Halloween Party Fundraiser
$10 Admission - Live music, Costume contest, auction and wine pull. Proceeds will benefit Veterans Organization: Patriot Paws. Click to buy tickets.
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Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser Join us at our Pancake & Sausage Breakfast Fundraiser on Saturday, October at the C3 Auto Dealership, 3101 Premier Dr., Plano 75075. Click to buy tickets.
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Packing Meals for LovePacs North Texas Pioneers are always ready to do a service for the community that helps children. One of the favorite is helping with LovPacs. They provide food for children in need during the times when school is not in session. They donated 7,500 boxes of food during the 2022/2023 school year. NTP Club members packed 76 boxes this month. It’s a fun rewarding project which takes the members only a couple hours a month.
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  After three years of hard work North Texas Pioneers has finally cut the ribbon on the House of Light Casa de Luz water purification project in the Dominican Republic. It’s a very rewarding feeling for our members and the citizens there to know they have clean safe water for the first time! Thanks to Bob Hill for his hard work on the project!
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New Roof for the Church of the Living God PGT Plano Bishop R. T. Turner a member of the North Texas Pioneer club mentioned at a club meeting his church was in bad need of a new roof. With the help of the club's members through fundraisers and donations and the much-needed donation and help from Absolute Roofing their new roof was not a dream but a reality. The members of the church are very appreciative to Rotary for their kindness!
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New Eagle Our new BSA Eagle from Troop 404
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Party at Sr. CenterWe had a GREAT time at our Holiday Party with the members of the Park in Plano, Nursing Home. Gifts, cake and drinks and FUN for all. God bless our older community members. North Texas Pioneers Rotary Club giving back in so many ways. Thanks to all of the member that gave of their time and the price of their gifts.   |
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Packing Meals for Hungry Children Today was an exciting day for the North Texas Pioneers Rotary! Ten of us members went to Lovepacs in Plano and packed boxes of food for the children who would otherwise go hungry during the holidays. It is a very rewarding organization which as of 2022 has served 3.5 million needy children during school holiday breaks.
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Helping To Save Lives 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! |
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North Texas Pioneers Raising Funds for Church 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. |
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Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser Our Annual Pancake & Sausage Breakfast Fundraiser is Saturday, October 7th, 2023 8:00 AM to 11:00AM at C3 Auto Dealership, 3101 Premier Dr, Plano, TX. Tickets: Adults $12 and Child $6. Proceeds benefit Veterans Fundraiser. Click to buy tickets.
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Serving Children in Need  We all know how expensive food has become. Yesterday was a great day for our club, we were able to fill 70 love pack boxes for the Plano ISD children needing help with food. What a great organization. A lot Love was put in those boxes along with friendship and fun.
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Foundation GivingBill Dendy LOVES Rotary. He will be at our Rotary Club meeting this Wednesday night, to tell us all about the Rotary Foundation Who, Why & How.  |
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Aug 9 - Bridget Kenworthy, Days for GirlsBridget Kenworthy addresses world suffering through sewing, which she’s been learning since she was 5 years old. Currently, she sews for two non-profit organizations: Celestial Hands and Days for Girls. Bridget has degrees in art and music education; and graduated from the Living School for Action & Contemplation in July 2023. When she’s not sewing to save the world, Bridget can be found appreciating the developing minds of her 3 kids (ages 14, 7, and 4), building her marriage, and building a backyard deck.
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North Texas Pioneers Battle of the Badges Blood Drive North Texas Pioneers Rotary Club’s main service project of the year is the Battle of the Badges blood drive honoring the Plano Police and Firemen. We had nine blood drives in five days in July. We acquired 378 units of blood which can save up to 1134 lives. After the Police winning the battle with most votes the past few years the Fireman won this year with 296 voted to Police 137. Our club’s rewarding blood drives are the results of the dedication and hard work of our member Vicky Long.
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Proud Sponsor at District & Club Leader Installation North Texas Pioneers members had a great time at the District & Club Leader Installation on June29, 2023! We were a proud sponsor of this event.
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4th of July Parade in Plano Join us at the 4th of the July Parade in Plano as we celebrate the USA at Plano's All American 4th on Tuesday, July 4! This is a free, family-friendly event open to the public. The parade is hosted by the Rotary Clubs of Plano. The festival opens at 6 p.m., the parade starts at 7:30 p.m., and fireworks begin at 9:30 p.m. The festival ends at 10 p.m. Parking will be available at Collin College, 2800 E. Spring Creek Pkwy, Plano, TX 75074. |
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June 14th Speaker - Jeff McKissackCome Join Us this Wednesday at the Red Truck Cafe! |
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Fundraiser for Second Chance SPCA 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. |
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Cake Walk at the Adoption Fair North Texas Pioneers Rotary did their famous cake walk at the adoption Fair Carnival again this year. Thank you Dee Neukranz, Liz Kyriacou Lansing, Janet Beattie, Tom Wike, Daniel Solcher, Don Mellor and Brigitte Elking for a fun cake walk.
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Valentine's at the Park Nursing Home  North Texas Pioneers Rotary gave a Valentines Party to the residents of The Parks nursing home in Plano. They so enjoyed decorating cookies, playing chair volley ball and especially singing love songs.
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Meeting CanceledDue to the bad Texas weather, we have canceled our next General Club meeting, PLEASE check Club Runner for any updates on our meeting and events.
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BSA Award The North Texas Pioneers Rotary Club is proud to Charter 7 of the Units in BSA Chisholm Trail District. Three of our members are Scout leaders in the District. COR/Cub-Master, Daniel Long, Sargent at Arms Ed Rys, and Scout Master Jim Wright.
