Richard Renn

Community Service Chair

521 East 2nd Street
Port Clinton, OH 43452
Home: 419-734-1668
Fax: 419-734-6468
E-mail: goodfood@infinet.com
Goes by: Dick
Partner: Elaine

Community Service

Three major goals of Community Service in the 2003/2004 Rotary year include:

1. Blood Donations At the club level collect blood for your local chapter of the American Red Cross. By getting club membership to donate as well as other community groups and citizens, we hope to collect a minimum of 2500 units of blood throughout the District. New donors are especially invited to become a first time donor.

2. Rotary Never Sleeps Lend a Hand by being one of two or more clubs in the District that has a Rotarian on call, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week for a person needing assistance. You need not be the direct provider of assistance but rather assure the person in need is placed in touch with some local organization that can provide help. To get your club started you will need a distinct telephone number (e.g.Call Rotary – 225-576- 8279) and advertising on billboards or through newspaper, radio, TV or printed material distributed through convenience stores etc. District 6600 has funds available through the District Simplified Grant Program to get you up and running. Wouldn’t it be a wonderful world if a hungry person received a meal, a stranded traveler a gallon of gas or overnight lodging, a hungry baby a jar of baby food or an elderly shut in help with medication? This program can take hold around the World – will you be the first?

3. Centennial Projects The survey, appearing in the District 6600 Print Directory, from Dick Renn, Chair of the Community Service Committee, describes Rotary International’s Centennial project which asks every Rotary Club to adopt a significant community service project. Read Dick ’s message – then get aboard the Centennial train as it travels toward our 100th birthday celebration.