Weekly Bulletin for September 21, 2015 (Sep 22, 2015)

Stories

Morning Meeting At Consider It Done

Posted by Stacey Trowbridge

Tom Schmidt - District Governor Update

September 22, 2015

Polio – Recently, two cases were discovered in Afghanistan; however, it has been eradicated in many other areas and we continue to work to eliminate this disease

Zone – One Rotary Summit; promotes public image, membership, and foundation as one project. This event will take place on Oct. 31 at the MacMullen Conference Center in Roscommon, MI. Jennifer Jones is Zone Director. District 6290 is #1 in giving toward polio, and District 6229 holds first place for foundation giving.

Tom joined the Hart Rotary club in 1977 after Erwin Gale, a local community leader encouraged him to become a member. In 1989, Tom became President Elect. His primary career has been in ministry and he still preaches on the weekends. As District Governor, his motto is “P.U.S.H.”:

Plan until something happens
Promote until something happens
Persist (in making a difference) until something happens
Give praise until something happens

Tom reported an overall membership gain of 20,000, but also wanted to recognize community corps members who cannot attend meetings, yet help with projects.

This Weeks Program

Posted by Kelly Larson on Sep 21, 2015

Taylor Shriver is an up and coming administrator with the City of Grand Haven. He is the transparency intern with the city, with a goal of communicating with younger people.

He shared 10 videos that he's made. We saw quick videos of the beach, city hall, the lighthouse, artwalk, waterfront stadium, the municipal marina, Coast Guard Festival, and the Musical Fountain.

Announcements / Opportunities to Get Involved

Posted by Kelly Larson on Sep 21, 2015

Rotary Polo Shirts: Came in today. If you missed the meeting, please either pick it up during the week at Sweet Temptations or come next week.

Highway Clean-up - Volunteers are needed this Saturday (9/26) to assist with highway clean-up. We will meet at 8:00 a.m. in the Burger King parking lot on Robbins Rd. Contact Stacey Trowbridge if able to help out.

Raffle Fundraiser - $279 total available to win today. No winner today and it rolls over to the Sept 14 meeting.

Flags for Labor Day - Pat McGinnis thanked the volunteers who assisted with flag placement and removal on Labor Day.

Tempting Tables - Breast Cancer Fundraiser Oct 15- Oct 18. Mary Ann Herbst is director of volunteers for this great event and not only does she want us to come to support the event, she's looking for volunteers to work the event. Please see her!

Student of the Month - $120 per student. Jay Greer will be sending email seeking sponsors for this school year.

Interact Club - Jay Greer asked for volunteers to work with the Interact Club at GHHS.

Past President's Meeting - DATE CHANGE - Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 AM at Consider it Done. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Water Bottle Fundraiser - see John Heritage $15 bucks each. This is instead of the salad dressing sales.

Card Raffle - $232 for charity and $99 to the winner.

District Update - Zone update - We are at $106 per capita in Rotary Foundation giving. 2 billion people worldwide are without sanitation and 700 million are without water. Polio is close - hoping by 2018 to have it eradicated. Gernot got the opportunity to socialize with the incoming Rotary President and he stated that he wants us to be bigger and better.