The Walterboro Civitan Club held its March 12th meeting at Dukes Barbecue. The meeting was called to order by the ringing of the bell by Civitan Vice-President, Lynn Stroble.
This month’s meeting included a discussion and introduction of the new Worlds Largest Pot of Rice Banner. The group sets up the rice booth at Rice Festival. The sale of rice supports scholarships sponsored by the organization. Lynn Stroble gave an update of the upcoming Special Olympics that returns of Colleton County for the first time since the pandemic. The games will be held on April 3, from 9am to 1pm on the Colleton County High School Track and Band Field. The Civitans donated $500 dollars to the event. There was an update from Donald Davis on the Area-2 Meeting attended by himself and Tom Whitacre, Club President. The meeting held an extensive discussion of the Research Center in Birmingham Alabama. Latoya Lynah was the guest speaker for the meeting. Lynah, the Early Intervention Supervisor at Colleton Cars, has been with the department for 26 years and addressed the group and answered question about the Early Intervention Program and it work with Autism. Colleton C.A.R.E.S offers a variety of services such as Early Beginnings Early Intervention services. This service provides free family training from birth to 36 months of age in cognitive skills, adaptive skill, emotional skills, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, social skills, and communications skills. Colleton C.A.R.E.S. is located at 728 Hiers Corner Road; Walterboro, SC; 29488 and can be reached at 843-549-2359.
With more than 30,000 members worldwide, Civitan International is a global organization dedicated to serving the local communities of its members. Using the structure of building local clubs, Civitan equips its members to address local needs with local solutions.
Civitan is the only service organization dedicated to serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). This long-standing focus began as a local project in Baltimore in the 1940s when Civitan began funding specialized teachers in schools. In 1956, Civitan membership unanimously adopted service to I/DD as the major project focus of the international organization. Today, Civitan supports the Civitan International Research Center in Birmingham, Alabama where more than 100 researchers work on diseases that impact the lives of 1 in 6 people worldwide.
