The West Jordan Rotary Club is the
premiere service club in the boundaries of West Jordan. As such, its membership our people of action. Not shown in this picture are the following members: Natalie
Argyle, Sierra Argyle, Steven Atkinson, Nathan Brown, Seth Casalino, Bev Christy, Brenda and Pratt Cole, Jean Kristle, Meheza Poyode, Stu Richardson, and Reed
Searle.
Do you want to do more good in the world but can’t think how you can have an impact? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome!
Sometimes we all get caught up in the squirrel cage of life and wonder if we are making a difference in the world. Here is the answer to that question if you are a West Jordan Rotary Club member.
Last year this is what the club accomplished:
- Through our Polio plus donations, our members have immunized two-thousand three hundred children against avoidable illnesses, including
Polio.
- We provided three families with Christmas this year, costing slightly over twenty-three hundred dollars.
- Working with local businesses, we raised more than eight thousand dollars to distribute two thousand twenty-one dictionaries to third
graders in the Jordan School District.
- We provided fifty-one turkeys to the Goshute Indians in the West desert of Utah for Thanksgiving.
- We have contributed more than thirty-three hundred dollars to The Rotary Foundation in the first six months of the Rotary year. These
funds may be used by The Rotary Foundation to dig thirty-two water wells in third-world countries, or restore sight to forty-four children who have avoidable blindness, or install more than one
hundred fifty solar lights on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, or feed three thousand four hundred and twenty-three malnourished children for a day, and the list goes on.
- We scholarshipped five high school students to attend RYLA to learn skill sets to help them become future leaders in the
world.
- Working with our professional educators from our local high schools, we recognized two exceptional, outstanding students monthly, awarding
them the Student of the Month recognition. At the end of the year, the Club selects two recipients of this award to receive a one-thousand-dollar scholarship for post-high school
education.
- We partner monthly with Tiny Tims to build toy cars for disadvantaged children in third-world countries.
- In the first six months of this year, we have contributed three thousand dollars in partnering with U-SA Cares. U-SA Cares addresses the
nutritional, health, and safety of women and children living in South Africa, providing education, jobs, and skills so these folks may cast off generational poverty.
- We have supported our Scout Troop with a potato fundraiser, transporting hundreds of pounds of potatoes, bagging them, and helping the
troop sell them.
- We have received a $10,000 grant from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation to help enhance the Jordan River Parkway.
- We dug more than one-hundred and fifty-three holes along the Jordan River parkway to plant trees in.
- We delivered clothing to the Goshute Indian Reservation for a family who lost everything in a house fire.
… and the list goes on