Newsletter - Current  Apr 20, 2009

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Welcome to the Rotary Club of Pulaski on-line newsletter!

Judy Pruett, president of Pulaski Rotary Club, dons the pancho of the Argentine gaucho as she welcomes the Group Study Exchange team from District 4790 in Argentina. Members of the team are (from left): Analia Coronel, Martina Perduca, Erika Burguener, Mario Avalos, and Rotarian team leader Ana Lia Fernandez.  

GSE Team from Argentina visits Pulaski Rotary Club meeting

The five-member Group Study Exchange team from District 4790 in northern Argentina presented the April 20 program at Pulaski Rotary Club.

Led by Rotarian and team leader Ana Lia Fernandez, a college English teacher, the group includes four non-Rotarians: Erika Burguener, a physical therapist; Martina Perduca, a Ph.D. candidate in the discipline of food science/technology; Analia Coronel, an attorney; and Mario Avalos, a supermarket manager.

The team gave a presentation that included photos of their home provinces as well as the rest of Argentina, and they presented banners of each of the Rotary clubs in their hometowns that sponsored their selection. Pulaski club president Judy Pruett presented a banner of the Pulaski club to Rotarian Fernandez.

Group Study Exchange is one of Rotary International's most important programs, as districts across the globe partner to exchange teams of one Rotarian and four young professionals -- all non-Rotarians -- for month-long visits. The District 4790 team arrived in middle Tennessee last Thursday, April 16, and will visit numerous Rotary clubs before returning home on May 17.

Guests included: Chancey Parsons of First National Bank; and Barry McGahon, past president of the Martin Methodist College Rotaract Club, who will be earning his second degree at the college on May 2.

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Debbie Briggs, who coordinates the "Ag in the Classroom" program for Farm Bureau, shows last year's T-shirt.

Briggs discusses "Ag in the Classroom" program at April 13 meeting

Debbie Briggs, who coordinates the "Ag in the Classroom" program for Farm Bureau, was the guest speaker at the April 13 meeting of Pulaski Rotary. Her co-worker, Rotarian Mansel Smelser, was in charge of the program.

Each year, she explained, school children from across Giles County visit the Ag-Park to see a variety of farm-related exhibits. It will mark the first time many of these children have ever seen a dairy cow, a horse, or farm equipment.

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Rotarian David Perry tells his fellow Pulaski club members about the operation at his place of business, Tennessee Valley Recycling, and the many challenges facing issues of recycling in today's environment.

Perry talks about recycling and his workplace during April 6 meeting

Pulaski Rotary Club member David Perry gave his fellow club members an inside look at the environmental issue of recycling as he talked about the operation of his place of business, Tennessee Valley Recycling, at the April 6 club meeting.

Perry described TVR's Pulaski plant as a "factory without a roof" that employs 80 workers. He talked about the various operations and processes that TVR conducts to take metals and other recyclables and return them to the environment.

Guests included two members of the Giles County High School Interact Club, Cody Hamby and Mac Edmondson.