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Christian Community Action
Christian Community Action
200 South Mill St
Lewisville, TX 75057
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Lewisville, TX 75057
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Club members and guests continue to meet weekly.
This weeks meeting included a presentation by
City of Lewisville City Councilman, Place 1, Bob Troyer
Join us Thursday, April 16 at 8 AM for our next weekly meeting
Guests are always welcome. Check out our website for meeting credentials.
In this time of Covid 19 Stay at Home Requirements
The Salvation Army needs our help with supplies to help
those badly impacted by the Covid 19 crises.
The Lewisville Morning Rotary Club is helping Salvation Army by providing, Bar soap, Deodorant, Toothbrushes, Diapers sizes 4,5,6, Canned meats and other pasta canned meals like raviolis to assist families in a crises situation. Because stores are restricting what can be purchased due to shortages, help is needed to donate these items and bring them to the Salvation Army at 206 Main St in Lewisville. Everyone is being extremely careful during the delivery process to keep ourselves safe through social distancing. Please leave the supplies at the back door as shown in photo and SA volunteers will unpack and shelf the items in preparation for the next family in need.
Our regular March 19th at the
CCA Community Room
has been Cancelled!
A message from Club President Tom Rowe regarding this weeks meeting.
Hebron High School Senior Marissa Bhavsar
honored as February 2020
Rotary Student of the Month
Marissa is a senior at Hebron High School. She was nominated for the award by her golf coach Terie Campbell. Merissa represented Heborn during each of her 4 years of high school. This year she is serving as team captain.
Members of the Lewisville Morning Rotary Club
Partner with city employees to
collect Household Hazardous Waste February 8, 2020
Second Saturday Household Hazardous Waste collection. Lewisville Morning Rotary partners with the City of Lewisville to recycle waste that should not go in the landfill or regular recycling. We gather paints, petroleum products, pool chemicals, batteries,TVs, computers, and other items. We served 147 residents.
Lewisville Morning Rotary Members
delivered 1080 dictionaries to
3rd graders in 10 schools last week
We are wrapped up with our dictionary project. Thanks to Deanna Perkins and Samba Sey who delivered dictionaries to the 3rd Graders at Vickory ES last week we finished this very rewarding project. Please read below Deanna's touching experience. This is why we joined Rotary.
Welcome Michael!
New member Michael Cheney
was inducted at our Jan 30th meeting
Michael is a Financial Adviser with Modern Woodmen of America. Currently living in Plano, he is also a member of the Plano Chamber, Frisco Chamber and the Christ United Church. His classification is Finance and his sponsor is Rotarian Maithen Fluhrer.
Right to Left is Michael Cheney, Maithen Fluhrer (sponsor), John Pokorny (Membership Chair) and Tom Rowe (President)
One of the very first and only movies about the original founders for Rotary recently recovered from Rotary's archive.
Over 50 in attendance for the
LMR to hosted 115th Rotary Anniversary Showcase
February 27, 2020 at the Hedrick House in Lewisville
The Lewisville Morning Rotary Club invited area residents and Rotary clubs as well as area Toastmaster Clubs to join us in an Anniversary Celebration of the past 115 years that Rotary has been doing good in the world and promoting integrity, diversity, service, leadership, and friendship. Lewisville Morning and Noon Rotary clubs to "Showcased" our club projects, club fund raisers and events while community members join us for fellowship, snacks, anniversary cake and refreshments.
Thank you to committee members Mainthen Fluhrer, Jeff Lighton, Deanna Perkins, Samba Sey, Marilyn Pokorny and John Pokorny that worked so hard to make this a successful event.
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Celebrating Rotary Vocation Awareness Month
by visiting Lewisville Police Department
and learning about our wonderful safety services.
Member Todd Taylor (Assistant Chief) led us through an informative evening social sharing his pride in the Lewisville Police Dept.
Todd gave us a great presentation starting with the police dept mission and values.
Service, Integrity and Professionalism
On a rare snowy day in Texas
Our volunteers helped 127 Lewisville
Families properly dispose of Hazardous Household Waste
Dressed like Eskimos where Bill Shaw and daughter Maddie, Todd Taylor and daughter Alex, Mark Shaw, Samba Sey, Jeff Lighton, Mary Jones and the Gilmore bothers Tommy and Will. The volunteers emptied family vehicles of HHW, segregated the waste and worked with city staff package the waste by type so that it can be taken to recycle and disposal companies.
Rotary Care News
Pray for Frank Hebb who is back in the home after Surgery
Keep the following fellow Rotarians in your thoughts and prayers: Dr. Kelly Reed and his family who are grieving the loss of the their middle son. Also remember Dr. Jeff Seibert and Marilyn Pokorny who continue to nurse their health issues.
