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The Rotary Club of Lake Wylie has awarded Catherine Smithson, a Clover High School junior, with a Rotary Youth Leadership Award (“RYLA”) for her outstanding leadership and commitment to community service. Students that receive the award participate in a week long motivational, leadership training, and free enterprise seminar at Erskine College in June. “One of [...]

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Help support the YMCA Camp Thunderbird Send a Kid to Camp Campaign by purchasing your tickets for the Wells Fargo Championship through the link below. The YMCA Camp Thunderbird has a rich and long history in the Charlotte and Lake Wylie area dating back to 1936.  The Send a Kid to Camp Campaign provides underprivileged [...]

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We are sponsoring our 2nd Blood Drive for the American Red Cross on Friday, April 13th, 2012 from 12:30pm to 5pm.    The blood drive will be held at the BB&T Branch in Lake Wylie which is located at 585 Nautical Drive in Lake Wylie.
Donors are automatically entered in a drawing for a $1,000 gift card!    [...]

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Scholarship Programs

March 18, 2012 by

The Lake Wylie Rotary Club Foundation has announced that it will award the first “Spirit of Service” Scholarship Award to recognize a high school senior living in the Clover school district who has demonstrated a heart for community service.  The top award in this first year is $2,000.  Adults can nominate graduating seniors who live [...]

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Rotarians from Lake Wylie sold poinsettias and used the net proceeds to purchase gifts for the children in York Place Home for Children in York.   Elizabeth Hartley, a Lake Wylie Rotarian, delivered the gifts last week.    The club sponsored a 12 year old girl and an 11 year old girl as well as [...]

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The Rotary Club of Lake Wylie has now funded seven micro-loans through Kiva.org. Kiva’s mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty.
The clubs latest loan was awarded to Ziporah Njeri who is a hardworking mother of three in Narok, Kenya who has been practicing mixed farming for over 5 years.  [...]

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Backpack Program

December 1, 2011 by

Mark Sieck and Lisa Hooper with some of the turkeys that the Lake Wylie Rotary Club contributed to the Clover School Districts Backpack Program
One of the many programs that the Lake Wylie Rotary Club Supports is the Clover School Districts Backpack Program.  The Backpack program serves nutritious, supplemental food items, and essentials such as toothbrushes, [...]

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PolioPlus

January 12, 2011 by

No More Polio. Can We Do It?
After 20 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.
Your contribution will help [...]

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