GALLIPOLIS ROTARY CLUB BLOG

Gallipolis Rotary Learns about Gallia Snack Pack Project

Nancy Smith local organizer for the Gallia County Snack Pack Program addressed the regular meeting of the Gallipolis Rotary Club.  President Deb Rhodes presided and Matt Willis gave the invocation.

Rotary Reads–Next Tuesday is our regular time to read in the elementary schools so Emily Dailey had a big box of books on hand at the meeting for Rotarians to choose their books to read.  Our November readers include Shirley Doss at Southwestern Elementary, Jenny Evans at Addaville, Tammi Brabham at Vinton, and President Deb Rhodes at Hannan Trace.  This is actually a fun time for both Rotarians and the kids.  A big Rotary THANKS goes out to these readers for volunteering for November!  Be sure to get some good pictures.

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We had an excellent attendance this morning for the regular meeting of the Gallipolis Rotary Club.  President Deb Rhodes welcomed members and two guests–Evans Smalley and Dr. Grae Schuster, Radiation Oncologist and Medical Director for the Holzer Center for Cancer Care.  Rotarian Bob Hood gave the invocation.

Dictionary Distribution–Our annual dictionary distribution to 5th graders was held last Thursday and Gallipolis Rotarians were in all the elementary schools in the county.  Greg Sojka visited Rio Grande Elementary, Jim Morrison and Debbie Saunders visited Washington, Chuck Clark visited Southwestern, Dan and Edna Whitely visited Vinton, Cleeland Willis visited Green, Bonnie McFarland and President Deb visited Hannan Trace, Denise Shockley and Emily Dailey visited Addaville, and Bob Hood visited Ohio Valley Christian.  Matt Willis mentioned how Rotarians need to be ‘on your game’ as these kids are really sharp!

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October 16th was National Dictionary Day and Noah Webster’s birthday and the day the Gallipolis Rotary Club visited every 5th grade in Gallia county to distribute a dictionary to every student.  This is an annual club project as a part of Rotary’s effort in improving literacy in the world.

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GALLIPOLIS ROTARIANS SCOOP UP A RECORD!

President Deb Rhodes opened the first regular meeting after the big weekend where Gallipolis Rotarians scooped their way to record ice cream sales at the 38th annual Bob Evans Farm Festival.  Deb recognized Festival chairman, Paul Koch, and asked him to come to the podium to announce the unofficial total.  Paul had no clue about the total as he was able to take Monday as vacation.  It was with great satisfaction and pride in the efforts of his fellow Gallipolis Rotarians as he announced the total three day sales of $16,494.00!  That’s a lot of scooping!  The assembled Rotarians rose and gave Paul and hearty ‘Standing-O’ in appreciation for his hard work in reaching this achievement!  Congratulations, Paul! Gallipolis Rotarians had a special guest scooper at the festival this year, District Governor Tom Kockensparger came down to Rio Grande on Friday and helped out scooping vanilla on apple dumplings for several hours!  Thanks for coming down to Gallia county and helping us out, Tom!

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