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Service Activities
Romanian Foster Home
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For the past six
years, our Club has provided approximately one-half of the annual
operating costs for a foster home in Romania ($6,000 annually).
The home houses 8-10 children. The support is expected to
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Breakfast Rotary Feeds Hungry Kids (R.E.A.C.H.
- Rotarians Alleviates Child Hunger)
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in 2006 and was awarded a District Simplified Grant.
In cooperation with a local elementary school, our Club is
helping to alleviate childhood hunger in our community by
putting food directly into children's hands in a managed,
cost-effective manner. These are children who come to school Monday mornings ravenously
hungry because, for various reasons
they have
limited access to food during weekends.
McMinnville Breakfast Rotary provides 50 bags of
nutritionally sound food items that do not need
refrigeration and the children can safely open and serve to
themselves.
The school has identified the children in need, and
discreetly distributes the food bags every Friday afternoon.
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Breakfast Rotarians pack the 50 bags each Tuesday morning
prior to the regular meeting. This year,
Breakfast Rotary is partnering with the First Presbyterian Church on
this project. The picture above shows Kay Dillon, the Breakfast
Rotary chairman of the REACH program with our District 6780
Governor, Robin Textor, packing bags of food along with other
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College Scholarships
Motlow College ($1000), Tennessee Technology Center ($500)
Tennessee Technological University ($500)
Other
Contributions
The club supports other community organizations: (i.e. Children's
Advocacy Center, Families in Crisis, Kids of the Community,
McMinnville Housing Authority, etc.) through annual cash donations.
Let Service Light the Way Award
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Bestowed annually on a local non-Rotarian who most
exemplifies the Rotary ideal of "Service above Self," the
recipient is recognized at our officer installation banquet,
awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship, and is made an honorary
member of the
McMinnville Breakfast Rotary Club.
Previous award winners
are: Nelma Justin, Diane Stanley, Charles Norton, Evelyn
Casey, Pat Bigbee and Nestor Stewart. The 2008
recipient is Charles Bogle.
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Activities co-sponsored with McMinnville Rotary Club (the Noon
Club)
Habitat for Humanity
Purchased and
installed the windows and doors for the Habitat for Humanity homes
built in Warren County.
This is usually one home per year, but
sometimes it is two.
Interact
Sponsor Interact Clubs at Warren County High School and at Boyd
Christian School
Youthact
Sponsor a Youthact Club at Warren County Middle School.
Susan Barrett is the Breakfast Rotary Coordinator for the Youthact
Program.
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