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Rotary
District 6920 Newsletter - March
2017
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All
Star Tidbits
Pam
Lightsey, District Governor
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WOW!!
Are you ready to celebrate?? I’m looking
forward to spending a couple of days with
members of our district in Jekyll Island at the
end of the month!! It is not too late to
register!! If you can’t come both days,
please consider coming for Saturday! It is
going to be a GREAT day to celebrate, learn,
network, and meet new Rotarians from around our
district. I confirmed with the Westin and
they have 50 rooms available for Saturday
night. You can come that morning and join
us for the Foundation/Grants seminar, enjoy
lunch with Rodney Bullard, VP Chick Fil-A
Foundation, enjoy a few general sessions and
celebrate at dinner – Rotary Serving
Humanity! Sunday we will have a service
that morning and then you can take your family
over to Brunswick to see the Blue
Angels. | | |
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It has been an honor to serve this district and
I’m excited to see all the clubs making a
difference in their communities! Don’t
forget to log your projects in Club Central and
to log your volunteer hours. I’m looking
forward to hearing from Sylvia Whitlock, the
first female club president, from the Rotary
Club of Duarte, CA, at lunch on Friday to kick
us off! A little bit of history will be
with us in District 6920!
WOW!
The silent
auction in the House of Friendship will have
some special pieces made by Broken Shackle
Ranch. Among the items up for auction from
Broken Shackle are several furniture pieces and
lending libraries, as well as a weekend chalet
getaway!
Have you
thought about a video for your club?
Please do! Submissions are being made to
the Zone in regards to how our clubs served
humanity in 2016-17. We will show some of these
at conference too!! Be sure to make your two
minute video and send it to me. The overview of
the video should be about the implementation of
the 2016-17 theme - “Rotary Serving Humanity” -
in your club. Deadline is May 1. Don't forget to
send me the link so we can showcase
it!
Do you
know of a business that we can invite to the
convention in Atlanta? I will have 200
passes for businesses throughout our district to
come visit the House of Friendship on Saturday,
June 10th. These will not be
for spouses of Rotarians, but are for members in
our communities. We want to introduce them to
the World of Rotary. Please send me the name,
business, phone number and email address to pam@district6920.org
and I will add them to the list for
passes.
Would
you like to have an autographed, by President
John Germ, 2016-17 theme tie or
scarf? There is an online auction going on
until the end of March. All proceeds raised will
go to The Foundation! What a great way to
get a piece of history! https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/30569/auctions/36773?reset_filter=1
Congratulations to all the incoming presidents
for completing PETS this past weekend! I’m
looking forward to seeing our district grow even
stronger next year. I’m excited, not only serve
in the role of Immediate Past District Governor
for 2017-18, but to serve as part of our Zone 34
Team as an Assistant Rotary Coordinator.
I’m honored to represent our district once
again!
Rotary
and Rotarians are making life changing
differences in our communities and around the
globe. Thank you for being a Rotarian and
not just in Rotary! Thank you for your
commitment to your club and
district.
See
you in three short weeks to celebrate all the
GREAT achievements in our
district.
Pam
2016-17 District
Governor
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EVENTS
MAKE 2017 CONVENTION
SPECIAL
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Rotarians will be able
to take part in a dozen different special
events, which run from Thursday, June 8th to
Tuesday, June 13th. Many of the events are
already sold out, so book your festival events
now! Go to http://www.rotaryconvention2017.org/
to see all of the events being
offered.
June 8th -
Atlanta Braves Game - "Strike Out
Polio"
June 10th - Blue
Jeans &
Bluegrass
Candlelight Vigil to End Slavery & Human
Traffficking
June 12th -
Evening at The World of
Coca-Cla
Evening at the College Football Hall of
Fame
June 13th - Centennial
Celebration Block
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CONTRIBUTE
TO FOUNDATION BY
PURCHASING
SQUARE
IN PORTRAIT
Raise
money for the Foundation and the convention.