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Plano Rotary Clubs Joint Holiday Party  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. |
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Holiday Parade Save the Date for the Holiday Parade “March of the Toys” – December 10, 2022. The Parade will begin at 9:30 a.m. from a brand-new downtown location. A festival in Toyland will be held in the North parking lot of the Plano Municipal Building immediately following the parade. Stop by to see the winning floats, Santa and Ms. Claus, enjoy Holiday music, crafts, food trucks, vendors and a winter kid zone! Toyland will be open until 1:30 p.m.
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Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser for Veterans  Thank you to all that came out to support our Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser at C3 Auto to support our Veterans!
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Pancake & Sausage Breakfast Fundraiser Come join us on Saturday, October 15th at the C3 Auto Dealership in Plano from 8AM-11AM. Enjoy some breakfast, check out the cars and meet the famous Lab "Repo Jr." and "Lil' Bit". Tickets are $10 for adults & $5 for children. Click to buy tickets in advance.
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5th Annual Back to School Project Rotary Club of North Texas Pioneers members raised funds for Jaxson Turner's Never 2 Young 2 Care Charity - N2Y2C 5th Annual Back to School Project.
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Battle of the Badges Blood Drive Our members have been super busy this week working for the Battle of Badges Blood Drive between the Plano Police and Fire Department. Thank you to all that came out and donated!
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July 4th - Plano Parade  Thank you to everyone that came out and joined us at the All American 4th of July Parade at Collin College! Save the date of Dec. 10th for our next Rotary Parades of Plano!
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End of Rotary Year Party End of year party included, recognition of some outstanding volunteers, Jaxson Turner and Di and Thomas Wike for their hard work and dedication to our club and helping others! Thank you all for a great year!
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Promoting Literacy at Mendenhall Elementary We are so excited to be able to donate a check to Mendenhall Elementary PTA of $200 for their book fair and to purchase books for the children. Thank you to our club members, Liz Kyriacou Lansing, Diana Kolb-Torres, Dianna Wike, Linda Bolin and Daniel Long for joining Mendenhall principal, Jana Prince, librarian, Veronica Harrell and PTA board member, Fawn Henderson, to take a picture of this moment.
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Bringing Smiles to Others North Texas Pioneer Rotary members held our day of service at The Park in Plano assisted living facility. We played Bingo with the residents and had a great time handing out snacks and prizes! Thanks goes out to Anna Harris for organizing our Service Project and our volunteers, Don Mellor, Helen Mellor, Di and Tim Wike, Jim and Meg Frankenfield, Todd Plambeck and Kaylyn Ogletree!
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Supporting the Van Alstyne Police Department Spreading cheer this holiday season to the Van Alstyne Police Department with a donation to purchase ballistic vests and equipment for their officers.
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All Plano Rotary Club Holiday Party All Plano Rotary Club Holiday Party at the Haggard Party Barn! We collected coats for donations to Christmas Cops. Great to see Rotarians from other Plano Clubs and to celebrate the holidays. |
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Speaker - Collin County Sheriff Skinner Great meeting last night at Fishmongers. We had the Collin County Sheriff Skinner, Assistant Chief Selman and Captain Bristow as guest speakers. Great presentation and what great things he is doing for not only the county but Texas.
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Supporting Minnie's Food Pantry Food Drive Another great day of service with the North Texas Pioneers Rotary Club! Anna Harris and I just dropped off 235lbs of food and a $50 Aldi gift card to Minnie's Food Pantry for their Thanksgiving Food Drive! So thankful for all of our club members who give so generously from their heart!
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Plano Rotary Clubs Holiday Party |
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Successful Halloween Party Fundraiser 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." |
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Oct 27 - Halloween Party Come join us on Wednesday, Oct. 27 at 6:30PM for our Annual Halloween Party at the El Norte Grill, 2205 Parker Rd., Plano, TX 75023. We will have buffet of combo fajitas, with all the trimmings, and several sampler appetizers (flautas, queso, stuffed jalapeños and guacamole) Soft and Alcohol drinks not included. Meal ticket and admission is $25.00 All proceeds will go to a veteran organization. Costume not required but encouraged as we have prizes to give away.
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Annual Pancake Fundraiser We had a good turnout, thank you to all the Rotarians, friends and family who came to support this fundraiser. Funds will be for a veteran organization given at our special veteran meeting on November 10, 2021.
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Joint Service Project For Empowering Girls 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. |
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Aug 25 - Never 2 Young to Care Charity (N2Y2C) On Wednesday, August 25th, the North Texas Pioneers Rotary Club had a very exciting meeting. We inducted two new members into our club, Jose and Maria Alvarez, who will be wonderful additions to our club. Our guest speaker, Jaxson Turner, founder and CEO of Never 2 Young to Care Charity (N2Y2C), was sharing with us all the amazing things he has done with his charity since he was 12 years old.
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Helping Save Lives Our Club Members volunteered for the August Carter BloodCare Drive. This was a great Blood Drive and all the rain did NOT STOP our Clubs workers.
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Proud Co-Sponsor - Plano Community Rotaract We have joined with the Park Cities Rotary Club to sponsor the Plano Community Rotaract Club.
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Spring Swing Tournament |
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Our Flag |
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Party - LUAU |
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Honoring Our Veterans Wonderful special Veteran meeting, honoring all Rotarian and non Rotarian Veterans.
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4th of July Celebration We joined together with other Plano Rotary Clubs for the Annual 4th of July Parade.
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