Stories

Brigitte had a fun, fantastic blood drive Saturday.  She and Daniel were the only two from our club helping. But they got five donors which can save 15 lives!
Not only did they work the blood drive but they had a great time at the international festival per the pictures! 

The North Texas Pioneers Rotary Club is raising funds for urgent repairs for The House of God located in Plano, TX. The church needs a new roof, new windows, and other updates. The House of God is a small, neighborhood church serving east Plano.  Click to donate.

Come Join Us this Wednesday at the Red Truck Cafe!

North Texas Pioneers Rotary held a fundraiser for Second Chance SPCA at the Red Truck Cafe. Thank you James and your staff for a great evening of fun, good food and fellowship. As you know all shelters are having a high intake of pets and have a hardship financially with the outbreak of canine flu.

 

We raffled off plush dogs wearing a Rotary shirt ”Rotarian on Walk”, sold candles, t-shirts and took in donations. Thank you all for participating and donating to this good cause.

The five Plano Rotary Clubs celebrated the holidays together with great food, ugly sweaters an a coat drive for Plano Christmas Cops. It was a quick count that revealed a collection of 75-80 new coats for kids of all ages in Plano. This effort has become a tradition for Rotary Clubs in Plano. 

 

Plano Christmas Cops keeps a private list each year of kids they realize have no coats or coats they have outgrown. While visiting with families, they determine the needs and then sort coats and toys like the ones Rotary collected.  The parents get to come pick up the goodies from Plano Christmas Cops so they are able to surprise their kids at Christmas.

 

It is always a joy for old and new friends to gather together to catch up and reminisce about days gone by.

On Wednesday, October 27th, the North Texas Pioneers Rotary club had their annual Halloween party and fundraiser at the El Norte Restaurant in Plano, TX.  The party was a great success and was raising money for the Veterans Produce non profit organization (https://www.veteransproduce.org/) . The guests included almost the whole North Texas Pioneers Rotary club, Mary Bedosky (Assistant Governer for District 5810), members from the Plano Sunrise and Plano Rotaract clubs and the Executive Director from Veterans Produce, TC Beckett.  

 

We had a great costume competition, as well as an exciting live auction!  We are very grateful and thankful to everyone who attended and look forward to presenting our proceeds to Veterans Produce at our Veteran's Day event on November 10th."

Newman Smith Interact, North Texas Pioneers Rotary and Carrollton-Farmers Branch Rotary joined together to achieve one purpose in this the year to Empower the Girl. The Newman Smith Interact Club of Carrollton raised $232 from a sale of Halloween and Christmas items at the North Texas Pioneers Rotary Club, a $250 donation from John Dodd (president of the CFB Rotary Club) with the remainder of the money from the Interact club's budget to complete the money that is needed to sponsor a girl from Malawi for her room, board and tuition for the year.