Two years ago, U.S. Rotary members in Maine set out to improve the education system in Bikaner, Rajasthan, an Indian city near the border of Pakistan.
The Rotary Club of Kennebunk Portside chose Bikaner because club member Rohit Mehta was originally from the area and had connections there. Mehta put the club in contact with Rotarians in India to provide desks for four government-run schools.
But when community leaders returned with a request for more desks, the Maine Rotarians decided they had to think bigger. The Rotary Foundation had rolled out its new grant model, which required that the...
Enjoying calm winds and peaceful Pacific waters, Seung Jin Kim dove off his 43-foot sailboat, the Arapani, to swim with some dolphins nearby. The serenity that day near the equator was a stark contrast to the 60 mph winds and 23-foot waves he had to fight around Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America. But Kim, a veteran sailor and member of the Rotary Club of Seokmun, in Chungcheongnam, Korea, expected such challenges when he set out in mid-October on a 25,600-mile journey around the world. In addition to fulfilling a lifelong dream, Kim is using the trip to raise awareness and funds...
After the first cases of Ebola reached Liberia's capital, Monrovia, last June, local Rotary members feared that the city's limited health care system wouldn't be able to contain the highly infectious, often-deadly disease.
Those fears were realized when infections quickly multiplied, underscoring the speed with which Ebola can spread in an urban center. It was the first time the hemorrhagic fever had threatened a major city since it erupted in West Africa last March.
Now, after months of crisis-level response, and with the number of new cases declining, club members are looking to the long...
Despite his longstanding interest in polio eradication, polio was not on Joe Pratt's mind as he prepared for a mid-April 2012 climb of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth. But that changed in late 2011, when the resident of Nottingham, New Hampshire, USA, participated in a polio immunization project in Pakistan with fellow Rotary member Steve Puderbaugh.
Moved by the efforts of the Pakistanis to battle the crippling disease, and by the vulnerability of the young victims, Pratt reset the focus of his climbing adventure. Pakistan is one of three countries where polio has never been...
Members of the Rotary Club of San Francisco Evening meet at a wine bar after work, share a social outing, and promote all their activities on social media like Meetup and Facebook.
As the first evening club in the city, it has attracted many young professionals from Silicon Valley tech firms whose work schedules keep them from joining a more traditional club that meets for breakfast or lunch. But more than that, the evening format has helped the club grow by 30 percent since it received its charter in mid-2013.
Danielle Lallement, who was its charter president, says the club has been...
“The Rotary Foundation is not to build monuments of brick and stone. If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work on brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with the full meaning of the spirit of Rotary as expressed in our Objects and with the just fear of God and love of our fellowmen, we are engraving on those tablets something that will brighten all eternity.”
Called to order by: President Elect, Don MacMeekin
Opening Song: R-O-T-A-R-Y followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.
Patriotic Song: OH Beautiful for Spacious Skies
Invocation: Carla Skinner
Song Leader: Carla Skinner Song: Acres of Clams
Visiting Rotarians:
Guests: School vacation week – grandchildren and children all around
John Y, grandchildren Libbie and Ben Turner, Forrest, granddaughter Katherine Cole and Jaime’s son Alec
Raffle: No queen for Phil
Announcements: On to the brags
Brags:
Steve C enjoyed the performance of Alice in Wonderland with the firedrill intermission
Ron M’s 33 yr wedding anniversary, Linda’s 13th
Ernst’s wife Linda’s birthday
Jamie’s son Alec made high honors
Rich in the Valley News about the airport and he’s mother in-law’s picture for Meals on Wheels
Rotary Minute: No minute!
Speaker: Introduced by Ron M. Marc Jacques, Consultant for Public Affairs, presented an excellent talk on Canada and US relationships: energy, trade and investment, border security and jobs. He was joined by Frank Reddick.
If any of you know of someone whose life would benefit from a call or card from the "Sunshine Girl", please let Marion Steiner know. She can be emailed at msteiner@lakesunbank.com or home at 603-826-0081.
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