The Greenville Evening Rotary Club to host its First Annual Joust for Fun Live Jousting Event
>> Friday, July 30, 2010
The Greenville Evening Rotary Club will bring the medieval times to the upstate on October 30 when warhorses adorned with medieval drapings race onto the field at Riverbend Equestrian Park near Furman University in a live jousting event. In addition to the main event, there will be costume contests, strolling musicians, storytellers, jesters, photos with horses and knights, inflatables, magicians, pony rides, hay rides, a petting zoo, tug of war, face painting, balloon twisters, food and souvenirs.
The Greenville Evening Rotary Club sponsored the EarlyAct FirstKnight program at Powdersville Middle School during the 2009/2010 school year. This is the first time this program has been initiated in the southeast. EAFK is a revolutionary character and ethics education program for schoolchildren in grades K-8 that puts Rotary into daily mainstream public education for the first time ever. The EAFK program has been received with much excitement from the Powdersville Middle School student body, faculty, and parents. Because of its success, the Greenville Evening Rotary Club would like to grow the program to other local schools.
EAFK is a program of The Knights of the Guild, a non-profit education services organization, led regionally by Jefferson Pike. Developed by Dr. Randall Parr of San Antonio, TX, the EAFK program teaches business ethics based upon the historic theme of noble knights and the Rotary Motto of “service above self.” The daily curriculum, which is based on the “Rotary Four-Way Test” and teaches principles like Responsibility, Confidence, Perseverance, and Service, will be used in cooperation with monthly knighting ceremonies, where students will receive medals based upon their implementation of the curriculum.
The Greenville Evening Rotary Club is the primary organization responsible for the annual Reedy River Duck Derby fund raiser, whose 2010 beneficiaries included Mauldin Miracle League, Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network, Ready4Reading, PolioPlus, and Partners in Agriculture. The club also participates in numerous local service projects that most recently include house building with Habitat for Humanity, donating dictionaries to Cashion Elementary School, and visiting with the residents of Oakmont West Nursing Home to add some holiday cheer. Rotarians traditionally develop community service projects to address many of today's most critical issue, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy and violence.
Pamela Lyda
The Rotary Club of Greenville
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