Membership Mixer
We enjoyed meeting new friends at our Membership Mixer this past week.
Stories
|
|
||||
Thank You! We are incredibly grateful for the overwhelming generosity shown at our recent Benefit Auction. Thanks to those bidding on our online, silent, and live auctions! We are thrilled to announce we raised over $35,000! Special thanks to the Auction Committee lead by Jean Wieder for organizing a great event! CLICK HERE to see the photos. |
||||
We are ShelterBox Heroes! Thanks to the generosity of members in our club, we recently received the Bronze Hero award with ShelterBox! |
||||
UNIVEST becomes major sponsor for Souderton Park Renovations Left to right: Betsy Roush, Community Relations Manager, Univest Financial Corporation, Mike Keim, President, Univest Bank & Trust Co., Jeff Schweitzer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Univest Financial Corporation, Leon Moyer, Souderton-Telford Rotary and chair of the Park Renovation Committee, Brian Goshow, President, Souderton Borough Council, and Karla Myers, President, Souderton-Telford Rotary. Univest Financial has stepped forward as a major sponsor for the extensive, six-year renovation and beautification project being completed at Souderton Community Park by the Souderton-Telford Rotary Club and Souderton Borough. |
||||
Silent & Live Auction, Sept. 30 2021 We are excited to return to a LIVE auction to raise funds for our Foundation.
Question? Contact Jean Wieder, Auction Chairperson! We look forward to seeing you soon! Thanks for supporting our community. |
||||
We support 4-H Congrats to Joshua Hoffman, whose "Best Doe in Show" at the 2021 Farm, Home and Youth Fair caught President Karla Myers and ST Rotarian John Moyer's interest. We were happy to support 4-H by placing the highest bid! |
||||
Concert Sundaes Service Night We enjoyed dipping ice-cream at Concert Sundaes! |
||||
Drive In Movie Success Thank you for supporting our 2nd Drive-In Movie! |
||||
Change Over Night 2021 (left to right): Past President Dan Yocum, President Karla Myers, President Elect Jason Donmoyer and Vice President Brad Bissinger A celebration of our 2020-21 year and a warm welcome to our new leadership team for 2021-22. |
||||
2021 High School Scholarship Winners
|
||||
Honduras Hurricane Relief We are happy to help support a project through Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Souderton and the Rotary Club of Santa Barbara, Honduras. |
||||
Drive-In Movie Event |
||||
Perseverance Fire Company Support Thanks to generous members of our club, a Rotary District Grant and Moyer Indoor Outdoor, we recently presented a check to Perseverance Volunteer Fire Company for the construction of a handicap ramp at the fire house. The project will soon break ground and the ramp is expected to be completed in July. |
||||
Welcome Paul Harris Fellows We recently celebrated several members of our club who received Paul Harris Fellowship recognition. Jay Glickman was recognized as a major donor and shared with us his ongoing passion for donating to Rotary. Congrats! |
||||
Students of the Month 2020-21 Every month at Souderton Area High School, one senior female and one senior male are awarded the Student of the Month. The Souderton-Telford Business and Professional Women sponsor the female awards and we sponsor the male awards. |
||||
SAHS Interact Club Year in Review Officers from the Interact Club we support at Souderton Area High School (SAHS) attended our meeting and provided us an update on how they have been serving during the 2020-21 school year. They were busy! |
||||
Camp Neidig Service Event It was our pleasure to work alongside students from Rotary District's 7430, Camp Neidig as we spruced up Souderton Community Park. |
||||
Return to In-Person Meetings We are excited to return to in-person meetings starting May 6! Check our calendar for our meeting schedule. Join us! |
||||
Spring Adopt a Highway Clean Up
Rise & Shine - it was time for our Adopt-A-Highway clean up! |
||||
4 Way Test Speech Contest Winners For the very first time, our club hosted our annual "4-Way Test Speech Contest" via Zoom. The Souderton Area High School contestants were up for the challenge and provided us with much to think about! |
||||
Wine Pull Park Fundraiser Cheers! Raise a glass in honor of Souderton Park's renovation...better yet, help us raise MANY glasses! CLICK HERE to learn more! CLICK HERE to watch the wine pull live on Facebook! For a brief review of some of the wine to be "pulled" that evening, follow the "Read More" button. |
