projects, fundraisers, and new meeting formats that Rotarians developed during the pandemic that can be used in the future to expand our reach and increase our impact.  

Saturday, July 31, 2021  9:00 AM CT/10:00 AM ET  (90 minutes)
Sharing Miracles: 
How sharing the stories of the impact of our projects in a media campaign can foster both giving to the foundation and attracting new members to expand our reach.

Wednesday, August 4, 2021  6:00 PM CT/7:00 PM ET  (90 minutes)
Enhancing Member’s Experience: 
Creating experiences and fostering environments in which members and prospective members feel welcomed and engaged to enhance participant engagement.

Saturday, August 7, 2021  9:00 AM CT/10:00 AM ET  (90 minutes)
Innovative New Club Fair: A networking opportunity to share district and club successes of innovative new club models to expand our reach and enhance participant engagement.

 

Struthers Rotary Club President Karen Edwards was presented a Paul Harris Fellow award at the Sixties Bash held at Struthers Mauthe Park on June 24^th.  Karen possesses boundless energy and successfully led the club through a very difficult year.  While other clubs went dormant during the Covid-19 pandemic, Karen held weekly Zoom meetings and helped keep our spirits alive.  The Struthers Rotary Club, under Karen’s leadership, managed to meet its community improvement goals and created partnerships with the city, schools and other Rotary clubs to several projects.  Karen exemplifies the Rotary Motto, Service Above Self, and has expended amazing amounts of time and effort toward seeing the Struthers Rotary have a truly successful year.  Karen has also agreed to accept an additional term as Struthers Rotary President to continue her efforts to see the club through the pandemic and the following recovery period.

 

More information about the Struthers Rotary Club can be found at https://www.facebook.com/struthers.rotary or by e-mail at struthersrotary@aol.com.  Information about the Paul Harris Fellow Award can be found at https://www.rotary.org/en/history-paul-harris-fellow-recognition

 

Pictured above:  Struthers Rotary President Karen Edwards (left) receives the Paul Harris Fellow Award from Rotarian Mary Ann Morell (right) at the Struthers Rotary Club "60s Bash

                                            

     In spite of COVID-19 and more than a year of virtual meetings, the Rotary Club of Wooster, chartered on January 21, 1921, is in the middle of a year-long gala celebration of its centennial anniversary, which will culminate with a banquet on October 7. 

 

     Throughout the year, club members have enjoyed “digging in” to the past with weekly emails compiled by club historian, Ray Leisy, featuring highlights of the club’s activities and memorable programs during its first 100 years.

 

     Monthly feature articles, published in the Wooster Daily Record and curated by Past DG/ Past Club President Phil Mariola, chair of the 100^th anniversary committee, have focused on many of the club’s local and international projects - digging latrines in Kenya, and digging holes for the more than 2000 American flags which comprise the Wooster Rotary Parade of flags – to name just a few.

 

     Of course, the celebration also includes several community projects, at least one of which involves- you guessed it – digging into the future. 

 

     Members of the anniversary committee thought it would be fitting to plant 100 trees in honor of Wooster Rotary’s 100 years, and contacted the city of Wooster for suggestions about where to plant the trees.  The city had another idea: would the club be willing to rescue and transplant some trees that had been overplanted at the Secrest Arboretum on the campus of The Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Science in the aftermath of a 2010 tornado?  The arboretum had offered to give the trees to the city, but moving and replanting the trees, many of which were 20 to 30 feet tall, was going to be costly, and not covered by the city’s budget.

 

     Recognizing that many of the trees in question had been planted by Rotarians in collaboration with several other service clubs following the devastating tornado, the club was eager to participate in the rescue effort, and quickly agreed to relocate the trees to the city’s Oak Hill Park, a 100 acre work-in-progress, and home to many species of trees, plants, birds and other wildlife, with a 1.7 mile paved trail for walking, jogging and biking, a giant sledding hill and ample space for cross-country skiing.

 

     The park also includes a large pavilion and a bike repair station, both donated by Wooster Rotary, and now features an impressive “Founder’s Row,” with 24 of the rescued  trees lining a portion of the trail, to honor each of the club’s 24 founding members.  Signage, which will commemorate the 100^th anniversary, and will include the names of the 24 founders, is currently under construction, and will complete Phase I of the Oak Hill Park improvement project.

