This week we greeted Ryan Cannella of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans baseball organization. Ryan joined the Pelicans as an Account Executive in 2015 before being promoted to Director of Sales in 2018 followed by a promotion to the AGM of Sales in 2020. He previously spent time with Goodyear Ballpark, Spring Training home of the […]
This week’s meeting featured Rotarian Lou Mello, zooming in from Mt. Pleasant and the Mt. Pleasant Rotary Club. Lou is the District Chair for the Rotary Youth Exchange program. The Rotary Youth Exchange program allows high school students to visit, live, and go to school in another country. This program is a non-profit operated by […]
The most active months for tropical systems in the Southeastern United States are August, September, and October. Being at the peak of storm season, we needed to bring in an expert. Wednesday we were honored to host Ed Piotrowski, WPDE ABC 15’s Chief Meteorologist aka “The Best Weathercaster in South Carolina,” according to the South […]
Our speaker Christy “Sweet Tea” Andrulonis, a radio personality and country music leader. Christy is originally from Greenville, SC but her husband is from northern Pennsylvania. Jeff made a brief cameo into our Zoom hybrid meeting, Wednesday. Jeff and Christy own 29 radio stations (some different formats than country music) including a number in the […]
Ansley Browns, Payload Facilities Integrator, International Space Station Programs Office, NASA- Johnson Space Center Our guest speaker was Ansley Browns, who was Zooming in from Houston, Texas where she is on the staff of NASA- National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Ansley started her interest in science at a young age including space camp in 7th grade. She joined NASA […]
To coincide with the newest Rotary Area of Focus, Supporting the Environment, our Wednesday speaker was Samantha Siegel, representing the nonprofit, Oceana. Samantha now lives in Charleston, SC. She originally grew up between Rockville, Maryland (a DC suburb), and a small island in the Bahamas. Therefore she was well acquainted with the ocean. She became an activist […]
Our meeting’s speaker was Blakely Roof, fellow Rotarian who is the President and CEO of the Horry County United Way. United Way is an organization all over the country with over 1000 branches. Horry County United Way is self-governed and all of the money raised stays in Horry County. The job gets done with five […]
On July 8th, the Rotary Club of Carolina Forest hosted the first official visit in the new Rotary year of District Governor Pauline Levesque. Pauline is a member of the Myrtle Beach Rotary Club and has been involved with Rotary for 33 years. The first half of her Rotary career was spent in Southington, Connecticut […]
Dr. Atiya Stokes-Brown, Vice President of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion For the initial week of the new Rotary year, we welcomed Dr. Atiya Stokes-Brown, Vice President of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion at Coastal Carolina University. Dr. Stokes-Brown spoke about the reality of racism in America. She noted that this civil protest is different as […]
2019-2020 District Governor Johnny Moore The club was joined in person by District Governor Johnny Moore. DG Johnny presented the District Public Image award for 2019-2020 in the form of a plaque, accepted by Carolina Forest Rotary Club (CFRC) member Brooke Vu and CFRC President TJ Egan. The club is also in the running […]