Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 200 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000 Rotary clubs.
 
Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.

 The main objective of Rotary is service, in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.

Rotary Poem
By: Rotarian Lisa Clary

FOUR WAY TEST WINNERS

1st Place    Alyx Powers
2nd Place    Jackie Johnson
3rd Place    Steven Swank

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LOCAL ROTARY PROJECTS

Community Projects

WORLDWIDE ROTARY PROJECTS

POLIO PLUS

Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous service programs, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised US$240 million to immunize the children of the world; by 2005, Rotary's centenary year and the target date for the certification of a polio-free world, the PolioPlus program will have contributed US $500 million to this cause. In addition, Rotary has provided an army of volunteers to promote and assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries around the world.

ROTARIANS AGAINST HUNGER

Another association for Rotarians is the "RAH" (Rotarians Against Hunger) partnership with "Stop Hunger Now". The goal of the partnership as with the ending of polio worldwide is to end hunger on a global scale. "RAH" was formed by Rotarian Ray Buchanan, also President of Stop Hunger Now, and Rotarian Hal Smith. Ray is a Rotarian in the Raleigh Rotary Club and Hal is a Rotarian with the East Chapel Hill Rotary Club both in North Carolina. It has grown in their District 7710 clubs and is expanding to other districts and clubs worldwide. The links below provide more information about how everyone can be involved in this worthy endeavor.

Stop Hunger Now.org

  Denny Hardee, Ray Buchanan and Lee Warren of "Stop Hunger Now" with Past President John Stockton.

  Club Secretary Tom Smith makes our donation to Rotarian Lee Warren of "Stop Hunger Now" with the promise to package the meals at a later date. (10/19/2006)

  Rotarian Lee Warren hosts the ribbon cutting for the "Stop Hunger Now" location in South Hill.

        Rotarians help "Liberty Tax Service" package food for the "Stop Hunger Now" program.

  The club makes a donation to Rotarian Lee Warren of Stop Hunger Now. As a local and International program, our club supports the efforts of Lee and the Rotarians who began the organization with 2 annual donations as well as volunteering to package these products for shipment as part of the donation. (01/25/2007)

Rotarians Jerry Klingenberg, Tom Smith, Lee Nicholson and Randy Cash help Lee with the packaging of food for the next shipment. (01/27/2007)

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MORE LOCAL PROJECTS

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"THE BREAD BOX"

The South Hill Club also supports a local organization that provides food to those in need within our local community. Rotarian Tom Leggett, as head of this worthwhile project, accepts a donation from the club as one of 2 annual donations. (01/25/2007)

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JAMESTOWN 400 PROJECT
MARCH 30, 2007

The South Hill Rotary Club is participating in the Jamestown 2007 Beautification Program by having crepe myrtle trees planted along West Atlantic Street across from the SHPD building. Wayside Nursery in South Hill  agreed to do the plantings and the project is officially underway with the Nursery Crew, Rotarians, and Police Chief Norman Hudson all on hand. Rotarian Steven Stanley is heading the Rotary's Jamestown 2007 Committee. The project is listed as one of many projects underway around the state as the celebration approaches. See our link page for a link to the official Jamestown 2007site. (03/30/2007)

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Find out more about Rotary by visiting:

 Rotary International web site.

 Information on this page came from:

"The About Rotary and the RI Programs pages on the Rotary International web site"

Rotary Theme for 2007-2008

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Wilfrid J. Wilkinson - President, Rotary International
James R. Pierce - District Governor, District 7600
Bruce R. Settle III - Assistant Governor District 7600
Thomas G. Zincone - President, South Hill  Rotary Club
 Herbert L. Farrar - President-Elect, South Hill Rotary Club

For more information, please contact:
Randy Cash (randy@southhillrotaryclub.org)


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