Saturday Aug 23rd - There will be a Fresh Produce Market Distribution in the Montgomery County Norristown Library parking lot from 8am to around noon. We will meet in the parking lot. Bring a friend.
We are collecting donations (through the Montgomery County Foundation, Inc -Rotary Club of Norristown Community Impact Fund) for the Norristown 3rd grade English-Spanish Dictionary project so that we can continue to include all six of the elementary schools in the NASD. Your donation will be tax deductible as allowable by law. Checks should be payable to the Montgomery County Foundation, Inc with the notation of “Rotary Dictionary Project” in the memo portion and given to Bob Schmidt or mailed to the Rotary Club of Norristown, P.O. Box 119 Oaks, PA 19456.
The official registration and financial information of the Montgomery County Foundation, Inc. may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free within Pennsylvania. 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. The Pension Protection Act of 2006 requires that we notify you that the Montgomery County Foundation, Inc has exclusive legal control over contributed assets.
SPOKE is migrating to a new digital format. We will complete the migration, this week. This week it will be emailed from Club Runner.
First, a big thanks goes out to Jay Jameson for building out Spoke to the high caliber comprehensive communication tool that it is today.
As part of our IT strategy, we are moving Spoke from a traditional paper based emailed PDF document to a digital ebulletin format. This change will provide us new capabilities while reducing work load in the production of Spoke. Some changes may effect you depending on how you receive Spoke today. This will go into effect on on August 14th for the creation of Spoke and August 21st for the distribution. For more information, see the Frequently Asked Questions below:
F.A.Q.
Why are we making this change?
The production of Spoke involves a fair amount of data collection, coordination and distribution effort. This makes the process laborious. With the licensing of the new Club Runner service, we are able to leverage its eBulletin capabilities as part of our service agreement and deliver our communications through modern technology.
What are the advantages of this change?
Spoke can be produced much more quickly, with less replication and in a collaborative fashion.
Spoke can be distributed from the central master member email list. All email address information will be maintained in one location and will be current and in sync with Rotary InternationaI.
Spoke will embrace a self subscription model. There is a “subscription link" on the new ebulletin where you can add or remove yourself directly from ebulletin distribution.
Spoke will now contain interactive links which you can click directly to dig deeper into a topic and view additional topic information.
Spoke will be "automatically" archived and online for historical reference.
Spoke will also have an extended electronic distribution list for our friends of the club (non-members) desiring to subscribe and receive Spoke.
Potentially, it offers us the ability to share Spoke written content with the website so stories are only written once. Stories will be a shared resource and can be contributed but numerous writers.
What will it mean to me?
Instead of a PDF attachment in your Spoke email, Spoke will be part of the email itself, not an attachment.
What if I turned off the ability to view HTML email on my personal computer?
More and more email sent today includes HTML graphics. In the computer dial up days, HTML took longer to down load, so turning off graphics was one way to reduce download time. However, If you turn off HTML or graphics, Spoke may not format correctly on your computer. We encourage you to leave this option turned on.
Will I continue to receive Spoke by fax?
No, most members will receive Spoke in an email with very few exceptions. The fax distribution of Spoke will be discontinued since the new eBulletin format will make extensive use of colors, pictures, graphics and interactive links not viewable or accessible in a fax.
What if I suspect I am no longer receiving Spoke via email?
Please check your spam folder. The email will say it is from The Rotary Club of Norristown and the actual from address will be mailservice@clubrunner.ca Make sure you mark the email as non-spam. If you do not know how to do that or you can not find Spoke, reply to this email.
How will I know we have made the change?
You will notice when you open the new format email, Spoke will have a new letterhead displaying our banner as it appears on our website today.
If I am not a member, how can I subscribe or unsubscribe from receiving Spoke?
All subscriptions, both signing up and dropping are self serve. All you have to do is click the subscriber link on the web site or at the top of Spoke and tell us your email and name. That’s it !
