It is exciting to be at the helm of this VIBRANT Rotary club! It is my pleasure to serve as President and have the unique perspective of seeing all the moving pieces as committees are taking action. Earlier this month we held an informative meeting online with Ruby Powers, Immigration attorney, who has been busy working gratis at the Texas border to reunite families.We now convert these zoom meetings to YouTube and publish the program on our Facebook page and for our members in WhatsApp. This allows members and others to share at any time convenient for viewing and allows for flexibility in planning time to share Rotary.We held a second online meeting with DG Carmen Cuneo which is also available for viewing on Facebook. Nicole Wycislo has plans for vocational service with a new partnership with CareerVillage. She will soon be sharing how we can provide career guidance by answering questions online from high school and college students. All members are eligible and encrouarged to participate in this vocational program with CareerVillage, a non-profit that crowdsources career and school guidance for youth. We have donated to a Global Grant sponsored by our sister club, Rotary E-club 9920 Francophone, to build a water tank in Chiangdao (northern Thailand) with a GG totaling $48,500. And we are pleased to announce a new sister club with Club Rotario Tlapacoyan Veracruz, Mexico. Past President Wind Nguyen is visiting Veracruz Rotarians this week enjoying fellowship such as river rafting and releasing a sea turtle. We are also working with the Rotary Club of Grapevine (Texas) to donate six pallets of textbooks to Books for the World, and Rotarians Brittany Johnson and Michael Hasty have attempted to use our Rotary-wrapped trailer to transfer the books to the Pasadena Warehouse, only the books were too heavy. Plan C has been developed by Rtn. Marci Junge (Grapevine) to secure a donated box truck to transport the books mid-October. Belinda Kaylani and I attended the first Wisdom High School Interact Club meeting this week and President Erick led a great meeting! We have completed the paperwork to participate in a new BINGO Hall in Rosenberg to improve our fundraising capabilities and owe a Rotary shout-out to Rebecca McGee for guiding us through this lengthy process. She will also be serving as our BINGO Chairperson. My study at home is filled with shoes for the “Walkers”, the refugees leaving Venezuela and moving into Cucata, Columbia to escape the humanitarian crisis ongoing in Venezuela. Save the date of October 8th at 8:00 pm to hear the story as told by Cristal Montanez who recently traveled to Cucuta to meet with Rotarians and other partners to tour seven parishes with food kitchens feeding hundreds of refugees daily. We are completing our paperwork in partnership with Rise Against Hunger to ship a container of dehydrated food to Columbia with additional funds to purchase local fruits and vegetables for the refugees. We are improving our website and invite your thoughts on the desired user-friendly site to keep you informed and offering service opportunities.
Members in this e-club are engaged and eager volunteers to make this world a better place! On Saturday, September 29th, our Service Saturday began at 9:00 am at my home to prepare shoes to ship to Cucata and bring books to donate to Books for the World, too. We had seven members participate and have 300 pairs of shoes boxed to ship. Also, Alexis filled his truck with 15 boxes of books.
Wear your Rotary pin proudly, let us know what you are doing (on the Attendance form located on our website), and share Rotary stories to spread the word of the fun and friendship we enjoy together!
Livestream on Rotary International website - streaming live from the College of Physicians, and aim to bring together more than 100,000 viewers around the world; also available to view later at your convenience.
October 25 Rotary Foundation Dinner
Open to all members - Past Rotary International Director and Rotary Foundation Trustee Sang Koo Yun from the Rotary Club of Sae Hanyang, Korea will be speaking. The dinner venue is the Hotel ICON, 220 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002. The cost will be $75.00/person. There will be a cash bar.
October 27Service Saturday
Food packaging event for Rise Against Hunger is set. We will be packaging over 20,000 meals. This event is also a great way to involve your family and children, ages 4+.
Time: 9:00 to 1:00
Location: Rise Against Hunger
8901 Jameel Ste 130
Houston, TX 77040
There are only 100 spots available and last time, we had people begging to come join us.
Contribute to the final pieces of the polio puzzles to rid the world of this paralyzing virus. This year we've had 14 cases in Afghanistan and 4 cases in Pakistan (as of 9/29/18). As long as a single child has polio, all children are at risk, which underscores the need for ongoing funding and political commitment to eradication. Help us protect future generations from this dreaded disease. Donations will be matched by the Bill & Linda Gates Foundation, too. Each piece of the puzzle will help us END POLIO NOW! Donation of a minimum of $10 per piece to be a part of history. World Polio Day is October 24th. Help us focus on solving this puzzle (puzzle has 108 pieces). The puzzle measures 30 x 43 cm or 11.8” x 16.9”.
As donations are made this month each $10 increment will be assigned to a randomly drawn piece of the puzzle (numbered 1 - 108). We will need your name, phone number and email address to add you to the spreadsheet as numbers are drawn. We have already sold $260! During a Facebook LIVE on our club's Facebook page, a drawing for the winner of the puzzle will be held on WORLD POLIO DAY - October 24th. The puzzle will be shipped to you in a box with the same image on the cover.
How to donate? A check may be mailed to Alexis Campestre, Club Treasurer, 118 That Way St., Lake Jackson, TX 77566.
Also, the DONATE button on our Home Page of the club website may be used and please designate "World Polio Day" in Special Instructions for our bookkeeping.
A wheel has been the symbol of Rotary since our earliest days. The first design was made (1905) by Chicago Rotarian Montague Bear, an engraver who drew a simple wagon wheel, with a few lines to show dust and motion. The wheel was said to illustrate "Civilization, Movement and Service work in action." Most of the early clubs had some form of wagon wheel on their publications and letterheads.
In 1922, it was decided that all Rotary clubs should adopt a single design as the exclusive emblem of Rotarians. So, the present gear wheel, with 24 teeth and six spokes was adopted by the "Rotary International Association." The gear teeth around the outside represent the fact that work is to be done. The six spokes represent the inner direction and path of our Vocational Service, through the representation of our membership via the classification system. Similarly, these same spokes represent an outward distribution path of Rotary's ideals of service and the Four Way Test… going out toward the community, vocations and businesses that our members represent.
A group of engineers advised that the geared wheel was mechanically unsound and would not work without a "keyway" in the center of the gear to attach it to a power shaft. So, in 1923 the keyway was added to signify the wheel was a "worker and not an idler". The keyway in the center of the hub is of great significance, because it represents the individual Rotarian member, who is the key factor in every club. Quality members are the keys, needed for the hub to engage with the shaft and turn, putting the energy into motion and creating the power for the gears to do their work.
At the 1929 Rotary International Convention, it was determined that blue and gold would be the official colors of the organization, so the wheel was designed with these colors. The four blue bands within the outer radius of the gear represent our four avenues of service. And the design which we now know was formally adopted as the official Rotary International emblem.
Polio is almost completely eradicated, but as Bruce Aylward says, “Almost isn't good enough with a disease this terrifying.” Aylward lays out the plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended polio in most of the world – and to snuff it out everywhere, forever.
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