MIRIAM MAZARIEGOS VISITS CLUB

Guatemala native Miriam Mazariegos made a presentation of a miniature water jug to the Elizabethtown Rotary Club to represent her thanks to the club for its support of the

Living Waters of the World project in Guatemala. The project provides a safe water supply for remote areas.

Pictured from the left are Rotarian Peter Denton, Miriam Mazariegos and Elizabethtown Rotary Club

President Cathy Williamson. Standing is Rotarian Bob Swope.

NOON ROTARY INSTALLS 5TH DRINKING WATER SYSTEM

The Elizabethtown Noon Rotary Club in cooperation with the Elizabethtown First Presbyterian Church recently completed its 5th installation of water purification systems in Guatemala. Team members were:  First row L to R:Claudia Caballeros and Miriam Mazariegos(In-Country Coordinators for Living Waters of the World), Henry Van Lengen, and Bob Swope. Back row: Bob Beatty, Dr. Bill Handley, and Joanne and Peter Denton.

NOON ROTARY HOSTS GSE TEAM FROM GREAT BRITAIN

The Elizabethtown Noon Rotary Club hosted the 2010 Group Study Exchange Team from District 1220 in Great Britain, May 12-15, 2010.  Pictured are: GSE Team Coordinators J.J. and Kelli Jeffries, GSE Team Members Pam Bowley, Laure Harmer, Tom Martin, and Tes Murray, and GSE Team Leader Anne Ledbetter.

ELIZABETHTOWN NOON ROTARY

At its regular meeting on June 9, 2009, the Elizabethtown Noon Rotary Club Also recognized members of the team that headed up the club’s water project in Guatemala.  The club has now sent a team two years in a row to impoverished areas of Guatemala to install clean water filtration systems.  The Elizabethtown Club was recently honored at the district Rotary Convention by receiving the award for Best International Project.  (Pictured: Rotarians project team members Peter Denton, Bob Swope, and Bill Handley with Rotary President Glenn Ross)

Noon Rotary Inducts Paul Harris Fellows

The Elizabethtown Noon Rotary Club welcomed Rotary District Governor Terry Shockley and his wife Jo as special guests at their meeting on March 31, 2009.  District Governor Shockley was in attendance for the recognition of ten members of the Elizabethtown Noon Rotary Club who have been named Paul Harris Fellows.  Membership as a Paul Harris Fellow is a significant distinction in the club awarded for contributions to the Rotary Foundation.  The Foundation fosters better international understanding by granting scholarships to young men and women throughout the world for study outside their own countries in addition to philanthropic projects both in the United States and abroad.  Pictured:  Rotary President Glenn Ross with Rotary District Governor Terry Shockley and Mrs. Jo Shockley.

Being recognized as Paul Harris Fellows for the first time were Ed Barlow, Michael Owsley, Linda Sims, and James Jeffries.  Second time recipients were Ted Stiles, Sammie Phillips, Chuck Willis, Rich Griendling, and Jeff Richardson.  Being recognized for a third time for his contributions was Kevin Addington.    Pictured: L-R back row: Jeff Richardson, Rich Griendling, Rotary President Glenn Ross, Chuck Willis,  L-R front row: Ted Stiles, Ed Barlow, Linda Sims, Michael Owsley.

Noon Rotary's Living Water Guatemala Project 

In 2005, incoming Elizabethtown Noon Rotary Club President Debbie Borden included an international clean water project as one of her goals for our club.  Rotarians Bob Swope, Skip

Dunford and Dr. Bill Handley along with non-Rotarians Bill Ball, Bob Beatty and Ralph Young

began the foundation work that would span the terms of Rotary Presidents Rick Baumgardner and Greg Jenkins. In 2008, a cooperative effort of the Noon Rotary Club and First Presbyterian Church installed two water purification systems in Guatemala that today provide clean water for over 6,000 Mayan-Man Indians.  Two more water systems are to be installed in 2009.