Posted by Debra Boughton
Recently the Kirksville Rotary Clubs worked together on a Warm Up Kirksville project which was organized by the Andrew Taylor Still University (ATSU) Rotaract Club.  These busy medical students discovered that the Community Mission was in need of blankets.  Wyatt Eikermann and his fellow Rotaract members scheduled a Saturday in January that volunteers from the 3 Kirksville Rotary Clubs, the 2 Rotaract Clubs  (ATSU and Truman State University), and the Interact Club at the Kirksville High School  all made blankets.  Rotary Clubs donated funds to buy the materials. Nobody had to know how to sew.  The volunteers cut and tied fleece blankets all day.
Wyatt said, “I delivered all of the blankets we had made on Saturday to the Community Mission, both of the managers had tears in their eyes from the generosity of Rotary. They said they were down to their last few blankets and didn’t know what to do, especially with the temperatures being as cold as they were.”
It was wonderful to see Rotarians including high school and college students and Rotary members of all ages working together.  There is an old saying that cutting fire wood warms you up twice.  Once when you cut the wood and once when you burn it.  The charitable event warmed up Kirksville twice. The making of the blankets warmed the hearts of the Rotarians and the blankets warmed up the people in need.
 
 
Pictured left to right are Debi Boughton, President Kirksville Rotary Club; Wyatt Eikermann; Alex Downey and Nathan Boys