||||
MLK Day of ServiceMembers of our club and friends took the MLK Day of Service seriously! The day is meant to be a "day on, not a day off" for service. A volunteer driven, non-profit, in our community, Care & Share Thrift Shoppes, is in need of volunteers. Many of Care & Share's "traditional" volunteers are in high risk groups for exposure to Covid, and are sheltering at home. We enjoyed spending the afternoon at Care & Share and interacting with members in our community.  |
||||
Christmas Celebration 2020 Our annual holiday celebration for over 40 children from the North Penn and Indian Valley Boys and Girls Club was moved outside this year to the parking lot of Zion Mennonite Church in Souderton. The celebration was coordinated by ST Rotarian, Suzi Berry, with help from SAHS's Interact Club, Perseverance Volunteer Fire Company, Travelhaus and Souderton Police. Generous gifts were provided by our club as well as Knex. A big thanks to everyone who helped spread some holiday cheer! CLICK HERE for additional photos! |
||||
Winter Accessories DriveJust as the first snowflakes of the season started to fall, we dropped off new winter accessories Rotarians have generously donated. The collection will continue thru the end of the year. Contact President Dan Yocum if you would like to make a donation of goods or a monetary donation.  |
||||
Auction Thank You!Thank you for bidding generously and often during our first ever, all VIRTUAL auction! This event is our primary fundraiser so THANK YOU! |
||||
Show Your SupportOur friend and Past President Suzi Berry shares from her heart about her homeland and what is happening since the Beirut blast on August 4. To watch her short video click on the "Read More" Link |
||||
Drive-In Movie Success A great night was enjoyed by all at the first ever Drive-In Movie at Souderton Borough Park! |
||||
Drive-In Movie Night Join us for a fun "Christmas in July" movie night, on Saturday, July 25 and help raise money for the park renovation. CLICK HERE to learn more |
||||
Change Over Night 2020 (L to R) Past President (2019 - 20) Ed Brubaker stayed socially distant from our incoming President Dan Yocum and President Elect Karla Myers. |
||||
Congrats Class of 2020As a Rotary club, we have been strong advocates for education and students within our community. Graduation season is upon us, and this year we wish to recognize graduates who are within our ST Rotary Club. Thanks to Covid-19, these students and their families are missing the "Pomp and Circumstance" that typically surrounds a graduation. Let's take a moment to make this milestone a bit more meaningful for our club members by sharing their good news! Follow the link to see photos! |
||||
Golf Outing Cancelled Due to Covid-19, our annual May Golf Outing has been canceled. All is not lost!!! We would like to shout out a huge thanks to the generosity of a few companies and individuals. They have graciously continued to support our community youth programs even though the event was cancelled. THANK YOU! We hope to see our golfers in 2020! |
||||
COVID 19 ResponseWe appreciate your patience as we decide if we will meet each week. Check our calendar often - on the left side of this box. |
||||
4 Way Test Speech Contest Winners (L to R: Riley Finger, 3rd place; Ryann Libor, 2nd place; Rohan Mehta, 1st place; Ed Brubaker, President) Congrats to Rohan Mehta for a first place finish at our recent Speech Contest! Good luck at the Regional Contest! |
||||
Chip in for our Annual Golf Benefit Join us for the first golf outing of the season, on Monday, May 4, 2020 at the newly renovated golf course at Indian Valley County Club! We welcome you to participate as a golfer, sponsor...or both! |
||||
Run Christine! We recently were introduced to the complexities facing patients with incredibly rare diseases. Christine Rowe, Director of Global Patient Advocacy for Alexion Pharmaceuticals, also impressed us with her enthusiasm for competing in the upcoming Boston Marathon. She will race with the National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc. (NORD). We were thrilled to surprise her with a donation so she could compete. Keep up the great work! |
||||
On The Move!.jpg) Due to renovations at The Indian Valley Country Club, we will be meeting at other locations until May 7. CLICK HERE to check our calendar to see where we are meeting each week. |
||||
