Some of the many things we do... |
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Our Annual Spelling Bees draw students from area elementary and middle schools. Awards include US Savings Bonds and cash. |
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Our Rotary Santa pays his annual visit to the Maryland Sheriffs' Youth Ranch. |
Some of our local beneficiaries... |
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This local Christmas In April home refurbishing project included painting inside and out, an entire new porch, and even yard work. The delighted homeowner "repaid" our Rotary volunteers with apple cake, baked beans and potato salad. |  |
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Here is part of our Adopt-A-Highway team cleaning up along Route 27 in Damascus. They never know what they'll uncover. In addition to the usual bottles, paper and car parts, they once found an $850 check. | |
Serving The Community At Large |
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Damascus Rotary was instrumental in the building of the now familiar community welcome signs along major routes that lead into our growing community. In all, six local civic-minded organizations contributed $1,500 each towards the cost. Their well known logos appear just below the "Welcome To Damascus" greeting. | |
| In addition to Damascus Rotary, voluntary contributors included Damascus Lions Club, Damascus American Legion Post 171, the Izaak Walton League, Damascus Community Chamber of Commerce and Damascus Farmers Market. | ||
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The project was conceived in 1994 when the Rotary and Lions Clubs decided that our town deserved some "welcome" recognition. Completed just before the Blizzard of '96, the 16-foot signs were dedicated on Tuesday, January 24, 1996. |
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| Our full name: Rotary Club of Damascus |
| Our postal address: P.O. Box 4, Damascus MD 20872 |
| Our club is in Rotary District 7620, encompassing Central Maryland and Washington, DC. |
| Our weekly meetings are currently being held at: the First Baptist Church, 8850 Damascus Road (Route 108), Damascus, every Thursday at 7:00 pm. During July and August we have summer programs and meet at other locations. If you are planning to attend a meeting, please contact us for confirmation of the locale. |
| Please send Club membership inquiries and general electronic mail to James E. Kerich, CPA, at: jkcpa@bellatlantic.net, or visit our Feedback page on this Website. |
| Please send comments about problems with,
or the condition of, this Web site to Collingwood Harris at: collingwood@email.msn.com |
| This Website is edited, designed and maintained as a community service by Collingwood Harris at www.collingwood-usa.com. The Rotary International emblem (gear) graphic was designed by Tord Elfwandahl for RI. The emblem, the "Show Rotary Cares" logo and the Paul P. Harris photo were downloaded from the Rotary International Website (www.rotary.org) in accordance with Rl's policy governing Internet usage as set forth in the RI Manual of Procedure (035-EN) and are copyright © by Rotary International. Graphics and illustrative Damascus-area photos by Collingwood Harris. Rotary Club of Damascus activity photos by various Club members from the Club's archives. Photographs, graphics and textual portions of this Web may not be copied or reproduced except upon receipt of written permission from the Club. Scrap Book page news photos are the properties of the media to which they are credited and may not be reproduced without their direct permission. Site contents copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 by the Rotary Club of Damascus. |
