Wooster Parade of Flags
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:
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35th ANNUAL WOOSTER ROTARY
ANTIQUE AND COLLECTABLE AUCTION
Coming: Friday April 9 and Saturday April 10, 2010
34th Rotary Auction Summary
The 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.
For additional information call: Dave Gallapoo 330-345-6240; Mike Warden 330-264-9350; Hugh Hothem
330-264-3854; or Chuck Dougherty 330-264-1420.
Wooster Arts Jazz Fest 2009
Date: Sunday September 20
11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Historic Downtown Wooster
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 second 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
November 10-14, 16, 2008
Wooster Rotary sponsors and coordinates a basketball fundamental skills clinic for all
boys and girls grade 3-6 and all youth coaches. The event was held at the C.O.W. Timken Gym on Sunday November 16 from 2:00-4:00 pm. College of Wooster Scots players and coaches worked with youth to practice and improve their basketball skills. Rotary also distributed door prizes including College of Wooster T-shirts, basketballs, and season tickets. Head coach, Steve Moore, conducted the coaching seminar. Admission to these events was $2 cash or a canned/box food donation for People to People.
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.
2008-09 Outbound Students
Meet Wooster Rotary's 2008-09 outbound exchange students. From left to right:
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)
Their emails updating us on their exchange year can be found here.
We wish our outbound students the best for their year long exchange.
Wooster Bicentennial Parade
At the urging of President Mike Miller, Wooster Rotary created one of the biggest, if not best, floats in the city’s bicentennial parade. Rotarians gathered over the days before the parade to create a float the told the story of major Rotary activities and events. Rotarian Chuck Dougherty auctioned items from the front of the float; exchange students, Interact and Rotaract members packed the middle, and a tribute to the Wooster Jazz and Arts fest filled the rear of the float. It was a great opportunity for the club to promote the many projects that have been supported.
A special thank you to all who helped to make this great event possible.
The 43nd Annual Senior Holiday Party
December 8, 2009
The Annual Senior Holiday party was held at the High School on December 8, 2009. Entertainment was provided by
the Wooster High School Chorus, the Wooster High School Orchestra, The Borderline Dancers and inspirational singer David Greer.
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.
Kenya Water Project
The Rotary Club of Wooster is pleased to support a project in the Maragoli region of Kenya intended to help improve the delivery of clean drinking water in that area. Clean water is a major focus of Rotary International at this time. The Club is working with the Maragoli Community Development Foundation (“MACODEF”), an established NGO (non-governmental organization) which works in the area under the supervision of an internationally based Board of Trustees. The Club’s efforts will be coordinated by its World Service Committee, which has approved this project. Details are available here.
Wooster Rotary Dictionary Project
Each year since 2005, Wooster Rotary has presented a student dictionary to every third grader in the Wooster School System. Our goal is to empower the students with words, to help them better understand the English language and to encourage them to read. The club included a sticker with the Rotary Four-Way test on the inside cover of each volume.
The dictionaries are well received and we hope that the students will use them to their advantage throughout their elementary years.
Wooster Rotary Honors Members
In 2007-08, Wooster Rotary payed tribute to one of its older club members at each meeting. The tributes honored their contributions to the club and the community. It gave younger members, who might not know of the contributions made by the older members, a chance to learn about the life and work of our club’s past leaders. It also was a way of saying "thank you" for their experience, energy and priceless contributions.
You can read some of the tributes here.
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