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Rotary Club Grocery Grab

A representative of Abundant Harvest was successful in filling several grocery carts of food items during the

five-minute shopping spree at the Rotary Club Grocery Grab at Good's Cash Saver on Saturday, November 21. It was a festive atmosphere at Good's Cash Saver at 6:45 am as Abundant Harvest was drawn among the six finalists whose tickets were drawn from sold tickets on November 14. The five other finalists received Good's Cash Saver gift certificates.

Click on the hyperlink to view the Facebook video of the Grocery Grab.

Interact Club at Emporia Middle School

Posted by Jim Wayman on Sep 22, 2020

Rotarian Teresa Maley shared the excitement from the Interact Club at Emporia Middle School this week during our Zoom meeting. Our Rotary Club helped start this club in 2011, and during the last school year our club delivered to them seed money of $379 that was a combination of Happy Bucks ($229), plus $150 that we budgeted for this purpose. The group typically is made up of 10-15 students in grades 6-8.

COVID-19 certainly didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the Interact members this past school year. EMS teacher Andrew Hawley continues to do a great job with this group. Teresa shared a video that they prepared. It tells their story in a great way. Check it out by clicking on the hyperlink whether or not you missed this meeting. It is contagious!

We hope to have the EMS Interact Club back at a "Big" club meeting again soon. They always enjoy the meat loaf!

Rotary Club of Emporia Fund at Emporia Community Foundation

Posted by Dan Robertson on Aug 25, 2020

On our Rotary zoom call on August 25, 2020, we discussed the balance in the Rotary fund at ECF. The balance at 6/30 was $7,939. The balance as of yesterday was at $8,217. We need to get the fund to $10,000 in a three year period. This is our third year. We would like a push by members to get to this amount by December 31, 2020. If not we would need to go to the ECF board and see if we can get more time. We are $1,783.00 short. Divided by our membership of 64 members this would be just $27.86 a member. I know not all members will participate so it might take a little more from those of us that do. I am pledging to send a check for $100 and would challenge all others to do the same, or do what ever you feel you can do. If you are interested in donating to the fund to help us reach this goal you just need to mail a check made out to Emporia Community Foundation and mail it to 527 Commercial St., Ste. B, Emporia, KS 66801. Please note in the memo of the check "Rotary Club of Emporia Fund". We discussed this for the last three years, let's get it done this year! All contributions will be greatly appreciated and only used for the good of community services in the Emporia Area.

If you have any questions you can email me at dan@agc-cpas.com or call me at 620-342-7641.

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