Alamo Rotary Honors Monte Vista Interact Students

DANVILLE, CA - From the Rotary Club of Alamo: Twenty-two Monte Vista High School students were honored for their service to the community and to the world. These outstanding members of the Monte Vista Interact Club received medals in recognition of a year of service projects, including providing backpacks for needy children to start school, collecting warm clothing for the homeless and food for the Contra Costa Food Bank, writing letters to men and women of the armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, adopting toddlers from the Bay Area Crisis Nursery so they would have toys and clothes for the holidays, and raising over $1200 this year for wheelchairs for handicapped children and adults in Latin American countries

Interact is a service club for young adults, under the auspices of Rotary International. It is the oldest (54
years) and largest youth service club worldwide, with over 15,000 clubs in 142 countries. A local Rotary
club sponsors each club, and the Rotary Club of Alamo sponsors Monte Vista’s Interact. MV Interact has
approximately 80 members who meet once a month under the leadership of 10 student officers, Alamo
Rotarian Beth Randall, their Rotarian advisor, and Aimee Kerr, their faculty advisor.

This outstanding group of young people was recognized for living Rotary’s motto “Service Above Self.
They have truly helped to make a difference.

The Rotary Club of Alamo was founded on May 7, 1971 and has 50 members. The major activities
ongoing at the club include:

• Support for two RotaCare clinics that provide free health care for the indigent in our community.
• Cash and volunteer time for Meals on Wheels.
• Renovations at the East Bay Crisis Nursery.
• Renovations at the Choice in Aging Adult Day Care in Pleasant Hill.
• Support for two Cub Scout troops.
• Support for a water-harvesting project in Tanzania.
• Support for schools in India reaching over 45,000 children
• Contributions to the Rotary International End Polio campaign.
• School dictionaries distribution to third grade students.
• Support for the Wheelchair Foundation.
• Roadside cleanup and beautification in Alamo.

Photo courtesy of The Rotary Club of Alamo