PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 The Port St. Lucie Sunset Rotary Club installed its 2026-27 executive board during its annual installation ceremony while celebrating a year of community service that included literacy initiatives, scholarships, food drives and fundraising efforts.<\/p>\n
Matthew Billitti was installed as president. Other officers include Jennifer Penning, president-elect and program chair; Patricia Christensen, treasurer; Linda Thayer, secretary, membership chair and Rotary International Foundation chair; Audrey Sinan, sergeant at arms; and Jeannette Weiss, club image chair and vice president. Immediate Past District Governor Julia Babbitt conducted the installations.<\/p>\n
The club also welcomed three new members: Colleen Korpon, Sarah DiMatteo and Kim Penning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m honored to serve as president of the Port St. Lucie Sunset Rotary Club. My goal is simple: bring great people together, serve with purpose, and create lasting change in the community we proudly call home,\u201d Billitti said.<\/p>\n
Immediate Past President Terry Smith recognized the club\u2019s accomplishments during the past year. Members raised $6,000 in grants and sponsorships for Constitution Books and delivered 2,000 copies to seventh-grade civics students at eight schools. They also collected 1,000 jars of peanut butter and 450 boxes of macaroni and cheese for Grace Packs, which serves food-insecure children.<\/p>\n
The club hosted eight monthly social events and raised $9,000 through five fundraisers, including two dine-to-donate events, two tastings and a raffle.<\/p>\n
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Members also awarded two scholarships to students attending Indian River State College, sent one student to Rotary Youth Leadership Academy, adopted Rotary Park for monthly cleanups, organized a blanket drive for people experiencing homelessness and conducted a holiday toy drive for local children.<\/p>\n
Additional club members include Sam Bourgeois, Marguerite L. Jean Louis, Past President Paul Smith, Adrianne Waters, Director Dale Weiss and longtime visiting Rotarian Leo Ladefian.<\/p>\n
The Port St. Lucie Sunset Rotary Club is part of Rotary International and supports local, national and international service projects, including educational initiatives, clean water efforts and polio eradication programs.<\/p>\n
The club meets from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on the third and fourth Tuesdays of each month at The Lakeview Bar & Grille, 951 SW Country Club Drive, Port St. Lucie. Members also gather socially from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at various locations throughout the city.<\/p>\n
For information, visit pslsunsetrotary.com<\/a> or email jweiss@jweisspr.com<\/a> or Linda@venulex.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 The Port St. Lucie Sunset Rotary Club installed its 2026-27 executive board during its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-343516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}