Civic club cleans up Cadron park

CONWAY — The Conway Morning Rotary Club’s recent 10th annual Cadron Settlement Park Cleanup attracted 18 Rotarians with their gloves, rakes, trimmers, wheelbarrow and mulch. Raking out old mulch, pulling weeds, trimming shrubs and replacing mulch made the park shine and prepared it for the thousands of visitors this spring and summer.

“The city of Conway really appreciates the help from the Conway Morning Rotary Club,” said Thomas Meares, park manager for Cadron Settlement Park. “The club provides additional resources and allows the city to stretch its resources to continue to make Cadron Park an exceptional destination for not only Conway’s residents, but for visitors from miles around.”

Pamela Woodard George, co-chair of Rotary’s service committee, reports that “with just 40 action-oriented members, Conway’s Morning Rotary club also provided dictionaries to all third-graders in Conway, Mayflower, Vilonia and Guy-Perkins schools and thousands of dollars of food and supplies to multiple food pantries in Faulkner County, including the University of Central Arkansas pantry in Conway, the Conway warming center, Bethlehem House, the juvenile courts and the Women’s Shelter.

The Morning Club sends at least two high school students to the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards each year, a leadership program coordinated by Rotary Clubs around the state. Each year, hundreds of young people participate in this program to build their leadership skills and develop an awareness of the need for service in their communities.

All action-oriented, community-minded individuals who are interested in learning more about the Conway Morning Rotary Club may stop in for breakfast and a program at 7 a.m. Tuesdays on the UCA campus. For information on programs or membership, email the club at morningrotary@gaggle. email or check out its Facebook page or website, www. facebook.com/Conway MorningRotary or www. conwaymorningrotary.org, respectively.