Welcome to Rotary!
The Rotary Club of Greenfield, Ohio meets each Thursday for a noontime luncheon meeting at the Catch 22 Sports Pub located at 250 Jefferson St., Greenfield, Ohio. In addition, the club has an evening meeting the first Thursday of each month at 7 p.m., also at Catch 22.
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TWO BIG OCTOBER EVENTS SET FOR ROTARY!
The Rotary calendar for October 2017 includes several major events for the club. Friday, Oct. 27 marks the date of the annual Spaghetti Dinner at the McClain High School Cafetorium. This event, from 4:30-7 p.m. prior to the McClain vs. Hillsboro football game, is a fundraiser that helps Rotary with various projects that benefit the community. The McClain-Hillsboro game is also known as the Rotary Bowl, showcasing the friendly rivalry between the two Highland County communities and their Rotary clubs. Thursday, Oct. 19 is the date of the annual Rotary Appreciation Dinner at Buckeye Hills Country Club. This event gives the club a chance to say thank you to those who do so much for Rotary during the year. The buyers of limited-edition prints at the Greene Countrie Towne Festival will be honored at this event. In addition, the sponsors of the antique car show and the antique tractor show will be recognized. Rotary VIPs from around the district will be on hand, and this is the time when the club honors an outstanding member or members with a Paul Harris Fellow award, named after the founder of Rotary. District Governor Mark Mabelitini visits Greenfield club
Rotary District 6670 Governor Mark Mabelitini (left) visited the Greenfield Rotary Club August 3 and presented President Andrew Surritt with a Rotary flag commemorating the theme, "Rotary: Making a Difference". The District Governor reported on activities within the district and in Rotary International, including efforts to eradicate polio from the face of the earth. Last year, only 8 cases were reported worldwide. DG Mabelitini is a member of the Rotary Club of Sidney. Daren Donohoo (not pictured) also attended as the Assistant Governor for Area 12, which includes Greenfield, Hillsboro and Williamsburg.
PURDY HONORED; SURRITT NEW ROTARY PRESIDENT
Outgoing Rotary President Virginia Purdy received a plaque in appreciation of her leadership during the 2016-17 Rotary year on July 6 from the new President, Andrew Surritt. The new Rotary year began July 1 with Surritt assuming his duties on that date. Purdy will continue to be active in club leadership as one of the chairpersons of the Greene Countrie Towne Festival, scheduled July 14-16.
New festival website launched for Greene Countrie Towne Festival Andrew Surritt III, festival chairman for the 2017 Greene Countrie Towne Festival, announced that a new website has been created to keep everyone up to date about the festival. Some nice changes are planned to help the festival grow bigger and better than ever in 2017. Click on the link below to have a look, and visit often! The new website can be found at: http://www.greenecountrietownefestival.org/ Nearly $94K pledged at telethon!
Nearly $94,000 was raised March 29, thanks to the generosity of Highland County’s people, businesses and civic organizations, during the 45th annual Ernie Blankenship Radio-Telethon to benefit the Highland County Society for Children and Adults. The Rotary Clubs in Hillsboro and Greenfield sponsored the radio-telethon activities, at the US Bank in Hillsboro and at McClain High School in Greenfield. Read more on the HCSCA PAGE of this website. 
G3 reps present program at Rotary meeting
Sam Bowers and Debra Crago (standing) of Greening Greater Greenfield presented the program at the Greenfield Rotary Club weekly meeting Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. G3 has been in existence since 2010 and has done many good projects for the benefit of the Greenfield community. G3 sponsors several events during the year, including Blues, Brews & Stews in February, Paddle on Paint Creekfest in May and the Greenfield Oktoberfest in September, to name a few. Needy Kids reorganizing
A longtime Greenfield Rotary tradition, the Needy Kids radiothon, was cancelled in 2016 -- but not because Rotary has stopped helping needy children. Instead, the charity is reorganizing so it can do what it has done all this time, but even better. “We just cancelled the Radiothon,” said Greenfield Rotarian and Needy Kids organizer Barb Barton. But she said the charity is still taking donations and still serving area children. Barton said that she and the other organizers want to move forward with “a different plan, a new strategy for 2017.” Next year will be the charity’s 40th radiothon fundraiser, she said. When Needy Kids first started nearly four decades ago, it was to give children in need a brighter Christmas. Up until last year, providing a brighter Christmas has been what the charity did, Barton said.. Through the years a lot of organizations and programs have materialized that serve that purpose of providing Christmas for needy children, Barton said. So the Needy Kids organizers have turned the focus to helping children in need throughout the year. If a child needs shoes, a winter coat, school supplies, Needy Kids can help, she said. If a child wants to play a sport but the family cannot afford to purchase the required attire, Needy Kids can help. “Whatever the need is, we want to be able to fulfill that,” Barton said. And that, she said, is the new focus going forward. But she said that Needy Kids will still “be there” at Christmas time, too. The annual radiothon is the primary fundraiser for Needy Kids, and, through the generous donations from the community, typically brings in an average of $12,000 per year. Since Needy Kids began, more than $300,000 has been donated to the effort by the community, Barton said. And the money is always spent locally. Those interested in giving to Needy Kids can still do so by dropping off donations anytime at local Greenfield banks, which include Fifth Third, Southern Hills Community Bank, Community Savings Bank and both Merchants National Bank locations. Donations can also be mailed to Needy Kids, P.O. Box 329, Greenfield, Ohio 45123. 
MHS SHOW CHOIR ENTERTAINS ROTARY
The McClain Show Choir, directed by Miss Loretta Flora, provided a selection of Christmas songs for the Greenfield Rotary Club meeting on Dec. 15. Rotary appreciates and supports the Show Choir and members always look forward to seeing and hearing these talented McClain students. ROTARY CLUB DISTRIBUTES DICTIONARIES, THESAURUSES
Members of the Greenfield Rotary Club delivered dictionaries and thesauruses to elementary students Thursday across the Greenfield Exempted Village School District on Thursday, Nov. 10. This is part of an ongoing effort by Rotary to serve the community and has taken place for a number of years. Each year third graders receive a dictionary and fifth graders receive a thesaurus, each hand-delivered by members of the Greenfield Rotary Club. The books are the students’ to keep, and students can put their name on the inside cover of the book on a sticker bearing Rotary’s Four-Way Test, which is the club’s moral code for conducting not only business, but personal relationships. Distribution days are typically met with excitement from the students. This year, 149 third graders received dictionaries and 162 fifth graders got thesauruses. Rotary supporters honored at annual appreciation dinner;
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