Club honors Student of Month

Mercedes Torrez was honored on Nov. 10 as the Roswell Rotary Club Student of the Month from Goddard High School.

Club supports water project

Roswell Rotary Club members voted on Nov. 3 to support the coalition providing potable water to Buena Vista, Guatemala.

The vote came after Deborah Simon, a Rotary District 5520 global grants coordinator, spoke to the club on Oct. 20. She will coordinate the Buena Vista water project.

Bianca Cheney, Roswell Rotary president, said “a hat will be passed for donations” at the Nov. 10 and 17 club meetings.

Simon, raised in Guatemala as the daughter of missionaries, has coordinated Rotary global grant projects in Guatemala since 1997.

Each year, Simon leads a team of volunteers to Guatemala to perform needs and sustainability assessments, check the status of past projects, and select a new global grant project. 

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Orders should be given to Marcos Nava or J.P. Cheney before 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 4. Pickup or delivery will be on Thursday, Nov. 10, at Southwest Printers, 110 N. Pennsylvania Ave.

Marcos can be contacted at (575) 420-8787 (cell) or (575) 624-0889 (work); J.P. can be contacted at (575) 622-1820 (work) or (575) 637-8394 (cell).

Husband and wife Paul Harris Fellows

When Rotarian Betty Young was about to be honored by the Roswell Rotary Club as a Paul Harris Fellow, she made one request.

Betty wanted company.

So she sponsored husband and fellow Rotarian Jim Young as a Paul Harris Fellow.

The Youngs were jointly honored as Paul Harris Fellows at the Oct. 27 Roswell Rotary Club meeting.

Rotarian Carolyn Mitchell pins Paul Harris badge on Betty Young.

Jim and Betty Young hug after joint Paul Harris Fellow awards.

Rotary Students of the Month

Club Students of the Month are honored at the Oct. 27 Roswell Rotary meeting by President Bianca Cheney. The students are Scot Henry (left) and Trenton Martin-Herring.

Club backs Walk to End Alzheimer's

Nine Roswell Rotary Club members turned out for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s this past Saturday in Roswell. Shown at the walk are Rotarians Jason Perry, who also represented the City of Roswell as mayor pro-tem; Bianca Cheney, Rotary Club president; and Mark Bleth (right).

Rotarians, city staff cut ribbon

Roswell Rotary Club members and City of Roswell employees on Oct. 20 cut the ribbon on work completed at Delta West Park, 1001 W. Mescalero Road.

The Rotary club and the Rotary Foundation have donated more than $15,000 for the project since 2019.

The latest additions to the park were 14 trees, 130 feet of concrete walkway, and three benches from donated plastic bottle caps.

The city provided irrigation and labor to the project. The cost of the concrete walkway was a shared expense.

Rotarian Carolyn Mitchell spearheaded the park upgrade as the Rotary club’s project coordinator.

Roswell Rotarians and city staff members at ribbon-cutting.

Reporter Terri Harber of Roswell Daily Record interviews Rotarian Carolyn Mitchell about the park project.