What an awesome night! Our Rotary Community Corps, made up of special needs adults, were able to present a service dog to a local child through the funds raised in their annual wreath sale. The recipient is a 4 year old boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Speech Regression, Elopement behavior, night terros, anti-social behaviors and Global developmental delay. His mother noted that she is already seeing a difference in her son with his new best friend, “Bolt”! We were also able to support Project Shoebox (United Way) by combining all of our clubs, along with a corporate sponsorship and created 100 boxes for 2 local organizations – Real Life Center and Promise Place. We had Rotary Community Corps members, PTC Rotaract members, New Interact members from The Foundry along with Rotarians and employees of Cooper Lighting Solutions to decorate the boxes and fill them with personal hygiene products – toothpaste, floss, combs, socks, shower supplies and deodorant – to provide to women and children in need due to homelessness or domestic violence.

 

 

Local non-profit, the Armed Forces Mission, works to “turn the tide on suicide” by providing training for individuals in the area of suicide prevention. In the wake of COVID-19, we have already seen an increase in our nation’s successful and attempted suicides, thus highlighting the need for innovative and successful training platforms. In effort to do jus that, the PTC Rotary club obtained a $5,000 District Grant that will be used to develop an online suicide prevention training program for the Armed Forces Mission. Our club was honored to attend filming for this new program.

Pictured L-R (back row):  Dale Phenicie, John Belizaire, Tim Milis, Chris Thompson, AFM Founder Kenneth "Lou" Koon

Pictured L-R (middle row):  Katy Spade, Mandy Timmons, Joel Norris, Steve Ivory, Holly Davanzo, Jessica Walker, Diana Roman

Pictured L-R (front row):  Azell Francis, DeAnna Herr, Amy Benton, Patti Kadkhodaian, Tracy Elmore, Tundi Jones