Sandy Switzer delivered hygiene kits to Blanco ISD schools while Dan Van Eynde delivered additional hygiene kits to the senior living areas.
The Rotary Club of Blanco County presented a check to the Blanco Independent School District Safety Patrol on October 30, 2020
Rotary Club gives back through ‘helping hands’ program
By Sandy Switzer
Ladies of the Rotary Club of Blanco County safely spaced themselves and dressed in masks united to put hygiene kits together for several Blanco County outreach organizations.
Sandy Switzer, who is the hygiene kit project team leader, and Connie Cox, Pat Clewell, Dixie Van Eynde, Jan Gass and Leta Garcia decided to prepare the kits for Blanco County as safely as possible.
The organizations the Rotary Club delivers kits to are: Blanco ISD schools, Johnson City ISD schools, the Community Resource Center in Johnson City and senior living areas.
For those of us old enough to remember, hearing the word polio brings back major discomfort. It brings the vision of young children being crippled for life or crying in agony while living in iron lungs. It was certainly a time of celebration when the Salk vaccine was developed and then widely dispersed. Since that time, tremendous improvement has occurred in most countries of the world in eradicating polio.
The Blanco Coalition of Awareness, Prevention, and Treatment of Substance Abuse (CoAPT), in partnership with the Blanco County Rotary Club, recently presented Blanco High School Principal Patrick Hinson a check for $9,000 for the purpose of purchasing vape detectors for the high school.
Blanco County Rotary is helping supply needed materials as soap, washing supplies, tooth paste, many hygiene needs to community families.
We are working with the Community Resource Center in Johnson City, Blanco who touches many lives in our community. Rotarian Patricia Clewell is presenting kits to the site Coordinator, Dawn CAPRA.
