Our Service – Rotary Club of Farmville

Volunteers needed for Remote Access Clinic

Our club will be helping with the Remote Access Clinic on March 28-29, held at Cumberland High School. Tammy Nelson will be working with the Culinary students to provide lunches for the army of volunteers that will be there that day. She asks if we can help her serve the meals that day.

Please register at https://volunteer.ramusa.org

Fill in the categories to register.
When you get to Professional Volunteer Classification, please select “general support.”
In the Limit Event by State field, search for USA: Virginia.
Event Categories: Clinics
Event: Cumberland 2025

This clinic will see hundreds of patients in our area and surrounding counties who have no insurance or are underinsured. There will be medical, dental and vision clinics.

Thank you for the many, many ways you make the world a better place.

Julie

Rotary Enjoys Busy Fall

Rotarians have been out serving the community in full force this fall. Here are just a few of their activities:

Rotarians cleaned an area for parking close to the Farmville Train Station in preparation for the upcoming Veterans Day Extravaganza on November 9. Our club’s foundation chair, Kerby Moore, is responsible for creating “Friends of Farmville Veterans” to help execute this event. It’s a consortium of local chapters of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Daughters of the American Revolution, Farmville Jarheads, and Military Officers Association of America, in association with Three Roads Brewing Company, High Bridge Trail State Park, Longwood University ROTC, and other partners. Pictured are club members and military veterans Kerby Moore, George Buckman and Andrew Payne.

We recently joined with the Farmville Lions Club to collect toys for the Christmas Mother Toy Drive. Each year many low-income families are blessed with nice gifts for their children through this community effort. Pictured are Rotarians Reeves LaRoche and Julie Flores.

In October we had our 3rd annual Autumn Bake Sale and Raffle. Eleven club members joined forces to raise funds for Piedmont Habitat for Humanity. This years we raised $712 — an increase from last year. Pictured are Kerry Mossler, Andrew Payne, and Jill Ahmad (front row) and Barbara Smith, Le’Tina Giles, and Russell Dove (back row).

Club participates in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s

Once again this year, members of the club participated in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s! Over half of our club was involved by being walkers, donors, event planners, event volunteers, and some even leading other organizations in forming teams and fundraising. Our club raised about $1800 and the local Farmville Walk raised over $16,000.

Rotary members help FACES

Rotary agreed to help FACES, our local food pantry, distribute food last summer in the absence of the college students who usually help out. Then our volunteers saw the need and asked if we could continue! So now it’s a regular activity. Thanks to all! For more pictures see our Facebook page here.

Julie Flores, our service chair, helping out at FACES.

Celebrating the Club’s 85th Anniversary through Service

The Rotary Club of Farmville, founded on March 8, 1938, celebrated its 85th anniversary with members gathering to work on a Piedmont Habitat for Humanity worksite that afternoon. Four new Habitat homes are coming soon to a section of Andrews Drive in the town limits of Farmville. Club members, one of the future home owners, and Habitat employees worked together to construct front and rear walls for storage sheds provided with each house.

Framing shed walls — Framing up the shed walls

Carrying shed walls — Carrying the walls to their destination

Straightening 2x4s — Straightening the 2x4s

Three-pronged effort for Rotary 9/11 Day of Service

25 volunteers joined in the effort to serve our community for Rotary 9/11 Day of Service, thanks to the efforts of Jeff Smith, who organized the day’s events. We supported three different ventures:

Sarah Terry Trail and Wilck’s Lake Trail trash pickup
FACES Food Pantry food distribution
Operation Christmas Child shoebox preparation

Thanks to all who helped! Enjoy the pictures. And here’s to many more such endeavors.

Rotarians prepare to pick up trash — Smiles all around as we began picking up trash around the lake trails.

Rotarian Chance cleaning up around equipment — Rotarian Chance took care of the area surrounding the excercise equipment donated by our club a few years ago.

Rotarian Dan showed he wasn’t afraid to clean up around less enticing areas.

Rotarians Catherine and Shaunna prepare for food distribution — Rotarians Catherine and Shaunna enjoyed preparation for the food distribution.

Rotarian Russell distributes food — Rotarian Russell proved he was quite adept at the effort as well.

Rotarian Mary and her son distribute food — Rotarian Mary, our Sargeant at Arms, proved she’s a little more lenient when her son is concerned : ).

Rotarians pack boxes for Operation Christmas Child — A good group gathered at St. Johns Lutheran to pack boxes for Operation Christmas Child. At the back is Rotarian Jeff, who organized the day.

Rotarians Barbara, Julie, Anne Tyler, and Jenn after packing boxes — Rotarians Barbara, Julie, Anne Tyler, and Jenn showed their camaraderie in the effort.

Landscaping for Habitat

Rotarians helped with a Habitat build in Drakes Branch, doing some landscaping and other assorted jobs. Looks like some fun and games went on in addition to the work!

Dan, a Rotarian who works for Habitat, said the family was much in need of better housing. The ribbon cutting, below, was the following day.

Rotarians clown around after working on landscaping — Rotarians clowned around after the work was finished