Welcome to the Blairstown Rotary Club

Blairstown Rotary is an active group of community-minded people who believe in making Northern Warren County a better place to live and raise a family. Founded in 1947, we are entering 72 years of Service Above Self. If you are looking to make a difference in our community, come join us. We've made it easier to fit Rotary service into today's busy schedule.

Halloween Parade Photos

It was a beautiful fall day, and the 2019 Halloween Parade and Costume Contest was an enjoyable event for the community and all participants. Check out all the great photos from Bob Halberstadt at Blairstown News.

Thanks to the Blairstown Police Department, Hose Company #1, CERT & the Ambulance Squad for making the parade, contest and trick-or-treating a fun and safe event.

Fall Blood Drive a Success

Donate Blood - People can't live without it!

Our 2019 Fall Community Blood Drive was a success. More than 50 of our friends and neighbors showed up to donate blood and help patients in need.

Thanks to all who donated, and to the Blairstown Ambulance Squad for allowing us to use their facility as the collection point.

Watch for our spring drive, which will take place in April 2020.

Exchange Students Coming & Going

Welcome to America Araceli!

Vitaj Na Slovenski Carissa!

Blairstown Rotary is proud to have two exceptional young women participating in the Rotary Youth Exchange Program for the upcoming school year. Carissa Plut, a Blairstown resident & North Warren Regional student, has arrived in the Czech Republic. Araceli Tapia, from Catamarca, Argentina has arrived in Blairstown, where she will be living with the Plut family and attending NWRHS.

Araceli & Carissa got to spend a few days together

prior to Carissa's departure to the Czech Republic

While in their respective host countries, Araceli and Carissa will have the opportunity to experience day-to-day living with their host family, attend school and meet local students, learn the language, meet other exchange students from around the world and explore the local area and country.

Blairstown Rotary is an active participant in the Rotary Youth Exchange Program. Each year, Youth Exchange provides about 8,000 high school students the opportunity to experience first hand the culture of people in other countries. The program provides students with the opportunity to grow as individuals and expand their knowledge of the world we all live in.

We hope you get the chance to meet Araceli and make her feel at home in Blairstown.

Emergency Booms Presented to Hose Company

On Saturday, May 25, Blairstown Rotary presented the Blairstown Hose Company with 200’ of floating containment booms for controlling chemical spills in our local waterways. The booms are used to reduce the spread of polluting materials and to help make clean-up easier.

The booms will also be used for a more fun purpose – controlling the floating ducks in the Paulinskill during the annual July 4 Rotary Duck Race!

Let’s hope that’s the only reason the Hose Company ever needs to use the booms.

EarlyAct Little Free Library Project

The EarlyAct Club at Knowlton Township Elementary School recently teamed up with the non-profit organization "Little Free Library" to bring free books to community members of all ages in Knowlton.

EarlyAct is a school-wide service club for elementary students from ages 5 to 13. Knowlton EarlyAct is sponsored by Blairstown Rotary. The club advisor is Jenna Maxman, daughter of long-time Rotarian John Maxman. EarlyAct engages students in character-building activities and prepares them for leadership roles to identify and carry out projects which benefit their school, local and global communities.

The EarlyAct students raised over $1,400 and installed three Little Free Libraries around the community. Each will be chock full of books, ready to keep students, as well as anyone else that happens to pass through the town, satisfied with a daily dose of literature.

Congratulations to Jenna and the EarlyAct students. It's a great project for the students, who are Rotarians in training!

If you want to learn more about EarlyAct or Little Free Library, check out the following links:

https://littlefreelibrary.org/3-ways-to-use-summer-to-get-kids-reading/

http://www.earlyact.com/