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Good Day, All, the Rotary Club of St. Thomas is very excited to announce a gala "Celebrating Our Legacy Through Service". I am attaching an information flyer and a QRL Code for donations or sponsorships etc.

The gala which will be held on Saturday May 13th, 2023 at Lilienfeld by the Synagogue. Tickets are $125 and are going to be on sale by next week. Space is limited and we will cap the event at 100 people. If you have any questions please reach out to me at the below email address.

Appreciate all your help with this.

Warm Regards,

Aparna Nagpal

Club President

Rotary Club of St.Thomas

District 7020

340-690-6695

aparna831@gmail.com

Rotaract News Letter

Why Join Rotary

District 7020 Governor Deborah Howell

Rotary District 7020's District Governor Deborah Howell and Husband Dennis pays a visit.

DG Deborah Howell attended the Club's BOD meeting to hear all of the goals for the year ahead as well as visited ongoing projects.

One of our Clubs' main project has been the Nana Baby Home for children. We have cared for and provided services and much needed renovations over the decades of our involvement.

DG Deborah Howell attends the Rotary Club of St. Thomas' weekly meeting and was given a Paul Harris Fellow award from the Club Treasurer ADG Heflyn Hoyer

President Aparna Nagnal gives a few gifts to our visiting DG

Local Radio Show Wellness Wednesdays

This Radio Program ran for 2 years and is now only available as a Podcast @

https://www.buzzsprout.com/216482/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rotary-wellness-wednesdays-podcast/id1473708031?uo=4

Rotary Wellness Wednesdays

"Conversations Encouraging Health, Wellness, Stress Relief, Resilience and Much More During a Time of Turbulent Weather While Living in the Caribbean"

A Project Sponsored by Rotary District 7020 &

The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands

Hosted by; Paul Doumeng, President Rotary Club St. Thomas

& Dr. Marilyn Braithwaite-Hall, PhD- Consultant

The goals of the Wellness Wednesdays initiative is the following:

Provide an ongoing space to explore the insights, revelations, resilience building, stress reducing and growth enhancing activities used by Virgin Islanders.
Present general concepts involving well- being, stress release, spiritual practices, resilience building and post traumatic growth.
Include a wide range of voices, ages, communities, group members, professions to share their experiences. This explicit invitation to present the community back to itself is inherently a method of healing recovery.
Discuss the value and process of counselling and therapy with mental health and other allied professionals including psychologists, counsellors, social workers and others.
Explore a range of physical and wellness habits, including nutrition, chiropractic care, massage, essential oils, movement and artistic expressions.
Examine how wellness and resilience matters to business owners.
Discuss how nature feeds our soul and calms our mind.
Present voices from school age children, teenagers and elderly/wisdom leaders.
Provide for a dialogue session in front of the post office. It’s a microcosm of the island as most people have to get mail or packages.
Examine how healing home spaces can support wellness and calm with interiors and nature experts.
Discuss why men struggle with vulnerability and the challenge of asking for support.
Examine how historical trauma informs responses and practices.

Formats:

In studio discussions. (live and taped)
In community settings.
In nature
Group format/in-depth discussion with one-four persons
Use of music as an intentional source of resilience and well- being support. Create a diverse playlist of music that can support wellness and resiliency.
Use of poetry from the community to capture their understanding and experiences of wellness. The segment would end with reading of poetry or other creative works by Virgin Islanders.

IEKHS High School Visit

Awards and Recognition

At our May 10th meeting, AG Marston Winkles gave out several 2017-18 awards:

Zone 34 Rotaract Award was presented to PP Athema Turnbull on behalf of the Rotaract Club of the University of the Virgin Islands for being a part of "Rotary Making A Difference."

Lawrence Aqui was presented with a Rotary District 7020 award for his dedicated service to the district as the RI Convention Chair.

President Paul Doumeng (on behalf of our club) was presented with the Club of the Month Bronze Award and an Outstanding Achievement.

And, last, but not least, AG Marton received District Governor's Silver Award for his work as Assistant Governor for Robert Leger.

Rotary Roast - May 27

Paul Davis is hosting a Rotary Roast on May 27th and needs some volunteers to help. Please let him know if you are able. It will be held in the parking lot of Natural Food Grocery and Deli at lunchtime.

Rotary & Peacebuilders

Posted on May 16, 2018

It was a big week last week! Thomas Carlisi came and spoke to our club about Peacebuilder Activities and Rotary. He was not able to show the video he wanted to show from the Rotary Action Group for Peace, so you can take a look at it here: https://www.rotarianactiongroupforpeace.org. It is just 5 minutes long. He wanted to thank our club for having him and stated " I want to express my heartfelt appreciation for the gracious reception support that you and other Rotarians demonstrated to me last week…regarding the Peace initiative that I am conducting."

Mr. Carlisi accomplished much during his week in St. Thomas in addition to speaking to our club:

Conducted “spotlights” at Rotary Club of St. Thomas Sunrise and Rotary Club of St. Thomas II
He met with Al LaBorde (St. Thomas II) , Tim Hall, and Corrine Van Rensselaer (St. Thomas East).
Family Resource Center (FRC) - 2 hr. workshop with staff
St. Thomas Reformed Church - Met with Pastor Jeff
Yoga Center - Co-presented a workshop with Laura Nagi, called “Power of Presence”
St. Thomas Boys & Girls Club - Building Peacemakers, with Respect for All

USVI Rotaract Officer Instllation

Posted by Jason Lewis

On Friday, April 13^th, the UVI Rotaract Club held their final meeting of the school year, and what a meeting it was! There were fifteen students in attendance as well as Rotarians Lisa Marshall and Jason Lewis. After a prayer and the four-way test it was time to induct the club’s newest member, Amarlia Richardson (pictured below with President Athema). This meeting was not only the last of the school year, but it was also the final meeting of the Rotaract Year, and as such the new 2018-2019 Officers and Directors were sworn in. From left to right we have: Sergeant-at-Arms Jamilla Connor, Secretary Quiannah Potter, Community Service Director Makeda Mills, Treasurer Samika Warner, Public Relations Officer Nicolla Fraser, Club Service Director Tekettay Ludvig, President Courtney, and Immediate Past President Athema Turnbull [not pictured is Vice President Nigencia James].

