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Did you know??...
Little known facts and tidbits about our Club.
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Did you know... that we are coming up on our 35th anniversary? Yes, Jan 29th, will be 35 years since Plano West Rotary was chartered.
- Did you know?...
- Plano West Rotary Club chartered on Jan 29th, 1980?
- Tom Posey, still an active member of our club, started PWRC?
- PWRC was the second club in Plano?
- That our first meetings were held in a cafeteria that is now where Scotty P's is, at Parker and Custer.
- After that we met at a place called the Plano Steakhouse at Parker / Independence
- Then we were in a meeting room in Collin Creek Mall
- Then we went to the Harvey Hotel
- Finally, we moved to Greek Isles
- that past DG Bud McBrayer designed our club flag?
- Congressman Sam Johnson was a member, and is still an honorary member of our club.
- PWRC donated $25k for the new Plano Children's Medical Clinic? (the first club to donate)
- that we were one of the first clubs to get wheelchairs into Sudan?
- That our club bought a passenger van for what is now called the Wellness Center for Older Adults.
- That we actually had a meeting on 9/11. It was on a Tuesday, and we had a meeting?
- That one time we sponsored a bungy jumping event?
- That we have also sponsored a Chili cookoff?
- That we once held a "ROCK ON" concert at Clark Field, featuring several "one hit wonders" of Rock?
- That we've given hundreds of thousands of dollars back to our community?
- And we're just getting started.....
- Here's to the next 35 years!