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Rotary Installs New Officers
Florissant Rotary gives $113,829
In Service to Community Groups
The Florissant Rotary Club recently donated $113,829.72 to various community services such as CAP Grants, scholarships, cash donations, and building materials. They are now accepting donations through their relatively new 501c3.
These funds will be used to help ensure that local community service providers, such as Marygrove for children, local hospitals, TEAM food pantry, Valley Industries, and others who are genuinely effecting the lives of some of the most at-risk residents, are improved.
The importance of the Club and their fundraising efforts are even more critical now that the license office is privately owned and the community no longer gets the income.
Rotary Installs Officers
The officers and directors for the 2016-17 year are: John Caravelli, President; Rick Dorsey, past President; Dr. Chandra Kaup, President-elect; Dr. Paul Detrick, Vice President; Dr. Adam Howell, Treasurer; Derek Craig, Secretary; Col. Tim Lowery, Sergeant at Arms; and Directors Mary Kay Gladbach, Gene Reynolds, Nancy Geno, Matt Husband, and Dan Boyle.
The Club also presented Executive Secretary, Wayne Williams, the “Keystone” award for his service to the Club.
Service to the Community Grants, Donations from the Rotary
Community Assistance Program (CAP) Grants
6 stoves for Trinity Catholic High School $2,340.07
15 lunchroom tables for Valley Industries $1,881.75
Cocktails for a Cause
Canned goods and cash for TEAM $600
Baby products and cash for St. Louis Crisis Nursery $600
Clothing and cash for Just Because We Care $600
Food and cash for Hazelwood SD “Food 4 Thought” $500
Scholarships
4 from Club funds $8,000
1 from Ferguson Rotary Club funds $ 2,000
2 from a Club member $4,000
In-Kind
Materials for a ramp at St. Ferdinand Shrine $472.90
Dick Cerame Bench in Sunset Park
Cash Donations
Marygrove $16,500
TEAM $14,000
Valley Industries $14,500
Christian Hospital Foundation $2,650
Depaul Hospital Foundation $3,000
Trinity Catholic High School $7,000
Hazelwood SD Foundation $5,400
St. Ferdinand Shrine $2,750
North County Churches United $2,440
North County Inc. $1,850
North Star District Boy Scouts $2,500
MO Highway Patrol Youth Academy $2,500
H.I.S. Kids for Cancer $2,500
Just Because We Care $2,000
GSLAC Boy Scouts Endowment $2,500
Valley of Flowers $1,000
Maria Reina Parish in La Paz, Bolivia $1,000
Pallotine Renewal Center $1,000
Major Case Squad $1,000
The Village $1,000
Backstoppers $500
STL County Police Athletic League $500
North Star District Cub Scout Day Camp $500
Florissant Police Explorers $500
Hazelwood Police Explorers $500
Black Jack Fire Explorers $500
Hazelwood Fire Explorers $500
Jamestown New Horizons $300
Special Olympics $250
St. Ferdinand Parish Thanksgiving Dinner $250
Emerson YMCA $250
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne School Robotic $250
Race to the Shrine $200
Ferguson Kiwanis $200
Florissant Police Welfare League $100
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne Athletic Assc. $100
Florissant Soroptomists $100
Total: $113,829.72
