Stories

 

Our Club's Board of Directors had voted to award retiring Gilbert School District Superintendent Shane McCord a Paul Harris Fellowship in recognition of his longtime Community Service to Gilbert. George Pettit, Dave Dacus, Pat Schermetzler, Jim Schermetzler and Curt Ward attended the Board Meeting last night. The School Board was recognizing several groups last night. When he brought us all to the front of the room to recognize the Gilbert Rotary Club, he had no idea that we were giving him this prestigious award. He recognized our club for the many years of providing the dictionaries to all the 3rd grade classes in the Gilbert School District and our recent adoption and works with Burk Elementary School. He then handed the mike to George. George did an exemplary job of explaining that the Paul Harris Fellowship Award recognizes both Rotarians and Non-Rotarians for their Service Above Self efforts in both their professional and personal lives in serving their communities.  George recognized Shane for his 35+ years of community service in Gilbert. Again, George's Paul Harris Fellowship Award Presentation was OUTSTANDING!!

The meeting was a PROUD Moment for our Gilbert Rotary Club and ALL of its Members!

Gilbert Rotarians in their yellow work shirts (provided to each new member) were out in force for the meal in December, 2022.  We serve there every other month to benefit those in need of a hot meal and a smile.  We prepare the meal, serve the meal and clean up the kitchen and dining room, all in about three hours time.  Our 220 or so guests always appreciate what we do.  Paz de Cristo operates 365 nights a year, and provides many services, mostly with volunteer help.  

 

The ongoing pandemic and high unemployment rates have found more people without a home. Your donation will provide funds needed to purchase items for 100 Helping Hands Kits and 200 Paz de Cristo Shower Kits this Spring. Club members will be donating their time assembling and distributing the kits to the homeless in our community. Please help us reach our goal of $1500.00 +. The Rotary Club of Gilbert thanks you for your financial contribution.

 

For more information on our project: https://sites.google.com/view/rotary-club-of-gilbert-helping/home

 

Donate today: https://paypal.me/pools/c/8xzQnsMEky

 

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When:  POSTPONED

Where:  Southeast Regional Library, Shakespeare Room, 775 N. Greenfield Rd, Gilbert, AZ  85234

Why:  to raise funds for Gilbert Rotary Club's Dictionary Project, to give dictionaries to each Gilbert Public School Third Grader, plus San Tan Charter School and schools in East Mesa

 

Click here to print out a copy of our brochure will details for this event, a registration form for your team and a brief set of rules, including the purchase of mulligans:

 

Joe Williams, a twenty-five year Rotarian from Durango, Colorado, has been awarded the "Service Above Self Award" by Rotary International for his work with the Navajo Indians.

If you want to know more about our Gilbert Rotary Club, please READ OUR MOST RECENT BULLETIN (see link on the left side) or "find" us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/GilbertAZRotary/.

Gilbert has a strong Interact Club at Gilbert High School.  What a cool way to learn about Rotary, future professions and vocations and service to our community!  Our Perry High School Interactors raise money for Crutches For Africa (C4A) and gather wheelchairs, crutches and other medical devices to assist disabled Africans who continue to suffer from the crippling effects of Polio.  Way to go Interactors!

For years, Angalia Bianca had slept in abandoned buildings throughout Chicago. She stole. She did drugs. She spent time in and out of jail for forgery, theft, trespassing, and possession of narcotics. But after she landed in prison for the seventh time, something changed -- Bianca knew she wanted a better life. She just didn’t know how to make it happen.

 

After serving her time, Bianca sought help from a local homeless organization, A Safe Haven, and moved to its shelter in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Bianca followed the program closely -- she attended all the required meetings, passed drug tests, and volunteered at every opportunity.

Throughout India and around the world, Rotary clubs are celebrating a major milestone: India has gone three years without a new case of polio. The last reported case was a two-year-old girl in West Bengal on 13 January 2011. To mark this historic triumph, Rotary clubs illuminated landmarks and iconic structures throughout the country with four simple but powerful words, "India is polio free."

 

The three-year achievement sets the stage for polio-free certification of the entire Southeast Asia region by the World Health Organization. The Indian government also plans to convene a polio summit in February to commemorate this victory in the global effort to eradicate polio.