Online Paddle Parade Registration Below!

  • Home
  • Calendar
  • Events
  • Our Members
  • General Info
  • President’s Project
  • Yough River Project
  • More
    • Home
    • Calendar
    • Events
    • Our Members
    • General Info
    • President’s Project
    • Yough River Project
  • Home
  • Calendar
  • Events
  • Our Members
  • General Info
  • President’s Project
  • Yough River Project

2022 BVARotary Regatta a success!

Visit the railcar at West Newton Station

A short video tour of a club project.

Belle Vernon Area Rotary Club continues to help communities it serves during these difficult times.

CLUB HOLDS successful Yough River tire removal Oct. 28 with help from Yough Canoe Outfitters, BVA High School Outdoors Club, YRT Maintenance crew volunteers, and Boy Scouts. More than 200 tires were removed from the river.

Blood drive success!

The Club has  donated more than $3,700 to three local food banks in need of help during the COVID-19 pandemic. Receiving equal donations were the Belle Vernon Area Food Bank, the Perryopolis Food Bank, and the Washington Township-Fayette City Food Bank.

Find out more

Area food banks helped

The Club has  donated more than $3,700 to three local food banks in need of help during the COVID-19 pandemic. Receiving equal donations were the Belle Vernon Area Food Bank, the Perryopolis Food Bank, and the Washington Township-Fayette City Food Bank.

In the photo above

In the photo above, from left, are Sam Cover, president of the Belle Vernon Rotary Club; Theresa McCullouch, Belle Vernon Rotary fund drive co-chair; Rev. Beverly Gross, Belle Vernon Food Bank; Sue Sphar, director of the Belle Vernon Food Bank; Rev. Vann Walchock, Washington Township-Fayette City Food Bank; Pastor Glenn Hart, Perryopolis Food Bank; and John Habel, Belle Vernon Rotary fund drive chairman.


                             Photo by Jenn Codeluppi/Mon Valley Independent

Club's Youghiogheny River Trail Projects

Tom Yoder trimmed hedges, mowed grass and generally cleaned up the grounds surrounding the shelter at Smithton Beach.

BVARotary Yough Tire Cleanup

BVARotary is planning another effort to remove tires from the Youghiogheny River in late summer or early fall. The club and friends removed approximately 300 tires from the river last year.The club worked alongside Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling, Youghiogheny Canoe Outfitters, Belle Vernon Area High  School Ecology Club and County Hauling on last year's project.


President Brian Pirilla (2022-2023)







Hello, welcome to our web page. Please explore the site and learn about the Belle Vernon Area Rotary Club and Rotary in general. Enjoy your tour and return often.

Smithton Pollinator & Wildlife Habitat

A major project of past-president Larry Golashewski was for the club to supply 6  benches for the new Smithton Pollinator & Wildlife Habitat. The habitat will aid the Great Migration of Monarch butterflies north from Mexico and their return to Mexico.

Club donated benches at pollinator

Club members, greeted by member and Smithton Council President Fred  Foster, far left, visited the habitat to tour the habitat and view one to the benches the club donated.

What We Do

Projects

Fundraisers

Community

  The Belle Vernon Area Rotary Club has long associated with the Youghiogheny River Trail section of the Great American Passage.

  Our latest project is restoration of a 1903 railcar located at the trail office in West Newton.


Find out more

Community

Fundraisers

Community

Veterans have recognized our club for work we have done on their behalf.

Find out more

Fundraisers

Fundraisers

Fundraisers

Oldies dance

Our club with Monessen Rotary Club holds an Oldies Dance in Januar. Other fundraisers include a pancake festival and car show.

  All funds raised go to support club projects that benefit the communities we serve.


Find out more

Students

Students

Fundraisers

We offer four scholarships each year to students in the Belle Vernon Area and Frazier school districts.

Social

Students

Speakers

The club holds several social events each year for the enjoyment of members, their families and friends.

Find out more

Speakers

Students

Speakers

Ellen Keefe of Westmoreland Cleanways recently addressed the club to explain how her organization could help on an upcoming club project.

Find out more

Interested in joining?

Tell us why and we'll help.

Copyright © 2018 Belle Vernon Area Rotary - All Rights Reserved.

Powered by GoDaddy