Our next club meeting is this Wednesday, April 7, at 7:30am. This meeting will be IN-PERSON at the Bluffton Rotary Building.
We also have an online component for those members of the club who can't join us in person. We will have a Facebook Live video for our virtual attendees instead of a Zoom link. Please log onto Facebook and go to the Bluffton Rotary Club Facebook page and tune into the live Facebook stream of the meeting.
Our guest speaker at the meeting will be the Chief of the Bluffton Police Department, Stephanie Price. Prior to moving to the Lowcountry, Chief Price worked at the Savannah Police Department as Assistant Chief where she led the Administrative Bureau which supervised the Budget, Traffic, Training, Special Events, Mounted Patrol, K-9 Fleet, Recruitment and Special Operation Divisions.
Before moving to Savannah, Chief Price spent almost 20 years with the Kansas City Police Department and spent time in almost every division of the department. She began in Patrol and then worked in Investigations, Narcotics and Vice, Internal Affairs, Domestic Violence, Property Crimes, and the Fiscal Division. Chief Price has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from Park University and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Benedictine University. She and her husband have two children.
We have been presented with an interesting volunteer opportunity project from Bluffton Self Help!
Red Cedar Elementary School is attempting to break a domino's game record using 4,000 boxes of cereal! Once they complete the game they will be donating the 4,000 boxes of cereal to Bluffton Self Help. This is where we come in to play...here's what BSH needs from us:
We need 4-5 folks with pick-up trucks. Cars or SUV's won't work as the cereal boxes will be boxed into tall boxes that won't fit into Cars for SUV's.
A few extra folks to help move boxes to trucks and then to BSH.
When - Friday, April 9th from 12:30 - 2:30ish.
Where - meet at Red Cedar Elementary School
Please respond back to Jim Evans asap if you are availble to help at
Meet our newest Rotarian! Lindsay Sutcliffe and her husband, Mike, welcomed their baby girl, Eleanor "Elle" Angel Sutcliffe on March 23. She was 6 pounds and 10 ounces and 19 inches long.
The parents are over the moon and very thankful for Elle's safe arrival.
HAPPY FEET WAS A SMOOTH SUCCESS AT MC RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ON MARCH 27th.
The Bluffton Rotary Club Service Projects Committee worked hard to bring a plan together and coordinated with area school counselors so that our club could safely host Happy Feet. It benefitted kids from MC Riley, Red Cedar and Bluffton Elementary Schools. The shoes were distributed via a car pool line so the families could stay in their cars. School volunteers acted as "runners" taking shoes from the display tables to the cars.
We are so grateful to Kohls of Savannah for providing all the shoes. And we are especially thankful for all the hard work by Kohls Assistant Manager, Tracey Meredith, who went out of her way to give us shoes that matched the colors requested by the kids. Kohls also donated socks, hand sanitzer AND books some of which we gave away to local children and some we will use for the Rotary Club's Little Libraries.
We also want to send a warm thank you to Laura Van Houten a social worker with MC Riley Elementary School, Renee Lukasavage a social worker with Red Cedar Elementary School, Annie Burkhart administrator at MC Riley Elementary and Adrian Sutton the principal at MC Riley Elementary. And finally, we had two wonderful volunteers who acted as the runners between cars and the display tables--Olivia Boshaw and Makenzie Marlow both students at Bluffton High School.
