Service Projects Around Newport

For the Newport Rotary September 26, 2016 Meeting we will be maintaining a couple of existing projects, specifically our Pedestrian Benches & Downtown Garden Corners around town. We will meet at 5:30 pm at the Rotary building for these 2 projects. We definitely want to get to the benches today. Extra time will be spent sprucing up the downtown garden corners. Bring gloves, buckets, mildew cleaner, soap, scrubbers and rags for benches. Bring your favorite yard tool for the gardening. Maximum 1 hour project! Thanks, See everybody there. Click here for prior bench & gardening project article.  

Sept 12 - Judicial Candidate to Speak

Josh Willey 

Josh Willey, New Bern lawyer and judicial candidate will be the guest speaker Mon. Sept 12, 2016 5:30pm. Please be in attendance.

Also - Halloween Hootenanny sponsorship materials will be passed out.

About our speaker: Joshua W. Willey, Jr. received his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University, where he graduated Cum Laude. He also received his Juris Doctorate from Wake Forest University as well. He was admitted to the NC Bar in 1978 and admitted to practice in the US District Court in 1982, the US Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit and the US Supreme Court in 2001. He currently practices law at Mills and Willey. He is a member of the Craven County Bar Association, NC Bar Association and the NC Advocates for Justice. He is married to Denise Gaskins Willey and has one child, Catherine. He is a member of First Presbyterian Church and has served on New Bern Historical Society, New Bern Preservation Foundation and the Tryon Palace Foundation.

Newport Rotary Recognized as 100% Sustaining Club

Newport Rotary was recognized as a 2015-16 100% Sustaining Member Club by The Rotary Foundation at the District Rotary Foundation Luncheon in Wilmington, NC on August 27, 2016. To achieve this recognition, all active Rotarians in the club must personally contribute a minimum of $100 each to The Annual Fund of The Rotary Foundation during the Rotary year. Only 1,428 clubs in Rotary of 35,000 clubs worldwide, or 4% of clubs attain this status. The Annual Fund supports scholarships, grants, and humanitarian projects around the world. 

Congratulations Newport Rotary and Thank You Newport Rotarians for your commitment to make the world a better place.  

Grant Received for Food Pantry Range, Hood & Celebration

Newport Rotary received funding for its 2016-17 District Grant from The Rotary Foundation. A $1,000 check was presented to Club Rotary Foundation Chair Pam Wall at the District Rotary Foundation Luncheon in Wilmington, NC on August 27, 2016. The Grant will provide funds to purchase a Cooking Range, install a Hood Top at the Matthew 25 Fund Food Pantry in the St. James Thrift Shop Building in Newport. The total $2,000 project will also fund a celebration dinner for identified needy families identified by the Food Pantry during the Thanksgiving season.

Newport Rotary's Pam Wall, (4th from right), holds up the Grant check
for a project to aid local food challenged families in Newport.
(Click photo to enlarge)

Pruning For Pupils

Featured photos from Newport Rotary's project at Newport Elementary School on August 26, 2016. Good job Rotarians!

Rotarians Pam Wall, Pres. Maher Saikali, Larry Howard, Joe Garner,
& Winston Reese. Photo credit: Bevin Wall. 

Shrub & Rose Bush Pruning awaits students for first day. 

The front entrance of the school is ready for teachers & students. 

"First Day of School" Service Project Set

Newport Rotary will do their annual service project benefiting Newport Elementary School on Friday, August 26, 2016 at 5:30pm. (Rain date Sunday 5:30). The goal of the project is to make the school look neat and tidy for the opening day the school the following week. Efforts this year will concentrate on trimming, flower planting and/or placement of baskets, and mowing, as needed. All hands are needed. The duration of the project is 2 hours. Needed are manual and electric trimmers, extension cords, wheel barrows & rakes for limb removal. The Wall's will bring their lawn mower. The school system mulched this summer, so no mulching! Newport Rotary will not meet Monday, August 22, 2016 as the service project Friday is a substituted meeting.  

August 8, 2016 Program: District Governor John Scibal

Is it DG John or Steve Jobs? You decide!

Newport Rotary is please to have as our guest speaker for our August 8, 2016 program, District Governor John Scibal of the Morehead City- Noon Rotary Club. DG John is a familiar face in our club and will bring Rotary International President John Germ's annual message to the club, as well as news of other district happenings. Bring a guest!