2017-18 President Athema Turnball had a very productive year, it was cut in half by the devastating hurricanes, but she brought everyone back together for the spring term to do good in the world. President Athema gave a short presentation summarizing her Rotaract year.

Now that the formalities were out of the way, it was time for some fun fellowship, which means it was GAME TIME! We split up into two teams and competed against each other in some fun team-building games. Here are the videos:

Straw & Nuts Game: put straw through metal nut, then pick it up and stack 5 of them on top of each other, without using your hands!

https://youtu.be/pBQW2V91mbU

Cup Game: take a stack of plastic cups and cycle through them by taking one cup off of the bottom and putting it on the top, the only catch is you have to alternate the hand you use!

https://youtu.be/Ck58Zi5h-zU

Cookie Game: with a cookie on their forehead they had a minute to get it eaten, only catch, they can’t use their hands!

https://youtu.be/b4yIQoNOAOM

Balloon Race Game: this one took everyone’s help, you had to pass a balloon along the line and then the last person had to pop it without using their hands or feet!

https://youtu.be/uMWHUaTbuoE

Boys & Girls Club February Cookout

Lots of fun was had at the cookout. Thanks to all who participated and donated money for the food. And THANKS to Paul Davis for setting it up.

Ways to do Makeups

There are a number of ways you can do makeups. Makeups need to be done in within a month of the meeting that you missed (one month prior or one month after).

Attend e-club Meetings: https://portal.clubrunner.ca/9515/
Attend clubs while you are traveling: Install the Rotary ClubLocator app on your phone to find meetings.
Attend a Rotary-Sponsored event (does not have to be our own club)
Attend another club's meeting on the island:
1. Rotary Sunrise: Tuesdays @ 7:30 am @ E's Garden Teahouse (Garden Street, 2 Commandant Gade)
2. Rotary Club of Charlotte Amalie: Tuesdays @ 6:30 pm @ E's Garden Teahouse (Garden Street, 2 Commandant Gade)
3. Rotary Club of St. Thomas II: Wednesdays @ 12:15 @ E's Garden Teahouse (Garden Street, 2 Commandant Gade)
4. St. Thomas East: Wednesdays @ 6:30 pm @ Inspiration Hall (Paradise Cove, 2GA Ridge Rd. Estate Nazareth)

e-Club Meetings for Makeups

e-Club of the Caribbean Meetings Link + Times

https://portal.clubrunner.ca/9515/

Dear Visiting Rotarians and Guests,

Prior to enter our online meetings, you will need a password, which will be requested from the meeting service provider when you click on the link below.

Obtaining the password is easy! CLICK HERE to send a notification of your visit and we will send you the current password.

Please use the following link for all scheduled meetings: https://zoom.us/j/758192742

Weekly meeting: Saturdays | 9am Atlantic

Wednesday Fellowship: Wednesdays | 8pm Atlantic

First time on?

Please note that a short (1min) installation process is required prior to access the meeting.

New Facebook Page

Posted by Michelle Emerson-Lewis

We have a new Facebook Page with a new look and an "all-inclusive" attitude. Please LIKE our page to keep up with club news, pictures, stories, and Rotary-world information. Let me know if you'd like to be an Editor. We want as many people participating in updating OUR page as possible. Thanks Lynn, Denise, and Paul for already contributing!

https://www.facebook.com/rotaryclubofstthomas/

Hurricane Harvey

Posted by Jacqueline J. Heyliger

Dear Rotary Family:

We in District 7020 can all understand what those that have been within the path of Hurricane Harvey must be going through.

DG Robert along with the Disaster Team are working to identify how we can best donate to Rotarians and others affected by this devasting Category 4 Hurricane.

Kindly initiate discussion with your members regarding contributions your club would like to make to the survivors of Hurricane Harvey.

Once we have donation information it will be sent it out immediately.

YIRS

Jacqueline J. Heyliger

District Disaster Chair

340-277-3201

Karaoke Fellowship August 31

Posted by Lynn Delaney

YOU ARE INVITED!

The Rotary Club of St Thomas membership fellowship at Iggie's on Thursday 8/31/2017 from 6pm to 9pm

Karaoke night for Rotary Club of St Thomas - bring a friend that is interested in Rotary and enjoy an evening of singing for a fellowship with the membership and make some new friends of Rotary.

Iggie's will have food and drink specials for all Rotarians and their guests. Want to hear someone sing, make a donation. Don't want to sing, make a donation. 50/50 Raffle. All donations and raffle proceeds benefit our college scholarship fund.

#rotarystt #district7020 #growstrongerservebetter #wearepeopleofaction

For additional details, please feel free to phone or message!

Lynn DeLaney
Rotary Club of St Thomas
lynnrotarystt@gmail.com
817.773.7223 (cell)

Have you used the Club Runner App?

Posted by Michelle Emerson-Lewis

I highly recommend downloading the Club Runner App for Rotary International. It is a great tool to have on your phone. It includes a list of our Members with contact information, our Executives, Stories, Events, and Your Attendance. Check it out!