This week (Friday, September 24th) we will welcome Tonya Scherf from Food for Thought. "Food for Thought (FFT) began in May of 2007 when a group of people came together with a common passion to feed the hungry. This group started by feeding eight families per month through a stationary pantry in Oregon, OH and making 50 sack lunches that were taken to downtown Toledo to feed the homeless on Saturday mornings."
To attend this meeting,please click hereto log into your Rotary Account. Then click on "My Account Balance" to pay for your lunch. Lunch is $16.00. We are no longer requiring registrations for meetings.
We will be taking cash lunch payments at the door as well.
A buffet meal will be hosted at the Carranor starting at 11:45am.
If you are in need of assistance with logging into your online account, please contact Ashley Lopez.
A Zoom link for this hybrid meeting will be sent out to membership on Friday, September 24th at 9:30 am.
Our next big service project is just around the corner!!
This month we will be joining Partners for Clean Streams for their 25th Annual Clean Your Streams event on September 25th 2021.
The Perrysburg Rotary Club will be working to clean up Woodlands Park in Perrysburg, Ohio. Join us at 8:30 am to 12:00 pm to help take care of our community. Comfortable clothing and shoes are recommend.
Please click the link below to registered for this volunteer opportunity.
Last week we welcomed Alana Sigg, Counselor at the Perrysburg High School and Tecna, Dog in Training. Ms. Sigg and Tecna presented us with the Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) Program, school therapy with a facility dog.
Ms. Sigg has been working with Circle Tail to train and utilize facility dogs for Perrysburg Schools. A vision that started in the Fall of 2019, Ms. Sigg has worked passionately to get the program implemented at Perrysburg High School. In the Fall of 2020, Willow the facility dog joined the students and staff as them embarked on a new school year.
After a successful first year of the AAT, Ms. Sigg started working on the next stages of planning to train and provide more facility dogs through out the schools. In September 2021, Tecna joined the students as a facility dog in training.
This program has been instrumental in so many areas: (Citation, Ms. Siggs' Powerpoint)
Teaching Professions - Writing Lesson plans for the Allie Project
Foreign Language class- French writing journey stories / Spanish is describing heroes
Structured support Classrooms - Occupational Therapy / grooming/walking
Reducing test anxiety before AP exams
Incentive programs for attendance, behavior, self monitoring
One on one direct service with students & staff
De-escalating panic /anxiety attacks
The next phase of this program is to fundraise and develop the program so there are facility dogs in every school building (Perrysburg High School, Perrysburg Jr., HPI, and the four Perrysburg Elementary Schools). Ms. Sigg has been successful in securing free veterinarian services for all facility dogs utilized by Perrysburg Schools due to the generosity of West Toledo Animal Hospital.
Be on the look out for more information from Ms. Sigg and how you can help support her wonderful mission!
Recently, we had the honor of being featured in the Perrysburg Messenger Journal twice this past couple of months. This week is the third article being featured.
Rotarians Susan Nelson, Jeff Normand, and Bob Venzel all collaborated to construct three featured articles for publication. We could not be more proud of fellow Rotarians and Friends and the projects we are continuing to work on throughout the country.
It is an honor to serve beside some of the best Rotarians in the world and to make a difference not only locally but globally.
