Officers Installed At Rotary Meeting, Service Recognized
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WATER VALLEY – The Water Valley Rotary Club held their annual officer installation and awards ceremony for 2024-2025 during their weekly meeting at the Hometown Pizza Cafe on June 25. Rotarian Cinnamon Foster assumed the role of club President on July 1, along with the following officers: Barry Caulfield, President-Elect; Michael Walton, Vice President; Phyllis Goodwin, Secretary/Treasurer; Daniel Peterson Sergeant at Arms.
The incoming Board of Directors are Tyler Hill, Immediate Past President; Cinnamon Foster, President; Barry Caulfield, President Elect; Michael Walton, Vice President; Phyllis Goodwin, Secretary/Treasurer; Sergeant at Arms, Daniel Peterson, Trent Howell and Tommy White, Executive Secretary.
Outgoing Rotary President Tyler Hill (right) was recognized for his dedicated service to the club. President Cinnamon Foster presented a plaque and gavel to Hill.
Outgoing President Tyler Hill was recognized for Outstanding Leadership and his dedicated service to the club with a plaque and gavel.
Outgoing officers Cinnamon Foster, President Elect; Tommy White, Vice President; Phyllis Goodwin, Secretary/Treasurer; and Raymond Hawkins, Sergeant at Arms were recognized and received personalized paperweights and a Rotary keychain.
The outgoing Board of Directors Justin Canterbury, Past President; Tyler Hill, Immediate Past President; Cinnamon Foster, President Elect; Tommy White, Vice President; Phyllis Goodwin, Secretary/Treasurer; Toni Hill, Youth and Education Chair; Raymond Hawkins, Sergeant at Arms and Trent Howell were recognized for their service and all other club members were gifted a goody box filled with Rotary branded goods that were prepared by Secretary/Treasurer Phyllis Goodwin.
Special recognition was given to Past President Raymond Hawkins for his service at the district level as an Assistant District Governor for District 6800.
As president, Foster will lead a club dedicated to creating change together through local and global service projects. The club is a member of Rotary International, which has given more than three billion children worldwide polio vaccinations and prevented 19 million children from paralysis. Over $5.5 billion has been awarded through The Rotary Foundation – Rotary’s global charitable arm that helps clubs work together to perform meaningful and impactful service.
Foster is a Family Nurse Practitioner at her medical clinic, Yalobusha Medical Clinic Cinnamed, LLC in Water Valley. She is the daughter of Mari and Eddie Foster and has been a Rotary member since 2015. Cinnamon has served Rotary in other roles including Past President, President Elect, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary and Committee Chair for Membership and Club Administration, Public Relations and Hospitality, and Service Projects and Fundraisers. She has also been the administrator of the club’s Facebook page since 2017.
Foster reports that she has spent a lot of time planning for the upcoming year and has set club goals to increase service projects, organize fundraising events, increase membership, plan for club socials and raise awareness of the club’s activities. She is excited about the club’s ongoing partnership with the Water Valley and Coffeeville School Districts where the club focuses on several annual service projects including the Dictionary Project (all fourth graders will receive a free dictionary), donations to purchase books for the Inchy Book Vending Machine at the Water Valley Elementary School, sponsoring the Interact Club at the Water Valley High School and the $500 Paul Parker Perfect Attendance Scholarship (awarded to a graduating Senior at WVHS).
Other service projects will include sponsoring a team with the Magnolia Youth League, donating and helping with the annual Enid Cleanup Day, donating to Gift of Life, “Reading with Rotary” (a program that partners with the local schools, MAP Headstart and the Blackmur Memorial Library), donating to the Rotary Foundation and sending Delegates to Rotary Youth Leadership Academy.
The club is currently selling raffle tickets for their annual Watermelon Carnival fundraiser. See any Rotarian to purchase tickets for a chance to win a Blackstone grill, a $250 Amazon gift card donated by Billy Childs and Seven Oaks Funeral Home; a painting donated by local artist Mari Foster, owner of the Blue Melon Rendezvous; a large Satterfield Pottery platter donated by Sam and Phyllis Goodwin, owners of Guardian Pest Control; and a gift certificate for $100 worth of gasoline from C. W. White, Inc. A very special thank you goes out to Mari Foster for volunteering to photograph the club during their officer installation.
