Service, youth, new members are goals of Farragut Rotary

Tom KingFarragut

Service to our community. New members who strengthen our mission. Supporting high school and college students and helping them become leaders. These are busy times for the Rotary Club of Farragut, whose 89 members are doing this and that. Let’s get rolling.

Rotary’s motto is “Service Above Self” so let’s begin there with our upcoming service projects:

  • We will be at the Volunteer Ministry Center downtown on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 9 a.m. to noon or thereabouts helping them spruce up outside, doing light landscaping and trash pick-up, among other things. VMC works to improve the lives of the homeless in a number of ways including affordable housing options, sustainable job opportunities and substance abuse programs. They also have an onsite dentistry clinic and clothing / toiletries closet for guests to use.
  • Our Salvation Army Bell Ringers will be at the Kroger Marketplace in Farragut on the two Saturdays before Christmas: Dec. 17 and Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, ringing the bells to help our less fortunate families. Rotarian Mike Singletary is our leader in this fun, all-day service project.
  • Farragut Rotarians will be at First Baptist Church Concord on Sunday, Dec. 18, at 3 p.m. assisting the Fostering Hope agency with its annual Christmas Party for approximately 200 foster care families. We will be setting up tables/chairs, helping serve the meals and cleaning up afterwards. The club also has made a $1,500 donation to the agency.

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After a three-year hiatus, the Farragut High School Interact Club is being reconstituted and will begin meeting again in January. Rotarians Tom Woodbery and Tory Kinson recently met with Dr. Amanda Edsel and Beth Duncan at the school to activate the club. Farragut Rotary will sponsor this club along with Interact clubs at Hardin Valley Academy, Christian Academy of Knoxville and the college-age Rotaract club at Pellissippi State.

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Two new members were recently inducted into the club:

Harker Weiss

Harker Weiss, 50, is the new manager of Costco in Farragut. He has been with Costco for more than 30 years. He came to town in July to take over at Costco and has worked at nine Costco locations, the latest in Danville, California. And by the way, Weiss missed our meeting yesterday as Costco was celebrating its 10th anniversary in Farragut.

Andrew Vollman

Andrew Vollman, 43, is a vice president and relationship manager at FirstBank in Farragut. He and wife Kayla and their two teenagers live in Maryville. He is a former golf professional in Florida. In May, he moved from SunTrust/ Truist to FirstBank at 10216 Kingston Pike.

Tom King has been the editor of newspapers in Texas and California and also worked in Tennessee and Georgia and is a past president of the Rotary Club of Farragut. If you want more information about Rotary please email Tom.

 

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