Boy Scout Troop 9168 to deploy flags
Jan 18th for Marin Luther King day for those
subscribers that purchased the 10 holiday option
Thank you to all our partner Scouts and their families involved. Check out the Martin Luther King Jr Flag Subscription Newsletter sent to all the subscribers of the 10 flag option.
Household Hazardous Waste
Saturday, Jan. 11th
Lewisville Convenience Center, 330 Jones St.
Members and their family and friends that wish to volunteer this Saturday should sign-up here. Or, contact Todd Taylor. This is our signature community service project in which we assist residents who bring their household hazardous waste to the Lewisville Convenience Center by emptying their vehicles of the waste and assisting city employees in properly segregating the waste so that it can be safely shipped to organizations that will recycle or safely dispose of waste.
Rotary and Toastmasters working together
creating opportunities for professional
growth of both Rotary and Toastmaster members
Please read the announcement letter from RI President Mark Maloney. This is a wonderful opportunity for our members and that of the members of Lewisville's 3 Toastmaster Clubs; Westside Baptist Church Toastmasters, Flower Mound Toastmasters and Parkway Toastmasters. While we are very early into our relationship, our members are encouraged to learn about Toastmasters, invite Toastmaster members to our meetings and seek synergies where our clubs working together can make an impact for members and the community.
Lewisville Morning Rotary Members
logged over 416 Volunteer hours
on 25 projects during last half of 2019
We serve the community in many different ways. Known for our contributions to the environment via the monthly Household Hazardous Waste effort we have many other initiatives that serve the community and raise funds in support of our project initiatives. When we include the hours of our partners for the CCA Panty Support and the Flag Program, our club managed 1202 volunteer hours, raised $14,800 and contributed an equivalent value of $13,500 in donated services and in-kind materials.
Alex Taylor, our faithful HHW Volunteer
was recognized as Paul Harris Fellow
by member and father Todd Taylor
On her break from her freshman year at Texas A&M, Alex joined us for our December 19th meeting.
HHS Interact Members filled backpacks
with supplies needed by the homeless
in the Lewisville Area.
On Dec 4th Kelly Reed, John Pokorny and Marilyn Pokorny picked up 38 back packs filled with supplies needed by the homeless. We delivered them to the Salvation Army so they can deploy the back packs to those in need.
Congratulations to Hebron High School
Student of the Month
Robert Valecka
Robert has an impressive resume in spite of overcoming a number of obstacles along the way.
Lewisville Morning Rotary hosted its
Annual Breakfast with Santa Event Dec 7th for the Lewisville
Old Town Holiday Stroll in Wayne Ferguson Plaza
Most of the LMR members, the Interact Clubs at both Hebron HS and The Colony HS as well as the Salvation Army, North Texas Honda dealerships and friends volunteered to cook and serve over 500 pancake and sausage breakfasts to community members participating in the Old Town Holiday Stroll.
LMR members and family prepared
1080 Dictionaries Dec 14th to
distribute to 3rd graders at 11 LISD schools
As soon as we have a schedule from the schools, we will be posting the volunteer sign-ups for delivering the dictionaries to the schools. Tentatively, we are planning Jan 9th through Jan 27st for delivery depending on the schools activity schedule.
We all had a great time at
The Lounge in Old Town Lewisville
Celebrating the joy of Christmas
Several of our members spouses and friends joined us for our annual Christmas Party last Thursday. Members brought gifts to be given to children at CCA and White Elephant Gifts that we shared with each other in a fun Lefty-Righty game where Jeff Lighton read a story and every time he said right we pushed the gift in front of us to the right. Every time he said left we moved the gift left until the story ended. The gift in front of us when Jeff was done reading was the gift we opened. Great fun.
Lewisville Morning Rotary
had 10 Volunteers for last Saturdays
Household Hazardous Waste Collection
Thank you to Deanna Perkins, Cheryl Brennan, Mary Jones, Terry Kasen, Todd Taylor and Todds daughters Alex and Sam who brought along their buds Nathan and Nicholas.
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On an annual basis our members have the opportunity to participate in 60 community projects.
Projects range from literacy, to disease prevention, to water and sanitation etc.
Members choose the projects that best fit their time and life style.
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Rotary Club Central
Feb 2020 Update
Many of our subscribers have sent us photo's of the flag that the Lewisville Morning Rotary Club and local area boy scouts erect in their front yards on the six major holidays of the year. This video shows the photo's we have received thus far. To learn more about the Lewisville Morning Rotary Flag Program please click link here
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So, what happens at Household Hazardous Waste?
To volunteer for this months event please call Todd Taylor at 214-395-2761
Volunteers from the Lewisville Morning Rotary Club had a very successful trip to Costa Rica to co-host a Health Fair in Tirrases, Costa Rica
To pledge your support for his project please click here.