Contribute $100 towards the sponsor of a
one-of-a-kind portrait from one of the art
world's masters - Rossin. Reserve your place in
Rotary history and receive a commemorative 5 x 7
print personally signed by the artist. $26.50
($79.50 after Gates match) goes directly to the
Rotary Foundation. $73.50 goes to support the
2017 International
Convention.
Select
your square today at https://arch.rotaryconvention2017.org/. | | | |
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BANNERS
NEEDED FOR HOUSE OF
FRIENDSHIP
AT
THE 2017 ATLANTA
CONVENTION
Please bring a club banner with you to District
Conference so it can be displayed in
Atlanta! Thank you to the following clubs
who brought banners to PETS this past weekend:
Brunswick, Dublin, Effingham County, Glennville,
Hinesville, Jekyll Island, Kings Bay,
Milledgeville, Perry, Sandersville, Savannah
South, St. Simons Island and Valdosta
North.
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CELEBRATING
100 YEARS OF THE ROTARY
FOUNDATION
Online
Auction Funds Will Benefit Rotary
Foundation
2016-17 is the 100th Anniversary of The
Rotary Foundation. A signed tie and scarf of
the official theme for the year is available to
bid on and win! All funds raised will go to
The Rotary Foundation!! Share the link with
other Rotarians!
https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/30569/auctions/36773?reset_filter=1 | |
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Attention:
Current Volunteers
If you are receiving this email you are one of the
current 800 registered to be a volunteer for the
2017 Convention in Atlanta, The Rotary
Foundation’s Centennial Celebration. We
cannot
thank you enough for volunteering to help us show
the world the face of the South. Southern
Hospitality is what we are known
for.
We
are in the process of finalizing the times and
schedules for all events and defining all the
activities we must support. I will provide you
with this information, but first I would like to
ask you to encourage your Rotarian friends to also
volunteer if they haven’t already. We still need
to have 400 more volunteers. It will take
approximately 1200 volunteers to support all of
our activities. Volunteers can register by
completing our online form found
here.
Listed below are the current activities we will be
supporting during the convention:
- Registration
- This will be the first time that RI will have
seven locations outside of the convention center
itself, where you can pick up your badges if you
are prepaid.
We will have three locations at the
Atlanta airport, in addition at the Omni, the
Hyatt, the Hilton, and the Marriott. We
will also be there to help support the Georgia
World Congress Center (GWCC). We will
support these locations Wednesday thru Sunday
whenever the RI registration sites are
open.
- Atlanta
Airport -
We will have three locations being the North
Terminal, the South Terminal and the
International Terminal. We will support them
Wednesday thru Sunday whenever the RI prepaid
registration sites are open.
- Host
Organizing Committee (HOC) Ticket Booth
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Will be supported Thursday through Monday the
same hours that the RI GWCC registration is
open.
- Handing
out “goodie” bags
- We will support the same times as the RI GWCC
registration is opened.
- Events
- We will support all the HOC scheduled events.
It is a long list and includes the
following:
Thursday,
June 8th –
the Atlanta
Braves Game at the GWCC (bus
departure) and the new SunTrust
Stadium
Friday,
June 9th – no
events are planned
Saturday,
June 10th –
- 3K
Walk/Run at Centennial Olympic Park –
helping the guests get checked in
- HOF
Opening Ceremony – participating in
the opening
- Blue
Jeans and Bluegrass – from the GWCC to
the event itself and helping the guests at the
event
- Candlelight
Vigil to End to Human
Trafficking
Sunday,
June 11th –
-
Athens Night Bar-B-Q - bus loading
only at the GWCC
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Gone With the Wind – at the GWCC and
the Fox Theatre
Monday,
June 12th –
-
Peace Tours – helping the guests on
the tour
- Center
for Disease Control "Polio" Tours –
helping the guests on the tour
- Host
Hospitality Night – bus loading only
at the GWCC
- Dinner
at The College Football Hall of Fame –
helping the guests at the event
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Dinner at The World of Coca-Cola –
helping the guests at the event
Tuesday,
June 13th –
- Peace
Tours – helping the guests on the
tour
- Center
for Disease Control "Polio" Tours –
helping the guests on the tour
- Habitat
Home Build – helping the guests with
directions
- Centennial
Celebration Block Party – from the
GWCC to the event itself and helping the guests at
the event
As you can see there are a lot of activities.
