Rotary Club blankets
town with service
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — Everywhere you looked the Putnam Rotary Club — in all of its incarnations — was hard at work May 17.
For its annual Rotary Day of Service, members of the Putnam Rotary Club spent hours weeding and tidying the garden at Rotary Park. Digging out, pulling up and then dumping the weeds made that garden on the hill shine. And it’s just in time for the multitude of events the Rotary Park hosts. Visitors will be welcomed by some beautiful gardens.
A few blocks away the Putnam Rotary Club’s Interact Club members were working at the Super Hero Saturday event. They stood at the entrance on Main Street, handing out event schedules to visitors. At the other end of the street, Interact Advisor Rotarian Roberta Rocchetti passed out schedules as well. She was dressed in scrubs because those in the health field are heroes, too.
Interactors were selling their famous custom tie-dyed socks to raise money for the Relay for Life, too.
And halfway in between members of the Quinebaug Valley Regional Rotaract Club were hard at work creating Amber Alert cards for kids. Jillian Smick, club treasurer, said Amber Alert is one of the Rotaract Club’s causes. She said they bring this important ID program to fairs and more.
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Rotarians Day of Service at Rotary park: from left: Joe Adiletta, organizer Karen Osbrey, Club President Doug Porter, Rachael Johnston and Marc Archambault. Linda Lemmon photo.