Student health, hygiene, and mental health to be discussed at Rotary on July 23, 2024
On Tuesday, July 23, 2024, Alicia Edwards and Joyce Barela will speak to Rotary on health and hygiene programs in local schools. Mental health will be a key topic.
Alicia Edwards is a Grant County Commissioner. She is the Coordinator for Healthy Kids Healthy Communities Grant County (HKHC). HKHC provides, implements and supports initiatives that create policy, systems and environmental changes that result in increased access to healthy eating and physical activity in schools.
Joyce Barela is the Mental Health Case Management Liaison for Silver City Schools.
A Silver City Rotary grant currently offers hygiene supplies to Silver School students, as directed by school nurses.
The Rotary Club meets every Tuesday from 12-1 p.m. for lunch in the WNMU Student Memorial Building, Second Floor, Sunset Room. There is a brief "meet and greet", a short business meeting and then the speaker has the floor. The club welcomes members of the public to the meetings. If lunch is desired, pay the cashier $11 and go through the cafeteria line. If unable to attend in person, a Zoom link for the meeting can be obtained by email to
Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Rotary is the world's oldest and largest service organization, with more than 1.2 million members in more than168 countries. Since its founding in 1923, the Silver City Rotary Club has provided support and service to numerous non-profit organizations and civic causes in Silver City and Grant County as well as supporting and participating in humanitarian projects sponsored by Rotary International.
