A Message from the Club President

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 Club President 2010-2011 Greg Mills

Welcome everyone to the award winning  Rotary Club of Villa Park website. We are a medium sized club with 40 members living in and around the "Hidden Jewel" that is Villa Park. 

Our club is commited to serving our local and global communities and following Rotary's motto "Service Above Self".  This year's Rotary International President is Ray Kligensmith and his theme for the year is "Building Communities Bridging Continents."

 In years past we have worked on projects in our community that include;

  Providing Meals for families living at the Ronald McDonald House in Orange

  Serving Breakfast to the children attending the Project Hope School in Orange

  Delivering meals to senior shut-ins with the Meals on Wheels Program

  Providing Diapers and Thanksgiving Dinners to needy families through our Adopt a Social Worker  Program

  Supporting our local schools through mini grants to teachers, sponsoring Grad Night Events

  at Villa Park High School, as well as, their marching band and choir programs

 Cooking at the Villa Park Halloweenfest, Holiday Boat Parade and Villa Park Picnic at

  Irvine Lake

Similarly we have provided vocational projects like:

  Junior Achievement for middle school students

  Read By Nine- this year providing over 80,000 books to our local schools

  Sponsoring High School Interact members to attend RYLA - Life changing Rotary Youth

   Leadership training

  We have also supported the Villa Park High School Interact Club, which boasts over 300

   members and have help start a new Interact Club at Lutheran High School this past year.

Last, but not least, we have done some life changing international projects:

    Partnering with the Tecate Rotary Club to build a medical clinic in Tecate that will

      provide care for over 5000 needy families

   Sending Love Packs with school supplies to orphans in Liberia and Afghanistan

   Sending comfort food snack and DVDs to our troops in Iraq

   Collecting DVDs for the troops in Afghanistan

We're a fun group, meeting every Thursday morning in the Villa Park City Hall Council Chambers.

We've got great speaker programs and are always looking for more hands to help us with our projects. Take it from me, there is no greater satisfaction than knowing that you've done something that helped people you may never meet overcome barriers to success,preventable diseases, natural disasters and geopolitical strife. It's contagious!!...and our efforts are multiplied many times over by Rotary Clubs and the more than 1 million Rotarians all over the world.  Come join us.

Thank you,

Greg Mills