



The Rotary Club of Hamburg has distributed100 pairs of winter quality socks to the homeless in Buffalo annually since 2016. The project began in answer to a challenge from Rotary International to engage that year in activities designed for the 100th anniversary of the Rotary Foundation. The club membership felt that because of Western New York’s cold winters and increased population of homeless people that the distribution of warm socks would be meaningful while filling an urgent need.




The Rotary Club of Hamburg and Village of Hamburg Parks & Recreation held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the morning of on April 7 at the small public park at Main and Buffalo streets. The ceremony marked the official opening of the three bicycle repair

The Rotary Club of Hamburg Farms to Families Program has been in operation in Western New York for 13 years and during that time, over 500,000 pounds of produce have been collected and distributed to 23 area food distribution centers (four food kitchens with dining rooms and 19 pantries) in Hamburg and Western New York.
The Rotary Club of Hamburg presented college scholarships to three high school students in Hamburg Village Memorial Park with the clock donated by the club as both a picturesque backdrop and to allow appropriate social distancing due to the pandemic. Scholarships were presented to Riley McGloin, of Frontier High School; Sienna Becker, of Hamburg High School; and Benjamin Egloff, of St. Francis High School.
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Shown from left are: Photo 1 – Rotarians Maria Guizzotti, Jack Flint and Lisa Avery with scholarship winner Benjamin Egloff and his parents, John and Rebecca Egloff. Photo 2 – Rotarians Earl Knauss, Jack Flint and Lisa Avery, with scholarship winner Riley McGloin and her parents, Jerry and Janet McGloin. Photo 3 – Rotarians Jack Flint and John Nowak with scholarship winner Sienna Becker and her parents, Delia and Ken Becker. Rotary strives to make the world a better place with numerous local and global initiatives, such as the international campaign to eradicate polio and construction of wells worldwide for fresh drinking water. Besides funding college scholarships, the Hamburg club, founded in 1942, coordinates the Warm the Children Program and is one of the four Hamburg service organizations that present the BurgerFest each July (this year, the event scheduled for July 18 was canceled due to concerns surrounding Covid-19). Rotary has met at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays at local restaurants until recently, but is currently meeting outdoors and by Zoom while searching for a new home that allows social distancing together while enjoying a meal and conducting business.