Rotary party next Thursday

Be sure to RSVP Elizabeth Michael if you plan to attend the Rotary Holiday Party at the Backdraft Barbeque@Third Street Station. The party begins at noon on Dec. 15.

Club re-elects Winter fund members

Roswell Rotary Club members unanimously re-elected four members to the club’s Gus Winter Fund Board.

Board president Howard Perry on Nov. 17 placed the names of Mike Alber, Trent Bates, Andy Miller, and Jim Gill before the Rotary Club for re-election to another term. All were unanimously re-elected.

The Gus Winter Fund annually distributes aid to needy people in Chaves County. The Board’s goal is to annually collect $1 for each year of each club member’s age.

Perry reported to the club the Gus Winter Fund during the past year has helped with medical expenses for poor people in Chaves County, and contributed $1,000 to the Community Kitchen and the Salvation Army.

The fund started when Winter left $1 to his son and $30,000 each to local civic clubs to help the needy. The Roswell Rotary Club fund has since grown to $325,000.

Rotary will go to holiday schedule

The Roswell Rotary Club will meet on a holiday schedule in late November and for much of December.

Here is the schedule:

• Nov. 24 — No meeting due to Thanksgiving Day
• Dec. 1 — Lee Murdoch with Scouts BSA
• Dec. 8 — Annual meeting of the club to elect officers and board members, as well as to consider an update to the club bylaws.
• Dec. 15 — Christmas Party at Backdraft Barbeque at Third Street Station, 310 N. Railroad Ave. Begins at noon.
• Dec. 22 — No meeting due to Christmas
• Dec. 29 — No meeting due to New Year’s Day

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. 

Purple doughnuts fight polio

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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.