Upcoming Events
Congratulations to the 2025 Citizen of the Year, Stan Edinger! Our banquet will be April 1st at 5:30pm @ The Loft @ Vesper Hills Golf Club.
Business Backstory @ C.L.N. Merchantile
Thank you to Charlene for a wonderful tour of your business. What treasures and goodies we found available there!
Upcoming Events
"Tully Rotary is the local chapter of Rotary International. We are a team of citizens who perform service projects for our community and the world around us. We conduct environmental activities in Tully and even have a tree planting project in Africa. We learn about area businesses, sponsor college scholarships and develop leadership skills in our members. Tully Rotarians range from High School Students to Retirees. All ages. All genders. All Interests. Consider joining us. It’s valuable for those we serve, and rewarding for us."
The TREES Initiative will be a major effort focused on improving the environment in the Southern Hills and around the world.
Free tree seedlings have been given out for several years now. So far in the past 5 years we have given away 2,544 trees!! We choose native species each time. Some of the varieties in the past have been:
- American Hazelnut
- American Hornbeam
- Black cherry
- Black chokeberry
- Black Oak
- Black Walnut
- Eastern red cedar
- Eastern Redbud
- Highbush cranberry
- Lilac
- Ninebark
- Red Oak
- Red osier dogwood
- Red pine
- River Birch
- Sand cherry
- Silky dogwood
- Sugar maple
- Tulip
- Virginia rose
- White pine
- White Spruce
- Witch hazel
This year we offered:
Trees
50 red cedar
50 white pine
50 burr oak
50 sycamore
25 black walnut
25 black cherry
75 northern bayberry
75 winterberry
50 beach plum
50 silky dogwood.
We raise money to provide these services with our annual golf tournament which took place on May 18th. Thank you to all of our participants and sponsors! It was a great day with amazing prizes that were all donated!
THIS YEAR’S TOURNAMENT WILL BE ON MAY 17TH. Click the link below to find our sign up sheet
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ifDcuvz_ejxrQBa2aJKfHcVc_RH-yom0HcNvP9V7OXI/edit?tab=t.0
The Tully Rotary club works to energize and inspire young leaders ages 12-18 through service and encourage them to become responsible global citizens.
We have a large active group. The service projects they participate in are numerous! To name a few they:
-collect pennies for the eradication of polio. The Interacters will be distributing bags for coin collection throughout the village of Tully, but if you live outside of that area and would like to contribute you can use the following link or let us know when we can pick it up. October 24th is World Polio Day. This is the Tully Interact club’s 15th year raising $1K per year. Use this link to support our club or if you have spare change, let us know and we’ll pick it up! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=63VW5EJ87LC3U
-entertain the residents at the Meadows with a Bingo night.
-Fill Snack Packs for the local children in need:
Help the Tully Interact Club Stock the Shelves of our We Care Pack Program : a weekend backpack meal program that supports our area youth in need . The 24-25 school year will kick off our third year in the running . The program provides daily breakfast, lunch, fresh fruit and snacks each weekend during the school year. Donations will support our commitment to 20 youth at the elementary level here in Tully this year as well as help reach many others in need.
Suggested items:
Pudding cups- chocolate, vanillla
Apple sauce cups
Granola bars
Breakfast bars
Microwave popcorn
Macaroni and cheese microwaveable cups
Chicken noodle soup 10.5 iz cans
Cans of ravioli- smallest size or microwaveable size
Cans of spaghetti and meatballs – small size
Fruit cups like pears, peaches, fruit cocktail
Animal crackers
Pretzels
Cheerios
Fruit loops
Honey nut chex
Golden Grahams
Life cereal
Jif peanut butter packs
Peanut butter crackers
Cheese cracker
Boxes of flavored oatmeal packs
Zip top sandwich size bags
Gift cards to Aldi’s, Dollar General, Walmart
Monetary donations gladly accepted
A DONATION BOX WILL BE AT THE SOUTHERN HILLS VETERINARY HOSPITAL.
-Make pies for the veterans.
-Volunteer at local fire house pancake breakfasts
The Tully Rotary Club is dedicated to partnering with Rotary International to help people worldwide who are in need. Some of our projects have been:
-Books for the World.
Books for the World is a global literacy project supervised by Rotarians. We ship books from the United States, which might otherwise be discarded into landfills, and the books are sent to children worldwide where educational resources are in short supply. This year (2024) a group of us along with some Intereracters boxed up 4 pallets worth of books (24 boxes per pallet) to ship out. These books will increase literacy around the world. Thank you to the Tully Schools and the Tully Free Library for your donations.
-Polio Eradication. Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 30 years, and there is still work to be done!
-Youth Exchange. Rotary clubs host exchanges for students ages 15-19 in more than 100 countries. Tully Rotary has hosted many young adults from around the world
Solving real problems takes real commitment and vision. Since 1989, Tully Rotary’s people of action have used their passion, energy, and intelligence to take action on sustainable projects such as:
-scholarships in the local schools for which we raise money in a variety of ways. We have our annual chicken bbq and our “world famous butterfly potatoes with the works”.
-Feeding the homeless and hungry at the Samaritan Center.
-Adopt-A-Highway
-Pandemic Food Drives
-Dictionary and Atlas give away. Our club joins forces with the Lafayette Optimists and the Fabius Lyons to buy Dictionaries and Atlases to distribute to the Tully, Fabius-Pompey, and Lafayette elementary children each year. We aim to encourage education for our youth.
–Business Backstory. This is our way of connecting with local businesses and learning about each other. Some of our previous visits were to:
Carol Watson’s Greenhouse, Old Fly Farm, Dutch Hill Maple, Earth2Soul, The Tully Area Historical Society, Among the Mountains, Clear Path for Veterans, Bentwood Alpacas & Yaks, The Loft @Vesper Hills Golf Club, Heuga’s Alpine, Amberations, Tully Market, Southern Hills Veterinary Hospital, ONCO, Nightingale Mills Hardware Store, OCWA, Byrne Dairy, Woodmansee Woodwrights, Kennedy Hardwood, K Kurdish Mediterraean, Flourish Farm Cafe, CLN Merchantile,
A special thank you to Nate and Cristy at Dutch Hill Maple for the fascinating tour of their new facility.
OCWA was our latest fascinating tour.
Click here for more information.
–Citizen of the Year. We honor a deserving community member each year beginning in 1972.
The nominees are in, and our committee has chosen H. Stanley Edinger as the 2025 Citizen of the Year. The banquet will be held on April 1st at 5:30pm at the Loft.
(last year’s honoree)
-To follow our club and possibly join our meetings click on our newsletter for more information:
https://sites.google.com/view/rotary-club-of-tully/home
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