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Rotary Club of Winter Haven Video

I wanted to expose as many people as possible to the work of my Rotary Club, so here is a link to a video of our club members, along with over 200 volunteers from the community, preparing and packing over 50,000 meals for the hungry on February 14, 2010. Check it out!

It's amazing what 235 people can do when they put their minds to it

Just this past Saturday at Jarrett-Gordon Ford in Winter Haven, the Winter Haven Rotary and a few hundred of their closest friends spent a few hours packaging meals for the hungry. How many? How does 52,000 plus grab you. This project, funded by the Winter Haven Rotary through its fundraisers and other donations, will be helping local soup kitchens, elementary schools and service organizations, including the First Presbyterian Church of Winter Haven, Street Angels, Deep Roots Fellowship, the Mission, the Salvation Army, Denison Middle School, Wahneta Elementary School and Snively Elementary School. Around 75 members of the Rotary Club were on hand to guide the efforts of over 150 Community volunteers, including Rotary Sponsored service clubs such as Interact (Winter Haven and Lake Region High Schools) and YouthAct (Denison Middle School. Kara Phelps of The News Chief wrote a great article and you can read it here. There are some great photos by George Acycrigg as well, so check it out. We will be posting a video here soon so you can see what the event was like but in the meantime enjoy these photos.

Rotary Park takes a new Step

For those of you in the Polk County area, especially in Winter Haven, you are familiar with Rotary Park. If you have not visited recently, check it out, as it has recently undergone a remodeling due to the efforts of the Winter Haven Rotary Club and the City of Winter Haven. Thanks to photographer Steve Elias we have a record of the ribbon cutting and the dedication last Thursday, January 7. It was the culmination of a lot of work by many dedicated people, and I salute them.