Rotary Still Rolls (2)

Following up Wednesday’s post on coronavirus-related news, the Malta Sunrise Rotary Club on Thursday (yesterday) delivered $300 in grocery cards to the Malta Community Center food pantry, and another $300 worth to Chango Elementary School to supply needy students, using grant funds from the Town of Malta/GlobalFoundries Foundation and a matching dedicated donation through our club. (We had previously directed $200 of grant money through Chango for transportation to medical services.)

In other business, our scholarship committee is deciding this year’s winners, whose names will be announced later this spring according to school district schedules.

Rotary Still Rolls

Schools are closed this week, and will probably stay closed for some time due to the coronavirus epidemic. For the same reason, we are no longer holding weekly meetings at the Malta Diner. But that doesn't mean we're out of the action. For the past several years, a volunteer from our Rotary club has delivered food to qualified students in the Bountiful Backpacks program. Normally, he picks it up from the main Shenendehowa School District campus in Clifton Park, NY, and delivers it to the Chango Elementary School in Malta. This week, the program has rebooted, and volunteers are being asked to make home deliveries. So that's what our guy did today, bringing supplies to 11 students at six residences, where everyone was gracious.

Blue Shield; Coronavirus

Stephanie Krieger, who is Medicare sales center manager, consumer markets, at the new Blue Shield of Northeastern New York office in the Shops of Malta plaza, was our speaker yesterday.
She said her office fits health insurance to the individual's needs, including their popular Medicare Advantage plans.

In other business, it was decided to indefinitely postpone the scheduled March 29 pancake breakfast, due to public health concerns about coronavirus.

In other, other business, the board voted last week to donate $50 to the Ballston Spa School District after-prom party, and $50 to The Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Council of Saratoga County.