Ballantyne Rotary Club

After celebrating the impact we had on our community this year, our new officers were installed last week at Zinicola Italian Restaurant.

Congrats to our incoming President Maya Tsekova, Co- Treasurers John Blair and Dan Trimmer and Secretary Michael Leonard!

Beautiful morning for our Adopt a Street clean up! Great friends and great weather… and post clean up snacks! 🗣️A HUGE SHOUT OUT to our club member,Rosemary H. Jackson for coordinating and organizing!! Thank you!! 👏👏☺️ 💙💛😎

Awesome to see how quickly Ballantyne Families Helping Neighbors in Need used the donation (from our Holiday Greenery sale) we made LAST WEEK to fill some empty pantry shelves!

Every year our club divides the profits from our Holiday Greenery Sale between Rotary International’s End Polio Now initiative and a local non profit. After hearing about the incredible grassroots organization Ballantyne Families Helping Neighbors in Need, we presented them with a check for $500 today. This will enable them to reach more families facing food insecurity.

Twenty years of service in our community and internationally! Happy Birthday to the Ballantyne Rotary Club, and may the next twenty years have an even greater impact!

Great day to have an indoor literacy service project for Promising Pages!

Thank you to our member Michael Leonard for sharing his story about being on flight 1549 that landed in the Hudson River 15 years ago!

Thank you to the Catawba River Keeper for presenting to us last Friday!

Ballantyne Rotary Club Holiday Party 2023!

Thanks Hindi’s Libraries for another shipment of great books! It is always a joy to add quality children’s books to the Little Free Libraries at Alliance Centers for Education!

Hindi's Libraries
Alliance Center for Education

Thank you to Dr. Rose Jackson for being our Rotarian Spotlight today!

We held the second part of our Family Financial Literacy program at the Alliance Center for Education (Mulberry Campus) last night.

Engaged and inquisitive parents and older children learned more about their personal savings and credit goals, as well strategies to better manage their financial resources.

The youth topics ranged from discussing wants vs needs and US and international coins, to comparison shopping and budgeting allowances or gifts. Reading a variety of age appropriate financial books reinforced these concepts.

Resources from the CFPB, Rotary District 7680 and TowneBank Foundation made these workshops possible.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
TowneBank
Rotary District 7680

Excellent financial literacy workshop tonight at the Alliance center for education.

Thank you to Dorothy Gorman, CEO of Junior Achievement of the Carolina's for an awesome program today!

Welcome to our newest member Sanjay !

The Ballantyne Rotary Club continues it's commitment to making a positive impact in Haiti with a donation to HANWASH today. In the presentation today we learned that nearly half of all deaths in Haiti stem from lack of potable water and poor sanitation.

Congratulations to our newest Paul Harris Fellow!

Amazing time partnering with the Mecklenburg South Rotary Club at the Ballantyne Bash!

There will be no meeting this Friday because of the Labor Day Weekend. We will meet next on September 8th!

With school starting on Monday, our club is replenishing books at an Alliance Center for Education Little Free Library. The students will be ready for family reading time, thanks to our generous donors!

Hindi's Libraries
Rotary District 7680

What a wonderful fist bumping Ballantyne Rotary Club luncheon meeting today!

DG Debb Corbett joined us and discussed her hopes for 2023-4, inducted new member Andrea Winterfeldt, and presented to three new Paul Harris Fellows: one to member Dan Trimmer and the other two to members of the Lindenbeck family! WOW!!

And Howdy, Debb!!

Weddington High School Senior, Madison Belk, presented her experience at The Seminar For Tomorrow's Leaders to the Club this week! SFTL is sponsored by Rotary District 7680.

We celebrated at our club’s Installation Banquet last night, when Andy Belk was inducted as our 2023-24 club President, and Dan Trimmer and Benjamin Mears completed their term as co- Presidents!

A year filled with hope awaits us!!

Summer book reading refresh!

Rotary District 7680
Hindi's Libraries
Alliance Center for Education

At Friday’s meeting, Dr. Reinhard von Hennings spoke to our Club about the relationships between the USA, Germany & other European countries and Ukraine, as the impact of this war continues to affect so many. We welcomed many fellow Rotarians from the Waxhaw-Weddington Rotary Club for this insightful presentation.

What a great partnership!

We completed our second financial literacy workshop at Alliance Center for Education last night with curious and engaged groups of adults and children, thanks to funding from Rotary District 7680 and TowneBank. We are using the booklets from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in this initiative, providing attendees with great resources, take home Toolkits and a collection of children’s financial books.

Our club has been busy installing raised garden beds at Alliance Centers for Education, and we completed another one today!
W**d barrier ✔️
Soil added ✔️
Seedlings, plants and seeds planted✔️
Quick gardening lesson with student ✔️

One more set of raised garden beds placed at an Alliance Center for Education campus, a bit more creatively, as we used Gro Bags since their playground is on turf.

We cannot wait for the children to decorate the beds, keep these plants watered and plant more veggies!!!

Refilled another Alliance Center for Education Little Free Library, thanks to donations from folks in our community, and Hindi's Libraries!