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Rotary Club of
Fall River

Trish Robertson

Welcome to the Rotary Club of Fall River’s website. We hope this site will give you a little insight into who we are and what we do and that it will spark enough interest that you will come down to White’s for lunch on almost any Thursday and meet us in person.

Rotary is a International organization that unites neighbors, community leaders, and global citizens for the common good. This year’s theme is “Rotary Serving Humanity.” Major areas of focus include promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, saving mothers and children, supporting education, and growing local communities. The Fall River club both supports these efforts internationally and locally.

Here in the Greater Fall River community we support the work of several non-profit organizations and schools through small grants and volunteering. We also run a number of programs each year including providing backpacks and schools supplies to low income children, hosting a “First Impressions” event to help BCC and other young people enter the work force with their best foot forward, and providing new sneakers and socks to children in needs through “Happy Feet” just to name a few. We are able to do this by raising money though fundraisers each year, most notably our Pancake Breakfast in the Fall and the Affair to Remember in the Spring.

How can you help?

Consider joining the Rotary Club of Fall River, we are always looking for committed, energetic individuals of all ages to expand the reach of what we can do.
Support our fundraisers through your work or personally; or make direct donations to our club to support particular projects (End Polio Now, Happy Feet, and the Backpack Project just to name a few.)
Volunteer with us as we support local agencies.

If you would like more information please reach out to me at Trish.Robertson@bristolelder.org or 774-627-1380. I look forward to speaking with you.

Trish
President 2016-2017

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We meet Thursdays at 12:15 PM
White's of Westport

66 State Road
Westport, MA 02790
United States

Phone:

(774) 627-1380

Email:

Trish.Robertson@bristolelder.org

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Volunteering for the Insane Inflatable

The Rotary Club of Fall River will be helping at the Insane Inflatable on Saturday July 22nd and we need your help! We need 20 volunteers from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. to fulfill our commitment. Volunteers will be assisting with:  

Registration: Checking runners in with an IPad, answering their questions and providing race materials. 
Merchandise: Organizing and selling race merchandise to runners, using an IPad.
Bag Check: Checking, retrieving and safe guarding runner’s personal items while they are participating in the event. 
Start Line: Assisting the Event Director in maintaining an orderly process of sending off runners in various wave times. 
Finish Line: Providing runners encouragement as they finish the race and distributing waters, snacks, tee shirts, and medals.
Water Stop: Being out on the course providing runners with water.
Course Obstacles: Monitoring runners as they are completing the course obstacles; ensuring their safety and providing them encouragement. 

Volunteers that assist us on Saturday from 7 a.m.- 1 p.m. will receive a volunteering tee shirt, water and snacks. The Rotary Club will receive a $50 donation that we will use to support the eradication of Polio.

Volunteers need to be at least 10 years old. If they are under 16 they need to be volunteering with a parent. If they are 16 or 17, a parent needs to sign the online consent form, but the parent does not need to be present to volunteer. Those 18 and older just need to sign the online consent form.

How to Sign Up as a Volunteer:

You must sign up using the Providence Volunteer Local page: HERE
Use the password Rotary and choose our shift: Rotary Club of Fall Rivers MA
Fill out the form with your contact information and sign the consent form

For our club to receive credit, volunteers must sign up under our correct shift. It is imperative that everyone utilizes our online signup tool, as it is the best way for us to communicate with volunteers. We must have at least 10 volunteers signed up by June 24th.

How else can you help?

Share the registration code ROTARY. Runners will receive $5 off, and our club will get $5 back per order

You do not need to be a member of Rotary to help us raise funds for this worthy cause. So come out and enjoy the fun with us! If you have any questions, please contact Trish Robertson at tilliewaters @ gmail.com (do not include spaces if emailing.)

Go Green Class!

Pictured are students from the BCC STEM club that designed a 6-week hands-on Green Technology Educational program and taught it to youth at Greater Fall River Re-Creation. These college students did an incredible job of developing the whole curriculum and engaging the young students in learning each week. They combined hands on projects and power point presentations to teach about the impact of going green.

It is great to see the enthusiasm of these young people. How lucky we are as a club to have the opportunity to support this great partnership!

Happy Feet

Rotary Club of fall River Members (from far right) Lorraine Travers, Connie Vaillancourt, and Rick Vaillancourt
meet with members of the WalMart Team to accept a check to support the Happy Feet Program.

How can you help support Happy Feet? Did you recently receive a rewards coupon from Bob's Store or Jockey or some other favorite retail location, but don't really need anything? Don't let it expire, instead purchase some children's socks to help support our Happy Feet program. Kids socks (generally sizes 9-3 and 3-9, although there may be some variation) will be collected on an ongoing basis and can be brought to any Thursday meeting. White crew socks are preferred.

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