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Rotary Events Around the Country
 
 
The Coshocton Rotary Club has made a $1,000 donation to Mercy Air Inc. for an agricultural irrigation program in sub-Saharan Africa. Funding will support distribution of manually operated water pumps in remote villages in Mozambique to benefit local food cultivation. Mercy Air is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that uses aircraft to deliver items and perform various programs in southern Africa. Mercy Air is affiliated with Coshocton’s MMS Aviation, which does work on aircraft and trains mechanics for missionary work. 
 
 
High school seniors have just two months before graduation, and the Mundelein-Vernon Hills Rotary Club is now offering its annual $27,000 in scholarships to help pay for college or vocational training. This year's allotment of money includes one new and challenging category: helping kids in FACE-IT, a residential treatment program for probationers at the Depke Juvenile Justice Complex in Vernon Hills.If Depke administrators and Rotary volunteers are successful in getting multiple kids to apply for the FACE-IT scholarship and follow through with an education, then those donors would gladly invest, Davis said. "The world is full of sympathetic people who understand that mistakes happen and second chances are valuable," he said. "More people than you'd think are interested in preventing crime, too."
 
 
The Rotary Club of the Tarrytowns will hold its 8th annual Rubber Duck Derby on Saturday, April 25, from 11 a.m – 3 p.m. at Patriots Park in Tarrytown. This event is a collaboration with the Tarrytown YMCA Healthy Kids Day. The park is transformed into a festival of music, food, small carnival rides, demonstrations, crafts and vendors that can help you with your healthy living choices. The Andres Brook becomes the center of the event with seven rubber-duck races throughout the day. The rubber-ducks race in six heats with the help of Hope Hose Fire Dept.
 
 
In early February, Malibu Rotary Club President Margot Neal and 84 other Rotary Club members from chapters nationwide flew to Guatemala for a four-day humanitarian trip.work on the Joya Verde Sanitation project, which will deliver clean water to one of the poorest parts of Guatemala City.
 
 

If you've got a hankering for some flapjacks, the Ocean Springs Civic Center on Highway 90 is the place to be. The Ocean Springs Rotary Club's 47th annual pancake sale is happening from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. this evening. Tickets are $5 and include pancakes, cheese grits, sausage and a drink. Children ages three and under eat free. Rotarian cooks and servers will have meals ready to dine in or take out. All the proceeds from the sale go for scholarships for students from St. Martin and Ocean Springs high schools. Earlier this year, the Rotary Club handed out more than $12,000 in grants to several students.

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