Will Rogers Day Parade Best of the Floats Winners

Winners of the Will Rogers Day parade float were T-Town Floats.  Receiving the trophy is (L to R) Jim Cooley, T. J. Manchester, Courtney T. Cooley (child), Gary Peeveyhouse, presenting the award, Paula Watson, Judge, Tony Mullenger, Judge, and Dan Schiedel, and Roger Fleming, Reveille Rotary members, facilitating the parade.

Will Rogers Days Parade Best of the Band Winner-Will Rogers Junior High Band

Receiving the trophy as winners of the Will Rogers Days Parade Band  is (L to R) Principal Terry Adams, Danielle Reynolds, Angela Huckeby, Reveille Rotary parade facilitator, Ron Deweese, and Kayla Roe.  Not pictured is judge, Buddy Watson.

 Claremore Reveille Rotary, with help from the city and community, recently facilitated the Will Rogers Days parade.  Trophies were awarded to Best of the parade floats, T-Town Floats, and Best of the Bands, Will Rogers Junior High Band.

 Reveille Rotary’s club projects focus on the improvement of the community and most often promotes excellence in education. Domestic projects include facilitating the Will Rogers Days parade, community park benches, the annual Boots & BBQ-a Kansas City BBQ sanctioned event, and an annual blood drive. International projects include; drilling water wells in Nicaragua and international countries. Other humanitarian projects include, with the help of Christopher Lewis (Jerry Lewis’ son), free wheel chairs to physically challenged, immobile children and adults, fits eye glasses to legally blind, provides plastic surgery to cleft pallets of defaced children, and provides farm animals to families for nutritional existence and the prevention of famine.

 Many programs have been ongoing for years and will continue to sustain such as Polio eradication and Medical Supply Network.  All programs are sponsored by the Rotary International, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and generous and caring Rotary volunteers at no cost to the recipient.

If you would like to learn more about the many programs, donate to the tax-deductible Rotary Foundation, or would like to be considered as a member, your may call Earlene Washburn 918-694-3384.