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ROTARY DISTRICT 6920

Central, South Central, Southeast, & Coastal Georgia

THE DISTRICT GOVERNOR’S

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

October is Economic & Community Development Month

FOCUSING on our ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROJECT

Click HERE to see DG Hamsa’s Video Message

Your 5 October "R-MAD” Goals:

“Rotarians Making a Difference”

1. October 24 is World Polio Day -

PLAN - To Do something on your own or with your club to publicize this date in your local media - and draw awareness to Ending Polio.

For a model Press Release your club can personalize, CLICK HERE

2. October is Economic & Community Development Month. Partner with a school or agency in your community to foster Creative Skill Development among our Youth & PUBLICIZE in the press to encourage others!

3. Contribute to the Dist. Website RESOURCES page

To Add YOUR Club Project or a great Speaker etc : CLICK HERE

4. Check out the Celebration Citations for 2017-18

For Rotary Members: Click HERE For Rotary Clubs: Click Here

5. Be PART of the Hurricane Maria Relief Effort.

ACT Now to help those in Need

For Details of current efforts in our District & to learn more: CLICK HERE

In This Newsletter: Your Table of Contents

Sec. A. Top Priority: District News & Upcoming Events

1. Important Reminders for October & November

2. World Polio Day - October 24!

3. National Immunization Days in India - Trip Planned - see info!

4. PRIP Frank Devlyn of Mexico speaks out on Earthquake

5. DG Hamsa’s September Club Visits: Highlights & Photos

Sec. B. DISTRICT & ZONE 33/34 PROJECTS: Initiatives & Plans

1. Entrepreneurship Partnerships -

a) Statesboro Club Partners with BOG &n GSU

b) Dublin Club Partners with Susie Dasher Elementary School

2. Saving Lives with Medicine - Rolls out at HIGH SPEED!

Sec. C. CLUBS & MEMBERS: Club News & Events

1. Clubs respond to Hurricane Irma

2. Hinesville Club Celebrates with Ft. Stewart - their 100th Anniversary!

3. Macon Club Gives Rooms from the Heart

4. Fielding Whipple Celebrates 50+ years perfect attendance

5. Glennville Dinner Auction scores High Marks

6. Milledgeville Rotary Celebrates 80 years of Service!

7. Valdosta North joins arms with other Community Service organizations for ACTO

Sec. D. YOUTH: GRSP, RYLA, Rotaract, Interact

1. Oslo Norway Announced GRSP Scholarships Available

2. District Rotaract Announces: New Generations Conference

Sec. E. TOOLS: Citations, Resources, Contact Us, Calendar

1. Resources

2. Facebook

3. Citation Brochures

4. DG Hamsa’s October Schedule of Official Club Visits

5. Rotary International News (links)

6. Contact US - Our District Contact Info -

7. Social Media Links

A. Top Priority: District News/Events

Important Reminders: District Events & Deadlines

October & November

October 13-14: GRSP STUDENT WEEKEND

Savannah Area Rotary Clubs –“Hue Thomas Jr. Weekend”

October 21: RLI Training Classes - Sandy Springs

For Info: CLICK HERE

October 24: WORLD POLIO DAY

For Info: CLICK HERE

October 27: NEW GENERATIONS CONFERENCE: Rotaract, Interact & Rotarians

For Info: CLICK HERE

October 28: RLI Graduate Training Course - Macon

For Info: CLICK HERE

November 8: District Governor Nominee Designate Candidate Input Deadline

To Download the Application Form: CLICK HERE

WORLD POLIO DAY

October 24, 2017, will be recognized in 145 countries focusing on the achievements of the five partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), those being: The World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Rotary International, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Click Here to Read Article (By Jere Robings)

Click HERE for a great Message

via Speaking Books re World Polio Day

2018 National Immunization Dates Have been announced for India.

Attn: All Rotarians - The two dates for National Immunization Campaigns across India in 2018 have been announced : Sunday, Jan. 28th and Sunday March 11, 2018.

Nancy Barbee will be leading a group in January. More information to follow.

This is truly a life changing experience and opportunity - Email her NOW if you are interested: nbarbee@gmail.com

National Immunization Days (NIDs) are held across India twice a year, with the Government of India setting out to give two drops of oral polio vaccine (OPV) to every child in the country under the age of five. The scale is extraordinary, with more than 172 million children immunized by 2.3 million vaccinators who visit every house in every city, town and village across the country – more than 209 million houses in all.

