New District Governor Felix Stubbs will be visiting Cayman Islands Rotary Clubs next week and touring sites that show off our service in the community.
As a result, there will be no regular morning meeting next Wednesday, July 15. Instead there will be an evening function on Friday, July 17. Rotarians are invited along with spouses and special guests. This event will count toward regular attendance instead of the canceled meeting.
Details on the reception will be sent shortly by email.
Speaking of VIP guests...
Save the Date - More Info to Come
JANUARY 29, 2016
Celebrating 50 YEARS of ROTARY in CAYMAN
Guest: Rotary International President Ravi Ravindran
We love the moments when we can perform hands-on service projects, around Cayman and elsewhere. But Rotary's moments of service would not be possible without the financial support of our members, supporters, event sponsors and the greater community. That's why we're happy to report that our service work for 2015-16 has been boosted by a successful conclusion to the 2015 annual car raffle.
The Grand Prize 2015 Audi Q5 is awarded to Glen Trenouth, winner of the Rotary Sunrise annual raffle. Pictured are Henrico du Plessis of Rubis, Colleen Mellott of Arch Automotive, President Christine Matthews, Glen Trenouth, 3rd prize winner Roy McTaggart ($1,000 gas from Rubis), 2nd prize winner Rotarian Pavlov Rameau (security system from Scott Security), IPP Kim Remizowski.
Like almost every entity affected by the global recession, Rotary Sunrise can finally but confidently say the darkest financial days are in the past thanks to patience, diligence and hard work. In the case of Sunrise, the fiscal bounceback came through a concentrated focus on the annual car raffle, the club's largest fundraiser. It required diligence to fill sales shifts, patient Rotarians who worked multiple shifts over a course of three months, and hard work from key champions who coordinated the sales sites, regularly recorded and deposited the proceeds, and moved the vehicle to keep it in front of the public in order to generate interest and ticket sales.
PP Tony's update last week outlined the path to success. In all, a little more than 5,000 tickets were sold. Approximately 40 Rotarians sold all 60 of their allocated raffle tickets. About 20 sold at least 30 tickets. (Eight Rotarians sold zero tickets.) And, of course, a Club doesn’t sell over $120,000 worth of tickets without some Rotarians hitting the overdrive button on their skills, connections and Rotary commitment.
Special recognition was given to Rotarian Lynne Whittaker who sold 185 tickets on her own. And Rotarian Claude Myles crafted a team that together sold 1,159 tickets, more than 20 percent of all tickets sold.
With additional pledges to replace stolen proceeds, Rotary Sunrise could see a final net gain of $90,000 to fund Rotary's mission driven programs.
People and businesses across Cayman are coming together to keep the public’s attention focused on the need to find and arrest the people whose home invasion terrorized a family and threatened to reduce the amount of good work that Rotary Sunrise could do with money raised in the community.
The $50,000 base provided by Crime Stoppers has been supplemented with additional pledges to the point where someone could receive around $110,000 for information leading to the conviction of the gunmen.
“Unless it hits you, you really don’t know what it’s like,” the club was told last week. “If you overhear something, you’ve got to get it to a detective.” The message was that the RCIPS cannot go it alone, it requires a robust reward fund that will demonstrates a community is serious about fighting crime.
In addition, there have been multiple pledges to ensure that Rotary Sunrise will not lose any funds if the stolen money is never recovered. Because the pledges exceed the amount stolen, discussions will be held on whether or how to put the excess funds to use in some form of local anti-crime initiative. In other words, community support will enable Rotary Sunrise to either contribute to or initiate another local service project that can prevent having another family be traumatized by crime.
This week's President's Message begins a series on what to expect from each area of Rotary Sunrise.
Over the last few months, your Board has been hard at work planning our projects. In putting together our plan we look at the goals set by Rotary International and the District Governor as well as those projects that are “traditional” for Sunrise and near and dear to our hearts. Thanks to our collective fundraising efforts over the last year our financial position is sound and we will be able to have a successful year of projects. At our Strategic Planning meetings during the last year, it was decided the Club’s focus should be on literacy and youth and this is reflected in our planned activities.
Rotarians Ivana & Jerrell will head youth Service. This year we have two extraordinary youth service events in the Cayman Islands – the RYLA conference for 15-18 year olds in August and the Rotaract District Conference in May. Our Club has agreed to be a sponsor of both these events. This is in addition to our continuing support of the Rotaract Club of Grand Cayman, EarlyAct and the provision of school meals which will be done this year through a donation to Feed Our Future.
This year, we will be sponsoring a Youth Crime Prevention Seminar in October at Clifton High School and we have renewed our commitment to the Youth Summer Cooking Camp. Additionally, I would like to revive the photo competition that was sponsored by the Club for several years and more details will be released on this over the course of the summer.
