Interact

(Townsend December 1) On Thursday November 29th, the Rotary Club of Helena Sunrise and the Rotary Club of Townsend sponsored their annual Trivia/Chili Feed fundraising event for a Townsend cause. This year the $1,342 raised will be used to help pay for the Rotary-sponsored youth Interact Club service trip to Guatemala. The kids will be spending some time in June helping a group called Maya Pedal modify bicycles into machines that can be used by local villagers without power to grind flour, pump water, etc.

(Townsend November 19) On November 13, Rotary Club of Townsend President Jeff Langlinais inducted the new Rotary Sponsored Youth Interact Club of Townsend officers for 2018-2019. This begins the second official year of the Interact Club which has been very busy since its inception in Winter 2018. The Interact Club is a community-based youth Rotary club for students ages 12-18. Rotarian, Jennifer Lane is the new Club Advisor replacing Beth Ihle who took a new job in Silver City, NM.

On August 29^th the Townsend Rotary sponsored Interact Club hosted a Freshman Orientation/Team Building event at Heritage Fun Park. The purpose of the event was to help the incoming Freshman Class adapt to being in the high school environment and build a team attitude for the entire class.

The event was sponsored by the Interact Club, the Broadwater Schools, the Rotary Club and the Broadwater Community Foundation.

On February 13, the Rotary Club of Townsend and the Montana Rotary District 5390 District Governor Joe McBride and his wife Libby recognized a special group of Broadwater High School students: Ronnie Steele, Parker Hufnagel, Daniel Wyse, Olivia Lynn, TommiJo Steele, and Taylor Noyes. These students most of whom attended the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy (RYLA) last year, came back to school in late August 2017 fired up and ready to do something special.

​On February 13, 2018 the Rotary District Governor (District 5390 - Montana) Joe McBride and his wife Libby McBride visited Townsend and the Townsend Rotary Club.  Pat Platenberg and Ross Johnson took Joe and Libby on a tour of Townsend and the many projects the Townsend Rotarians have completed or participated in getting done.