South Hill Rotary Club

Local Events

2010-2011

Picnic In The Park (07/02/2010)

As usual a large crowd turned out for this celebration of our Independence.

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District Governor Visit to South Hill (08/05/2010)
Our new 2010-2011 District Governor Jayne Sullivan paid a visit to our club. D. G. Jayne informed the club of the areas of importance and of her plans for the new Rotary year. Also she was given a South Hill Club Flag and a book about South Hill written by Frank Nanney a member of our club. D. G. Jayne was also invited to induct 4 new members into the club.

Special Visitor

Captain Kyle Strang, U. S. A. F. presented an American flag to the club that was flown at more than 18 bases in Afghanistan during his deployment. Capt. Strang is the nephew of Club President Randy Cash. The flag is shown being presented to Mickey Smith, Club Sgt. at Arms, and will become the Club's official ceremonial flag. (08/05/2010)

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"Feed The Dragons"

For the third year in a row local South Hill businessman Dwayne Gwaltney would like to have the community support the Dragons by hosting meals for the players prior to each home game. Dwayne is the owner of Town and Country Cleaners and South Hill Paint Store and is also a member of the South Hill Rotary Club. He brought the idea to the members of the club to have sponsors to help him with this project to support the Park View Dragons football team and the local youth. The Rotary Club is filled with local business people and professionals who support the community on a daily basis, so he thought this would be a good place to start. As a result the South Hill Rotary Club will host the first meal of the season for the team again this year. Pictured are Dwayne and Club P. R. Director Lisa Clary. (09/03/2010)

An additional donation for this project from Rotarian Susie Lucy.

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La Crosse Fest (08/28/2010)

Our neighbor Town La Crosse held their annual Festival and again invited the South Hill Rotary Club to use the event as a fund raising cooking event. You can tell that we work hard and we play hard.

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Reverse Raffle Scholarship Fundraiser
Let's Get Ready to Raffle - Prize Donations

Karobway Furniture

Aaron's Rents

South Hill Internal Medicine

Prize Tables

Fundraiser Photos 09/18/2010

The Club would like to thank all the businesses, listed on the banner in the photo below, that helped to make our event very successful. The scholarship program is one of our most important projects.

Grand Prize winners Konrad and Marie Michelitsch. Event Co-Chairs Beth and Mickey Smith and Club President Randy Cash.

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Bluegrass Affair on the Square (09/23/2010)

Unfortunately, a small crowd and one that was not terribly hungry or thirsty despite the 99 degree temperature.

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Farmer's Day (09/25/2010)

Another small crowd but overall not a bad day again despite temps in the upper 90's.

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GROUP STUDY EXCHANGE TEAM
(GERMANY DISTRICT 1850) 10/02 - 10/06/2010

The Rotary Foundation’s Group Study Exchange (GSE) program is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for businesspeople and professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 who are in the early stages of their careers. The program provides travel grants for teams to exchange visits in paired areas of different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country's culture and institutions, observe how their vocations are practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas.

In a typical four-week tour, applicants participate in five full days of vocational visits, 15 to 20 club presentations, 10 to 15 formal visits and social events, two to three days at the district conference, three to four hours per day of cultural and site tours, and three to four hours per day of free time with host families.

Rotarians in the host area provide for meals, lodging, and group travel within their district.

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District Conference
Oct. 15-17/Norfolk

The South Hill Club brings home the "Big Prize".
Not only did the club win 5 individual awards for Community Service, International Service, Net Membership Growth, Best Web Site and Best Club Bulletins, but the Club achieved a Presidential Citation. Then Past President Charles Wright was presented with an "Outstanding Presidents Award". As a result of the awards process and other criteria set by the District Governor the Club was awarded a Governor's Circle Award. Only 10 Clubs are presented with this award. From this group of 10 clubs the South Hill Club was selected as the winner of the "Governor's Cup". The club gets to keep this cup until the next District Conference in October 2011.

