PHOTO SUBMITTED / Rotary club president Jeff Knight and along with treasurer Cheri Walker presented Ronnie Nettles with the Paul Harris Award at their club meeting last week.

Ronnie Nettles has been honored with a Paul Harris Fellowship by the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Rotary Club.

The Paul Harris Fellowship is named for Paul Harris, who founded Rotary with three business associates in Chicago in 1905.

It is because of contributions like that of Nettles that The Rotary Foundation is able to carry out an array of programs that achieve beneficial changes in our world: improved living conditions, increased food production, better education, wider availability of treatment and rehabilitation for the sick and disabled, new channels for the flow of international understanding and brighter hopes for peace.

Dr. Nettles is the first Paul Harris Fellow for the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Rotary Club. Brookhaven-Lincoln County club founder, Dr. Terry Puckett is also a Paul Harris Fellow.

Nettles is a charter member of the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Rotary Club and president of Copiah-Lincoln Community College.