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Rotary Interact Club of Door County: Local Teens Pledge "Service Above Self"
By Allison Rittle
Mar 15, 2011 - 8:59:00 AM
L to R top row: Jim Hogan, Dan Holdridge, Amelia Campbell, Sara Welch, Cambrie Davis, Katiee Glasheen;
L to R bottom row: Allie Rittle, Brenna Dubick, Sally Hippensteel, Zach Meredith, Christian Huehns, Erik Elliott
Our community needs people who actively care
about doing service.When young
community members get involved in service projects, they grow up into
responsible citizens who feel good about themselves and are productive and
pro-active members of our community. Door County has a teen-run service organization that helps local teens
to do service projects to help make this community -- and with some projects,
the world -- a better place.
The Rotary Interact Club of Door County was
started in 1999 by supervisor Ben Rikkola, the Youth & Family Development
Director at the YMCA. The club has
granted over 20,000 dollars to service projects, mission trips and other worthy
causes over the past 12 years. The
group is teen-lead and meets every Wednesday at the Y to work on various
projects from raising money for the Muscular Dystrophy Organization to packing
Thanksgiving meals at the local food pantry. Sara Welch, a member from Southern Door High School states
“we do good things for the community and have a great time doing them, too.”
Each year, the club has about 20-30 active
members from Southern Door, Sturgeon Bay, and Sevastopol high schools. The club is in affiliation with the
Rotary Club of Door County and the clubs work together on certain projects,
such as the very popular Sturgeon Bay Rotary Shipyard Tours every spring.
Not only does the club help to provide service
opportunities for teens but it is also a great way for high school students to
meet other students with similar values. “It's a great way to meet new people” says Welch. “Rotary Interact is a really fun group
to be in.”
The two current projects that the club is
working on are both to help the
organization “A Drop in the Bucket” (www.dropinthebucket.org) that builds wells and water systems
in needy countries. Members have
spent the last few weeks cutting and painting wooden water buckets that will
soon be placed in local yards with information on the backs about “A Drop in
the Bucket” with the hope to raise awareness-- and money--for this vital organization. More money for the organization will be
raised on May 13th, when Rotary Interact will put on a “Mr. Door
County” pageant at Sturgeon Bay High School. The club’s
members want to do their part in helping people have clean water to drink and
use.
Wanting to get involved in your community is
one thing, but actually getting involved is another. With the busy schedules of many teens, taking on another
extracurricular program can be too hard to manage. Eric Storlie, a club member from Sturgeon Bay High School affirms
that “Rotary Interact really is a great group for any youth wanting to get more
involved in their community, at home and far away, without requiring massive
amounts of time and effort.”
Rotary Interact is a worldwide organization
and currently has over 250,000 teen members all working towards the goal of
making the world a better place. After all, the clubs’ motto is “Service Above Self”.
For more information about Rotary and Rotary
Interact, please visit www.rotary.org.
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