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Monster Mash - This was a huge crowd and a great fundraiser!!
(10/30/2010)

Also, we began something new. Paint Your Pinkie for Polio.

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Holiday Bazaar (11/20-21/2010)

Each year our members and their family's provide home baked items to sell at this event. Rotarian Frank Nanney wrote a book about South Hill and he sells copies at the Bazaar and donates a portion of his sales to the fundraiser.

"Paint Your Pinky Purple For Polio" Judy Jacquelin and Heather Chaney are working hard to help raise funds for the eradication of Polio.

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Tell Santa (12/01/2010)

The Town of South Hill's Chamber of Commerce Christmas Celebration.

Each year the Rotary Club members don a Christmas attitude (and a hat) and work as "Elves" helping with the tours of the Chamber of Commerce Building and with all the activities associated with the event.

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South Hill Christmas Parade 12/05/2010
Our "Flying Santa" is a big hit. We also show off out "Governor's Cup" to the Town.

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Salvation Army Bell Ringing (12/18/2010)

Each year Rotarians volunteer to "Ring The Bell" in support of the Salvation Army.

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Spouse's Night (01/06/2011)

Our spouses night committee Jean Bagley and Judy Jacquelin arranged a great family party for the club to celebrate the Holidays and the family of Rotary. Our entertainment was Rotarian Alli Brooks and her son who sang several songs for the club.

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Accelerated Reader Party (2)

Our continuing efforts to support ther children who meet the reading requirements to attend these special parties. This party is the "Popcorn and a Movie" event. The Club prepares popcorn and furnishes prizes for the children. (02/15/2011)

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Emergency Services Dinner: Each year the Club honors our local Police, Fire Department and Rescue Squad. These selfless volunteers put their lives on the line each day to protect our community. They truly embody the Rotary Motto of "Service Above Self". Pictured (L-R) are the representatives of the various services, Club President Randy Cash and Rotarian Dwayne Gwaltney who chairs the event. (02/17/2011)

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Rotary Takes Over Brian's Restaurant (03/02/2011)

The South Hill Club took over as the waitstaff at the restaurant where they normally hold their meetings. Event Chair Tommy Zincone arranged for the club to work with the staff one night a month in March, May and July. Numerous friends and even some family of club members came out to support the club in this fundraising effort. A fun time was had by the staff of Brian's, the Rotarians and the restaurant guests.

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President Elect Training Seminar (03/04/05)

Club President Elect Judy Jacquelin attended her training in Chantilly, VA. This seminar also included training for District Assistant Governor Randy Cash (current South Hill Club President). Both attendees had the opportunity to meet Rotary International President Kalyan Banerjee. President Kalyan is from India.

Pictured above are the 4 President Elects from Area 9. (L-R) Larry Harris of South Boston, Corrie Sites of Lawrenceville, Celeste Janson of Lake Country and Judy Jacquelin of South Hill. Also, Judy is pictured with District Governor Elect Jim Bynum and his wife Gayle.

Pictured above are South Hill Club President and Assistant Governor Elect Randy Cash with R. I. President Kalyan Banerjee. Also, A. G. E. Randy is pictured with D. G. E. Jim Bynum and his wife Gayle.

A fun photo of (L-R) D. G. E. Bynum, P. E. Judy, current District Governor Jayne Sullivan, P. E. Celeste, P. E. Larry and Mrs. Gayle Bynum. Also, D. G. E. Jim and R. I. P. E. Kalyan greet each other.

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"Strip It Down" (04/28/2011)

Our clubs newest way to have fun with new members. An established orientation program that introduces the new Rotarian to the world of Rotary and to the specific workings of the South Hill Club, its projects, events and the Club web site. New members John Davis and Susie Lucy completed all the required assignments and presented themselves to be "stripped." All new member badges have a red label indicating they are new. The appropriate "strip music" is played as membership chair Lee Warren "strips" off the red tag.

