The 2016-17, Distinguished Rotary Presidential Citation has been awarded to the Lewisville Morning Rotary Club.
Carolyn Wright, 2016-2017, club president now serving as immediate past president and Rotary District 5790 international assistant team chair, accepted the award on behalf of the Lewisville Morning Rotary Club for its 2016-17 year.The Presidential Citation recognizes Rotary Clubs for a myriad of achievements that enhance humanitarian service, strengthen the network through the family of Rotary, and promote membership growth.
Each year clubs take on numerous initiatives and conduct various projects to help address a significant need or problem in their community. During the past Rotary year under Wright’s leadership, the local club received the first and only Significant Achievement Award in the history of District 5790; for its Household Hazardous Waste Service Project.
During the 2016-17 year, the Lewisville Morning Rotary sponsored an exchange student from Germany and two students in Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Program. Club members participated in the Salvation Army Red Kettle Bell-Ringing; assisted in Keep Lewisville Beautiful and supported the Polio Plus Campaign. The club sent a Shelter Box Kit during the devastation/aftermath of Hurricane Harvey/Irma and donated to local non-profits and organization to support community activities.
Members achieved the club’s literacy goals by reading books to students during “Read-Around Central; donating books to Central Elementary School library; distributing and gifting hundreds of dictionaries to fifth-graders throughout the community, and by involving the club's sponsored Early-Act Club in its annual projects.
The Lewisville Morning Rotary participated in a global grant that provided educational training for over 600 teachers; equipped classrooms with e-learning systems; provided café-kits to over 800 students, and re-purposed ten schools in the tribal regions of India.
In the area of vocational service, the Lewisville Morning Rotary Club on a monthly basis honored a Vocational Hero --one who serves humanity in the community. Locally no one serves humanity more than our educator, law enforcement officers, or emergency medical technicians. Each month a student is honored for his/her outstanding academic accomplishments. Members of Lewisville Morning Rotary-sponsored Interact Clubs of Hebron High and The Colony High School participated in the District 4 Way Test Competition.
Members heard weekly, guest speakers, discuss topics which, focused on Rotary’s five areas of service; peace and conflict resolution; disease prevention and treatment; water and sanitation; maternal and child health; economic and community development. The Lewisville Morning Rotary Club meets over breakfast on Thursdays each week in the training room of the Christian Community Action (CCA) on Old Mill. Persons interested in learning more about Rotary may contact Jeff Siebert, club president, at 817.320.8757.
