Webb City - Carl Junction Rotary Club

12/25/2024

12/04/2024

Webb City Singers, under the direction of Melinda Benham, accompanied by Terri Rushing, provided holiday entertainment to WCCJ Rotary Wednesday. Note: WC Police Chief Don Melton featured in Santa Baby!

11/30/2024

11/29/2024

11/22/2024

The name synonymous with Wreaths Across America in Webb City is Suzie Crutcher. Mrs. Crutcher addressed WCCJ Rotary about the incredible program honoring veterans.

11/11/2024

10/30/2024

One of the best things WCCJ Rotary does is RYLA. Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is an intensive leadership experience organized by Rotary clubs and districts where juniors in high school develop their skills as a leader while having fun and making connections. WCCJ sponsors student to attend This year we had one student from each school.

L-R.
Maristela Lacour--Junior at Carl Junction

Right:
Julia Kelly-Junior at Webb City

10/16/2024

Easterseals Midwest, headquartered in St. Louis, is leading the way to 100% equity, inclusion, and access for people with disabilities, their families, and their communities, according to their website. Every year, as a 501-C3, they provide support to nearly 6,500 individuals across Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri through their life-changing Autism, Community Living, Employment, and Early Childhood programs. Two presenters from the local office, LeAnna Tillman and Kathy McMeen, talked about their "How To Be A Friend" program.

10/02/2024

Shane Pennel, owner of 360 Auto in Joplin was guest speaker today at WCCJ Rotary. Kennel talked about commitment to first responders.

09/26/2024

It is TRULY our pleasure!!

09/26/2024

Take a look behind the scenes at one of WCCJ Rotary’s best projects...The Dictionary Project!

09/26/2024

The Webb City - Carl Junction Rotary Club has launched its annual Dictionary Project this week. This project is one of the organization’s local service projects to promote literacy in our communities.

In 1992, Annie Palmer, a housekeeper in Savannah, GA took her entire savings that she earned cleaning houses and bought 50 paperback dictionaries. She stood out on the corner in front of her modest home and passed them out to children on their way to school because she saw them going by day after day empty handed. They had no books. Mrs. Palmer learned the value of education the hard way. She had dropped out of school in the 9th grade when she became a mother. Many years later, at age 32, she returned to night school and earned her high school diploma. She died in 1999 but by that time she had accomplished her goal of providing a dictionary to every 3rd grader in her county. Just before her death a retired teacher and Rotarian in South Carolina had heard about Mrs. Palmer’s dictionaries and had taken up the crusade in her local Rotary Club. The program has spread from there all over the country in just a few short years.

Rotary’s motto is: “Service Above Self”.

Rotaryliteracy.com

09/21/2024

Nice job guys!! Dr. Phil Cook (far left) and Dr. Brenten Byrd (far right) are longtime members of WCCJ Rotary!

09/19/2024

The date? September 19, 2016. This is Shaley Moore speaking to the Rotary Club of Londonderry, Ireland. She studied at Ulster University in Derry for a year and obtained her second Masters degree in a program provided by our Rotary District 6110. Shaley now resides in Lee's Summit, Missouri and works for a finance literacy company based in Kansas City.

09/19/2024

Susan Hickam Part 2

09/19/2024

Part 1
Susan Hickam, Lafayette House Executive Director, was guest speaker today at WCCJ Rotary. Ms. Hickam graduated from Missouri Southern State College with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and an associate degree in law enforcement. She served over 20 years as a United States Probation and Pre-trial Services Officer for the Western District of Arkansas. During her career, she served as a Training Specialist, Sentencing Guidelines Specialist, and as a Supervising U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services Officer.
Hickam transitioned into victim advocacy and served four years as the Assistant Director of the Crisis Intervention Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas. In June of 2020, she was selected as the Executive Director for Lafayette House, where they serve individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or substance use disorders.

09/13/2024

A serious oversight to be corrected. A huge thank you to the Webb City Elks for partnering with WCCJ Rotary again this year....from prep to grilling to the facility, we thank you!!

09/12/2024

WCCJ Rotary conducted our annual First Responder Appreciation event today, Wed Sept 11. This event originally started as a way to honor First Responders in conjunction with Sept 11 remembrances. About two years ago, we moved away from the ceremonial part and expanded the operation to showing our appreciation thru food. We built smash burger meals and then delivered them to responders throughout the area.