Affair on the Square (05/19/2011)

Spring Fest (05/21/2011)

A. R. Party (05/31/2011)

A. R. Party (06/01/2011)

Affair on the Square (06/02/2011)

Rosemont Wine and Art Festival (06/11/2011)

District Awards Ceremony (06/25/2011)

Club Awards Night (06/30/2011)

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2009-2010 Events

Picnic In The Park (07/03/2009)

(Estimated crowd of 3,000 in the park and another 2,000 outside)
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"Feed The Dragons"

The Park View Dragons are getting fired up to set the football field ablaze again this year and local businesses are once again signing on to "Feed the Dragons" before home games in South Hill. For the second year in a row local South Hill businessman Dwayne Gwaltney would like to have the community support the Dragons by hosting meals for the players prior to each home game. Dwayne is the owner of Town and Country Cleaners and South Hill Paint Store and is also a member of the South Hill Rotary Club. He brought the idea to the members of the club that he is looking for sponsors to help him with this project to support the Park View Dragons and the local youth. The Rotary Club is filled with local business people and professionals who support the community on a daily basis, so he thought this would be a good place to start. As a result the South Hill Rotary Club will host the first meal of the season for the team. Rotary Club members pictured are (L-R) Tom Smith, Tommy Zincone, Club President Charles Wright and Dwayne Gwaltney.

Rotarian Tommy Zincone prepared the lasagna meal for the players. Assistance for the rest of the meal preparation and serving was provided by Rotarians Tom Smith, Mickey Moore, Joseph Taylor and Randy Cash. Ms. June Nichols gave the club permission to use the school cafeteria for the event and assisted with preparing and serving the meal.

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LaCrosse Fest (08/29/2009)

Little did we know as we started this day it would end up as one of our absolute best and busiest days so far this year. It literally seemed that the line of customers would never stop. Some of our newest members got a real taste of just how hard the club works. One of our members (Jimmie Keith Crowder) was all dressed up with no place to go so we taught him how to make cotton candy and sent him off solo. The workers completely enjoyed watching as the saga unfolded and apparently so did some of the surrounding vendors.

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RotaryReverseRaffle(09/19/2009)

The lucky winners Rob Crisman and Sherry Behe of our Grand Prize of $2,500.00. Scott Burnette was the winner of the 40" LCD TV and stand.

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Farmers Day (09/26/2009)

Looks Like our president is the culprit eating our profits along with his sidekick the event chairman Pete Chalifoux. Gotcha!!

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Group Study Exchange Team
Visits From Brazil (09/29/09-10/01/09)

The G.S.E. Team is a Rotary Club Exchange Program that allows two Rotary Districts to send representative teams to visit each others clubs. This year District 7600 in Virginia and District 4650 in Brazil are exchanging teams. The Brazilian team will visit several clubs in Virginia and will be taken for tours of their respective areas around the state by the clubs being visited.

During their visit to South Hill the G.S.E. Team experienced a welcome dinner on arrival. Their first day allowed time for visits to local businesses including many who employ or are owned by Rotary members. In the afternoon and evening the team enjoyed a relaxing cruise on Lake Gaston. The next day was filled with more tours of the local Elementary School for a lunch buddy visit and a presentation at the middle school. After an exhausting 2 days the team joined the South Hill Club for dinner and entertained the club with a presentation about Brazil. The team was delivered to the Rotary Club of Franklin, VA on Friday 10/02/09.

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District Conference
Richmond, VA 10/09-10/11

Once again the South Hill Club had good attendance at the District Convention held at the Omni Hotel in Richmond. Six members attended the conference and enjoyed the fellowship that is so typical of this event. The members took tours, heard a variety of speakers and enjoyed meals and entertainment.