2019 Christmas Party With the help of the Souderton Area High School Interact Club, ST Rotarians and other generous friends, our annual Christmas party for our guests from the Indian Valley and North Penn Valley Boys and Girls Club was a very "merry" success! |
||||
Congrats Mentors! It was our pleasure to sponsor the students and their mentors at the Indian Valley Chamber of Commerce's Mentor Awards Recognition Luncheon. We thank the Indian Valley Education Foundation and mentors who gave their time and talent to support students at Souderton Area High School and Dock Mennonite Academy. |
||||
Jim Church Classic 2019 Winners  Congrats to the Women of St. Basil's Academy and the Men of Souderton Area High School for winning the Jim Church Classic! |
||||
Adopt a Highway Clean-up
 A team from our club recently spent a morning collecting debris from our newly adopted portion of School house Road |
||||
World Polio Day 2019 It was a pleasure to hear from Carol Ferguson on #Worldpolioday from the Pennsylvania Polio Survivor's network. |
||||
Benefit Auction Success |
||||
Benefit Auction You're Invited to our annual benefit auction Thursday, September 26, 2019, 5PM $35.00 pp - CLICK HERE to purchase your tickets CLICK HERE for the evenings schedule CLICK HERE for a peek of items awaiting your bid! |
||||
We support 4H! ST Rotarian John Moyer, showed our club's support of 4H by placing our bid at the livestock auction! |
||||
Thank You Marc Rosenberger Marc Rosenberger with ST Rotary President Ed Brubaker Before a large Concert Sundaes crowd, it was our honor to recognize ST Rotarian, Marc Rosenberger, for his many contributions to the Souderton Community! |
||||
2019 SAHS Scholarship Winners  We were excited to announce three students who received scholarships for higher education! |
||||
The Big Red Picnic  We have committed $10,000 to feed our community’s children through the summer and ensure the success of The Big Red Picnic! |
||||
Concert Sundaes 2019  The rain did not dampen our serving spirit! |
||||
2019 Golf Outing |
||||
Interact Inspires Our Interact Club at Souderton Area High School (SAHS) inspires us! |
||||
STEM Scholarship Winner Congrats to Olivia Yates! |
||||
Tee Off for the Souderton-Telford Community Join us for the first charity Golf Event of 2019! |
||||
4 Way Test Speech Contest |
||||
4-Way Speech Contest |
||||
Spread The Love
Join us on Thursday, February 7, 2019 for a fun-filled evening as we celebrate LOVE with other local Rotary clubs! |
||||
Benefit Auction 2018 |
||||
|
||||
Benefit Auction |
||||
Souderton Area High School Scholarship Winners
|
||||
|
||||
2018 4-Way Speech Contest Winners |
||||
Tee-Off for the Souderton-Telford Community
 Join us for our Annual Golf Outing, Monday May 7, 2018 CLICK HERE to register online! CLICK HERE to print a registration/sponsorship form. |
||||
Jim Church All Star Football Award Suzi Berry, President-Elect, Dean Dipiza, Steve Kendra, Past President Congrats to Souderton Area High School Senior, Dean DiPiza, on being awarded the 2017 Jim Church All Star Football Award. This $250 award is given to a player on the team that best lives by The four-way test. |
||||
Game Day |
||||
Souderton-Telford Rotary Best Pizza Trophy |
||||
Saturday Service in Souderton A big thanks to the Souderton Area High School's Interact Club for joining us this morning! We served together preparing one of Keystone Opportunity Center home's for a new family. What a great way to keep warm and serve others! |
||||
Christmas Party 2017 Invited guests from the North Penn Valley Boys & Girls Club received an enthusiastic welcome from the Souderton Area High School's (SAHS) Interact Club to our 24th Annual Christmas Party. |
||||
SAHS Interact FundraiserSupport our Interact Club! It's Always Sunny in Souderton Sports Memorabilia Live & Silent Auction, Raffle Baskets and Door Prizes Saturday, December 30, 6-8pm  In Honor of Sean Michael Flynn ‘17 |
||||
2017 Jim Church Classic Photo from Tournament in 2015 The Souderton-Telford Rotary and The Souderton Area High School are pleased to present the 4th Annual Jim Church Classic. The high school basketball tournament will be held at the Souderton Area High School on December 8th and 9th. All proceeds from the event will once again benefit the research of The Children's Tumor Foundation which is dedicated to raising awareness and funding research for treatments and a cure for neurofibromatosis. |
||||
