W.L. Seaton Rotary Club

Posted by Rick Taylor

on Apr 18, 2014

We had a very pleasant and impressive presentation at our April 17 lunch. Grade 12 students Gwyneth Evans and Emily Beatty spoke to us about their involvement with the W.L. Seaton Rotary Club. This club was started about five years ago and currently has about 15 active student members. Some of the fund raising projects that club has done in the past year are: Halloween For Hunger (collecting canned goods for the Food Bank), Coldest Night of the Year ( fundraiser for the Upper Room Mission), Tides of Change (coin drive that gave the winning class a pizza lunch and provided about $1400 for typhoon relief in the Philippines) and Indie Fest (set for April 24th - Seaton and V.S.S. students gather for a music day to raise funds for the Upper Room Mission). The club has also done bake sales to raise funds for a senior's residence, arranged for a Christmas Basket for a single Mom with children and arranged lunch time events to teach other students the value of recycling. An upcoming event is a 12 hour music marathon set for June to raise funds for War Child.

These two mature young ladies showed they understood the goals of Rotary and what can be accomplished when people work together. (photo shows Rotarians Jim Ferguson on the left and Andy Erickson on the right with Gwyneth and Emily between them - Andy was instrumental in the start of this student Rotary Club)