Prattville Rotary Club's 2010-11 Club year ended last Thursday, June 16, with our annual transition banquet. Outgoing president Meloni Carter passed the gavel to our 2011-12 president, Clay McConnell.

Other highlights of the evening included presentation of checks to several local non-profit organizations, as well as presentation of Paul Harris awards to a few of our club members and members of our community.

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A Rotary International Group Study Exchange team from Rotary District 3291 in India is touring Rotary District 6880, which includes Prattville, this month. The GSE team arrived in Mobile, AL, on April 28th after 40 hours in-flight. During their month long visit in District 6880, the group will make stops and visit with Rotarians in Dothan, Eufaula, Auburn, Opelika, Montgomery, Prattville, Demopolis and Mobile. The group also attended the district conference in Montgomery on May 13-15.

Prattville Rotary Club member and past president Jeremy Arthur has been named President of the Prattville Area Chamber of Commerce. Jeremy was Executive Vice President and interim President following the departure of the chamber's past president, Connie Bainbridge. The following is from the Chamber's press release - for more information visit www.prattvillechamber.com.

Prattville Chamber Hires New President

April 13, 2011 (Prattville, AL) – The Prattville Area Chamber of Commerce today announced that Jeremy L. Arthur has been selected to become the Chamber’s next President, effective immediately.

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Prattville, AL, November 16, 2010: Members of both the Prattville Rotary Club and the Prattville/Millbrook Sunrise Rotary Club spent most of Monday morning back in elementary school. These community leaders, in partnership with The Malone Family Foundation of Alabama, distributed personal dictionaries to all Autauga County 3rd grade students.

Members went door-to-door to each classroom handing out these valuable reference books and presenting a short presentation of the Rotary 4-Way Test:

"It’s very important for (students) to have a dictionary," according to Prattville Elementary School Principal Felissa Armistad. Research indicates that third grade is the appropriate time for beginning use of a dictionary and data shows that most third graders in Alabama do not have personal dictionaries. Without access to a dictionary, learning both inside and outside the classroom is limited.

Dictionary distribution to local students is one of many service projects by Prattville and Millbrook Rotarians each year. This year’s project is part of Rotary District 6880’s effort to distribute dictionaries to 23,000 third graders at 400 elementary schools in 31 counties across South Alabama.

Rotarian Mac Gipson gives a dictionary to Prattville Elementary School student John David McIntosh as part of Rotary’s effort to provide dictionaries to 23,000 third grade students across South Alabama.