McMinnville Breakfast Rotary Club
Service Activities
Romanian Foster Home
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 continue indefinitely.
Breakfast Rotary Feeds Hungry Kids (R.E.A.C.H. - Rotarians
Alleviates Child Hunger)
This project began 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 (absentee parents,
parents who do not care, families with extreme financial hardships) 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. 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 members.
College Scholarships
Motlow College ($1,000)
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
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.
Activities co-sponsored with McMinnville Rotary Club (the Noon
Club)
Habitat for Humanity
Purchase and install 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
Susan
Barrett is the Breakfast Rotary Coordinator for the Youthact
Program. Sponsor a Youthact Club at Warren County Middle School