Rotarian Su will lead literacy. We will continue our support of LIFE to which we have spun off many of our Literacy programs. Other programs we will continue are the purchase of dictionaries, the inter-school debates and the Butterfly Storybook project. New projects will include the adoption of the Bodden Town Primary School Library and the revival of the BrightStart program, this time targeted to the participants in the Young Parents Programme. More specifics will be provided on all these programs throughout the upcoming months.
In the next Rotary Sun, I will tell you of the plans for Community Service, International and the special District Projects.
District Governor Felix N. Stubbs, MBE, D.H.L., is a citizen of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas with Turks and Caicos ancestry. He has been recognized in The Bahamas for his contribution to the commercial growth and economic progress of that country as well as for his involvement in community-building initiatives. Felix is a former President and General Manager of IBM Bahamas Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the IBM Corporation. He held that position for over 32 years, opting to take early retirement in 2014 so that he could devote more time to his Rotary obligations.
DG Felix is a passionate Rotarian. He is a past Assistant Governor of the Rotary Clubs of the Bahamas District 7020 (2007-2010), Disaster Relief Chair and Future Vision Area Coordinator for District 7020 and a Past President of The Rotary Club of Nassau Sunrise. He began his Rotary service in 2001 as a charter member of his club.
DG Felix is married to Carla, also a Rotarian and a past president of the Rotary Club of Nassau Sunrise, and has 2 adult children.
The 2015-2016 Rotary International District 7020 logo was designed by Rotarian Joanne Smith. Joanne is a Communications, Advertising and Graphic Arts expert and is a past president of the Rotary Club of East Nassau, Nassau, The Bahamas.
In the logo, the arrow is used to show progression in the slogan Success to Significance. The arrow flows in a near-eternity symbol showing the constant flow of energy with which Rotarians pursue their objectives and goals across the District.
The yellow-gold stars represent the 10 territories that make up a sunny and golden District 7020. The stars are the same colour as the word "Success" because Rotary Clubs in District 7020 are successful. The word "Significance" is the same colour as the district emblem, a red hibiscus, because it portrays our drive to move successful clubs to clubs of significance district-wide.
In 2015-2016, Rotarians across District 7020 will strive to make Rotary service projects significant to our communities. All of the colours used reflect Rotary International's new visual identity colour palette. The black, aqua and yellow-gold are also colours of the Bahamian flag, representing the home of the sitting District Governor and the site of the 2016 District Conference. The yellow-gold also represents the brilliant sunshine of District 7020 and the golden attributes of its clubs in 10 territories where Rotary is a story of Success. The magenta is one of the most vibrant colours in the new Rotary colour palette. It represents life and how it flows through Rotarians and therefore becomes the appropriate colour to portray the word Significance. Magenta is also used in an interpretation of the red hibiscus which is our District emblem.
Make-ups: In addition to make-up opportunities at Rotary Sunrise, you can make up absences at another Club in Grand Cayman. The meeting times and places for the other Clubs are:
Rotaract Blue: Wednesdays at 6:00pm at Royal Palms Beach Club, 537 West Bay Road
Rotaract Club of Grand Cayman: Thursdays at 7:00am at Treats Restaurant in West Shore Plaza, West Bay Road
Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Central: Tuesdays at 7:30pm at Grand Old House.
Rotary Club of Grand Cayman: Thursdays at 12:30pm at The Westin
Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean 7020: Online meetings anytime. Visit the new e-club platform at http://e7020clubhouse.ning.com. If members are unable to make a regular weekly meeting or Rotary event, make-ups can be done online. The e-Club website is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You just need to spend a minimum of 30 minutes on the site and answer some questions to get the make up certificate.
Travelling: If you are going to be travelling for an extended period of time (more than two weeks), be sure to let the Secretary know and remember to submit any make-ups you do in a timely manner.
This Week in Sunrise History
From The Rotary Sun - July 13, 2011
Last Week in Review - July 1, 2015
President Christine Matthews rang the bell right at 7:00am last Wednesday, July 1, formally starting the new Rotary year. As noted above, PP Tony gave an update on the success of the annual raffle.
The new year included the induction of a new Rotarian; Dale Nickason was pinned by his sponsor, PP Woody Foster. There was also a Red Badge to Blue Badge transition for Rookie of the Year Jerrell Garner.
Some final honors related to the changeover were doled out as IPP Kim Remizowski recognized PP J.D. Mosley-Matchett and Claude Myles, and President Christine awarded pins to Sergeant Ian Comins and Well-Being Officer Barb Anley.
A check presentation for $1,195 was made to the culinary summer camp program. James Myles, CIG Youth Services Coordinator, says the camp is based on infusing the tastes of Cayman into the local food industry and giving young people a greater sense of national identity and pride.
Thanks for reading... see you next FRIDAY
Remember to keep an eye on your email (and the Facebook members page) for details of next week’s event with new District Governor Felix. There will be no Wednesday morning meeting on July 15th. See you at the event on Friday evening, July 17th. Have a great day, be a gift to the world.
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