Byesville Rotary awards scholarships to 4 Meadowbrook seniors graduating from Meadowbrook High School

Pictured: Jim Bacos, Scholarship Committee Chair; scholarship winners—John Barba, Emily Watson, Andrea Kackley, Caleb Furman—and Dennis Harding, Byesville Rotary President.

Four $500 scholarships were presented to Meadowbrook seniors. Scholarships were presented to John Barba, Caleb Furman, Andrea Kackley, and Emily Watson. This is the 27^th year, Byesville Rotary has awarded scholarships.

Chicken BBQ alert

This Saturday (May  24) the Byesville Rotary will be holding its FIRST CHICKEN BBQ of 2014. Chickens are still $7.00. The club will be selling--and cooking--at the Rotary Gazebo at the corner of Main and 2ed. streets in Byesville. Chicken sales will begin about 9:30am and continue until chickens are gone.

Make  plans not to cook on Saturday.

Meadowbrook Interact Club inducts new officers and members

Pictured: Claudia Echard, Secretary; Victoria Dunlap, President; Dylan Woods, Vice President; and Andrew Walker, Treasurer, Directors Olivia Anderson, Cameron Endley, Dylan Johnson, and David Jirles. 

The Meadowbrook Interact Club welcomed new members at an induction ceremony at the regular weekly meeting of the Byesville Rotary, which sponsors the high school club. Interact is the Rotary service club for high school students. The Meadowbrook club established a requirement that students interested in joining must participate in at least 2 service projects during the year in order to qualify for induction. Many students participated in more than 2 activities.

Interact service projects for the year included a raising money to support polio eradication, sponsored an Angel Tree drive which provided Christmas gifts for 80 local children, and helped collect canned goods in support of the Byesville Rotary Christmas Food Basket project. Students also helped the Byesville Rotary club cook and sell chickens at the summer chicken BBQ’s.

Sharon Miller, Interact club advisor, presented Interact members with certificates recognizing their participation in the club’s service projects. Seniors receiving the “Above and Beyond” award were—John Barba, Savanah Feldner, Andrea Kackley, Rylie Janczerek, David Jirles, Dylan Woods, Simon Nicols, and Ryan St. Clair. ”Service Above Self” awards were presented to Olivia Anderson, Nick Dunlap, Victoria Dunlap, Claudia Eghard, Cameron Endley, Alyssa Harding, Matt Stemmer, Samantha Roe, and Andrew Walker. Members receiving the “Smile” award were Joe Carpenter, Taylor Dybendal, Annie Ewert, Skyler Goodnite, Marissa Goodright, Martina Goodright, Hannah Humphrey, Paige McKirahan, Peter Novak, Emily Watson, Kaitlyn Roberts, Ashton Simon, Dylan Johnson, and Andrew Walker.

New members Kaitlyn Roberts, Ashton Simon, Dylan Johnson, and Andrew Walker were welcomed to the club and presented with Interact pins. Ms. Miller introduced the 2014-15 officers to the Byesville Rotary. New officers are Victoria Dunlap, President; Dylan Woods, Vice President; Claudia Eghard, Secretary; and Andrew Walker, Treasurer. Directors are Olivia Anderson, Cameron Endley, David Jirles, and Dylan Johnson..

The Rotary club meets 7:30 am every Tuesday at the Stop Nine Senior Center at 60313 (GPS use 60299) Southgate Road, Byesville. Everyone interested in giving back to their community is invited to join. Call Membership Chair Jim Vaughan, 740-432-5605, to learn more about the club. More information is available at: www.Byesvillerotary.blogspot.com or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Byesville-Rotary/256548047818283

Byesville Rotary in partnership with Southeastern Med sponsors 13th Annual Health Screening.

Pictured: Members of South East Med staff and Dan Navicky, Chair of the Byesville Rotary Health Screening Committee.

Byesville Rotary in partnership with South East Med held a successful Health Screening at the Main Avenue United Methodist Activity Building. This is the 13^th year Byesville Rotary has worked with South East Med to provide 26 low cost blood screening tests to local community members.

Local students place 2nd and 3rd at Rotary District 4-Way Test Speech competition

Pictured: Winners of Rotary District 6690 Four Way Test Speech Contest: Andrea Kackley, 3^rd place; Kellie Jones, 1^st place; and Korbinian Weidinger, 2nd place

Isn't this great--TWO students from our area placed in the final three.

John Glenn student Korbinian Weidinger, winner of the Cambridge Rotary 4-Way Test Speech contest, placed second at the Rotary District 6690 competition. Meadowbrook student Andrea Kackley, winner of the Byesville Rotary 4-Way Test Speech contest, placed third. First place went to Kellie Jones representing the Dublin-Worthington Rotary Club.

The Four-Way Test was adapted by Rotary in 1943 as a simple, easy-to-remember checklist to help members remember to apply this positive and powerful code to how they live their lives and serve others. This code is not based on culture or religion and in 24 words asks the following questions of the things people think, say, or do: 1) Is it the truth? 2) Is it fair to all concerned? 3) Will it build good will and better friendships? 4) Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

The Four-Way Test speaking contest challenges students to think about how the personal ethics represented by this code affects their lives. Each student competing in the speech contest gave a 5-7 minute original speech in which the student applied the Rotary Four-Way Test to everyday relationships. Students were evaluated on speech content, organization, and delivery. First place winner received $500; second place, $250; and third place, $125.

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