Club Pages - Mexia

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Welcome to the Rotary Club of Mexia!

Club Meetings:

Thursdays at Noon at the Rotary Hall

315 E. Commerce   Mexia, TX   76667

For more information, please call President Bill Wragge (254)562-3803

or email WHWragge@MultiPlexHealthcare.com

 2009-2010 Club Officers

President	Bill Wragge          WHWragge@MultiPlexHealthcare.com
President Elect	John Stubbs         blairstubbs@sbcglobal.net
Vice President
Secretary/Treasurer	Robby Turner       turner_inn@yahoo.com
Sergeant at Arms	Virginia Bounds

Committee Chairs

Club Membership	Sheila Higgins       pinoak@dishmail.net
Service Projects	Teresa Price         tprice@flagshiphawaii.com
Rotary Foundation	Tommy Tucker      ttucker@mexiaedc.com
Public Relations	Jennifer Lynch       jennifer.lynch@lpnt.net
Club Administration	Linda Archibald      linda@mexiachamber.com

Recent Community Projects

The Rotary Club of Mexia strives to be a good community partner. We work on various projects throughout the year to benefit the residents of our part of Central Texas.

The Mexia Rotary Club sponsors an Interact Club in Wortham. As a Christmas project, the Interact members made blankets for nursing home residents in the area.	Some of the Interact Club members.

Recently, the club sponsored a community Bone Marrow Donor Registry Drive. A very close friend of the Mexia club, a young man who was a RYLA camper sponsored by the club several years ago, was battling leukemia. He was in need of a bone marrow transplant. In an effort to increase his chances of finding a match, and the chances of matching someone somewhere with the same need, the club took on this project. Sadly, the young man lost his battle with the disease late in 2009, but the need for marrow donors remains the same and hopefully the club's event raised area awareness. Recently, the club sponsored a community Bone Marrow Donor Registry Drive. A very close friend of the Mexia club, a young man who was a RYLA camper sponsored by the club several years ago, was battling leukemia. He was in need of a bone marrow transplant. In an effort to increase his chances of finding a match, and the chances of matching someone somewhere with the same need, the club took on this project. Sadly, the young man lost his battle with the disease late in 2009, but the need for marrow donors remains the same and hopefully the club's event raised area awareness. In addition to the bone marrow drive, Rotarians collected funds for the family of the young man at a local football game. Shown from left to right: Billy Archibald, Peter Buffa, Larry Reynolds, Jimmy Stuart and Bill Wragge.

Mexia Rotarians invited Lila Ramirez from the Scott & White Bone Marrow Donor Program to speak to the community about the bone marrow registry. It is the hope that informing the public will increase the number of people who register for the program on October 10. Shown with Lila are Bill Wragge and Sheila Higgins.

Another recent project was a drive for school supplies to provide needy families in the area with items needed to head back to school. Shown below are two families that were beneficiaries of the program. The children, ranging from Pre-K to High School, were all provided with backpacks stuffed with back-to-school necessities.

PP Rick Price stocks the pencil cases with supplies.

Mexia Rotarians Lynn Simpson (PP), John Stubbs, Jr., Jason Ceyannes, Teresa Price and Robby Turner move down the "assembly line" stuffing school supplies into backpacks.

Members of the Rotary Club of Mexia with a portion of the backpacks for the School Supplies project.