Some events require us to
help Rotarians on buses and in some cases take the
tour with them; other events require ticket taking
and control of access points; a lot of events
require us to help them find transportation or
give directions on how to return to their
hotels.
It will be our job to control almost all of the
activities taking place outside of the
GWCC. RI will have Sergeant
at Arms inside the GWCC. We share
responsibility for the HOF.
We will start making assignments towards the
beginning of April and training material will be
distributed the latter part of
April. Some Rotarians will
be assigned to events prior to that date, due to
special language skills or other skills needed in
particular areas.
We will keep you informed as we move closer to our
convention dates. We
currently are less than 100 days away from our
volunteer start date. I want to personally thank
you for your commitment to the convention and look
forward to seeing all of you. We will do our best
to make sure that, as well as being a volunteer,
you will enjoy any events you have signed up for,
and that as a volunteer, you will enjoy your
volunteer
experience.
Sincerely,
Bill
Woulfin
2017 HOC Volunteer
Chair
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Membership:
The Lifeblood of Our Clubs
Think
about it: what would our clubs look like and
what could we accomplish without great
members?
If you have
been a member of Rotary for more than a few
months, you already know that each year we LOSE
a few members from each of our clubs. Folks
either move away, pass away, or get out for any
number of reasons that some of us may never
know, nor understand. Now, WHY and HOW do we
need to replace
them?
WHY may simply
be to keep our clubs about the same size so we
can continue to serve our communities with great
Rotary projects. WHY may also be answered by not
wanting to see our current President, after
having a great year for your club, leave office
with a “net loss” of members. That is kind of
embarrassing and happens way too
often.
Now, HOW may
be a more difficult question to answer. I have
learned in almost three years of focusing on
membership for our District that constantly
trying to “recruit” newbies is not necessarily
the best way. Club members, however, can ATTRACT
new members by going back to an old, tried and
proven method: asking a friend or co-worker to
come visit your club with you, and sharing WHY
you love being part of Rotary! Think not
about what that prospect can do for your club,
but think what the club can mean for the
prospect! Demonstrate your PRIDE in your Rotary
Club, in word and in deed, and watch how that
attraction can
spread.
Start today!
The Claxton Club loves to have a contest, a
competition each year to encourage active
membership attraction. We simply divide our club
into 2 to 4 teams, give each team 2 months to
invite, attract, sponsor, and induct. The
winning team, or teams, get a special meal,
served by the losers. You work out the
details your way, BUT TRY SOMETHING SOON! Let’s
spend the rest of our lives in Rotary spreading
the success to others! No more being selfish by
keeping our good work quite!
Happy
Sharing, and
Growing,
Alfie
Cofield, District Membership Chair
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WORLD
ROTARACT DAY
Rotaractors worldwide are celebrating World
Rotaract Day today as the first Rotaract Club
founded on March 13th,
1968.
Rotaract
originally began as a Rotary International youth
program in 1968 at Charlotte North Rotary Club
in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, and has grown
into a major Rotary-sponsored organization of
over 9,539 clubs spread around the world and
219,397 members. It is a service, leadership and
community service organization for young men and
women between the ages 18–30. Rotaract focuses
on the development of young adults as leaders in
their communities and workplaces. Clubs around
the world also take part in international
service projects, in a global effort to bring
peace and international understanding to the
world.
