November 3, 2008
Next week :
November 11: Jim Gilmore, Rotary International Polio Presentation!
Holiday Raffle
The Fund Raising Committee has worked very hard to refine the Rotary Holiday Raffle. This year tickets will be $5 each!!!! Every Rotarian will be assigned the same number of tickets. Each Rotarian can sell the raffle tickets or purchase them and give to friends & family members. The funds raised from the Raffle will assist Howell Rotary with our local donations to OLHSA Walk 4 Warmth and Big Brothers/Big Sisters and Rotary International donations such as, the Polio Plus Program and the Paul Harris Foundation! Get ready to sell, sell, sell!
Thanks to the Fund Raising Committee for their efforts on this project. Special thanks to Rick Sigler who heads up this project!
Hartland Rotary Set to Begin!
Thursday, November 6th at Hartland Insurance Agency, 2532 Old U.S. 23, Hartland, MI 48353. It is just north of M-59 on the right side and the entrance to the meeting room is in the front of the building (south side).
WE WILL HAVE OUR FIRST MEETING NOVEMBER 6, 2008 AT 7:30AM AND PLAN TO MEET EACH THURSDAY THEREAFTER.
The first Program is entitled "What can A Rotary Club do for your community" which will include a presentation of the Community Projects Livingston Sunrise has undertaken and then a 10-15 minute brainstorming session for the Hartland folks about needs in their community.
Lee Halstead has stepped forward to lead the Extension Committee. Lee is one of our Water Project Chairs and a Past President of the Canton Rotary in 1983-84.
District Foundation Gala November 13th
As club president I am unable to attend this event. It is my hope that a couple of Howell Rotarians will step up and attend this event!
Come join your fellow Rotarians as we celebrate the Rotary Foundation. Dinner at the Venetian Club, Madison Heights, MI, starting at 6:00 p.m. PDG Donald Chisholm has put together a great evening with good food, fellowship and your chance to hear PDG Terry Youlton speak about "The Challenges & Rewards Offered by Our Rotary Foundation".
You'll also meet the 2007-08 Group Study Exchange members (to Turkey) and a short report by team leader Marc Farlow.
Also you'll meet the new Group Study Exchange team, led by Barry Fraser who will be going to Australia in 2009.
Finally, we'll meet our inbound Ambassadorial Scholars. Reports about polio and water will be featured.
We have several members going from our club and will carpool to Madison Heights.
Where to Make Up a Rotary Meeting in our Area
You can enjoy a meal with local Rotarians every day of the week:
Monday - Lunch - Howell at St. Joseph/Mercy Livingston Hospital
Tuesday - Lunch - Brighton at the Brighton Community Building (aka the Boy Scout Building)
Wednesday - Lunch - Fowlerville at First United Methodist Church on 2nd Street
Thursday - Breakfast - Lyon Area at George's Senate Coney Island on Pontiac Trail in South Lyon.
Thursday - Breakfast - -NEW- Hartland Provisional Rotary Club at Hartland Insurance Agency on Old U.S. 23 just north of M-59 in Hartland
Thursday - Lunch - Novi at Novi United Methodist Church on 10 Mile in Novi.
Take the opportunity to see other clubs, meet other Rotarians and see how they do things. Make sure you email our Secretary, Tim Williams and let him know where you made up.
Registration is on the District website which allows for easy payment with credit card. Questions? E-mail lakess@sbcglobal.net
Dear fellow Rotarians,
The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
It sounds so simple, yet it means so much.
It means so much to every one of the people touched by Foundation-supported programs every year - the children too poor to go to school, the families who have lost everything in a disaster, the communities that lack sanitation, clean water, and medical care.
It means so much to the two billion children now living lives free from polio. Because of the work that the Foundation has helped support, five million cases of paralysis and more than 250,000 deaths from polio have been prevented.
Today, we are in what we hope will be the last stages of the fight against polio. All of you have helped through your support of our Foundation. Through the Foundation, we are able to be part of the day-to-day work of polio eradication by helping supply the transportation, the fliers, the advertisements, and even the lollipops to ensure we reach all children with the essential oral polio vaccine and make each round of immunization a success.
Those of you who have participated in a National Immunization Day know exactly what I'm talking about when I say there's nothing like it - nothing like knowing you're being a part of saving lives and making history. And if you can't be there yourself, then being part of the work through our Foundation is the next best thing.
Why do we have a Foundation? We have a Foundation because our Foundation lifts Rotary up. It lets every club and every district do the most it possibly can. It allows every one of us to be part of all of Rotary's work, and it brings that work to greater and greater heights.
As we celebrate Rotary Foundation Month, we should all remember that The Rotary Foundation is our Foundation. It's here for us and because of us; it allows us to do more, to be more, and to bring more hope to the world. The responsibility for keeping our Foundation strong lies with each of us.
Dong Kurn (D.K.) Lee
President, Rotary International