Take a Kid to a Ballgame
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What do you get with 8 kids and 5 adults? A trip to a Durham Bulls baseball game!
As part of a Rotary District 7710 sponsored event, Take a Kid to a Ballgame provides for any club in the district to sponsor a child, or a group of children to attend a Durham Bulls ballgame, complete with tickets and a picnic dinner. Seats are right on the left-field line offering a wonderful view of the park and the game.
This year, our 6th year in participating, we partnered with the Dunn Police Athletic League (PAL) to bring 8 children from PAL along with three guardians and two Rotarians to this year’s event.
The kids had a blast, the Bull’s won handily, and at the end of the game there were fireworks!
Disctrict Governor Visits
District Governor Mack Parker (right) gives President Jason Wunsch (left) the new 2011-2012 Rotary International banner
The Rotary Club of Lillington hosted Governor Mack Parker for a visit at our August 4, 2011 meeting where Gov. Parker delivered the new Rotary International banner to our club. The banner has the new Rotary theme and logo for Kalyan Banerjee’s presidency this year of, “Reach Within to Embrace Humanity”.
Gov. Parker talked to us about the three major areas of focus this year; family, continuity and change. He also made a point of inviting everyone to this year’s District Conference which will be held in New Bern, NC on April 22, 2012.
Mr. Parker has an impressive list of accomplishments with Rotary and in his personal life. He has served on a number of boards, has been self-employed for more than 22 years, has a BS from NC Agriculture & Technical State University in Greensboro, and an MBA in finance. He is married to Wanda and has two daughters.
Mack has promised to help us grow our club through the districts new membership committee.We all look forward to working with him in his year as District Governor.
District Governor to Visit
Rotary District 7710′s Governor for the 2011-2012 year, Mack Parker will be paying our club a visit on August 4th.
We look forward to hearing about news in the District, and hosting our new DG for dinner.
What is Rotary?
The Rotary Club of Lillington is an organization of business and professional persons united with worldwide Rotary clubs who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world. You can learn more about our Club's projects and events within this site.
Chartered on October 23, 1937, the Rotary Club of Lillington has helped to make a better community. Working with the schools and helping build facilities for civic clubs and other events, the Rotary Club of Lillington has been a supporter of youth and education in our community and in the world.