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Star Valley Rotary meets: The 1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesdays at noon in Afton at the Star Valley Medical Center and the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in Thayne at the Thayne Town Hall for lunch and programs.
For more info check out our web site at: www.RotaryOfStarValley.org
The most important feature is the Educational posters which are now posted in Labor and Delivery rooms across Romania. WHAT IS ROTARY? Education improves the chances of mother’s and infants who receive updated care. Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that This is an ongoing project and 100% of funds provides humanitarian service, raised for the project go directly to the encourages high ethical standards in project. Rotary members who accompany all vocations, and helps build goodwill the supplies pay their own personal and peace in the world. Approximately expenses. 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. ROTARY IS SERVICE ABOVE SELF The Four-Way Test Star Valley Rotary Serving Our Local Community. Rotarians meet weekly for fellowship and From the earliest days of the organization, interesting and informative programs dealing Rotarians were concerned with promoting The members of Star Valley Rotary raise with topics of local and global importance. high ethical standards in their professional funds to support important projects in our Membership reflects a wide cross-section of lives. One of the world's most widely printed own community. community representation. and quoted statements of business ethics is The Four-Way Test, which was created in Each year we purchase and deliver a Rotarians plan and carry out a remarkable 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later dictionary to every third grade student in the variety of humanitarian, educational, and served as RI president). Valley. The dictionaries are kept for a cultural exchange programs that touch lifetime by the children as a permanent part people’s lives in their local communities and Of the things we think, say or do: of their growing literacy. our world community. 1. Is it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? 3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"
Rotary is the The Rotary Foundation, which each year provides some $90 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people. Rotary is widely regarded A Scholarship is given to a Senior of Star as the world’s largest private provider of Valley High School by our club. Each month, international educational scholarships. two seniors are selected as Students of the Month and are awarded $50 at a weekly club meeting, and have the opportunity to apply Rotary is PolioPlus, Rotary’s for the annual scholarship. commitment to work with national and international Through the application process, students are health organizations on the selected and awarded these scholarships at goal of polio eradication. the Annual Awards evening at the end of More than one billion children in developing each school year. nations have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants.