Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Carnegie-Collier Rotary is providing students at Chartiers Valley and Carlynton with backpacks of food and school supplies.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Tracy Fedkoe
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
In our country, there is an alarmingly high percentage of children who are hungry and rely on school lunches as their primary source of nutrition, according to a study completed earlier this year by a national non-profit organization called Share Our Strength. The Carnegie-Collier Rotary Club has just started a program that will make a difference in our neck of the woods and will provide food for underprivileged children on the weekends. Fifty backpacks were donated from one of the Rotary members and they filled them with school supplies to kick off the program at Chartiers Valley and Carlynton school districts. Chartiers Valley identified 18 recipients based on the free and reduced lunch program and began distribution on Oct. 21. …
Monday, September 19, 2011
Carnegie-Collier Rotary Club will hold fundraiser Friday night at Nevillewood.
- VOLUNTEERS IN THE NEWS
- Mike Jones
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Monday, September 19, 2011
The Carnegie-Collier Rotary Club will play host to its second annual Wine Tasting Extravaganza this Friday night at The Club at Nevillewood. The fundraiser will help the Supporting Important Projects initiative by the rotary club. The event begins at 7 p.m. with the VIP Tasting and Auction. Tickets are $100 and include appetizers, a light dinner and dessert. The event this year will benefit the Chartiers Valley and Carlynton school districts by targeting both hunger and literacy initiatives to at risk children. The Solve Hunger program feeds needy children on weekends during the school season and in the summer months when free school lunch programs are not available. Improve Literacy provides free dictionaries to third-graders in those two…
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Residents circulated a petition to start the process of moving students out of Carlynton.
Rosslyn Farms residents recently circulated a petition in an effort to transfer the borough’s students from Carlynton School District to Chartiers Valley. But Chartiers Valley School District officials are merely taking a wait-and-see approach as the petition lumbers through the legal system. “Right now, we’re on the sidelines,” Chartiers Valley Superintendent Brian White said. “It’s interesting.” An initial hearing was held last Friday between lawyers representing the Rosslyn Farms residents and Carlynton school officials. The courts must decide whether the petition to move Rosslyn Farms out of Carlynton has any merit before all sides–including school officials from Chartiers Valley–can provide testimony on how it will impact the students…
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