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What is Rotary?
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Over 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 34,000 Rotary clubs located in in countries and geogr aphical areas around the world. Rotary clubs meet weekly, are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races and creeds. The Morrisville-Yardley Area Rotary Club has exemplified the Rotary motto of “Service Above Self” since its incorporation over 90 years ago as the Morrisville Rotary Club
Supporting Our Community
Morrisville-Yardley Area Rotarians worked behind the scenes on the Morrisville bi-centennial celebration in 2004, raising funds for the Robert Morris statue and the musical, “The Man Who Bought a Country”. They have helped the Morrisville Historic Society make improvements at Summerseat and have worked on improvements to the home of Actors Net, the Heritage Center. In the past they provided the Rotary pavilion, tennis courts and garden areas in Williamson Park in Morrisville. They sponsor an Annual Mrrisville Community Easter Egg Hunt and have provided Thanksgiving baskets. You can find them ringing Salvation Army bells at Christmas time and have supplied pumpkins for the YMCA annual Halloween program and helped the “Y” with other programs and regularly serve food at the Trenton
In cooperation with Landmark Towns they sponsored a Lower Bucks RoadRally. You can find them sponsoring Morrisville Night Out, presenting Country Breakfasts and selling hot dogs and other nourishments at Winterfest to help raise funds for the club’s many service projects
Supporting Our Youth
The club also recognizes the contributions of the area Boy Scout and Girl Scout leaders with an annual dinner in their honor.
Supporting Our World
Morrisville-Yardley Area Rotarians do not limit their involvement to the local community, however. The club partnered with the Sunrise Club in Lima, Peru, to provide inexpensive, life-saving water filters for families around Lima which are without access to safe water. The club and its members make substantial contributions to Rotaplast, a program that sends volunteer surgeons and staff to remote Most of the club members are Paul Harris Fellows, which
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The Object of Rotary
The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster: 1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; 2. High ethical standards in business and profession; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignity of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society; 3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business and community life; 4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
---------------------- Find out more about Rotary by visiting the Rotary International web site.
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