"Rotaract" stands for "Rotary in
Action", although the name originally comes from
a combination of "Rotary" and "Interact"
(International + Action), the high school level
program created by Rotary International in
1962.
Most Rotaract
activities take place at the club level.
Rotaract clubs hold formal meetings, usually
every two weeks, which feature speakers, special
outings, social activities, discussions or
visits to other clubs. Club members get together
on designated days for service project work,
social events, or professional/leadership
development
workshops.
The
purpose of Rotaract is to provide an opportunity
for young men and women to enhance the knowledge
and skills that will assist them in personal
development, to address the physical and social
needs of their communities, and to promote
better relations between all people worldwide
through a framework of friendship and
service.
To be
eligible for membership, prospective members
must be 18–30 years of age, show that they are
committed to Rotaract, and show that they are of
good standing in the community. After being
approved by the club, prospective members are
'inducted' to become members, also known as
'Rotaractors'. Clubs generally charge a small
annual membership fee to cover
costs.
Rotaract
conducts many programs, which are activities
with a charitable purpose. The dual roles of
Rotaract is for young adults (18 to 30 years of
age) and college and university students to
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NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION DAY
Rotary International’s Polio Plus program in
conjunction with the Indian government, the World
Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, each year host a
National Immunization Day throughout India to
bring awareness regarding the dangers of polio,
the need for 100% immunization and other health
issues.
Since 1995,
these organizations have achieved record results
ending a polio pandemic. Consistent monitoring,
surveillance and the immunization of children
under of the age of five is still critical to keep
the polio virus out of the country. Polio is still
active in three countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan
and Nigeria. With a common border with Pakistan
and the political climates there and Afghanistan,
immigration, both legal and illegal, poses
critical problems.
Gigi Rolfes, a member of Macon North Rotary,
joined 15 other Rotarians in this year’s National
Immunization Day (N.I.D.). Working with our
partners, during the last two weeks of January,
the team visited numerous Rotary sponsored
projects including a cataract hospital, dialysis
clinics, schools, hospices and orphanages
throughout India.
The
primary focus of the initiative was to bring
lifesaving polio vaccines to children throughout
the country. Our targeted areas were villages
northeast of Delhi and in the inner city of Delhi.
During these immunization days, this Rotarian team
vaccinated over 2,400 young children against a
crippling, deadly disease. Not only did we
bring lifesaving serum to these children, but
small gifts, toys, health and access
information , and a genuine American smile to let
them know that we care and will do our part
in the years to come.
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THE ROTARY
FOUNDATION:
BUILDING A
FUTURE YOU CAN DEPEND
ON
A Future You Can
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In unsteady times many people will look for
security. The Rotary Foundation is celebrating
its 100th year of service and provides a proven
track record of growth and
impact.
In 2016
Rotary was honored for the fourth time in a row
with a four-star rating by Charity Navigator,
recognized as the “World’s Outstanding
Foundation” by the Association of Fundraising
Professionals, and ranked among the top three
worldwide charities by
CNBC.
As your
clients and friends look for a steady partner
this year, please remember that Rotary
is leading the way as a charity you can
trust. Professional staff are available to help
with charitable gift annuities, charitable
remainder trusts, gifts of life insurance, donor
advised funds, and other charitable
planning.
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Celebrate the
Past, Embrace the Present, Build
the Future
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Now is the perfect time
for your clients to build on their personal
Rotary legacies. Encourage them to give now and
build the groundwork for the next 100 years of
strength and compassion through Rotary as their
fellow club members across the globe continue
the historic Centennial
Celebration. | | | | | | |
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March
22, 2017 - World Water
Day
Every year the United Nations observes World Water
Day on March 22. The theme changes annually to put
focus on a certain aspect of water. This year the
emphasis is on
Wastewater.
Use the
resources at http://www.worldwaterday.org/ to
increase the awareness of the need for clean water
and to manage wastewater more
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