Article Month: December 2022

Philanthropy was on full display at last week’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Highlands! The Club awarded funds to help the Community Care Clinic, The Counseling Center of Highlands, NC, The Bascom, A Center for the Visual Arts, and the Highlands Food Pantry. Those donations, which come out of our Rotary Charities Fund amounted to $3,500 and are intended to help these vital programs continue their work and their contributions to our community. In a combined effort with The Mountain Top Rotary, our hot dog giveaway at the Highlands Halloween Street event collected $2,555 through donations which we, the 2 clubs turned around and donated again to the Food Pantry for the work they do to help feed folks of our community who need it! And finally, a gift of financial support was given by The Rotary Club of Highlands to help one of our own. Kevin Franklin, the husband of our member Tracy Franklin was stricken with a rare neurological disease, Guillain-Barre Syndrome. In the case of this syndrome, someone who has contracted it can go from being totally normal to full paralysis in days. While Kevin is making great progress in his recovery, he will be away from his work for quite some time and will suffer a great loss of income. Our club is proud to have been able to donate in excess of $5300 to help the Franklins to get through this very tough time. Our Rotary is there when there is a need.