We are taking a road trip to the McFarland House at 409 South Queen Street this week. This will give members of the club a chance to see how beautiful downtown Martinsburg is during the Christmas holiday. Mike Nailor will speak to us about the Rotary Ecuadorian Water Project, an endeavor our club is supporting. We take...
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all my Rotary Family. Please take some time over the holidays to reflect on those really important things in your life and on how lucky we are to have what we do, while remembering those less fortunate than us. December has some changes to our regular scheduled meetings so please mark...
We are having a club assembly this week. We’ll learn more about the proposed new by-laws as well as what else will be happening. Last Week Roger Engle, author of Stories from a Small Town: Remembering My Childhood in Hedgesville, West Virginia, thoroughly entertained us telling us how he went from high school science teacher to author....
We are meeting at noon on Wednesday this week because of the Thanksgiving holiday. Although Tom Belfield would love to have you show up on Thursday, it would not be for Rotary, but for Thanksgiving. Our speaker this week is Roger Engle, a native of Hedgesville and a retired science teacher at South Hagerstown High School....
This week, Ann Smith, Executive Director of the Shenandoah Women's Center (SWC) will speak about the Center's role in the community. The SWC is committed to providing services that address the needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims/survivors and their non-offending family members. In addition, they strive to educate the community so as to change the fundamental...
This week Annalice Mollica will talk to us about her year in Zagreb, Croatia as an exchange student. She will have a presentation as well as artifacts as she tells us about her experience. Annalice is currently a senior at Hedgesville High School. This is one of my favorite programs as the students are unbelievably...
Probably most or all of us have had a friend or a loved one whom Hospice has been there to help. Hospice care is a type and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs. The...
This week, we will have Bray Cary, president and chief executive officer of West Virginia Media, a multi-media company that serves 90 percent of West Virginia. West Virginia Media today owns and manages NBC affiliate WBOY-TV and an ABC affiliate EBOY-TV Clarksburg; CBS affiliate WOWK-TV in Charleston/Huntington; CBS affiliate WTRF-TV, Fox affiliate Fox ETRF-TV, and an...
This week we are going on a field trip to Quad/Graphics. To get there from Martinsburg, take Route 9 west and turn right at the second red-light past I-81 on to General Motors Access Road. At the end of the road, turn right onto Caperton Boulevard. Follow Caperton Bouelevard to the end and take a left at...
John D. Perdue, the State’s 24th Treasurer, has 35 years of experience serving the people of West Virginia. From his days working for the Department of Agriculture to serving as a senior aide in the Governor’s office during the Caperton Administration, John Perdue has placed a high premium on public service. For nearly four decades, Perdue...