• Winner: WINNER
  • Date: 1/25/2017
  • Rotary Year: 2016-2017
  • Award Category: Club Service
  • Club NameWarren County
  • Member First NameBarbara
  • Address: 
    PO Box 702
    FRONT ROYAL, VA 22630
    United States View on Map
  • Email: barbara.ecton@gmail.com
  • Brief Description: 
    Below are the elements of service that RC Warren County uses to meet our service to others.

    - Committees: Members serve on at least one committee.
    - Meeting participation assigned weekly:
    - Greeter
    - Inspirational moment
    - Rotary Minute
    - Member Reintroduction
    - Introduction by sponsor of Speaker
    - Meeting participation unassigned:
    - Introduction of guests
    - Happy Dollars
    - Rotary Dollars - honors members for special club service
    - Four Way Test
    - Meeting Breakfast Food - RCWC is meeting in a temporary location with no food available,
    members volunteered to prepare and bring food.
    - Socials – Two for members & family
    - Two-club event builds cooperation, fellowship and friendships and mutual high respect
    - Rotary Foundation
    - Sustainers – 89%
    - Paul Harris Fellows – 67%
    - Polio Plus – 100%
    - Service Projects
    - Children/Youth
    - Pre-school Books: Speaker Honorarium
    - Christmas Stockings for neediest children
    - Backpack Buddies: weekend food supplement for needy children
    - Interacts sponsored: R-MA Middle School
    Skyline High School
    - RYLA: sponsored 4 students and 2 chaperones
    - Middle School RYLA: 2nd annual District-wide event
    - Awarded three $1000 scholarships to Skyline HS seniors
    - Community
    - Tuesday’s Table (5th Tues): members prepare and serve hungry folks
    - Feed Your Neighbor: Area 1 Project to collect food donations for food banks
    - WV Disaster Relief: collected relief supplies and delivered to two Rotary-operated relief centers within days of event
    - Donation to NC Rotary Club for NC Hurricane relief
    - Blood Drive: Coordinated and staffed event
    - Initiated trash clean-up of part of the Royal Shenandoah Greenway
    - Phoenix Project: Domestic Violence Resource Center - furnished and equipped a victim counseling room and a safe space for child care.
    - Heating Oil Assist: Member donations + Club funds + Fuel Oil company matching funds to help needy families receive winter heating oil
    - Salvation Army Bell Ringing: Members and Interactors
    - International
    - Project Uere: 10th year supporting a charter school in Rio de Janeiro slums
    - LOEP: school supplies for Liberian Orphanage
    - Clean Water and Sanitation: support borehole drilling in rural Ghana to provide clean water.
    - Stop Hunger Now: support Area 1 packaging of emergency food
    - Sponsor exchange student from Chile
    - Fundraising:
    - Anniversary Gala: For Service: Beneficiaries & Unrestricted use
    - Golf Tournament: For Service: Education
    - Upscale Resale: For Service: Unrestricted use
    - Yard Sale: For Club Operation
  • Participation of Club Members: 
    - Committees: 100% of members are on committees and 100% participate in activities
    - Meetings: 100% participate as assigned and unassigned
    - Meeting Breakfast: 25% have participated directly; 60% have actively helped
    - Socials: 82% provided food/or attended/or contributed
    - Rotary Foundation: Sustainers – 89%, Paul Harris Fellows – 67%, Polio Plus – 100%
    - Service Projects:
    - Children/Youth
    - Pre-school Books – 15%
    - Christmas Stocking – 55%
    - Backpack Buddies – 40%
    - Interact sponsor – RMA Middle School – 100% through fundraising
    33% assisting Roadside Pick-up
    Skyline High School – 100% through fundraising
    20% occasional visit meetings
    - RYLA – 16% Chaperone/transport/snacks-bus travel: 100% fundraising
    - Middle School RYLA- 20% direct support/food; 100% fundraising
    - Skyline HS Scholarships- 15% Screening/selection, 100% fundraising
    - Community
    - Tuesday’s Table - 60%
    - Feed Your Neighbor – 50%
    - WV Disaster Relief - 100%
    - NC Disaster Relief - 100%
    - Blood Drive - 35%
    - Greenway trash clean-up - 30%
    - Phoenix Project – 45% Paint prep, paint, floor installation, electrical, plumbing
    100% Fundraising
    - Heating Oil Assistance – 80%
    - Bell Ringing - 45%
    -International
    - Project Uere school – 100% fundraising
    - LOEP – 70% school supplies/donations
    - Clean Water – 100% fundraising
    - Stop Hunger Now – 95% packaging/donations
    - Fundraising
    - Anniversary Gala – 100%
    - Golf Tournament -- 100%
    - Upscale Resale – 65%
    - Yard Sale – 75%
  • Resulting Benefits: 
    Club Service is the engine which drives Community Service. In each area of Club Service, our objectives fall under one or more of the following objectives:
    1) helping to fill specific needs,
    2) enhancing learning and/or life skills,
    3) providing opportunity for development and/or leadership growth,
    4) supporting other care giving or support groups,
    5) giving opportunities to participants to really make a difference and the resulting fulfillment and satisfaction.

    We recognize the importance of education. We provide books for pre-schools, sponsor Interact Clubs, provide leadership development during RYLA, and award scholarships to High school Seniors. We support international efforts to improve life opportunities for disadvantaged children, including Project Uere in Rio de Janeiro, and the orphans in Liberia. Equipping their teachers with the tools needed to help children learn strengthens opportunities for these children. Sponsoring an exchange student from Chile provides an opportunity for him and for local students to interact with a different culture, lifestyle, and language. At the club level, Club Service connects us both to our club members and to other Area 1 Club members. Beyond our familiar sphere, Rotary provides us the chance to connect with Rotarians from all over the world, especially when we attend a Rotary District or International Convention. There we experience some of the same cultural, lifestyle, and language difference as our exchange student. That is where World Peace and Understanding begin to blossom.