Monitor Editor
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— The Rotary Club installed Keystone Airport board member Chad Rischar as its newest member during the club’s Wednesday, Jan. 12 meeting at the Montgomery Center.
Rischar is a business development manager in the Gainesville office of DRMP, an Orlando-based engineering, surveying and construction firm.
He chairs the airport board’s natural resource and conservation committee.
During the same meeting the club’s foundation chair Rick Ergle talked about the history, purpose and function of the Rotary Foundation.
He told his colleagues that many of the blessings they take for granted: the ability to read, clean water and health are beyond the reach of much of the world’s population. He added that the Rotary Foundation has improved the quality of life for millions around the world.
In the 2019 to 2020 fiscal year, Rotarians worldwide contributed over $408 million to the foundation’s funds, with most of the money going toward Rotary’s worldwide fight against polio and other global grants.
The foundation also retuned $33 million to local districts. In the past, district grants have funded refrigerators at Lake Area Ministries and improvements to the Keystone Heights trailhead on the Palatka-to-Lake Butler State Trail.
