Boy Scout Cabin Restoration Project
The Hickory Rotary club helped raise $12,000 to restore the original 1937 Boy Scout cabin on Lake Hickory (near Hwy. 321N bridge). The dedication took place on Sunday, November 6, 2011. Past club President / Eagle Scout Allen Finley spoke on behalf of our club discussing how the Boy Scouts and Rotary are very similar: learning discipline, good character traits and moral values at a young age, and then carrying it forward into Rotary ideals as adults. Finley's family has seven Eagles and two Silver Beaver Awards. Rotarians in attendance: Dallas Abee, whose father drew the original plans in 1937; Dr. Allen Huffman; Addison Fox (Parks & Recreation Chairman); John Norwood.
Pictured, left to right: Raymond von Drehle, Piedmont Council President; Glenn Miller; Allen Finley; Patrick Daily, Hickory Landmarks Society Director; Mack McLeod, Parks and Recreation Director.
Rotarians Help Package Meals At Stop Hunger Now Event
The Stop Hunger Now event was held on March 5, 2011 at the Hickory American Legion Fairgrounds. More than 500 people participated in the event, $30,000 was raised, and 120,000 meals were packed and shipped to Haiti.
2009 Service Above Self Scholarship recipients Adrianna Nassar, Sara Phillips and Colby McClellan, on May 21, 2009.
May 7, 2009, Hickory Rotary Club's annual Red Cross Blood Drive. Steve Mull and Karla Woggon were among the many Rotarians giving blood.
December 16, Hickory Rotary members treated children and families at Sweetwater Elementary School to a Christmas dinner and a visit from Santa.
The Angel Bear at Lenoir-Rhyne University. The staff and students will be providing gifts for the children at Sweetwater School for our Christmas Project party on 12/16.
On behalf of HRC, Les Whicker received a certificate of appreciation at the Champions of Education Breakfast, Sept. 17, 2008. Hickory Rotary Club donated funds to the More at Four classroom project, which helps four-year-old children be ready to attend kindergarten. Champions of Education is a program of the Catawba County Chamber of Commerce. Left to Right, Les Whicker, Kim Salyards, Executive Director for Partnership for Children and chair of the Champions of Education's Leaps and Bounds committee, and Lisa Thompson, principal of Balls Creek Elementary.
Hickory Rotary Club donated funds to Southwest Elementary School to build a walking track. Shown left to right are Lamar Mitchell, principal Sherry Willis and Mitzi Gellman, with Southwest children...