Interact Honors Veterans The Interact Club we support at Souderton Area High School, along with the Support our Troops Club, hosted the 2nd Annual Veterans Luncheon. The students welcomed 35 Veterans over three lunch periods. Each luncheon began with a student singing the National Anthem. Students and Veterans shared lunch, conversation and the Veterans were presented with a gift. Thank you students for honoring these important community members! |
||||
Tree Planting Challenge |
||||
Golden Jubilee of Service John Young with President Leon Moyer Congrats to John Young on 50 years of service to our Rotary Club! John has served in many different roles in our club, but the one program that he has been passionate about is the youth leadership camp, Camp Neidig. Thank you John for your dedication and "Service above Self" over the past 50 years - you inspire all of us! |
||||
Mentor Recognition Award Ceremony Members of our club recently attended a lunch to celebrate business people giving of their time and talent to guide and advise the next generation of leaders. At this Indian Valley Chamber Event, our club sponsored the lunch for students and their parents from Dock Mennonite Academy and Souderton Area High School. Each mentor/mentee shared about the experience - very inspiring! Interested in becoming a mentor? Contact the high school's directly. |
||||
Interact Chartering Ceremony Congrats Souderton Area High School (SAHS) Interact Club! Welcome back to Rotary! |
||||
Thank You for an Awesome Benefit Auction
|
||||
Annual Benefit Auction
|
||||
Rotary Helps Hurricane Harvey Victims
The Rotary Foundation and clubs along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, are collecting emergency relief funds to help flood victims of Hurricane Harvey, which slammed into southeast Texas over the weekend. More information on how you can help CLICK HERE Thank You! |
||||
2017 4-Way Test Speech Contest Winners Congrats on a job well done, Souderton Area High School students, at our 4-Way Test Speech Contest!
|
||||
Join us for Game Day!Spend a fun afternoon on Friday, March 17 with your friends, playing your favorite game! Lunch and raffles will be part of the fun.
Spread the word about this new-type of fundraiser to benefit charities in our community.
$25.00 per person
(We provide the lunch and raffles - you bring your game and your friends!)
Sign up HERE
|
||||
5th Annual Golf OutingIt's time to tee-up for our 5th Annual Golf Outing on Monday, May 8, 2017.  |
||||
3rd Annual Jim Church Classic Good luck to the Souderton Area High School Girls and Boys Basketball Teams as they compete December 9 - 10 in the 3rd Annual Jim Church Classic. Click on the link for the schedule. Stop by our tables at the event to check out our great raffles supporting the Children's Tumor Foundation!
|
||||
Future Presidents Announced Thank you to these Rotarians and their commitment to leading our club in the future. Leon Moyer, will be president of our club starting in June of 2017 - 18, followed by Suzi Berry from 2018 - 19. Please congratulate them!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
.jpg)
 |
Friday, March 18
7 - 9PM
Indian Valley Country Club
Join us as we co-sponsor this free event with Travel Haus. Our goal is to broaden our understandings of other cultures to create a more peaceful world. We are excited to have such a world-renowned speaker join us for the evening! Kindly RSVP for the event by clicking HERE.
|
$5,000 gift to Keystone Opportunity Center
Rich Aichele, Executive Director of Keystone Opportunity Center, accepted our gift of $5,000 to support an adult education class located in Souderton Mennonite Church. This is a career and college readiness class for English is a second language students.
4-Way Test Speech Contest
Join us on Thursday, March 3 as high school students engage in a speech contest using Rotary's 4-Way Test! More info on the 2015 event click here.
Christmas Party
This year we celebrated the twenty-second annual STRC Christmas Party for children in our community. It may have been the biggest, most boisterous – but also most well-behaved – one of them all!
(view the photo's from the event in the photo album section)
2nd Annual Souderton Tip-Off Classic
Do you love a good basketball game? Join us at our 2nd Annual Souderton Tip-Off Classic at Souderton Area High School, Friday, December 4 - Saturday, December 5. A big thanks to our sponsor, National Penn Bank. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Children's Tumor Foundation.
