This week’s speaker is Steve Catlett, director of the Martinsburg/Berkeley County Parks and Recreation Board, a position in which he has served for 20+ years. The Board has come a long way under his direction. War Memorial Park came under his supervision in 1986. Since then the Park has undergone pool and playground equipment upgrades,...
Thirty percent (30%) of West Virginia boys and girls under age six live in poverty. That means that a family of three earns less than $20,000/year, or about $400/week. Research in brain development shows that social, emotional and cognitive development is shaped in early childhood and has a lifelong effect. Poor kids are 5 times more likely to have...
This week: Our meeting is on Wednesday due to Independence Day on Thursday. President Mike will outline his plans for the upcoming year. We also will hear from both our outbound student from last summer and our inbound summer student this year. Last week: Fellow Rotarian Herman Dixon did an outstanding job presenting “10 Keys to Living Life Abundantly.” It was...
This week's program will feature Herman Dixon, last year’s Rotarian of the Year. Herman is an inspired member of our club - there is no volunteer job that he isn’t willing to undertake, and he does his volunteering very successfully. In the few short years he has been a member of our club, he has chaired the Taste of the...
Larry Schultz, President of Community Alternatives to Violence, and Carolyn Zdziera, Executive Director, gave us a video and a talk about the organization. Larry talked about his personal experiences with domestic violence, which led him to become a facilitator for CAV as well as president. He emphasized that domestic violence is primarily a men’s issue with women being...