Our Club’s annual Mentoring Christmas Party was held today, and all the kids, their mentors, and even Santa joined in the celebration! Thank you, Victoria Mendoza, for all the hard work you put into the CFB ISD mentoring program, and thank you to all of our Club members and others who mentor these kids! Merry Christmas, everyone!

 

 

Tracy Eubanks of Metrocrest Social Services has notified our Club of a pressing need for food, money, and supplies due to victims of Hurricane Harvey.  Many victims of the Hurricane are now in our area and in need of various supplies.  While Metrocrest Social Services primary focus is providing food, they also need clothes vouchers at their Retail store and other services based upon need.  You can help by donating any of the items listed below.  Donations can be delivered to our Carrollton/Farmers Rotary Club at our Thursday meetings at noon at Brookhaven Country Club, or to their office at 13801 Hutton Drive, Suite 150, in Carrollton.  If you prefer to donate money, you can do so by going to their website at www.metrocrestservices.org and choose "Pantry" as the designation.  A list of items they need is as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

Four wonderfully talented students from the Carrollton/Farmers Branch ISD competed in the Rotary 4-Way Speech Contest.  The 4-way test for Rotarians is a set of principles that we recite every week as a reminder of our duty to ourselves and our communities.  They are:  1.  Is it the Truth?, 2.  Is it fair to all concerned?, 3.  Does it build good will and better friendships?, and finally 4.  Is it beneficial to all concerned?   The students write and present a timed speech based on these principles of Rotary to the club.  What an awesome experience to hear these future leaders to engage a room!  This years winners were:  1st Place going to RL. Turner student Dillion Odle. 2nd Place going Ranchview student Prasana Kuxmohan and 3rd and 4th place being shared by Roxanne Hill of Creekview and Analyn Moran of Newman Smith.  Congratulations to all of you!