Presidential Citation 2008-2009

Our Club is taking the following steps to qualify for the Presidential Citation for 2008-2009.

1.  Membership

• Net growth of at least one member per year.

2.  Club Service

• Joe Lee and Robert Kisselburgh will attend the District Conference on April 17-18, 2009.  Robert Kisselburgh and Dee Bookert-Nixon will attend PETS in Spring, 2009.
• We will renew a subscription of the Rotarian to the Madison Crossing School.

3.  Vocational Service

• Carl Venable provides each member with a Four-Way Test placard suitable for display at work or in a home office.  This placard reminds us each day of our Rotarian oath as does out weekly recitation of the Four-Way Test at the close of each meeting. 

4.  Community Service

• We're continuing our Dictionary Project and a book drive in conjunction with Madison Crossing Elementary School.  Dictionaries will be delivered and distributed all third graders at the school in the Fall of 2008.
• We will again purchase gift certificates totaling $500 from Yellow Dog Books in Madison and The Bookshelf in Ridgeland and present them to the Madison Crossing Elementary School librarians at the culmination of the book drive. 
• We will conduct a canned good/non-perishable food drive and plan to exceed $2,000 in food items for MADCAAP...this will stock its food pantry for an entire month.  We will also conduct a toy drive and clothing drive for MADCAAP.  All drives will take place in time to help feed and clothe our fellow Madison Countians during the fourth quarter of 2008.

5.  International Service

• We will apply for a grant to provide four cleft palate surgeries.  Once received, the money will be sent through Claire's Bears and the surgeries will be for children in a third-world country.