Wooster Parade of Flags |
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Help create a community of red, white, and blue! Be one of the first to participate… make a neighborhood statement and join with others on your street to create a corridor of flags. Your Wooster Rotary Club, assisted by local youth groups, will place a 3’x 5’ flag in your front yard for 5 holiday weekends per year, and pick it up again after the weekend. A plastic pipe will be buried in your front lawn permanently, flush with the ground, to hold the flagstaff. A plastic cap will cover the pipe when not in use. The City of Wooster has approved the flag to be placed on “tree lawns” where available. The flag and staff will remain the property of the Wooster Rotary Club. All profits will support community, national, and
international Rotary projects and the local youth groups will receive
$5.00 of each $25.00 fee. For $25.00 per calendar year, Rotary will
provide and install the pipe and cap, provide the flag, store it
properly when not in use, and deliver and pick up the flag for the
following weekends:
Problems? Call 330-804-3132 and leave message. |
Joint Club Event |
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Over the past few months, representatives of the Wooster Rotary Club have been meeting with representatives of the Wooster Kiwanis Club and the Noon Lions Club to see if they could develop an annual combined project for the betterment of the Wooster community.
Questions – see Lynn Moomaw or Tom Cole |
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YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE NEWS
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The committee reviewed forty-five applications for the ten scholarships, and members were genuinely impressed by the talents and accomplishments of all of the students. This
Find more information on Youth Scholarships here. |
2008-09 Outbound Students |
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Clint Eriksen (Germany), Dan Segura (Thailand), Alaina McConnell (Spain), Ariana Fiorita (Chile), David Li (inbound France), Sarah Spector (Bolivia), Drew Call (India), Tony Marioni (inbound Belgium), Andrew Wilson (Italy), Sam Sneller (Bolivia), Jennifer Miller (Chile)
We wish our outbound students the best for their year long exchange. |
Wooster Arts Jazz Fest 2009
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In its sixth year, this daylong festival features fine art and craft, jazz, quality food, a traditional New Orleans-style parade, and free children’s arts activities. The purpose of this festival is to celebrate and support arts and education in our community, and to promote economic development in downtown Wooster. Presented through a partnership between Main Street Wooster Foundation, Inc., the Rotary Club of Wooster, and the Wooster City Schools, the Wooster Arts Jazz Fest is organized by volunteers and funded through donations. The 2009 Wooster Arts Jazz Fest will be the third year the Wooster Rotary Club is a partner in the event. Rotary has representation on the committee organizing the event and will be providing volunteers to help make the event a success. More information about the WAJF 2009 can be found at: www.woosterartsjazzfest.org |
The 2008 Al Van Wie Basketball Tournament and Clinic Activities
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Prior to the tournament, Rotary volunteers went to area schools to collect food donations. Rotary encouraged the schools to participate in the food donation campaign by establishing contests and incentives for the schools collecting/donating the most food items. Wooster Rotary also sponsored the annual Al Van Wie Rotary Tournament including awards to participating teams: C.O.W., Washington and Jefferson(PA), Messiah(PA), and Randolph-Macon(VA). The tournament dates were November 10-14 at the College of Wooster. Wooster played Washington and Jefferson 8:00pm, and Messiah played Randolph-Macon 6:00 pm on Friday. Losers played the first game Saturday and winners played for championship at 8:00 Saturday. Admission to games was either a ticket or food/cash donation for People to People. There also was be a raffle of donated prizes to add to the dollar total. And Rotary recognized the top food collecting schools before the championship game. This year the tournament brought 3951 food items and $1571. Finally, each Wooster Rotary member receiveed a letter encouraging their participation in the project through a donation help defray the cost of our sponsorship of these events and to be able to give a substantial cash donation to People to People. Cash donations from club members reached $6,950 this year. |
35th ANNUAL WOOSTER ROTARY
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34th Rotary Auction SummaryThe 34th Rotary Auction was a resounding success. Despite the economic downturn, over 750 bidders turned out to bid on over 2160 items. The highlights of the auction were the sales of an MG TD, 3 pinball machines, jukeboxes, and over 50 lots of Freedlander Department Store items.The Wooster Rotary Auction is among the premier auctions in this region and is an absolute auction, no minimum, no buybacks, no reserves. In 33 years the proceeds have contributed nearly $850,000 to the community, the major share going to college scholarships. Preliminary pricing results are posted here. |
Wooster Rotary Dictionary Project |
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The 43nd Annual Senior Holiday
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Hundreds of area seniors then enjoyed a dinner served by the Wooster Rotarians. Tickets to the Rotary Senior Holiday Party are highly sought after and are reserved quickly. A special thank you to all who helped to make this great event possible. |