Past Rotary International President Frank Devlyn of Mexico Reaches Out

Dear 6920 Rotarians - -Frank Devlyn is a much loved RI Past President, from Mexico. He is also one of the invited VIP guests to our All Clubs Conference in Jekyll next April. Please see his letter below regarding the Earthquake in Mexico. DG Hamsa

Dear Family & Friends being Blindcopied:

Thank God we are all well. We are glad so many friends & family have expressed their concern for our well-being because of this massive earthquake we suffered yesterday September 19 here in Mexico City. We had to close down our 5 story General Offices Building with about 500 persons so all could... Read Frank Develyn’s letter CLICK HERE

DG Hamsa’s September

Club Visit Highlights!

DG Hamsa continued his Trek across the Eastern Third of Georgia - with visits to 12 Clubs!

These included (by date): Nashville-Berrien, Claxton, Reidsville, Ocilla, Fitzgerald, Tifton, Ashburn, Waycross, Hazlehurst, Douglas, Downtown Macon & Sylvania.

CLICK HERE AND HERE to see all the events, photos & fun on Hamsa’s 2 Facebook Pages. (we’re ‘transitioning' to his official public FB page: "DG Hamsa Thota" this month)

B. DISTRICT Projects, Initiatives, & Plans

GREAT potential for Statesboro Partnership with Business Innovation Group at GSU

During his Official Club Visit to Statesboro - DG Hamsa was able to visit the Business Innovation Group (BIG). Downtown Statesboro President Allen and PE Jack joined DG Hamsa on short notice for the visit. They toured BIG Maker Space & talked with Two budding entrepreneurs before sitting down to discuss partnership opportunities with BIG director Dominique Halaby and senior advisor Suzanne Hallman. They discussed opportunities to engage Statesboro Rotarians as mentors with BIG. The Shared Goal is to nurture new generations of entrepreneurs in Statesboro.

The future is bright with Statesboro’s own Rotarians, GSU expert faculty & the BIG engaged with a common goal to cultivate problem solving skills of new generations of entrepreneurs in Statesboro. DG Hamsa is excited and looking forward to seeing this awesome team come together to make a difference during the 2017-18 Rotary Year. “We are blessed to have this much talent coming together to create a better future!”

Dublin Club Advancing Partnership with Susie Dasher Elementary School

Exciting things are happening as Susie Dasher Elementary School in Dublin Georgia - thanks in no small part to the support & Partnership of the Dublin Rotary Club. Projects include the School Tinker Yar, and the MakerSpace Projects. Raised flower gardens and beautification of the school’s yard is happening with the help of an environmental firm.

Click Here and Here to read more

District 6920 Rolls Out Saving Lives with Medicine - serving clinics here at home.

Representatives of MAP International, Rotary Club District 6920 and two community clinics — Brunswick-based Coastal Medical Access Project and Valdosta-based South Georgia Partnership for Health — pose for a photo Tuesday at MAP International's headquarters in Brunswick. The agencies are partnering to bring life-saving medications to low-income patients in Valdosta and Brunswick.

Tyler H. Jones/The Brunswick News

A tower of blue shrink-wrapped pallets sat in MAP International’s Brunswick warehouse Tuesday, ready for shipment to Syrian refugees in Lebanon and clinics in Haiti, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. The supplies are part of the worldwide charity’s decades-long efforts to put valuable prescriptions and medical supplies in the hands of the planet’s most vulnerable populations. Soon, though, some of those life-saving medications will be headed to patients who are much, much closer.Read More: HERE

C. CLUB & MEMBERS Top News & Events

Hurricane Irma Affected & EMPOWERED ALL

We asked Clubs to send us examples of how their clubs and members were ‘involved’ in helping the recovery from Hurricane Irma – Here below are some of their stories! What a Joy to pass these along! Thank you Rotarians – for as ever - - leading the way!.

(This is a really fascinating group of Stories - - please read on! Click HERE

Hinesville Club Celebrates with Ft. Stewart

September 5, 2017 The Rotary Club of Hinesville celebrated their friendship with Ft. Stewart. Garrison CMDR COL Jason Wolter was a guest at the club and the speaker for the meeting. COL Wolter has recently PCS'd to Ft. Stewart and shared information about items of interest to the community and Rotarians. He extended invitations to several events happening on the installation in the coming months to include Ft. Stewart's 100th Anniversary happening mid November. President Carla Schreihofer presented COL Wolter a gold coin for coming to Rotary and LTC Indira Donegan extended a standing invitation to lunch on any Tuesday in the future.

