Spring cleaning = treasure waiting to be found! If your closets, basements, or garages are bursting with goodies you no longer need, don’t toss — turn them into fun (and fundraising)!
What’s happening....On September 19 we’ll be at the Lower Providence Community Yard Sale from 8:00 AM–2:00 PM. Diane Helm will collect gently used, re-sellable items at a Rotary Table to raise funds for the Club. How to help.....Bring your donations to any Rotary meeting by September 10. Want to join the fun on the day? Sign up for a 2-hour shift to chat with shoppers. Share what the Norristown Rotary does, and help sell great finds. Why join....Clear clutter, earn smiles, and support the Club — plus hunting for bargains is half the fun! We already have several Rotary members living in Lower Providence, and we’d love more hands and friendly faces. Questions or want to sign up? Contact Diane or show up at a meeting with your donations by September 10. See you at the sale — let’s make it a community party!
Diane 484-636-7481 dianejhelm@gmail.com
Celebrating Virginia Frantz' Retirement
Mark your calendar for the Montgomery County Foundation, Inc Luncheon on September 30, 2026 where we will honor Virginia Frantz for her 24 years of exceptional leadership and service to the Foundation.
Below is the link for any Norristown Rotarian who wants to pay their dues with a credit card. Follow these steps.
- Click the link below. A block will appear titled Biannual Dues, click on it
- Another block will appear. Leave the quantity as 1 and click on DONATE.
- It will automatically show your dues plus a $4.75 service charge biannual dues which includes the credit card processing fee.
- Click on the ? next to: help cover fundraising cost, and at the bottom of the explanation, click here
- A new window will open, and at the bottom you can click on I'd rather not contribute at this time if you like. This will change the donation amount to zero
Last Thursday, PATRICK BRODERICK spoke to us on a very critical and time sensitive topic, supplying emergency power to the Ukraine's hospitals and schools. The organization he is with, POWER UP UKRAINE, is doing just that with help from Rotary Clubs around the world who sponsor the production and implementation of solar-hybrid power systems from NEW USE ENERGY into Eastern Ukraine, where most of the devastation has occurred.
Patrick has worked with several area Rotary Clubs which have donated money to purchase these generators for hospitals and schools where the need for reliable back up power is the greatest. The power grid there is devastated and will take years to replace, so the use of mini systems like the NUE units , fill the critical needs in the area.
Rotary has taken an interest in this humanitarian project and has been designated as the local point for collecting funds. Patrick gave a couple examples for local Clubs funding units for specific programs such as supplying units for the blood drives in the Ukraine. These are special in that they process the blood on the spot, thus requiring steady, dependable power under extreme conditions.
You can learn more about the many projects concerning emergency power in the Ukraine by visiting their website POWER UP UKRAINE.
Private donations and club projects can send funds to the Philadelphia Rotary Foundation. (see details below)
Last Wednesday, The ROTARY CLUB OF NORRISTOWN did volunteer work at The Patrician Society, a Norristown based organization that provides emergency food distributions, among other services ,for the community. We helped prepare packages for handing out later in the day, and performed stocking tasks to aid the Society's staff.
This annual service project is a fine opportunity to assist an organization doing such great work in the Norristown community, and to work with other volunteers and the Society's hard working staff.
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