Marana Rotary Celebration 20th Anniversary
Posted by Tonja Greenfield
The Marana Rotary Club celebrated it's 20th anniversary May 3, 2008,
with a picnic in Ora Mae Harn Park. According to members, it has been
an interesting and fulfilling time.
The club is a mixture of old and young members from all areas of the community. They are business and community leaders brought together by a common goal for world peace and to help those less fortunate.
The club is a mixture of old and young members from all areas of the community. They are business and community leaders brought together by a common goal for world peace and to help those less fortunate.
The Marana Rotary Club celebrated it's 20th anniversary May 3, 2008, with a picnic in Ora Mae Harn Park. According to members, it has been an interesting and fulfilling time.
The club is a mixture of old and young members from all areas of the community. They are business and community leaders brought together by a common goal for world peace and to help those less fortunate.
The projects it chooses are as diverse as its members. There are the clean water systems that Marana Rotary supports across Africa. The club is active in projects from around the world.
At the same time, there are the dictionaries for Marana grade school students the group helped make possible this past school year.
Randy Brooks has been part of the club for the past seven years. He is a past president.
"We've been involved in projects for clean water, AIDS prevention, medical appliances, and literacy programs that include computers," said Brooks.
"Rotary in general has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to eradicate polio- our club has contributed as well. There were only 200 cases reported last year in the world and 20 years ago it was in the 20s of thousands of cases annually. Polio will be extinct from our planet if all goes well in the next two and a half years.
"Locally, we've contributed money to the Marana Health Center. Another local program is called the International Alzheimer's Foundation. We support Youth on their Own, it supports youths who live on the streets, they have no homes. We support the Marana Food bank. Plus this year we're supporting Habitat for Humanity."
The group will contribute cash and some elbow grease toward the construction of two Habitat houses in Honea Heights.
One figure that has been around the Marana Rotary for the past 20 years has been Ora Harn. She is a charter member and still occasionally stops by meetings.
"When we started Rotary in this area it was like the first beginnings of seeing Marana expand," said Harn. "It was a group of people who were interested in developing commerce and housing in the community.
"But I learned to love Rotary because it's such a pure effort to create good will in the world, to help the under privileged and it's world wide."
There were only six or seven members to start with according to Harn.
"We were able to work through the years with efforts in China. Our Rotary made a trip to South Africa where we were helping a number of projects.
"Rotary is more than people getting together to have breakfast once a week." Harn added.
Harn said she admires the whole columniation of the organization worldwide.
The club is a mixture of old and young members from all areas of the community. They are business and community leaders brought together by a common goal for world peace and to help those less fortunate.
The projects it chooses are as diverse as its members. There are the clean water systems that Marana Rotary supports across Africa. The club is active in projects from around the world.
At the same time, there are the dictionaries for Marana grade school students the group helped make possible this past school year.
Randy Brooks has been part of the club for the past seven years. He is a past president.
"We've been involved in projects for clean water, AIDS prevention, medical appliances, and literacy programs that include computers," said Brooks.
"Rotary in general has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to eradicate polio- our club has contributed as well. There were only 200 cases reported last year in the world and 20 years ago it was in the 20s of thousands of cases annually. Polio will be extinct from our planet if all goes well in the next two and a half years.
"Locally, we've contributed money to the Marana Health Center. Another local program is called the International Alzheimer's Foundation. We support Youth on their Own, it supports youths who live on the streets, they have no homes. We support the Marana Food bank. Plus this year we're supporting Habitat for Humanity."
The group will contribute cash and some elbow grease toward the construction of two Habitat houses in Honea Heights.
One figure that has been around the Marana Rotary for the past 20 years has been Ora Harn. She is a charter member and still occasionally stops by meetings.
"When we started Rotary in this area it was like the first beginnings of seeing Marana expand," said Harn. "It was a group of people who were interested in developing commerce and housing in the community.
"But I learned to love Rotary because it's such a pure effort to create good will in the world, to help the under privileged and it's world wide."
There were only six or seven members to start with according to Harn.
"We were able to work through the years with efforts in China. Our Rotary made a trip to South Africa where we were helping a number of projects.
"Rotary is more than people getting together to have breakfast once a week." Harn added.
Harn said she admires the whole columniation of the organization worldwide.