Club Macon North Serves from the Heart with Rooms from the Heart !

"Making a Difference in the life of a child” is the slogan of Rooms from the Heart - and one that members of the Club Macon North were glad to share on September 30th from early morning to late evening. Rooms from the Heart is a non-profit organization that invests two to three thousand dollars per project to redecorate the bedrooms of critically ill children between the ages of 3-19 without regard to their gender, race, religious affilitation or financial circumstances. Andy Greenway, Club Macon North Service Chair, is a member of the Rooms from the Heart Executive Board. Thanks to Andy’s service, Club Macon North has facilitated the completion of three rooms to date. The latest project was completed with the assistance of Macon North Club President Dr. Kendra Russell, eleven fellow Macon North club members, seven Ascend Scholars, and volunteers from Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

While the family was away, the volunteers executed a room makeover to include a customized bed with space for a dog’s kennel for a fragile diabetic who requires a service dog to alert her when she needs to check her blood sugar. Upon the family’s return at the end of the day, the Big Reveal and the hearty meal provided by Rooms for the Heart, certainly brought a smile to the faces of all involved!.

Rotarian Fielding Whipple Celebrates 50+ years perfect attendance

Rotarian Fielding Whipple sits outside his downtown Milledgeville business on the bench the local Rotary Club recently unveiled honoring his more than 50 years perfect attendance to Rotary meetings, in the hope that future generations may be aware of his impressive feat.

From “ The Union Recorder”:

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — Every time Fielding Whipple visits the business he has owned for more than 50 years, he passes just a few yards away from a plaque that bears his name.

After half a century of servicing typewriters, copiers and other machines at Milledgeville’s Whipple Office Equipment Company while serving his community as a member of the Milledgeville Rotary Club, the 95-year-old Whipple has gained a well-earned reputation as one of the city’s most respected figures. READ MORE: CLICK

Glennville Rotary/Garden Club Dinner Auction raises over $24,000

One of the county’s most anticipated events and an evening of camaraderie is the annual Glennville Rotary Club/Garden Club Dinner Auction, which was held this past Saturday, September 23, 2017, at the Tattnall County High School Cafetorium. Several hundred attended and enjoyed a delicious steak dinner followed by a live and silent auction. This event raised an amazing $24,000 this year, an increase of $4000 over last year. The event was chaired by Darla Kicklighter and Tiffany K. Sittle….

READ MORE HERE

Milledgeville Club Celebrates 80 Years

On October 26, DG Hamsa will help the Milledgeville Club celebrate a remarkable milestone - 80 Years of Service to their community, and the world - through Rotary.

Two long-time members of the Club will begin the meeting with a ceremony that has been used to mark past milestone anniversaries; DG Hamsa will have remarks, and the club will celebrate with a special cake and will have 4-Way Test mugs filled with candy and wrapped with cellophane/bows at each place setting as momentos for members.

Of course, there will be festive helium balloons strategically placed in the fellowship hall! Congratulations to all!

Valdosta North Club Helps Alzheimer's Caregiver Time Out gain new facility

Through donations, fundraisers and help from United Way, Barnes Healthcare, Quota Club and Rotary Club of Valdosta North, a house was purchased at 1207 Williams St. Renovations were completed during a three-month period to give the house a full kitchen, two bathrooms, easy-access driveway and a craft/game room. CLICK HERE to Read More!

D. YOUTH: GRSP, RYLA, Rotaract, Interact

Norwegian Rotary Advisory Board

announces 3 GRSP Study Scholarships

available to Georgia Students for 2018-19

The Norwegian Rotary Advisory Board is once again inviting three (3) young Georgia students to study in Norway next summer. We encourage ALL clubs to identify a candidate(s) for this award. The final selection will be made by a committee of Trustees in each District.

For Full Details, CLICK HERE. To view and Print the Application: CLICK HERE

You can also Visit the Oslo Summer School Website, www.uio.no/summerschool, for details.

District 6920 Rotaract Announces:

New Generations Conference

Achieving their TOP Goal for Rotaract for the month of October, Rotaract District 6920, under the inspirational leadership of District Rotaract Representative Nipuna Ambanpola Has announced: The New Generations Conference – bringing together Rotaractors and Interactors from across District 6920. Expected to become an ANNUAL conference to spread awareness and information about Rotary and Rotaract relations, the Event, to be held on October 27^th , importantly will also reach out to – and include information about – Interact. Thus the Title : NEW GENERATIONS Conference.

For More information - and to read the full article, CLICK HERE