The members are shown during in the photos above during the Capital tour, the awards ceremonies and the "Parade Of Presidents" dinner. This year the club brought home 3 awards. The Public Relations Award (second year in a row) due to the efforts of Rotarian Lisa Clary, the International Service Award due to the efforts of Rotarian Lee Warren with the Haiti Water Filter Project, and the Club Bulletin Award due the the efforts of Rotarians Randy Cash, Lisa Clary and Tom Smith. This award encompasses the clubs weekly bulletin (The Bright Leaf) and the Monthly newsletter (Rotary Matters).

These awards are given to clubs for their performance during the previous Rotary Year. Last years Club President Herbert Farrar is shown receiving the awards from District Assistant Governor Bruce Settle.

Also pictured is the Lake Country Club President Peter Janson and his wife Celeste receiving the "Most Improved Attendance" Award. Past District Governor Bob Preston is shown presenting the award.

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Dictionary Project (10/14/2009)

The South Hill Rotary Club took up the widely known Rotary project of providing a dictionary to each student in the third grade at South Hill Elementary School. 2008-2009 was the clubs first venture into the project, so to see to its success it was expanded to provide a dictionary to all students grade 3-5 and to provide picture dictionaries to each classroom for grades k-2. The club also provided one book to every student in the school to encourage students to read. The project was an overwhelming success.

The club has decided to continue with the "Dictionary Project" with the donations to third graders each year.

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Affair On The Square - Monster Mash (10/31/2009)

Without a doubt one of the largest crowds ever for this event.

Our "firebug" cooks try to burn down the tent!

A really close look will reveal this events "profit thief".

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Family Picnic (11/05/2009)

Although it was slightly colder than the members would have liked, a really great time was shared by the hearty crowd that came to share fellowship and a meal.

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Holiday Bazaar (11/21, 22/2009)

The crowd this year was smaller than in recent years but over all the volunteers worked hard and had fun anyway.

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Chamber - "Tell Santa" (12/1/2009)

Preparations begin with 300 bags of popcorn being cooked on a Sunday afternoon.

As usual a great turn out of Rotarians. Fifteen hard working souls worked from 4-7 P.M. to help with the 701 visitors to the Chamber. Also lets not forget the four members who popped the corn for treats.

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Chamber Christmas Parade (12/06/2009)

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Emergency Services Dinner (01/21/2010)

Our annual Emergency Services Dinner was a huge success this year. More than 40 Police, Fire and Rescue Squad personnel attended the steak dinner prepared by the club members. Dwayne Gwaltney (second from the left) was our project chair for this event.

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Rotary Auction (04/17/2010)

We were off and running again this year with our annual auction. It was a long day but we finished the sale and now we all eagerly await the results.

We had one special item this year, a bottle of "Elvis Presley Wine". Bottled in 1978 and a collector's edition item. A very unique sale item.

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President Charles Presentation (04/21/2010)

The South Hill Rotary Club was invited to do a presentation to "Leadership Mecklenburg" representing local civic clubs and their activities in the local community and internationally. Leadership Mecklenburg is a "class" organized by the Mecklenburg County Chamber Of Commerce that offers a 10 month series of educational visits to all parts of Mecklenburg County in an effort to familiarize attendees with numerous facets of living in Mecklenburg County.

Lee Warren was also invited to do a presentation and packaging for Stop Hunger Now.

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Rotary District Assembly (04/24/2010)

Eight Club members attended the Rotary District Assembly in Virginia Beach April 24, 2010. Attendees were Randy Cash, P. E. , Charles Wright, Pres., Dan Poteralski, Sec., Carol Crough Treas., Mickey Smith, V.P., Duane Harper, Ass't Sec., Lee Nicholson, Director and Bruce Settle, A. G. Also traveling with us was incoming A. G. Russ Williams of the Lake Country Rotary Club.

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Beef Festival (04/28/2010)

Club members worked as volunteers to assist the South Hill Chamber of Commerce with the annual Beef Festival by placing arm bands and selling food and beverages.

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Teacher Appreciation 05/08/2010

Each year our club shows appreciation to the teaches at the local area schools by showing up early before school and delivering fresh warm donuts to the school staff.