The North Charleston Rotary Club recently installed the board and officers for 2024-2025. Ryan Padgett is the new Club President, and is joined by others to grow the membership. Click here for the full leadership roster.
Get Ducky. It’s time for the 2024 Rotary Duck Race. Our participation in the Duck Race allows us to raise funds to give back to organizations with ties to our club. In the past few years, we have helped many organizations including Trident Literacy, Charleston
This our annual joint event with the Rotary Club of North Charleston Breakfast. Last year the event was a sell-out and we expect this year to be even bigger and better. The event is at Wannamaker Park at the Cottonwood Shelter. Net proceeds support high
Lunch meetings are every Monday at the Hilton Garden Inn Express, 5265 International Blvd, North Charleston. Doors open at 12pm noon. The meetings begin at 12:30pm and end by 1:30pm.
Be a part of an international organization dedicated to bringing peace and understanding throughout the world.
We have a mission to eradicate the once incurable disease, polio. We’re almost there.
Through our global network of Rotarians, we work to provide life sustaining clean water.
Pre-natal and post-natal health care is critical. Rotarians support programs that provide safe environments.
We value a well-educated community and our club provides college scholarships to deserving students.
As mentors, we share our expertise through involvement in literacy and other community service projects.
We are having hybrid meetings to provide options for our members and guests. During our lunch meetings, we acknowledge recommended distancing and other protective measures.
Please join us for in-person meetings at the Hilton Garden Inn – Airport or Zoom with us.
Contact us for details.
Solicitor Scarlett A. Wilson was confirmed by the South Carolina State Senate on August 3, 2007, to become the first woman to hold the office of Solicitor for the Ninth Judicial Circuit. The citizens of Berkeley and Charleston Counties elected Solicitor Wilson to hold the position in 2008, and re-elected her in 2012 and 2016. Governors Sanford, Haley and McMaster each have appointed Solicitor Wilson to serve as a Commissioner on the South Carolina Commission for Prosecution Coordination. In addition, Governors Haley and McMaster appointed Solicitor Wilson to serve as a member of the State Child Fatality Advisory Committee. Solicitor Wilson is known as a tough but compassionate prosecutor, having won the Law Enforcement Victim’s Advocate Solicitor of the Year Award and the South Carolina Victim Assistance Network’s Criminal Justice Award for Outstanding Service to Victims. Solicitor Wilson has played an integral role in the implementation of Charleston County’s Safety & Justice Challenge grant awarded by the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation. The goal of the grant was to keep dangerous people behind bars and to provide law enforcement and the court more options when dealing with lower-risk, non-violent offenders. Work begun by the grant is on going and shepherded by Solicitor Wilson and other members of the Charleston County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.
Solicitor Wilson has been a career prosecutor. After graduating from Clemson University in 1989 and the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1992, she was a law clerk for the Honorable Don S. Rushing. Solicitor Wilson began her career in prosecution working as a Fifth Circuit Assistant Solicitor. She next joined the United States Attorney’s Office and its Violent Crimes Task Force as an Assistant United States Attorney where she was a joint winner of the Department of Justice Director’s Award for Superior Performance, the highest award given by the Department of Justice to an AUSA. In January 2001, Scarlett left the United States Attorney’s Office to serve as Chief Deputy Solicitor for then Solicitor Ralph E. Hoisington. She served as Chief Deputy until her appointment to Solicitor after Solicitor Hoisington’s death.
Solicitor Wilson is a native of Hemingway, South Carolina.
Mark H. McCain is a member of Sea Island Rotary Club in Beaufort, a Paul Harris Rotarian Major Contributor, and services as a District 7770 ShelterBox Ambassador.
As civil engineer possessing a Professional Engineers license Mark worked in the field of critical infrastructure civil engineering.
After 40 years of service, Mark retired in 2016 as a senior advisor & subject matter expert to the Department of Homeland Security within the Critical Infrastructure Security & Protective Directorate. His responsibilities included deployments which took him to many of the world’s locations in which ShelterBox has been involved in the response to manmade and natural disasters.
Having a passion for Rotary service, our guest today believes that through the Rotary Club of North Charleston’s involvement in helping serve others during the worst of times we offer the opportunity as
reflected the words of the Bible to provide, “HOPE”.
The mission of ShelterBox it so build awareness of global displacement and to facilitate providing families with life-saving shelter and essential tools and supplies that will enable them to rebuild their homes and transform their lives after disaster.
We’ve has been working to eradicate polio and our goal of ridding the earth of this disease is within sight. We started in 1979 with vaccinations for 6 million children in the Philippines. Today, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan are the only countries where polio remains endemic.
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We are rescheduling this week’s Rotary Meeting. Check back for new dates for our Guest Speaker.