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Students Get Involved With Rotary Efforts

Flatbread to host fundraiser April 27.

A Rotary International Interact Club is a recent addition to Canton High School, but the 11 students involved are working to help promote an upcoming fundraiser for the .

Students are helping promote a fundraiser at Flatbread Company for the Rotary Club from 5 to 9 p.m. on April 27.

The restaurant will donate $3.50 for each large flatbread and $1.75 for each small sold during that period. 

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The money will help the rotary club help fund projects like Dollars for Scholars, the Farmington Valley Visiting Nurses Association, the Canton Food Bank and more.

Students Camila Rich, Hannah Cover and Andrew Millar Jr. visited the restaurant earlier this month to hang a fundraiser sign painted by members of the Interact. In addition to the three, students Morgan Matt and David Solomon helped create the banner.

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Students will also be on hand during the fundraiser to lend a hand.

It’s the first service project for the Interact Club, but in future years, the club should be able to perform three to four meaningful service projects each year, said Lela Subasic, who advises the club with the help of Steve Roberto, Sharon Kim and Superintendent of Schools Kevin Case. And those projects will be local and international, she said.

The Interact Club is designed to give the kids another way to develop leadership skills while helping others.  

“It promotes fellowship and goodwill in communities, as well as abroad,”  Subasic said.

About two months ago, members of the rotary met with some students at the high school, said Phil Worley, president of the local rotary club.

It was interesting to watch the students’ interest grow as they heard about the opportunities, he said.  

“They became more and more interested as the meeting went on,” Worley said.

And the opportunity seemed like a good one, said student junior Andrew Millar.

“We all decided it was worthwhile,” Millar said.  “Hopefully, it will be something that grows.”

“It seemed like a really good way to commit internationally,” said junior Camila Rich.

Fellow junior Hannah Cover said her sister Haley, who graduated last year, had the chance to go to France through a Rotary program. And she said she is especially looking forward to helping with an international cause.

 “I was really excited they were offering it for teens,” she said. “It’s really amazing we are able to do something like this in high school.”


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