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The Ferndale Rotary was founded in 1924 as part of Rotary International, a group known for it’s commitment to volunteerism at local and worldwide levels.  Through Rotary over 1.2 million business and community leaders provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace.  There are over 33,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries, including the Ferndale group which has around 20 members.

In Ferndale, Rotarians have been responsible for providing Achievement Awards for Ferndale High School students, purchasing bike helmets for the annual Bike Rodeo, raising money for DNA kits for the police department and for the Fire Safety House, and helping to mentor children.  For more information on the Rotary go to http://www.ferndalerotary.com.



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Ferndale Rotary Secures Book Donation From Richmond Community Service Group (Feb. 1, 2010 ed)

By, Crystal A. Proxmire

 

Ferndale Public Library Director Douglas Raber and members of the Ferndale Rotary drove over 40 miles on Tuesday to meet with the Richmond Rotary to pick up a donation of 198 brand new books for The Ferndale Public Library’s collection.

 

The books are intended for children age 4-12, and cover a wide range of educational topics from series like Voices of the Revolutionary War, Nature Close Up, How Do We Measure, Wild America Habitats, and Science on the Edge.  Some of the books are bilingual with text in both English and Spanish.

 

The Richmond group was able to purchase over 22,000 books at reduced cost because of a printing over-run at Blackbirch Press.  Eighteen-year Richmond Rotary Member and Assistant Governor of her District Sandy Pradko acquired a grant from the District in order to purchase the books.  “Now we have to get them out there to people,” she said. 

 

The club has already donated books to the Berkley Rotary, as well as to overseas groups in Honduras and Guatemala. 

 

Amy Roll, current Ferndale Rotary President, heard about the donations at a District meeting, and immediately thought that the Ferndale Library would make a good home for the books.  “One of Rotary’s goals is to increase literacy throughout the world, and we also want to help people in our home community,” Roll said.  She and other Ferndale Rotary members lunched with about 30 Rotarians in Richmond, and graciously left with the five boxes of books they were given.

 

“One thing about Rotary is that members can go to any Rotary group and feel welcome.  I love the way our groups work together to do things like this,” Roll said.

 

The Ferndale Rotary was founded in 1924 as part of Rotary International, a group known for it’s commitment to volunteerism at local and worldwide levels.  Through Rotary over 1.2 million business and community leaders provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace.  There are over 33,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries, including the Ferndale group which has around 20 members.

In Ferndale, Rotarians have been responsible for providing Achievement Awards for Ferndale High School students, purchasing bike helmets for the annual Bike Rodeo, raising money for DNA kits for the police department and for the Fire Safety House, and helping to mentor children. 

 

“We are so grateful to both Ferndale Rotary and Richmond Rotary for thinking of our kids and working together to make this happen.  The books will be put to good use,” Raber said. 

 

Richmond Rotary still has books available.  Any group is welcome to apply for the books by going to the Richmond Rotary Website at http://www.myrichmondrotary.com/current.htm.

For more information about Ferndale community news, go to www.ferndale115.com.