Loretta and Joel Stever to receive Citizens of the Year award by Collegeville Rotary, Meghan McGettigan and Roberta Paul will receive Teachers of the Year awards

The Collegeville Rotary Club has selected four outstanding members of our community for our 2014 annual awards. Joel and Loretta Stever, who have coordinated the Schwenksville ”Jerusalem Community Food Pantry” for 16 years, will be awarded the prestigious Paul Harris Fellow Award. The Food Pantry has grown from serving 25 families to 250 families while the Stevers have been steering it. They are tireless in their efforts to provide groceries and various services to the community, and to coordinate 100s of volunteers who contribute 1000s of hours to the Pantry.

Teachers from Perkiomen Valley and Methacton High Schools were nominated by their students and selected by the Rotary. Mrs. Bobbie Paul, Earth Science teacher at PV, and Mrs. Maggi McGettigan, English an AP English teacher at Methacton High School will be the recipients of the Teacher of the Year. These teachers represent the many outstanding educators who guide our children at a critical time in their lives.

The Award Dinner will be held at RiverCrest Golf Club on Route 29 in Phoenixville on October 15 at 6 pm. The community is encouraged to attend and celebrate these outstanding individuals who represent the many volunteers in our community who live the Rotary Motto ”Service Above Self”. Please find more details about the event at www.collegevillerotary.org. Dinners are $50 for adults, $40 for students. Reservations are needed by September 26.

The Rotary thanks the many individuals, companies, churches that have contributed to this program for the past 5 years. This year we want to especially recognize Wegmans, TD Bank and First Niagara for their contribution to offset the costs of dinners.