The Walterboro Civitan Club held its February 26th meeting at Dukes Barbecue. The meeting was called to order by the ringing of the bell by Civitan President, Tom Whitacre.
This month’s meeting included the installation of Thomas Higgs into the Civitans. The group heard an update on the preparations for the upcoming Rice Festival and Lynn Stroble briefed the meeting on the upcoming Special Olympics. The guest speaker for the meeting was Paster Jerry Thompson from First Christian & Northside Christian Churches.
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.
