Submitted by: Kathy Michaelson
Detroit Lakes Breakfast Rotary Club surprised high school senior Sam Bestge, by honoring him with a Paul Harris Fellowship Award. The award was presented in front of a cheering Lake Park-Audubon student body and faculty in the high school auditorium. Paul Harris Fellowships are named after the founder of Rotary. In Sam’s case, it was given to him in recognition of being an example of the the Rotary Motto, “Service Above Self”. Sam was instrumental in starting “Sam’s Meals For Many”. This program originated as a “Pay-It-Forward” project of his Sunday School Class at Cormorant Lutheran Church. This program has grown from providing an eight-meal Christmas season food package to one family (6 members) to 66 families with 301 members in the most recent Christmas season.