Alpharetta Rotarians Give Back During Holiday Season

From the Rotary Club of Alpharetta:

ALPHARETTA, GA - The Alpharetta Rotary Club members have been giving back to the community in many ways over the years. These contributions of service and funds contribute to the economic well-being of our citizens. A few things that you will find Rotarians volunteering and supporting this holiday season include: collecting and donating coats to the North Fulton Community Charities; funding and participating with the Seniors in a luncheon on November 15 for the Golden Age Club at the Alpharetta Adult Activity Center; serving the Alpharetta Public Safety employees at their annual holiday luncheon on December 16; and ringing the Bell for the Salvation Army at North Point Mall to collect donations that are needed during the holidays. Rotarians, their children and High School Interactors will be working together in this event. The Salvation Army’s Red Kettle started in San Francisco in 1891 and is the charity’s most prominent fundraiser and assists over 34 million Americans recovering from all kinds of personal disasters nationwide.

More kind acts that will be provided by Alpharetta Rotarians this season include: providing lunch and serving the food to the youth in the Stand Up for Kids Program on December 14 at Independence High. Stand Up for Kids mission is to help with teen homelessness. They advocate for young people to have the basic human rights of shelter, food and security. The Alpharetta Rotary Club is a supporter of this organization.

Alpharetta Rotarians will gather to assemble bags filled with food and then deliver them to Dogwood Terrace for all the residents to celebrate the holidays. A Rotarian dressed as Santa and his helpers will visit all the floors in the complex to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and to give them the bags of food from Rotary.

Alpharetta Rotarians continue to support the Police Athletic League’s (PAL) program called Shop with a Cop. The money collected from donations help provide each youth participant in the program $100 to spend on family, friends and themselves for the holiday season. The kids will be escorted individually throughout Windward Wal-Mart with a policeman or a fireman. PAL works with “at risk” youth from 8-18 years of age providing many valuable programs throughout the year. Examples of their programs include: afterschool, tutoring, music, boxing and fitness, summer camp, mentoring, leadership, literacy, basketball, and soccer.

The Alpharetta Rotary Club continues to volunteer to keep Old Milton Parkway clean throughout the year by participating in the Adopt a Mile Program of the City of Alpharetta. Rotarians will be on the streets picking up trash and keeping Alpharetta beautiful on November 19.

Alpharetta Rotarians continue to pick up donated bakery items at Fresh Market, on Old Alabama Road, every day and deliver to North Fulton Community Charities. Without the help of Rotarians, Fresh Market could not make this incredible donation because they do not have the delivery capacity to make it happen, so then the families receiving the bakery items would not have the food they so desperately need. It is a fabulous partnership with Fresh Market.

Alpharetta Rotary President, Jason Binder, said, “I am so proud of our Rotarians. They enjoy giving back to others and that is what makes our club so special. Each person in the club has a different passion so the membership gets involved in different areas of service. Our City, its citizens, and its organizations benefit from the wonderful deeds being done by the Alpharetta Rotarians and they serve with a smile!”

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