 

     Phase II of the project is currently under design by a committee of club members led by Past President Ron Holtman.  During this phase, the club will develop a “Memorial Grove,” featuring additional trees and plants designed to provide year-round color, benches and signage honoring the 37 club members with 50 or more years of membership, with space to add the names of members who achieve that goal in the future.

 

     We hope you will come visit us in Wooster and spend some time in Oak Hill Park.  We think you’ll dig it!

 

 

 

 

 

Remember the popular ad campaign created years ago by America’s Dairy Council, with the catchy phrase “Got Milk?” paired with a photo of a celebrity wearing a milk mustache?

 

Today one thing we’ve got, no questions asked, is plastic.

 

The numbers below reveal the impact of plastic bags alone:

The Rotary Club of Lake Township feels our club is doing its part to reduce plastic bags and film going into our local environment, laying alongside our roadways, and entering state landfills by participating in a simple plastic recycling program.  It’s one that you can easily support as well.

 

Our Club of Lake Township began participating in the NexTREX Community Recycling program in July of 2019, after learning about it from friends and members of the Port Summit Rotary Club 

 

TREX is a U.S. manufacturer of premium outdoor living products including benches, decking, and railing, and for the past decade has accepted plastic recycled film to create their product line.  The company offers recycling challenges to schools and community groups to participate, specifically, to collect 500 pounds of plastic within a six-month period.  If we do so, we receive a high performance composite bench, such as the two shown in the photo, made by TREX.

 

In less than a year, we have earned three beautiful park benches, which we will be donating to community partners in our area.  One will soon be placed next to the Love Our Community warehouse in Hartville; the final resting places for the other two are yet to be determined.

 

It is easy to collect the plastic film needed by TREX because the plastic film is commonly used for food and convenience packaging today.  Here is what is accepted:

 

NOTE: All plastic collected must be clean, dry, and free of food residue.

 

As our members collect plastic, we weigh it and report the weight to one of several Rotary Club members who maintain a plastic collection spreadsheet.  We also forward our recycling totals to Stephanie Hicks, Materials Sourcing Manager at TREX, via e-mail.  We then drop our plastic off, preferably collected in clear or light colored plastic bags – no black heavy duty garbage bags, please - to our local Hartville Giant Eagle grocery store’s large plastic collection bin, located outside by its main entrance.  As our local retailer participating as a collection point for TREX, Giant Eagle moves the plastic collected on its way to a TREX manufacturing facility.

 

We have encouraged other local community groups to begin their own NexTREX plastic collection during the past year.  To date, the Hartville Lions Club, Lake Township FISH Food Pantry, and Northhampton Rotary Club are also now collecting plastic for TREX.

 

If you are currently donating your plastic bags and film to Giant Eagle in Hartville as a community member, know that you are contributing as well to this great TREX recycling program.  Remember another great way you can help the environment is to bring and use your own shopping bags to the store every time you shop.

 

If your organization wants to accept the plastic film recycling challenge, visit https://recycle.trex.com or call Stephanie Hicks for more information at 540-542-6494, or e-mail her at NexTrex@trex.com.

 

 

Our group has already given out over 2500 dollars in vouchers.  50 vouchers purchased from the 3 grocery stores within our city. Nemenz IGA, Save A Lot and Lightner meats.  In addition, Community Corps has given 500 dollars to first responders in the form of 50 dollar gift cards to support local restaurants within the city.
The program is ongoing at this time+  Thank you Mary Ann Morell Club Avenue Chairman.  We have also gained a new member Jackie Ramkey.

 

FEED THE HUNGRY

 

STRUTHERS STRONG

 

If you know someone that has lost their job or is struggling during this difficult time, submit their name and phone number, and address and Struthers Rotary will help with a gift certificate for food.

 

Send info to ;

Struthers Rotary

Feed The Hungry

PO Box 127

Struthers Ohio 44471

 

Individuals must have proof of Struthers's residency. (Utility Bill etc . )

 

Sponsors :

Struthers Rotary and Struthers Rotary Community Corps,

First Catholic Slovak Union, Branch 682

and CASTLO Community Improvement Corporation

have made generous donations to this fund.

 

Monetary Donations or Gift cards from private individuals are welcomed and can be sent by PayPal to the link at the top of the page or mailed to :

Struthers Rotary

(Feed the Hungry Fund)

In memo

P.O. Box 127

Struthers Ohio 44471

Or contact Maryann Morell