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 Saturday, February 23rd was the 103rd birthday of Rotary International. All clubs were asked to conduct a service project in celebration of the event and to use the event to enhance the image of their club and Rotary in their communities. Lamar Advertising donated six billboard spaces around the district for Rotary use. Following are more summaries of what clubs did to celebrate our birthday.
Gatlinburg Puts Cash in Food
 Saturday, February 23rd was the 103rd birthday of Rotary International. All clubs were asked to conduct a service project in celebration of the event and to use the event to enhance the image of their club and Rotary in their communities. Lamar Advertising donated six billboard spaces around the district for Rotary use. Following are more summaries of what clubs did to celebrate our birthday.To see what clubs elsewhere in the world and see that one of the clubs in our district drew some attention with its activities, click the title above.
Members of the Gatlinburg club collected food items and $1000 to benefit Sevier County Food Ministries, which served an average of 800 families per week in 2007. The happy guy in the red shirt is Al Kusick, a member of the Food Ministries steering committee. The other happy folks are Gatlinburg Rotarians.
Lenoir City Bags Trash
 Despite the weather, members of the Lenoir City club picked up the trash along a section of US321. They were going to send a photo, but the camera must have been lost in a bag of trash! By the way, if you'd like to have a load of fun while eating great food, make up at a Lenoir City club meeting at Calhoun's-on-the-Lake!
Sevierville Rotarians Make Goals
Members of the Sevierville and Sevierville Sunrise clubs dealt with the cold, blustery weather on Rotary's birthday by putting new nets on goals, sowing grass seed and planting trees at the Sevierville Soccer Complex, an ongoing project of the two clubs. It appears they even enlisted a future Rotarian in the fun!
Smithville Club Members Lick Labels
The Smithville club has undertaken to provide dictionaries to the Dekalb County High School freshman class and the "English As a Second Language Class." On Rotary's birthday, they placed labels that commemorate the day in the dictionaries, but had to delay the presentations due to illness and weather. We'll get a picture of the presentation and not use the one of label licking!
Worldwide Celebrations
To see what clubs elsewhere in the world and see that one of the clubs in our district drew some attention with its activities, click the title above.
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