Club Service-Community Projects

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This section is under development.

Please visit from time to time to learn about activities in which our club has been involved in recent years, many of which are continuing.

If you head up a service project, please submit a paragraph or two about your work ............with a photo.

If you would like to become involved, please contact our Service Chair, Karen Plummer or the chair of the particular service group in which you are interested.

Examples Include:

Hilliard House - Chair Richard Cunningham

Hilliard House is a unique home with which our club has had a relationship through our Hilliard House Helpers Group for over seven years.It's goal is to assist homeless women with children to live independently and to return as quickly as possible to permanent housing.

It provides a one year resident program followed by a year of aftercare for women with children who have been displaced from permanent housing, usually as a result of domestic violence. This is often associated with substance and alcohol abuse. Its program includes educational services to provide mothers with the tools to live independently and it plays a major role in family re-unification.

Hilliard House Helpers is a group within our club which provides maintenance help like basic repainting plumbing and carpentry. This makes an important contribution to saving costs.

Through a succession of regular District Service Grants in recent years, our club has also made important contributions to equipping the toddler playground, providing a bicycle shed, installing storage pods in the attic and making good all sorts of minor damage.

Richard usually visits the facility at least once a week for 2-3 hours to carry our routine repairs like unblocking pipes, re-anchoring toilet roll holders, replacing light bulbs and other related matters like minor sheet rock repairs. When a resident leaves, their room is often repainted by club volunteers.

We have also funded parts of the childrens education program.

Please contact Richard if you would like to join him.

Road Clean Up - Chair Jim Teachey

Every six months, between 15 and 20 members get together on a Saturday morning to clear the trash from the roadside on Old Bon Air Road between the Bon Air Community Organization Center and Robious Road. It usally takes us one hour and the fun begins with breakfast at McDonalds.

Here is the formidable November 2011 clean up crew!

Please respond to Jim's requests when asked to participate.

Meals On Wheels - Chair Jeff Raihall

Many club members are actively involved with Meals on Wheels deliveries. This typically takes about one hour, usually on a Tuesday or Thursday. Members work in regular pairs and are rostered to carry out approximately two deliveries each quarter.

For more than 10 years, members of Bon Air Rotary have been assisting with the delivery of meals to the elderly, indigent, handicapped, and homebound adults of Richmond through the local chapter of Meals on Wheels. Over the past year, twenty-three different Bon Air members, former members, and their spouses volunteered their time and efforts two days out of every week as part of a team of over 170 individuals in Central Virginia delivering meals to some 1,500 of the region's most vulnerable persons. In addition to simply delivering meals, our visits, which always include a smiling face and a warm greeting, also provide a connection for those we serve with the outside community, a daily "check-in" to ensure their safety and well-being, and essential services. With a friendly face and kind words from our dedicated and caring volunteers, those we serve can thrive and continue to contribute to our community.

Members Ron Waller and Jim Duval preparing to deliver!

Other projects will follow including:

Dictionary distrubution

School Playground

Bon Air Parade