Steve Kendra, ST President Elect; Ken Keller, Senior VP at National Penn Bank;
Jim Church ST Rotarian; Sam Flaherty ST Rotarian
90th Anniversary Celebration: Setting the Vision for the Centennial
 |
Ninety years is a long time, a very long time. In today's unsettled and stressed-out world, celebrating a 90th birthday or anniversary is a real accomplishment. And so, it was indeed a “special event” on the night of October 29, 2015 that the Souderton-Telford Rotary Club held in recognition of its 90 years of “Service Above Self” to our community. Click here for the photo album |
Conversation with Indian Valley Community Leaders
Are you a leader in our local community? Come join part 2 of our conversation on Wednesday, November 11 at from 7 - 9:30AM at the Indian Valley Country Club. Breakfast is included!
Our objective is to elicit the best ideas from the community leaders on the unfulfilled needs of our community. Have a good idea? Share it here!
Photo's from our first conversation can be found by visiting the photo album on this website.
Camp Neidig
Pictured between Rotarians Al Engel and John Young are three of the six SAHS Juniors sponsored by ST this past summer. From left to right are Chelse Burton; Steve Sherlock; and Eve Austin.
Among the most rewarding things we get to do as Rotarians is the shaping of young adults into tomorrow's leaders through various scholarship and awards programs. Camp Neidig is one such program which ST is pleased to sponsor each year for qualifying Souderton Area High School (SAHS) Juniors.
Annual Charity Auction Raises $27,500!
Our club's annual charity auction was a huge success raising over $27,500! A HUGE thank you to the auction committee, led by Jim McGowan and Sanford Alderfer Companies!
Most of all - THANKS to all of those who donated an item or placed a bid!
Proceeds from this auction will go to: Keystone Opportunity Center, Stone-Flick Children's Fund, Souderton-Telford Rotary's Charities Fund, Rotaplast International and Rotary International.
If you joined us for the auction - don't forget! You are warmly welcome to join us each week at the Indian Valley Country Club for our weekly meeting!
Follow the link for photo's from the event
Souderton-Telford's Niara Savage wins Speech Contest Finals in Gettysburg
Congrats to Souderton-Telford’s winner, Niara Savage on her 1st place win at the Rotary Speech Contest Finals held in Gettysburg PA. Niara’s speech on caring for the world’s environment won her a $1,000 grand prize! Nice job Niara! (Niara is pictured on the left)
Tee-Off raises over $12,000 for Youth in our Community
.JPG)
The Golf Benefit was an unqualified success. The weather was very cooperative, the Indian Valley Country Club (IVCC) staff knocked themselves out to take care of all our needs and we had many Rotarians volunteering to make the event run smoothly. The event raised about $12,000 for the youth in our community. The Stone & Flick Children's fund will be a significant beneficiary. Click on the photo album on the right column to see all of the fun!
Congrats to the 2015 Four-Way Speech Contest Winners!
Three students from Souderton Area High School recently competed in the S-T, 4-Way Speech Contest. Niara, Kyle, and Juliana did an excellent job in defending their topics with the practical application of all four points of the Rotary Four-Way test.
Congrats to Niara for her first place win! Niara will move on to compete in Rotary District 7430 regional contest..jpg)
L to R Al Engel, Souderton-Telford Rotary Club Vice President, Niara Savage, Kyle Wetzler, Juliana Ofalt, James Leary, S-T Rotary Club President, and Frank Gallagher, Souderton Area School District Superintendent and Rotarian
Stone Flick Fund Update
Word FM, a local, faith-based radio station, and the Souderton-Telford Rotary who partnered with Univest Foundation to establish the Stone & Flick Children Fund are pleased to announce that the Fund has reached $109,538.62 as of Tuesday, January 13. The Fund was started to assist the Stone daughters and Anthony Flick, surviving children who lost their parents and sibling after the devastating tragedy in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on Monday, December 15.
“We are overwhelmed by the support of the community so far,” said Dave Baker, Word FM station manager. “It’s heartwarming to see people coming together to help those in need. We are encouraged to see that even if we can’t replace the void in these kid’s lives, we can help make their future a little brighter”