The Walterboro Civitan Club held its January 9th meeting at Dukes Barbecue. The meeting was called to order by the ringing of the bell. After recitation of the Civitan Creed, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the Invocation, Civitan President, Paul M. Capers led the meeting.
The Civitans spoke about the upcoming Rice Festival and the “World’s Biggest Pot of Rice”. This is the yearly fundraiser for the club and highly anticipated by festival goers each year.
This month’s speaker was Christa Massey, from the Colleton County Chamber of Commerce. She spoke and took questions about the Chamber. Massey just began her role as Executive Director and is looking forward to expanding the offerings of the chamber by putting a fresh face on the organization and is in the planning phase to enhance its services. Currently the Chamber does a monthly Coffee with Colleagues and their Monthly Business after Hours.
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.