Sevierville Sunrise Rotary Club

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Sevierville Sunrise Rotary Club Join us each Thursday at 7:30 AM
Healthy Balance Meals | 313 Court Ave, Sevierville, TN 37862 The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs. Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. The main objective of Rotary is service, in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous service programs, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised US$240 million to immunize the children of the world; by 2005, Rotary's centenary year and the target date for the certification of a polio-free world, the PolioPlus program will have contributed US$500 million to this cause. In addition, Rotary has provided an army of volunteers to promote and assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries around the world. Local Club Officers
President: Ashley Davis
Vice President: Mickie Ratliff
President Elect: Barry Henderson
Secretary: Bill Smolnycki
Treasurer: Pat White
Sergeant at Arms: Randy Parton

AGENCY THAT HELPS SENIORS AT HOME EXPLAINED TO ROTARIANSSilver Angels Home Care Specialists, a for-profit organization t...
10/08/2026

AGENCY THAT HELPS SENIORS AT HOME EXPLAINED TO ROTARIANS
Silver Angels Home Care Specialists, a for-profit organization that provides services to seniors, was the topic of the Sevierville Sunrise Rotary Club meeting. The agency’s Kodak office serves four counties, including Sevier. The staff of around 50 provides nonmedical home services to seniors, including housekeeping, bed baths, errands and meal deliveries. Jenalee Kloepfel, branch operations manager, explained the agency’s operations to Rotarians. She said many of their clients are military veterans. Services are paid for through private payments or some insurance policies. Kloepfel, right, was introduced by Pat White. Sunrise Rotary meets at 7:30 a.m. Thursdays at Healthy Balance on Court Avenue.

THIS MONTH'S SERVICE PROJECT: COLLECTING AND SIGNING CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR THE MILITARYAt their first meeting of each mont...
10/01/2026

THIS MONTH'S SERVICE PROJECT: COLLECTING AND SIGNING CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR THE MILITARY
At their first meeting of each month members of the Sevierville Sunrise Rotary Club get involved in a community project. For October they brought in Christmas cards, which they signed and will send to service members who won’t be home for the holidays. Each card carried a special message from the club to the service member. On hand for the event were club president David Reller, president-elect Laura Komidar, Faye Hoechnegel, Barry Henderson, Sami Albright, Greg Grieco, Stan Voit and Glenn Turner. Other community projects the club has done on the first meeting day of the month include opening doors for arriving students at elementary schools and sorting plastic tops and caps to be recycled into park benches for Boys & Girls clubs.

TAKE A SEAT ON THE BENCH -- BUT A VERY SPECIAL BENCH INDEEDThose plastic bottle caps and lids you probably throw away ar...
09/28/2026

TAKE A SEAT ON THE BENCH -- BUT A VERY SPECIAL BENCH INDEED
Those plastic bottle caps and lids you probably throw away are actually valuable and can be used to make park benches. Some already dot recreation areas in Sevier County with more on the way. Jerry Gibson of the Seymour Rotary Club told members of the Sevierville Sunrise Rotary Club about the project. The Seymour club has collected lids and bottle caps which it ships to an Indiana company that uses them to make benches now featured in the Boys & Girls Club playground in Seymour. Some 200 pounds of plastic lids and caps are trucked to the company for the $400 outdoor benches. The Sevierville club has assisted the Seymour club is sorting and sacking the materials and is considering a similar project for the Sevierville Boys & Girls Club. Gibson, right, was introduced by Sunrise Rotarian Bill Smolnycki.

ROTARY DISASTER RESPONSE COMMITTEE OFFERS HELP DURING TIME OF CRISES IN TENNESSEETennessee Rotary Club members provided ...
09/17/2026

ROTARY DISASTER RESPONSE COMMITTEE OFFERS HELP DURING TIME OF CRISES IN TENNESSEE
Tennessee Rotary Club members provided a great deal of help after the Gatlinburg wildfires of 2016 and Hurricane Helene in 2024. Clubs from east and central Tennessee have a Disaster Response Committee that springs into action whenever such assistance is needed. Tom Kale, a member of that committee as well as the Chattanooga Rotary Breakfast Club, spoke to the Sevierville Sunrise Rotary Club about the disaster program and how it operates. The help center in Pigeon Forge, run by scores of Rotarians and volunteers, opened a few days after the wildfires and stayed operational for a year and a half, offering clothes, food and other assistance to those affected by the fires. Kale encouraged Sevierville club members to develop their own disaster relief plan. Kale, right, was introduced by Sevierville Rotarian Bill Smolnycki.

