Mayo — The Rotary Club of Mayo held their weekly luncheon/meeting at R.O. Ranch in Mayo recently to speak to potential new members who were invited to the facility in order to learn about Rotary and hopefully join the organization.

Club president Leenette McMillan explained there are two branches of Rotary - Rotary International and the Rotary Foundation.

Rotarian Ricky Lyons read aloud the mission statement of Rotary International, which is “to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through its fellowship of business, professional and community leaders.”

“That’s like us,” McMillan told everyone, regarding the local group in Mayo. “This is very basic,” she continued. “Rotary International is us and then there is the Rotary Foundation which is our charity bank account basically.”

Rotarian Tom Lashley then read the mission of the foundation, which is “to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education and the alleviation of poverty.”

The  basic motto of Rotary is service above self, McMillan said.

It was then time for announcements and Rotarian Joey Pearson reminded everyone about the Annual Hornet Classic Golf Tournament coming up on Saturday, July 30 at Quail Heights Country Club off Hwy. 247 in Lake City beginning at 8:30 a.m.

A 4-man team entry fee is $200 and prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams, as well as longest drive. There will also be a drawing for prizes. If you would like to play or be a sponsor for this event, contact any Rotary Club member.

The tournament is being put on by the Rotary Club of Mayo and the Mayo Quarterback Club. The funds will go toward the Salina Land Pearson Memorial Scholarship, the Rotary Interact Club Scholarship, club community projects and it will also help the Mayo Quarterback Club provide support for the Lafayette High School Football Program.

Next up was an overview of Interact, a service club within Rotary International for young people ages 12 to 18 that are sponsored by individual Rotary clubs.

The last item on the agenda was a fun game of Mayo Rotary Family Feud led by McMillan. The audience was split into two groups and the object of the game was to pick the top 10 things that the Rotary Club of Mayo has done this year.

The top 10 were the Veterans Dinner, Purple Pinkie (where $1,000 was raised toward Polio Plus), Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) for Logan Luse and Sara Kolvinsky, the Golf Tournament, the Teacher Luncheon, Interact Scholarship, Dictionaries for an elementary school in Costa Rica, the Family Basket (which turned out to be a truckload of items for a family whose house burned), Sponsoring Interact and Candidate Speaking in Town Park.

These are just a few of the things that the Rotary Club of Mayo has done (for you) this year.