These are photos from two of our newest Early Act Clubs.  Both are sponsored by The Rotary Club of Winchester.  Both are Co-Led by students from the Interact Club at John Handley High School (led by Rotary Club of The Northern Shenandoah Valley Rotarians, Julia Kogut and Nadine Johnson-hamm), also sponsored by The Rotary Club of Winchester.  The two schools are John Kerr Elementary School and Garland Quarles Elementary School.  Both are Title One Schools in the City of Winchester.

Update from Ms. Julia Kogut, Ed.M.: "EarlyAct at John Kerr and Quarles has been underway for a month! Both schools have had an informational meeting, 2 club meetings, ordered shirts, and the school staff supervisors have been busy communicating with parents and running the meetings! Our student EarlyAct liaisons Eliana and Gracie have been prepping materials and running the meetings with the supervisors!


This weekend was our first service project outside the school. The Rotary Club of Winchester annually puts on the Apple Harvest Arts & Crafts Festival at the fairgrounds, and Handley Interact runs the Kids Zone. This year, we added Quarles EarlyAct on Saturday and John Kerr EarlyAct on Sunday to do trash pickup around the festival. The EarlyAct students signed up for shifts and walked around the festival with trash pickers and a helper Handley Interact volunteer to keep the fairgrounds spotless!

I am so proud to have 3 generations of Rotary working together! Thank you so much to Jason, Michael, and John for your support in helping get this all started, Joanie and Kim for taking a chance with our pilot programs and for all of your support, and especially thank you to our supervisors - Rachel, Jan and Emily - and our EarlyAct liaisons - Gracie and Eliana - for making it all happen!"