Members of the Block Community Ruritan Club celebrated 50 years of community service recently at Trinity Lutheran Church, where they originally held meetings. Ruritan is a civic service organization whose purpose is to create a better understanding between rural and urban people through volunteer community service. Their goal was to make their areas, Block, Paola and Osawatomie, a better place to live through fellowship, goodwill and community service. Chartered on April 15, 1974, the club has sponsored baseball teams, helped with fishing derbies, placed flags on cemeteries, specifically veterans’ graves, and sponsored many groups at Christmas and Easter egg hunts. Their main objective is the handing out of scholarships to seniors.
The club also celebrated 40 years of community service by Pottawatomie Ruritan, located at Lane. Pottawatomie was chartered on April 30, 1984, with the help of Block Ruritan. One of their main objectives is to fund student helpers for the Honor Flight Program. National Director of Ruritan, James Zehr, presented both clubs with certificates for their years of volunteer service.
