Courtney Washington, a resident of Roselle and President Elect of the club heads a scholarship committee including James Campora of Roselle Park and Julie Pinho, co-owner of Pinho’s Bakery in Roselle. In light of covid-19, Ms. Washington developed an electronic scholarship application and submission process to keep the annual scholarship program going this year.
In the upcoming months, we will be awarding three $1,000 college scholarships, just as we have done for the past 40 years or more. Last year we actually awarded $4,000 in scholarships since we had the money and there definitely was a need due to Covid-19. This year, we expect the need to be even greater. Therefore, the sole purpose of this raffle for our club is to help fund our scholarship program. For every ticket sold by a club member, $9.75 accrues to Rotary Roselle-Roselle Park Scholarship Foundation. The rest goes to prizes ($10) and a small administrative fee of 25 cents
As you know, we provide many other community services including our Students of the Month Program, financial support for Boy Scouts in Roselle Park and Girl Scout Camp Letico in Roselle, funding tuition for students to attend Rotary Youth Leadership Institute at Drew University and conducting our annual Winter Sock Collect Drive for the homeless. In this year of Covid-19 we provided over 14,000 meals to various community organizations in Roselle and Elizabeth through a matching grant from Rotary International. And, we will do much more.