Liberty Rotary Club - 2nd Annual Hummingbird Award

On behalf of the Liberty Rotary Club, we would like to cordially invite you to attend our 2nd Annual Hummingbird Award and Paul Harris Fellow Recognition Brunch to be held at the New Hope Community in Loch Sheldrake on Sunday April 3^rd from 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM.

 

At the brunch we will be presenting this year’s Hummingbird Awards (see the “I Will Be A Hummingbird” story below for an explanation) to community member Al “Funzi” Frangipane, Livingston Manor Rotarian Dr. Don Simkin, Liberty Rotarian and past president (4 times) Jack Strassman and The Interfaith Council of Liberty with our club’s Hummingbird Award. 

We will also be recognizing Peter Blakey, Fay Cerullo, Gary Siegel (Paul Harris Fellow Plus 1), and our current club president Gary Silver as our newest Paul Harris Fellows. This recognition acknowledges individuals as outstanding Rotarians who have demonstrated the Four Way Test and performed Service Above Self.

 

The suggested donation for the brunch is $15 and will benefit our club’s Haiti Clean Water Program Sustainability Fund which has been established to provide necessary supplies and support to the 1000 Haitian families that have received water filtration systems as a result of the global grant from the Rotary Foundation.  These systems are providing healthy, clean, potable water to more than 5000 men, women and children in Cap Haitien.    All guests will have an opportunity to make a donation to the sustainability fund which will help provide these families with healthy, clean, potable water well past the 4 ½ years that the grant covers.

To make a reservation, please contact one of us at your earliest convenience.  There is a limit of 150 guests and we do anticipate that this event will sell out.  Reservations will be accepted until April 18th or until sold out.  If you are unable to attend, kindly consider making a donation (see attached donation form).  Thanks for your anticipated support and we hope to see you on April 23^rd.

 

Sincerely,

Liberty Rotary Club Recognition Brunch Committee

Gary Silver        President                    845 798-4581     gsilver@blslaw.net
Gary Silverman Past President            845 891-9669     gsilverman@hvc.rr.com
Gary Siegel        Treasurer                   845 798-2188     cdtripsLLC@gmail.com

Jack Strassman  Board of Director      845 807-9206     js26md@aol.com

Dola Deloff       Committee Member   315 529-3413    ddeloff1962@gmail.com

 

We are constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed.  The story of the Hummingbird is about this huge forest being consumed by a raging wild fire. All the animals in the forest come out and they are transfixed as they watch the forest burning and they feel very overwhelmed… very powerless…. Except for this little hummingbird who says “I’m going to do something about the fire” so it flies to the nearest stream, takes a drop of water, puts it on the fire and goes up and down, up and down, up and down as fast as it can. In the meantime all the other animals… much bigger animals like the elephant… with a BIG trunk, who could bring much more water…. they are standing there helpless and they are saying to the hummingbird, “What do you think you can do?  You’re too little…This fire is too big… Your wings are too little…. And your beak so small… you can only bring a small drop of water at a time but as they continue to discourage it, it turns to them without wasting anytime and tells them…. “I’m doing the best I can… I’m doing what I can!...I’m doing my part”  In order to make your community a better place, in order to make the world a better place, we must all be hummingbirds.