🎄 Cleaning out your holiday stash before Christmas? Don’t toss those extra cards! 💌🇺🇸Sevierville Sunrise Rotary is colle...
09/17/2026

🎄 Cleaning out your holiday stash before Christmas? Don’t toss those extra cards! 💌🇺🇸

Sevierville Sunrise Rotary is collecting new or incomplete sets of Christmas cards to use for a special Service First project sending Christmas cheer and encouragement to our military service members.

Maybe you have a box with only a few cards left, sets you bought and never used, or extras tucked away in your Christmas decorations—we’d love to put them to good use!

❤️ New or incomplete sets
✉️ Matching envelopes are especially helpful
🎄 Religious and non-religious cards are welcome
🇺🇸 Your extras will help us remind those serving our country that they are remembered this Christmas.

Small cards. Big impact. Help us fill the box with Christmas cheer! 🎁

09/11/2026

Thank you to our 2026 sponsors and Gary Davis (Biscuit) for some incredible entertainment.

Thank you to all our 2026 I Love Sevierville Luncheon Sponsors. We appreciate your support of our community.
09/11/2026

Thank you to all our 2026 I Love Sevierville Luncheon Sponsors. We appreciate your support of our community.

SUNRISE ROTARIANS CONTINUE OPENING DOORS FOR OTHERSOn the first Thursday of each month, members of the Sevierville Sunri...
09/04/2026

SUNRISE ROTARIANS CONTINUE OPENING DOORS FOR OTHERS
On the first Thursday of each month, members of the Sevierville Sunrise Rotary Club don’t hold a traditional meeting. Instead, they perform a community service, helping other agencies and groups with tasks they need to do. Examples: cleaning up a park; sacking up bottle caps for the Boys & Girls Club to send to a recycling business; picking up trash along busy Veterans Boulevard. For the first Thursday in September the Rotarians went to Catlettsburg Elementary School to greet arriving students. Teachers usually do this, but with Rotarians talking care of it, those teachers could use the time to better prepare for their day in the classroom. As the students arrive Rotarians open the car doors and say hello to the children as they start their day, giving them a warm smile and a word of encouragement. Rotarians pictured who helped with this service are, from left, Stan Voit, Rick Warner, Greg Grieco, David Reller, Bill Smolnycki and Clyde Rennie. Not shown is Sami Albright, the club’s former president who came up with the service idea during her time in office.

ROTARY HEARS ABOUT PROGRAM THAT PAYS COLLEGE TUITION FOR LOCALSSevier County Partners in Progress has made it impossible...
08/25/2026

ROTARY HEARS ABOUT PROGRAM THAT PAYS COLLEGE TUITION FOR LOCALS

Sevier County Partners in Progress has made it impossible, in its 10 years, for over 2,000 local residents to attend two- and four-year colleges with no tuition. Lindsey Stanton, in her first year as director, discussed the program during a talk to the Sevierville Sunrise Rotary Club. The program uses donations from businesses and individuals, offering dual enrollment classes for high school students (state pays for five, Partners pays for five) as well as tuition for attending Walters State or East Tennessee State, both in Sevierville. Partners offers a last-dollar scholarship, meaning students must have exhausted all other scholarships to qualify for up to $3,000 in tuition. Adults over age 23 also can qualify. Shanton, left, was introduced by Rotarian Sami Albright.

🌟 Next Week at Sevierville Sunrise Rotary!We’re excited to welcome Lindsey Shanton with Sevier County Partners in Progre...
08/13/2026

🌟 Next Week at Sevierville Sunrise Rotary!

We’re excited to welcome Lindsey Shanton with Sevier County Partners in Progress as our guest speaker! Join us to learn more about the important work happening in our community and how Partners in Progress is helping create opportunities for Sevier County.

☀️ Start your morning with Rotary, connection, and a great community conversation!

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