Wheels and Wings Festival & 5K
Since 2006 our Club has teamed up with the United Way of Lancaster County to fund the Summer Youth Experience. This program, run by Lancaster nonprofits with grant funds we provide, gives more than 1,110 city youth fun things to do that develop leadership skills and help prevent the “summer slide” in school.
Two years ago, we launched the Wheels and Wings Festival & 5K as our Spring Fundraiser to support this important Club program. The event gives us the chance to involve the whole community in supporting Lancaster’s youth. The festival’s got planes, helicopters, cars, a fun run, food, live music, bounce houses. There’s something for everyone, and in two years we’ve raised more than $20,000. Wow!
The WW5K Committee asks every member to help in some way. You can:
Ask your business—or, for you retirees, former business— to sponsor the event.
Invite business colleagues to participate by forwarding the attached materials to them.
Suggest a potential sponsor to me or Russ Harlan. We’ll do the rest.
Make a personal donation.
Sign up to volunteer on June 22!
Information about supporting WW5K 2019 is attached. Thanks in advance for your help in making this year’s festival the best one yet.
Yours in Rotary,
Jamie Alton
Sponsorship Chair
Presidential Grant Given to Lancaster County Council of Churches
President Althea presented Gail Rittenhouse, our speaker, with a check for $4,000 as part of the 2018/2019 Presidential Grants.
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The Rotary Foundation awarded $86,677,399 in funding to 1,306 grants during fiscal year 2018. Here is a breakdown of causes the grants supported.
Preventing Disease $35,660,986
Providing Clean Water $18,761,791
Supporting Education $10,998,136
Growing Local Economies $10,503,910
Saving Mothers & Children $7,204,677
Promoting Peace $3,547,899
Since it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent more than $4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects.
Rotary Rendezvous
The next Rotary Rendezvous will be May 22 at Stoners Grill at 5 PM. Lancaster Fire Chief Scott Little will be our guest. This qualifies as a makeup.
Car Wash Tickets on Sale
Car Wash Tickets will be available for purchase in the back of the room from May 1st thru June 5th.
Express Tickets - $8, Full Service -$19, Platinum - $18. Buy 10 tickets, get an Express Wash Ticket Free.
We accept check, cash and credit card. No IOU’s please
Foundation Giving Update
This week and next, members can do Rotary Foundation "check-ups" in the back of the meeting room. This might be especially helpful if you happen to be close to the next level, and would like to reach that level by the end of this giving year, June 30. There is a matching program for new members, so that if you choose to contribute a certain amount, know that the amount would be doubled. A donation of $100 is doubled to $200, and so on. A $1,000 donation earns a member the Paul Harris Fellow designation.
The Rotary Foundation has until June 30 to reach their goal, so please consider a donation before then.
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