The Rotary Club of Anthem would like to thank Cross of Christ Church, along with project co-chairs Lisa Jones and Deb Polakowski for the hygiene kit supplies they provided to us for our Homeless Youth program. They organized an event and received and prepared 98 male and 89 female hygiene kits. They donated these items to us and it will greatly help our inventory of items needed to continue to satisfy the need of helping the kids and families we serve to have access to these essential items. We truly appreciate the gesture and support!
On Friday, June 18th the Anthem Rotary Board of Directors announced that the annual scholarship fund that we have awarded will now be named the Edward F. Varney Memorial Scholarship Fund. Several members visited Ed at his home on Saturday to inform him of the naming of the fund in his name. Ed was a long time Rotarian and very instrumental in the establishment and annual work done to award scholarships to eligible graduating High School Seniors in the Anthem and surrounding areas. Every year Anthem Rotary would award five $1,000 scholarships. This past year we were very fortunate to be able to fund scholarships to all 18 qualified applicants and will be announcing the names very shortly at a reception for the winners. Ed was so excited to hear the news of the naming of the scholarship in his honor, but more importantly that the hard work fundraising by the club had enabled us to award 18 scholarships this year.
Sadly, Ed passed away early Sunday morning June 20th but his work will go on forever through this fund.
Anyone wishing to donate to this fund can do so by mailing a check to:
Anthem Rotary Foundation
Edward F. Varney Scholarship Fund
3655 W Anthem Way Suite A109
Anthem, AZ 85086
Anthem, AZ 85086
United States of America