once you get in and you get The noon group boasts involved with it.” about 170 members, all Harris said being involved eager to continue the tradiThe next event the club is with Rotary makes him feel tion that started in 1926. working on is a combination like a better person than he There are different of food drives — a local food ever had before. branches of the Rotary Club drive, with food going to St. “Rotary is service above of Kerrville, too, such as Vincent de Paul Society and self — that’s our motto,” the Rotaract Club, which is the local veterans’ center, and Harris said. “It really just composed of people in their a bigger program called Rise helps you become a better 20s and 30s, Interact proAgainst Hunger. person. I thought I was a grams, which is for junior “We’re going to try to have pretty good person doing Rotarians still in school, and 200 people help us package things, but when I got the Satellite Club, Harris over 41,000 meals and we’re involved in Rotary, it’s just said. None of those are going to do it really quickly,” awesome how much more chartered as separate clubs club president Robin Miears we do in the community.” from Rotary. said. “Those meals go to He said he also feels like “For people who are really catastrophe-stricken areas, it’s a great opportunity to busy with work, maybe (with) hurricanes, typhoons, meet people from different they’re newly established fires, those types of things, fields, as all kinds of profesin their jobs or younger and also for school lunches sionals join. and they can’t afford their for third-world countries.” “Rotary is a bunch of difdues for the noon club, the ferent individuals with difSatellite Club only meets ferent career fields, from car sales to bankers once a month,” Miears said. “That might be to doctors to attorneys, all coming together to something in the evenings that somebody help one cause, and that’s to help our comelse might be interested in, too, if they want munity as the local Rotarians,” Harris said. to serve.” There are actually two Rotary clubs in The Rotary Club is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) Kerrville. The Kerrville Rotary Club, or noon service organization that conducts programs Rotary, meets at lunchtime at The Inn of the and events for places around the community Hills Hotel and Conference Center and The and the world that are in need. Kerrville Morning Rotary. The Rotary Club of Kerrville has an Interact The latter is a separately chartered Rotary program at Tivy High School that has been organization that meets at 6:45 a.m. at The around for about 40 years, said Miears, and Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps also a program at Peterson Middle School, Community Center. which has been around for about three years.
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Want to participate? Those interested in volunteering can contact Robin Miears at robin@ joecookagency.com or at 830-377-4819. The Rotary Club of Kerrville, or noon Rotary, meets every Wednesday from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Inn of the Hills. The meetings are open to the public and anyone interested in joining. For more information on the Rotary Club of Kerrville, go to KerrvilleRotary.org.
Miears said she is happy to have so many people who want to serve and that the community also offers support to their club. “The giving and the support is phenomenal in this community,” she said. “They provide services, they provide equipment or anything like that for anything that we’re doing. We are very fortunate to live in Kerrville and have the support of the community that we do.”
Carol Twiss, lead investigator at the Kerr County Sheriff’s Office, speaks during a Rotary Club meeting in February. Photo by Ariel Lutnesky
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