We will be meeting at The Pirates House this Friday in our normal meeting room - Captain Flints Hall. The side door to the room will be unlocked if you would prefer to use that entrance.
Our speaker for this week is Roger Moss. Mr. Moss is the current Savannah-Chatham County school board president. He is the co-founder of Savannah Classical Academy and founder of Savannah Exploratory Charter School. He will be talking about putting our students first.
RCSE looks forward to seeing all members and guests this Friday!
RCSE Oyster Roast
Saturday, February 18th
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Please mark your calendars for the annual RCSE Oyster Roast. There will be a sign up for this event at the meetings or you can RSVP to Kerri at rotarysavananheast@gmail.com. This social is free for all members! There will be a guest fee which will be determined once the caterer provides final numbers. Gordon Matthews has graciously offered his home on Tybee for this event (121 Eagle's Nest Drive). RCSE looks forward to seeing everyone at the Oyster Roast!
What is Read United? Read United is United Way of the Coastal Empire's programmatic response to the promotion of Early Childhood Literacy in our region. Read United will be on February 24th and is replacing Rotary Read In.
Read United Day is the hallmark event, an initiative that seeks to place books in the home of every child in Pre-K through second grade in our region. The program focuses on children in these lower grade levels because we recognize that an early response to the literacy gap that exists in homes of many low-income households can enable children in these homes to succeed.
Read United Day will occur across our region on a single day, February 24th. This kick-off event will place community leaders and volunteers in classrooms to read to over 19,000 children across our four-county footprint in Pre-K through 2nd Grades. Students will also receive their own books to take home with them during this event to promote literacy nutrition in the home. Although you can sign up to read at any of the schools, Haven Elementary is RCSE's partner school. If you would like to sign up, please visit https://www.unitedwayvolunteers.org/aem/general/event/?doc_id=6381.
This past Friday, RCSE had a packed house! At the beginning of the meeting, President Jason Jones presented a $1,000 check to The Dive who was our charity partner for funds raised from Happy, Raffle and Fines. The Dive works tirelessly to serve our veteran and homeless community and RCSE is happy to help with this donation to help them in their work. After the check was presented, a new charity was drawn. The recipient of our next $1,000 will be Blessings in a Bookbag! After all Rotary business items were discussed, Laura Lane introduced our speaker for the day who was Matt Seale who talked about his Small Town Podcast.
Matt began his presentation with a little background about himself and how he became mayor of Ocilla, GA which is a town with a population of 3500. He said most mayors in small communities become mayors for community service and not for political gain. Ocilla was the setting for a podcast called Up and Vanished about the disappearance of Tara Grinstead who was a local high school teacher. Due to Up and Vanished, Matt wanted to highlight the good things happening in small towns and not all the bad things and that was when Small Town Podcast was born. He wants to enhance the brand of small towns and talk about the great quality of life people have living there. Small Town Podcast is now in its 6th season and has interviewed people in small towns in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia. Matt then shared some heartwarming stories about people who have been featured on his podcast. To learn more about Small Town Podcast, please visit https://smalltownpodcast.com/
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