FAYETTE COUNTY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – On Thursday, November 2nd, Canyon Rim Rotary will celebrate the club’s 100th anniversary at The Gaines Estate in Fayetteville, WV. Guest speaker Dr. Anne L. Matthews, 1st Woman V.P. of Rotary International ’13 – ’14 will address Rotarians and their guests.
The State of West Virginia, The City of Oak Hill, and the Town of Fayetteville will recognize and celebrate the club’s One-Hundred-year anniversary of service to its community and to Rotary International, as well as its dedication to its motto of “Service Above Self’. Therefore, November 12, 2023, has been proclaimed as a date of recognition to the Canyon Rim Rotary Club and its dedication to the community and internationally in commemoration of its One Hundred Years of Service.
The Canyon Rim Rotary Club is the result of a merger between the original Oak Hill and Fayetteville Rotary Clubs. The Oak Hill Rotary Club was formed on the 12th day of November 1923 while the Fayetteville Rotary Club was formed on the 8th day of March 1924. On February 20, 2018, the two clubs combined to form the Canyon Rim Rotary Club. Since then, the Canyon Rim Rotary Club and its predecessors have served their communities locally and internationally through Rotary International for One Hundred (100) years. The two largest projects being Taste of Bridge Day and the Fayette County Christmas Toy Fund.
The club typically donates anywhere from $12K to $15K a year, depending on community needs. Local organizations assisted by the Canyon Rim Rotary Club include the Annual Fayette County Christmas Toy Fund, Active Southern WV, New River Animal Rescue, Fayette County Youth Soccer Association, Leadership Fayette County, and dictionaries for every third-grade student in Fayette County. Most recently, the Canyon Rim Rotary Club was honored by its District’s Organization 7445 as the “Club of the Year” for 2022.
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to act on our world’s most persistent issues. Rotarians work together to promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, save mothers and children, support education, grow local economies and protect the environment.