You get a point for every visitor that someone on the team brings. There are some great prizes for the winning team! Each member gets 5 FREE lunch passes ($50 Value), a nice baseball cap with the new Rotary logo, and one of these double wine tote kits you see here! To see what team you are on and to read a little more about the rules follow the link below. There’s still plenty of time left with the contest going through to 9/30/2014 so, invite your friends, family, co- workers out for lunch with Rotary and everyone wins!
Our new district theme is "Light Up Rotary Through Education"
Sep 27th Rotary Leadership Institute at the Radisson in King of Prussia, our club will cover expenses for first time attendees. Learn more, download their brochure here (info) Register here (info)
Oct 9th District Golf Outing - Silvercreek CC in Hellertown (info)
Oct 25th Rotary Foundation Seminar at the Double Tree in King of Prussia (info)
December 6th - Rototaplast On Air Auction to donate contact Linda Young (info)
The district is taking applications for District Governor 2017-18, Interviews will be December 13th. Contact Tony Janetta before Nov 15th if interested
The 2015 District Conference is April 24th - 26th In Gettysburg Early registration cut off December 31 (info)
Play some golf, enjoy Rotary camaraderie and best of all, help the kids
A letter from Joanne Messerschmidt - President - Rotary Club of Blue Bell
I'm writing to you with a special appeal for golfers for our upcoming Golf Outing Fundraiser. The Golf Outing is on Monday, September 15th at Blue Bell Country Club. The beneficiary is Cradles to Crayons who as you may know, provide children from birth through age 12 living in homeless or low income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive.
The Golf Outing is a great day with awards, gift baskets, lunch, and even back massages! But we are in dire need of golfers asap in order to make the fundraiser a success. If you could please pass the word on to your club and golf enthusiasts, I would greatly appreciate it. The flyer with complete info is attached. Registration online is easy at: www.bluebellrotary.org.
Thank you for your consideration. I'm looking forward to getting together with you to collaborate and share ideas!
…then The Rotary District Friendship Exchange is just for you and your club.
What is Friendship Exchange?
Friendship Exchange is when two Rotary Districts pair up and decide that they would like to get to know each other, their culture and become friends.
Rotarians (and their spouses) travel to that country and stay with Rotarians, tour and get to know each other. The Rotarians from that country then come to visit our district. Costs are paid for by the individuals for the travel. There is typically a team from 4-12 people on each exchange. It is a great opportunity for your club to host and learn about other cultures.
Our district has participated in successful Exchanges in New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, and British Columbia and we are about to offer some more opportunities.
ANNOUNCING NEW OUTGOING EXCHANGE:
FRIENDSHIP EXCHANGE WITH ARGENTINA
Applications being accepted.
Approximate dates: February 23, 2015-March 3, 2015
The area visited in Argentina will be the Buenos Aires province and some of the Pampas areas.
As Argentina is south of the equator—February and March is their summer a great way to go away from the snow here in Pennsylvania. C ome and join the adventure!
District Governor Gary Fedorcha made an official visit to the Rotary Club of Norristown on August 21st. He observed the operations of the Board meeting and addressed the general membership meeting. He spoke about the District Governor's goals this year. And he elaborated on how, locally Rotary has embraced the satellite club concept and its implementation. He lit the candle to signify our theme this year to "Light Up Rotary Through Education" and passed the light on to President Paul Catrambone to keep alive.
District Governor Gary Fedorcha (2014-2015)
Here Gary passes the candle to Paul Catrambone to signify our theme of "Light Up Rotary Through Education".
Area 9 Asst. Govenor Bruce Dearnley, Norristown Club President Paul Catrambone, Dist. 7430 Governor Gary Fedorcha
Did you know that Rotary conducts hundreds of life changing missions to thousands of children born with life disfigurements of cleft palate and cleft lip?
Medical and non-medical volunteers visit third world countries for 2 weeks and "make smiles". Each mission performs a couple hundred life altering surgeries 24x7 giving those kids their vanity or the ability to speak and lead a normal life for the first time. We get numerous inquires from people wanting to come to Rotary to be part of these wonderful teams. It's an experience no one could ever forget. There is a mission in Sept to Periera, Columbia from our district.
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