Photo: Mountain Home Rotary Club board of directors and officers have been elected for 2019-2020. Board members are (from left) Scott Sillence, John Schaub and Wes Wood, President-Elect Renae Schocke, President Kriss Yunker and Past-President Mark Hopper, and officers are Secretary Marilyn Loveless and Treasurer Allen Moore. Photo courtesy Brenda Nelson.
The Rotary Club of Mountain Home has installed new board of directors and officers for 2019-2020.
Board members are elected for five-year terms, serving in different positions within the club until their fifth year when they become president. The newly-installed president is Kriss Yunker, who serves on the board with President-Elect Renae Schocke and board members Wesley Wood, John Schaub and Scott Sillence.
The officers are Secretary Marilyn Loveless and Treasurer Allen Moore.
Throughout the year, the volunteer board will lead other Rotarians in various projects of the club, such as the annual pancake day. Proceeds from the event allow the club to offer over $20,000 in local scholarships to area high school students.
Other programs the club performs in the local community are include teaching a two-day course to eighth grade students in five area junior high schools showing them how to make good “Choices” for a successful life; donating 500 dictionaries to third graders in four local school systems; teaching the “Don’t Meth With Us” program to fifth grade students in North Central Arkansas and Southern Missouri; sending a dozen high school juniors to a youth leadership camp (RYLA); collecting used medical equipment for distribution to third world countries; and delivering wheelchairs across the globe with the American Wheelchair Mission.
Area Rotarians also support various other projects benefiting the local community through Baxter Regional Medical Center, the Donald W. Reynolds Library Serving Baxter County, the Twin Lakes Soccer Association and the Food Bank of North Central Arkansas.
The main emphasis of Rotary International is the eradication of polio through its Polio Plus program. In 1985, there were 1,000 new cases of polio in the world every day. Today, thanks to global efforts of Rotarians, there were only 22 cases in the entire world in 2018.
Rotarian Brenda Nelson says, “We’re this close to eliminating this killer and crippler of children and adults. The Mountain Home Rotary Club is ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”
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