Posted by Brenda Laird on Oct 31, 2017
Happy Halloween from Sunrise Rotary.  Our leader and friend welcomed us this morning dressed as T Rex. What a special spooky way to start our wonderful Rotarian day.

Today in the house we were also delighted to welcome Connie Sloan Cathcart and Catherine Villnave from United Way.  Our presentation was a decision on what they are doing to make our community stronger by lending a helping hand.  What we learned as well is that our donation to the United Way is stretched a long way and the need in the community was larger than their budget could help this year.  They had 1.7 million dollars in requests but were only able to fund 1.2.  

Bright news is the pilot project United Way is currently doing with two out of the 8 Title IV schools.  They are partnering with community organizations to provide Halloween costumes, flu shots, and family assistance to help build better attendance, school spirit and family unity.  We are blessed to have such a caring organization in town to have our backs where needed.