Rotary Club of Swainsboro

03/12/2024

The Swainsboro club held a speech contest at the weekly meeting. High school students from DEA, ECI and Swainsboro High school participated. Photo includes Clay Lawrence, Peyton Lee, Caleb Long, Quintus Williams, nataleigh Belcher and Ben Bennett.

02/28/2024

Mitch Fagler introduced Rebecca Ethredge and Jamie Mallard to our club on a Monday at the noon meeting. Rebecca is employeed by SETC and Jamie was the GOAL winner for this year.

11/01/2023

Dr. Denise Warnock spoke to our club about the Literacy bill for Georgia and the need to have all community members involved in solving the literacy problem in our county and state. Photo includes Dr. Warnock and Dr. Scotty Hattaway.

09/28/2023

Ricky Prince was our speaker Monday, September 25 at our meeting. He gave a very interesting presentation on arrow heads and brought several cases from his personal collection. He has been collecting since he was 7 and has amassed quite a collection.

08/21/2023

Harley Smith introduced Teresa Davis as her guest today at Rotary. Teresa is the director of the Choice program at EGSC.

06/26/2023

Outgoing President Kenneth Willoughby passed the gavel to Tanya Lane today at our meeting. She will be the President for this upcoming Rotary Year. Cason DeVane was presented Rotarian of the year and Lynn Brinson was introduced as our newest member.

06/09/2023

06/07/2023

Jeffery Brewer, Emanuel county sheriff, was the guest at Rotary on Monday, June 5. He presented a slide show and gave some info on recent drug busts in Emanuel county. Photo: Richard Mcneely, Kristen Hall, and Sheriff Brewer.

05/25/2023

Shannon Lawrence introduced Kim Hooks as his guest at our Monday meeting. Kim is the Farm to school coordinator for Emanuel County schools. She gave a very interesting program on all aspects of this program and how it educates children about the importance of agriculture in our community.

04/19/2023

Coach Brice Hobbs was our guest speaker Monday at the lunch meeting. He is the head coach of the Swainsboro Tigers Basketball team. He shared the overview of their great season. Photo includes Coach Hobbs and Scotty Hattaway, superintendent of Emanuel county schools.

03/29/2023

Milton Gray introduced the guest speakers for our program on Monday, March 27. They were a Clay Floyd, Dustin Miller and Cody Copeland from the Swainsboro Livestock and Auction located in Oak Park. They buy and sell cattle from several states in the southeastern United States. Last year they ran about 50,000 through this facility.

03/09/2023

Peyton Frye invited Head softball coach, Frank Wimberly, to give us an update on ECI softball and the journey to the state championship in 2022. Photo includes Peyton Frye, Frank Wimberly and wife, Beth and Cason DeVane.