Williamsburg WV Ruritans
Calendar and Events
- December 9, 2024 - Monday 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Williamsburg Ruritans Meeting
Activities
Ruritan Club Gun Raffle
Three Winners! Winner’s Choice!
96430 R51 9MM Semi-Automatic Pistol
M642-2 38 SPL Revolver
Digital Night Vision Binocular
Unidentifiable Elves Helped The Williamsburg 4H Flying Falcons Bake Hundreds Of Cookies
and assemble hand-made greeting cards. The Williamsburg Ruritans provided apples, oranges, and stocking stuffers. Together, more than 100 take-home bags were packed for gifting at the Williamsburg Community Christmas Party. Thank you! 12/19/2018
The Williamsburg Ruritan Club donated 20 Rudy Bears to The Seasons Place for their 14th Annual Bear Bash, Teddy Tree
The Seasons Place will be collecting new teddy bears, stuffed animals, coloring books and crayons for the Children’s Shriner Hospital in Lexington KY through Dec 24, 2018. For more info please contact Rondell Stump-Pack at 304-645-4453, 177 Holt Lane, Lewisburg WV 24901. Pictured left to right: Rondell Stump-Pack, Business Office Manager; Debra Zahorenko, Ruritan member; Stephanie McCutcheon, Marketing Manager; not pictured Stan Zahorenko, PR Director Williamsburg Ruritan Club.
Community Building Parking Area Paved November 2018.
Initial funding for this $24,000 capital improvement was provided by a Seneca Trail Charitable Foundation Grant to the Williamsburg Community Action Group. The WCA applied additional funds received from a Modern Woodmen of America Grant and private donations to extend the paving area all the way to the road. The Williamsburg Ruritan Club donated the final $4,000 funding gap. This paved parking surface is a tremendous help for our many residents and visitors who use canes, walkers, and wheelchairs or otherwise have difficulty traversing gravel surfaces. Many thanks to our generous benefactors, with a special acknowledgement to Jack Goodman who envisioned and spearheaded this project!
Fellowship, Goodwill and Community Service
Installing Playground Equipment
“… inspiration is for amateurs … the rest of us just show up and get to work.”
– Painter Chuck Close
Ruritans are dedicated to improving their communities and building a better America through fellowship, goodwill, and community service. Local clubs operate autonomously to identify the needs of their communities and work toward meeting some of those needs. Projects might include maintenance and improvement of community buildings, parks, playgrounds, roadways, and graveyards; support for other local service organizations such as 4H and Boy Scouts, leadership and support for community events to promote fellowship, health, skills, education, and economic opportunities; and much more, as guided by the vision and enthusiasm of local members.
Membership is a cross-section of our local community. New members are voted in by existing members, a friendly process that is not restrictive with regard to occupation, social position, or any other specific criteria.
If you would like to learn more about community concerns and join with your neighbors to make good things happen, please come to one of our meetings to get acquainted! We ask that you speak to an active Ruritan you may already know, or contact us through the form below, before attending so that we may properly greet you amid the hubbub proceeding meetings. We meet on the second Monday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Williamsburg Community Building. A fellowship meal is served before starting the business meeting.
If you cannot commit to becoming a core member yet would like to show your support, please consider becoming an associate member! You will receive the quarterly newsletter and are always welcomed to participate as you are able.
“Ruritan” is a combination of the Latin words for open country “rural” and “town”. The first Ruritan Club was chartered May 21, 1928, in Holland, Virginia.
Objectives
1. To promote fellowship and goodwill among its members and the citizens in the community and to inspire each other to higher efforts.
2. To unify the efforts of individuals, organizations, and institutions in the community toward making it an ideal place in which to live.
3. To work with those agencies that serve the community and contribute directly to its progress.
4. To encourage and foster the ideal of service as the basis of all worthy enterprise.
5. To create greater understanding between rural and urban people about the problems of each as well as about their mutual problems by striving, where possible, to maintain both rural and urban representation in the club membership.
Executive Board 2017
Contact the Williamsburg WV Ruritans!
Read more about the Williamsburg WV Ruritans in the Lewisburg Mountain Messenger.
Neighboring Ruritan Clubs: Maxwelton WV Ruritans, Frankford WV Ruritans.
District and National: Lower WV Ruritan District 20, Ruritan National.