Following the age old tradition, July 1, marks the start of a new year of service for the Rotary clubs all over the world. Ganesh's Green Army
World Environment Day movement started more than 40 years ago. The annual day of action embraces smaller and less-developed nations while tackling even bigger topics: from sustainable consumption to the illegal trade in wildlife. Since its beginning in 1974, World Environment Day has developed into a global platform for raising awareness and taking action on urgent issues from marine pollution and global warming to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. Millions of people have taken part over the years, helping drive change in our consumption habits as well as in national and international environmental policy.This year Ganesh Balaga, a friend of our club, created a "Green Army" in his hometown in India. Ganesh enlisted his friends and local children to plant trees in the community to help the air quality.
About Ganesh:
We were fortunate to have met Ganesh in Vizianagaram India during our club's visit to India in Jan 2017. He is a teacher at a small one room school (MPP Primary School) with 19 students in grades 1 through 5. Ganesh teaches all 5 of these grades single handedly. He has been partnering with us to execute a range of projects from planting trees to renovating the school. Ganesh continues to inspire his students with extracurricular activities to teach them good moral values and involves them in activities to develop as great citizens in the community.
Members of the Collegeville Rotary Club would like to congratulate the dedicated men and women of the Collegeville Fire Company on their newly built firehouse. This has taken many years of effort and is finally completed. This new firehouse is a tremendous asset to the community and serves to ensure the safety of the citizens of this community.
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Several members of our club along with two students from PV High School Interact Club spent several hours on Saturday morning removing hundreds of pounds of trash and more than a dozen tires and other large items from a field alongside the creek near First Avenue across from Kimberton Whole Foods store. Thanks for all that participated.
Our club level speech contest was held on March 11, 2018. The first place winner will be going on to the regional competition on April 14, 2018..png)
We are pleased to welcome Mark Million as our new club president effective on 7/1/17. Mark has been a very active and dedicated member of our club for the past 3 years. We are looking forward to implementing his many new initiatives to continue the club rejuvenation that has started with Mary Cook. Thank you very much Mary for getting us through the transition phase and putting us on a sound footing with several new members and a new meeting location at Ursinus College.
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