Morrison Ruritan captures top awards
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Morrison Ruritan is in the Cherokee District, which has 15 clubs and over 500 members.
Morrison Ruritan captured the prestigious Blue Ribbon Club Award and the Outstanding President Award, both of which have rigid qualifications. In a typical year, less than 8 percent of all Ruritan clubs earn these awards.
Morrison was the only club in the Cherokee District to win both awards. Additionally, Morrison won five community service awards ? the only club in the district to accomplish this.
Morrison Ruritan won gold certificates in social development and citizenship; silver in public service; and bronze in environment and business.
Morrison?s projects in the social development category, among others, were a donation to the Shriners Children Hospital, Christmas food boxes to needy families, raising $16,000 for a husband and wife seriously injured in a traffic accident, the Citizen of the Year banquet, operating two ball fields for over 400 youths, donating $978 to the American Cancer Society, and giving scholarships and bonds to local students.
Projects in the citizenship category were sponsoring the Little Miss Valentine Pageant, sponsoring a health fair, sponsoring a Fourth of July celebration, and entering a float and winning first place in the Viola Valley Homecoming Parade.
Morrison Ruritan?s most recent project was sponsoring a seventh- and eighth-grade basketball tournament that made a profit over $3,700, of which half went to Morrison School.
Morrison Ruritan owns a 2,700-square-foot building in downtown Morrison which is used on a regular basis by the community. The club presently has 35 members.
Club president Lavell Whitehead and three other members attended the district convention.
Morrison Ruritan is a member of Ruritan National which has 1,145 clubs and 31,000 members. Most of the clubs are east of the Mississippi River.