On June 5, 2017 approximately 260 Jackson High School seniors receive about 300 scholarships from various organization and private parties at the Annual Scholarship Night, held this year at Liberty High School’s auditorium. The Jackson Rotary Club was a big part of this process, presenting 5 scholarships to deserving seniors.
These scholarship awards in included two Jackson Rotary Scholarships, a Jackson Rotary Club in Memory of Al Lambariello, a Jackson Rotary Bill Somers Memorial Scholarship, and the first Jackson Rotary Club Scholarship in Memory of Michael Gormley. All of the memorial scholarships are in tribute to beloved members who have passed away; this includes Mike Gormley, our immediate Past-President who was killed in a motor vehicle accident, while on his way to our meeting, about one year ago. Mike was beloved not only by the Jackson Club, but also by his previous Red Bank Rotary Club, as well as District 7500 overall. The Jackson Rotary has continued to honor Mike by having renamed our annual golf tournament the Mike Gormley Annual Jackson Rotary Charity Golf Tournament, taking place this year on Monday, August 14 at the Westlake Golf & Country Club, Jackson, NJ.
Jackson Rotary Club member and Allstate exclusive agency owner Virginia Khoudary, whose agency is located at 21 South Hope Chapel Road, Unit 129, Jackson, has been designated an Allstate Premier Agency for 2017. This designation is given to only 26% of Allstate’s approximately 10,00 agency owners in the US, and only 14% of NJ agencies, as reported in the May 31st. issue of the Tri-Town News.
The Allstate Premier Agency designation is awarded to owners who have demonstrated excellence in delivering an accessible, knowledgeable and personal customer experience while achieving outstanding business results.
The Jackson Rotary wishes to congratulate Virginia!
Monday, April 3, 2017 the Jackson School District held the Annual School District Spelling Bee. Starting with 28 youngsters, all of whom had already competed and won a spot at their home school, the Spelling Bee was a long=lasting exercise which went on for 32 rounds. Eventually, the event was won by a 5th Grader from Switlick Elementary School, Jordyn Wolosky.
The runner up is a 4th Grader from Elms Elementary School, Arya Patel.
Jackson Rotary Board members on hand to present the winner's trophy, as well as the Barnes a Noble gift cards to all of the participants, were Treasurer Helen Cerulli, Secretary Jo' Corbiscello and President George Corbiscello
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The Spelling Bee Coordinator, Aju Mathews, Switlick Elementary School, along with Spelling Bee Pronouncer Stephanie Rosato, Crawford-Rodriguez Elementary School, and the judges for the Spelling Bee..
2017 Spelling Bee Champion Jordyn Wolosky is pictured standing at the left in the front row, next to Riley Solovay, who was the Switlick Elementary School winner, along with another contestant. In the back row, from the left is Aju Mathews, District Spelling Bee Coordinator, David Kasyan, Assistant Principal at Crawford-Rodriguez Elementary Scool and Spelling Bee Master of Ceremonies, Jackson Rotary President George Corbiscello and Treasurer Helen Cerulli. 
The Jackson Rotary once again helps support the Jackson Food Pantry by sponsoring a
Pancake Breakfast, including scrambled eggs, sausage, pancakes, juices, coffee & tea.
All of this and the only cost is bring something to donate to the Jackson Food Pantry.
Rotary member Luke Stango recently represented the Jackson Rotary and handed out awards to the winners of the Jackson Middle School Spelling Bees. This year's District Spelling Bee will be held on April3, at Liberty High School and will begin at 6 PM.
The winner at Goetz School was Brian Cooper, who had previously won the District Spelling Bee for the elementary schools
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The winner at McAuliffe School was Thomas Guida.
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For the last several years, the Jackson Rotary has supported the effort of the Eatontown, NJ based organization American Recreational Military Services (A.R.M.S.) to collect toys and other essentials for the children of active duty service personnel. We receive, from A.R.M.S., paper stars with the name and age, as well as the wished for toy or other essential gifts, for the child. These stars are then posted at the various locations where collection barrels have been set up, and those who wish to participate buy the gift the child has asked for; when the gifts are collected they are provided to the A.R.M.S. group for distribution to the children. Below are examples of Little Soldier fliers, as well as photos of some of the Holiday gifts supplied.
Rotary member Luke Stango presents the collected toys to A.R.M.S.
The Jackson Rotary has once again made a sizable donation of $1500 to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Jackson. The focus of the Catholic based charity is to help those in need, which the Society has been doing since November 20, 1845, when the first organizing meeting of the Society in the United States took place.
Rotary members Tom Barchie and Luke Stango present check to St. Vincent De Paul Society
Society President-General Adolpe Baudon, in his Circular Letter of January 1, 1877, wrote:
"It is laid down in our Rule, and it has been always understood among us, that in uniting to serve our masters the poor, as St. Vincent de Paul expresses it, our object is not only to relieve material misery, a very laudable purpose in itself, but to aspire, especially, through the practice of that most sublime of virtues "charity" to render ourselves better and more fervent Christians, and to make our poor enter on the same path, if we have the happiness of succeeding."
Although the Society has a primarily Catholic membership and is based on Catholic spiritual principles, they provide assistance to whoever seeks it, without judgement or prejudice. It is for this general principle that the Jackson Rotary feels honored to be able to help the Society in their assisting our less fortunate neighbors.
This past weekend, the Jackson Senior Center presented their Annual Toyland event, which sees the Senior Center changed into Santa's Workshop, and the Magical Old Elf is on hand to find out what the youngsters want for Christmas. As in the pat, the member of the Jackson Rotary were on hand, ringing the Salvation Army bell, asking for donations for that good cause
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The Jackson Rotary Club is sponsoring the Brenda Lee Christmas Show at Caesar’s Casino in Atlantic City on Thursday December 1, 2016.
.Cost of the trip is $95 which includes Christmas Show Ticket, Lunch Buffet, $25 in Slot Play, Bus Transportation, Beverages on the Bus, & Gratuity for Bus Driver.
The bus will leave promptly from Brookwood Plaza (corner of County Line and New Prospect Rds) at 10:30 a.m. and returns to Jackson at 7:30 p.m.
All the proceeds from this trip go to our charities which includes Military Families and Children of our Military, Special Needs Family Picnic, Jackson Food Pantry, St. Vincent DePaul Society, Scholarships for High School Students, Dictionaries for 3rd Grade Students, Alpha School (Special Needs), and many more.
Get your reservations in early as space is limited.
Please contact Tom Barchie at 732-207-4029 or 732-849-6309 to make reservations.
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