Good Neighbors

Purple Pinky Fingers Bring Awareness to Polio in Dunedin

Rotary Club volunteers were stationed outside businesses in Dunedin on Saturday, Feb. 23, painting people's pinky fingers to bring awareness and raise money for polio immunizations worldwide.

You may have seen people wearing red T-shirts painting the pinky fingers of passersby purple outside some of your weekend destinations in Dunedin on Saturday. It wasn't a bizarre dream. It was a message from Dunedin area Rotary Club members about the realities of a potentially devastating childhood virus. Volunteers from Rotary Club of Dunedin, Rotary Club of Dunedin North, and Rotary Club of Dunedin Waterside were stationed outside the Dunedin Historical Museum, Walmart Neighborhood Market, and Honeymoon Island State Park on "Purple Pinky Day" Saturday, Feb. 23 collecting donations and trying bring awareness to polio — an intestinal virus that not just claims people worldwide, but also struck one of their own, survivor Welch Agnew, …

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Dunedin Rotary's Teen Interact Club Celebrates 50 Years

Students at Dunedin High And Dunedin Highland Middle schools celebrated the 50-year anniversary of Interact Club on Nov. 27.

Future Dunedin Rotarians celebrated 50 years on Nov. 27. Students at Dunedin High and Dunedin Highland Middle schools in the Interact Club, a Rotarian-sponsored service club for children ages 12 to 18, ate cake and enjoyed a luncheon with their adult counterparts. Rotary Club of Dunedin President Lynn Wargo and Walsh Agnew, and other special guests spoke to the students. Dunedin High sophomore Nathalie Hernandez, who appeared on NBC's "The Voice," performed, as did members of the Dunedin Highland Middle School chorus.

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Rotary Club Contributes to Literacy Project in Africa

Senior citizens in Gamalakhe received literacy and training packs this week in a joint effort involving the Rotary Club of Dunedin.

Dear friends, It's back to school for 40 excited senior citizens in Gamalakhe who received their Adult Basic Literacy and Training packs at the Zibambeleni Old Age Day Care Centre this week, courtesy of the Rotary Clubs of Port Shepstone, Dunedin Florida USA and Sandvika Rotary Club in Norway in Association with Operation Upgrade. Our friends of Rotary in Norway, especially from Fagerborg Secondary School, who have channelled their R40 000.00 donation through GDC (Gamalakhe Development Centre), have generously contributed towards the project and are thanked profusely for their generosity. The total budget of some R75000.00 to bring effect to the teaching of these 40 learners, is in place.  It is the intention of the Rotary Clubs involved …

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Rotary Club Raffling Off Motorcycle at Cricketers

The Rotary Club of Dunedin is still selling tickets for the opportunity to win a 2012 Harley Davidson or four-night Carnival Cruise at Cricketers on Friday and Saturday. Drawing is Sunday.

Just a few days are left at a chance to win a 2012 Harley Davidson, says Rotary Club of Dunedin president Jim Haley. The annual raffle Sunday (6 p.m. ) at Cricketers is the is non-profit literacy advocacy club's biggest fundraiser of the year. The Rotary Club of Dunedin uses its funds for service projects in the local and international community. Recently, it has contributed scholarships for art students at Dunedin Fine Art Center, promoted literacy in Dunedin schools via a program that rewards reading benchmarks with animals that go to hungry villages, donated to a local organization building prosthetic limbs for children, and contributed to the new children's playground at the Dunedin Public Library. The club has been selling tickets for…

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