Welcome to Virginia Beach Rotary Club


Next Meeting's Speaker: July 2, 2009
Dan Edwards, Chairman, Virginia Beach School Board


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Meet Our Members

See who makes up this outstanding Rotary Club here.

Rotary International President, June Message

In the late 1990s, I traveled on business to an African country I had never visited before. While there, I met a Rotarian who offered to take me on a driving tour of the province, and I was happy to accept. An hour or so outside the capital, we stopped in a small village of mud-brick huts, with straw roofs and dirt floors. As I walked past one hut, I heard a sound that made me stop – the weak sound of a crying baby.  Read more here.

New Announcements
One less worried home owner in Virginia Beach

A once worried 75-year-old Virginia Beach woman is now sitting comfortably in her home. Gone are the threats of eviction from her trailer park landlord due to lack of maintenance.  Rotarians Jim Flinchum and Cliff Bateman learned of the situation through Catholic Charities. They immediately decided that the twice-widowed woman who lives on $500 a month and suffers severe respiratory problems would not be removed.  Read more here.

Food Drive Update
Thank you to everyone who donated food during our month-long Food Drive. Your donations helped generate about 160 pounds of canned food which Food Drive coordinator Jamie Pearson has delivered to the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia.

Magazine features Virginia Beach Rotary Club
Executive Lifestyle Magazine's winter issue featured an excellent article on Rotary Clubs in Hampton Roads, including community projects by the Virginia Beach Rotary Club and a photo on page 24 of our on-going Paint Your Heart Out project. Read more here.

Virginia Beach Rotary Clubs adopt park

Four Rotary Clubs in Virginia Beach have agreed to adopt the Great Neck Park off Shorehaven Road.  "We'll have a four-club rotation so volunteers are working on the park each month," said Assistant District Governor Wayne McCoy, who coordinated the community service project.  Read more here.

Volunteer's track success earns her top recognition

The Dec. 21 issue of The Virginian-Pilot's Beacon featured a story on Julie Voliva and Bill Hushin, our club's "2008 School and City Volunteers of the Year".  Read more here.

Not your ordinary night for Rotarians or teens

“It is hard to believe people would dedicate time to us that don’t have to,” said one teen at the Virginia Beach Youth Crisis Home. “I want to make changes in my life so I can help somebody like me. I had a lot fun."

Virginia Beach Rotary Club members have volunteered time at the home once a quarter for years to provide friendship, fun, pizza and Bingo.  Read more here.

Rotary Foundation Message From George Sabol

The global reach of Rotary International and how we as Rotarians contribute to lives in our local community and in communities around the world is phenominal.  Without the Rotary Foundation, RI would not be able to establish such wonderful programs as the eradication of polio, the ambassadorial scholarship programs and humanitarian and health programs just to name a few. The Rotary Foundation is what sets Rotary and YOU apart from all other service organizations. Read more here.

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TBA

Past Announcements

Youth Crisis Home

Want to have a good time? Want to look younger? Come out to the Virginia Beach Youth Crisis Home on Friday, April 17, 5:45 p.m. for Pizza and Games. The Virginia Beach Rotary Club is committed to this worthy cause because it is beneficial for the kids and it provides a direct connect between Rotarians and the youth in our city. Details from last visit here.

Adopt-A-Park

It's our turn in the rotation of four Rotary Clubs in Virginia Beach to clean the Great Neck park, which we adopted as a joint club project.  Feb. 28, 9 - 10:30 a.m.  Read more here.

Dune Grass Planting

The Virginia Beach Rotary Club and Boy Scout Troop 66 teamed up Jan. 31 to plant 500 dune grass sprigs on a vulnerable dune near the Chesapeake Bay. 

Interact Club Update
On Jan. 27, Asst. District Governor Wayne McCoy led the re-chartering ceremony of the Rotary Interact Club at Cape Henry Collegiate School. We are sponsoring two Interact students for their Life Straws project in Africa.  Life Straws purify water for up to six months. Rotary Interact Club's bring the principles of Rotary to high school students to better prepare them for their future professions. Interact Clubs provide the opportunity for students to interact with Rotarians and partner with Rotary Clubs on projects.

Club presents Special Achievement Awards
The Sept. 21 issue of The Virginian-Pilot's Beacon featured a story on Reggie Cray and Alsco Textile Services for their selections as the club's 2008 Special Achievment Award Winner and Doors to Opportunity Award winner, respectively.  Read more here.

Rotary receives $350 Million Donation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded The Rotary Foundation a challenge grant of $350 million to support Rotary International's PolioPlus program. Rotary will attempt to match the grant dollar for dollar over the next three years. This is the largest, single grant ever given to a volunteer organization and represents a tremendous validation of the approach and success of PolioPlus, one of Rotary's flagship programs since 1985. Rotarians have donated time, effort and $633 million to eradicate polio from the world. The program's success has wiped the disease off the planet, except in four countries. Let's work to see that this challenge grant accomplishes our goal -- 100% eradication of polio worldwide.

District 7600, June Message
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District 7600, June Rotary Foundation Newsletter

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