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Home Page Stories
 
The 69th Annual Springfield Vermont Rotary Club Penny Sale was held on Saturday, October 21st at Riverside Middle School in Springfield with an enthusiastic crowd in attendance.  Over 300 prizes with values from $15 to $500 were distributed. The Penny Sale netted over $15,000.  Jen McQuaide was the winner of the drawing for the Grand Prize of $5,000 in cash. In addition, Sue Dowdell was the Door Prize winner, selected from the Grand Prize tickets, for $500 in cash.
 
The Rotary Club of Springfield Vermont is hosting its second annual live butterfly release fundraiser on Friday, August 25, 2023. Donors can purchase a butterfly to release in support of Rotary’s community service projects.  
As a reward for Springfield residents collecting more than 500 pounds of thin film plastics within a ten-week period during the Trex Thin Film Plastics Challenge, the Trex Company (Trex) provided the Springfield Rotary Club with an outdoor bench that was placed at the Park Street School overlooking the Kingsbury House by the Union Park Neighborhood Association and the Springfield Park and Recreation Department.
 
For more than a decade, members of Rotary District 7870 (New Hampshire, Vermont, USA) have been helping residents of Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The district’s service projects have ranged from making upgrades to the local nonprofit radio station, to providing laptops for students, to delivering materials for traditional quilts. District Rotarians have also partnered with South Dakota Rotary clubs to fund a makerspace for native artists.

Springfield residents have shown amazing support for the plastic film recycling program that started in February of this year.  The Springfield Rotary Club signed on to the Trex Community Recycling Challenge, to collect and recycle soft plastic used by Trex to manufacture building materials such as decking.  Communities that collect 500 pounds of film plastic within a six-month period are awarded a bench.

 
The Springfield Vermont Rotary Club has donated the 4 flower boxes that are hanging on the Desert Storm Veterans Bridge near the Senior Center.
 
At the May 8, 2023 Springfield VT Rotary Club meeting held at Crown Point Country Club, Rotary District 7870 Governor Randell Barclay presented two awards to the Springfield Rotary Club.
 
Governor Phil Scott was the featured speaker at a joint meeting of the Springfield Vermont Rotary Club and the Springfield Regional Chamber of Commerce held on May 2nd at River Valley Tech Center.
Springfield Town Library is collaborating with Springfield Rotary Club's project to remove plastic film from the waste stream. "This project empowers residents to elevate their knowledge of the volume of plastic the world generates and helps solve the plastic waste issue."
 
Trex, a company that makes outdoor items from recycled materials, first rolled out its recycling challenge to schools and communities in 2006. The initiative gives communities a six-month period to collect 500 pounds (or more) of plastic bags and film — also known as polyethylene films or plastic that can be stretched — and if that goal is met, the community receives an earth-friendly Trex bench, according to the company.
 
Springfield Rotarians have until the end of June to secure their free bench made from recycled materials.
 
The Springfield Rotary Club held a very successful "Stuff a Truck" event on November 19, 2022 in the Springfield Plaza to benefit the Springfield Family Center. The event raised more than 2200 pounds of non-perishable food, frozen turkeys and hams, and personal care items.  In addition, donors provided $1800 in cash which the Family Center will use to purchase items through the Vermont Food Bank.
 
One of the six little libraries auctioned by the Friends of Springfield Town Library has been erected at 51 Rte106 in North Springfield. The little library, entitled “Purple Coneflowers”, was built by Springfield Vermont Rotarian Rod Arnold, designed by Springfield local artist Becky Turner, and purchased by Primerica Regional Vice President Deb Cox.
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Laura Wargo, VT DCF
Dec 12, 2023
Family Services Division
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Dec 19, 2023
No Regular Club Meeting
Dec 26, 2023
Merry Christmas
No Regular Club Meeting
Jan 02, 2024
Happy New Year!
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Jan 09, 2024
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Jan 16, 2024
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Jan 23, 2024
Club Social
Jan 31, 2024
Fullerton Inn, Chester, VT
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