Our Back to School Supply Drive was a success! Thank you to everyone who donated. This is the most donations we have collected for this drive and we couldn't have done it without YOU. One anonymous donor gave us around 50 backpacks and another one gave us about 4 boxes of assorted supplies!!!

We do want to give a big shout-out to Toms River Fitness & Aquatic Center for being our drop-off location, to member Jen Cowen Lorentzen, member E Montes Rastelli and Freedom Village office manager, Joyce Coco, for making all of this possible.

We are making many families at Freedom Village very happy

 

On Tuesday, we had Kathy Luszik and Lisa Mulhearn from Bright Harbor Healthcare, formerly known as Ocean Mental Health Services. They talked to us about the services they offer to adults, children, and families in our community. They provide counseling, foster care, group homes, partial day services, a private school for children with emotional and behavioral challenges, and much more.

We were happy to present them with a donation for the OceanCares Foundation which supports Bright House Healthcare. If you would like to help or learn more about this great organization, please visit: https://brightharbor.org/

: Kathy Luszik, Club Secretary Laurie Singer, and Lisa Mulhearn

 

This Tuesday District Governor Michael Johnson presented our Club with this year's theme banner "Imagine Rotary", Imagine the possibilities in the change we can make to transform the world. This is the theme for this year's first female President, Jennifer Jones!

It was fun to have District Governor, Michael Johnson and Assistant District Governor, Stacey Cofka join us for lunch and talk to us about the great events that are being planned for this Rotary year.

To learn more about Rotary or are interested in the events coming up, visit: https://district7505.org/

 

Last night we held our Annual Installation Dinner for Officers of our Club. Club President John Anderson was sworn in for his second term as Club President, by District Governor Michael Thompson. As the District Governor said during his speech, John is serving an encore year but this time under the Rotary theme “Imagine Rotary”. President John Anderson also recognized members Jen Lorentzen, Laurie Singer and George Hanna for all the help they provided during his first year as President of our club. We wish John and his Board a successful year of service.

Special thanks to District Governor Michael Thompson and District Assistant Governor Stacey Cofka for joining us at our 2022-2023 Installation Dinner.

 

 

Our favorite time of the year is here… our annual scholarship/laptop luncheon presentation! Today, we were honored to present $15,000 between scholarships and laptops to deserving students for their college education. As always, our scholarship committee had a very difficult decision to make but we are happy to announce the winners. Congratulations to you all and wish you the best in the years to come!

 

Laptop Winners:

• TRHSN: Taniyah Watson

• TRHSN: Arianah Davis

• TRHSS: Chloe Seluchins

• TRHSS: Sequoia Bivins

• TRHSE: Cruz Chacon

• TRHSE: Neveah Rondon

 

Scholarship Winners:

• TRHSN: Rutva Shah

• TRHSS: Chloe Seluchins

• TRHSE: Michael Picaroni

• Donovan: Olivia Lechner

• VOC: Nicholas Tasker

 

Special shout out to everyone who supports us throughout the year. We certainly wouldn’t be able to help these students or our community without you!

 

 

 

Thank you to everyone who in one way or another supported our first Rocking with Rotary Concert! The weather was perfect and it was nice to see our community coming together to have a good time while supporting a great cause. There are many thanks to go around… We first would like to thank all our sponsors, vendors, food trucks, guests, club members, volunteers, and a huge shout out to A & S Sound for taking care of all the behind-the-scenes for our bands without them we wouldn’t have been able to have a concert at all!

BIG thanks to EVERYONE! We are looking forward to seeing everyone again next year!