At our meeting on October 4, we recognized our first set of Students of the Month and we were reminded in emotional detail of our club’s most significant project - the creation of Megan’s Place.
Our honored students for October are Ellise Gonzalez, Hamilton West; Max Kostin, Steinert; and Solmari Colon, Nottingham. They told us about their activities in school and their plans for the future.
We then heard from Rotarian Greg Blair about the history of Megan’s Place - a park created by our club following the 1994 murder of 7-year-old Megan Kanka of Hamilton.
Greg, who was Club President at the time, shared the account of how our club - then only two years old - undertook an ambitious, community-backed campaign to buy the house where Megan was murdered (across the street from the family’s home on Barbara Lee Drive), tear it down and build the park in Megan’s memory. |
