Perry receives Fellow pin

Steve Smith, Roswell Rotary Club director and Rotary Foundation chair, presents Rotarian Howard Perry with a Paul Harris Fellow jeweled pin on June 27. Howard is a past club president.

Powell honored as Fellow

Roswell Rotarian Shawn Powell receives a Paul Harris Fellow jeweled pin from Steve Smith, Roswell Rotary Club director and Rotary Foundation chair. The presentation was made at the club’s June 20 meeting.

Honoring club helpers

Ryan Vance, Marcos Nava and Hud Rhea

One of Marcos Nava’s final acts as Roswell Rotary Club president was singling out two members who have been a great help to him at weekly club meetings.

On June 27, Nava presented Texas Roadhouse gift cards to Ryan Vance, club sergeant-at-arms and weekly drawing chair, and Hud Rhea, who helps set up the sound system each week.

Ryan also serves on the club's Board of Directors; Hud is a past club president.

Halvorson to discuss festival

City Councilor Juliana Halvorson will speak at the June 27 Roswell Rotary Club meeting about the upcoming UFO Festival.

Gathering of women presidents

Five former Roswell Rotary Club presidents join Rochelle Lentschke, Ruidoso Rotary Club president, on June 20.

The women presidents are (from lower left, clockwise) Bianca Cheney, Carolyn Mitchell, Cynthia “Cindy” Torrez, Lentschke, Betty Young, and Connie Harrell-Stone.

The former presidents noticed they sat together and asked J.P. Cheney to take this photo.

Lentschke also is president of the Ruidoso Chamber of Commerce and director of the Eastern New Mexico University-Ruidoso Foundation.

She was in Roswell after Ruidoso was evacuated because of the massive forest fires in the village and on the adjacent Mescalero Apache Reservation.

Bianca Cheney on program

Bianca Cheney, Rotary District 5520 assistant governor, will speak at the June 20 Roswell Rotary Club meeting.

Bianca, past Roswell Rotary president, will provide insights into district plans and operations for the upcoming year.

Rotary at Roswell Invaders

Declan Wright leaves the mound after throwing the first pitch

Rylan Vance

The annual Roswell Rotary at the Invaders baseball game drew some 25 club members on June 10.

Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts from Artesia presented the colors, Rotarians JP and Bianca Cheney’s grandson, Declan Wright, 7, threw the first pitch, and Rotarian Colt Gipson sang the national anthem.

Rotarian Ryan Vance’s son, Rylan Vance, 6, was a bat boy.