This week is a special time for many of our members as Passover, Easter and Ramadan are being celebrated this week. This is a nice time to share in the fasting and feasting of these celebrations. It is also a nice time learn something new about these celebrations that mean so much to many in our club.
I hope you all saw the article in The Gazette on Monday featuring one of our butterflies being donated to the City of Colorado Springs. It is a butterfly decorated in honor of the artist's dad who suffers from Parkinsons Disease. The Parkinson Disease Association bought it and donated to the City for display in a city park. The dedication is at 1:30 pm today (Thursday) at Nancy Lewis Park (Fillmore and Templeton Gap) at 1:30 pm. You are all invited to attend.
Please sign up to help this week with check-in and greeting for our meeting.
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to volunteer at the Habitat for Humanity build site as part of March's service project. I admit to being nervous as my total experience in handyman/construction projects is to call my brother-in-law and ask him to do it. It turned out to be a blast. While initially being terrified, I learned that I love using a circular table saw. Who knew? So, I encourage you to sign up next time we do this project, if you are able to do so. See the Community Service section for more information on our projects
This bulletin also has information on the North Club's blood drive being held in conjunction with the Sheriff's Department, an update on the fight to End Polio, our community service projects, and our international projects.
Our next social will be at Wackadoo Brewery on Centennial Blvd on April 25th. We hope you can join us and bring a friend. It is a great, easy way to introduce people to Rotary. Check out the Socials section for more information on the social and also May's joint social with other clubs
Next week our program will be about the Union Printer Home. It will be a full hour of programing. The first half hour will be Ellie Hinkle, Director of History and Archives on the Union Printers Home: Past and Present. The second half hour will be Daniel Church - UPH Master Plan Team on The Future of The Union Printers Home. Come and bring a friend! Don’t forget to RSVP by Monday at 5 pm!
At the request of the overwhelming majority of the members, the following Friday, April 21st will be the Mayoral Runoff Debate that we are jointly sponsoring with the other Rotary Clubs in the area. Please bring a friend to this event.
Please take time to read the bulletin each week and check out our website that has more information about all our events, activities and upcoming speakers.
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RSVP to Ron Rubin no later than May 22nd. We need to get a count into Tara King our Area Director so she can let the restaurant know. The clubs will be chipping in to provide some light appetizers. Each member will purchase their own drinks.
Below you will find the REGISTRATION Link to attend this spring's Rotary DISTRICT 5470's ASSEMBLY. The assembly will have a curriculum that is designed for 2023-2024 Rotary Club officers and Board members especially Presidents elect, Rotary Foundation, Membership, Public Image, and Community Service chairs and members.
If you will be serving in one of these roles next year or have an interest in doing so in the future, consider attending this event!
There is no cost for attending and lunch will be provided. Please register using the links below so that we can plan for lunch.
District Assembly - April 15, 2023 in Montrose
Holiday Inn Express, 1391 S Townsend Ave, Montrose
North Colorado Springs Rotary is partnering with the El Paso Sheriff's Dept to hold a blood drive on Thursday, April 13 from 10 am to 2 pm at the office on Vermijo.
There is a critical need for blood right now! I have attached the flyer. It is best to make an appointment and I am happy to help you! The donated blood will be credited to the Sheriff's Dept.
3333 Templeton Gap Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80907
PURPOSE
Now in its fourth year, the Craig and Kyle Whitney Memorial Golf Tournament was established to provide community service. To-date, this very fun event has been sponsored by a wide range of local businesses and individuals and has raised more than $50,000 to benefit our community through the programs of the Salvation Army and the Rotary Club of Colorado Springs. Beginning last year and now going forward, the Whitney Tournament also provides “scholarships” for First Tee youth.
“Being able to participate in the Whitney Memorial Golf Tournament gave our participants an experience that they will never forget because it gave them a chance to grow and provided them a safe place to fail. They were pushed outside of their comfort zones and were able to rely on all the active learning experiences that we have been teaching them through our life skills and leadership curriculum.” Emily Ortmeier, LPGA, Director of Golf and Education First Tee – Southern Colorado
PEN (Practical Education Network) in Accra, Ghana (installation of online training facility) $5,000
Science Lab at Masai Mara High School in Kenya, Africa. $2,500 (with $2,500 from the Los Altos, California Rotary Club)
Social Work Scholarships at Hubert Kairuki Memorial University (HKMU) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Two individual scholarships) $3,000
School bus purchase for Rotary Volcanes School of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico $2,000 (Tri Lakes Rotary Club project; total goal from area clubs and District grant $16,000)
Ukrainian Letter Project (supplies, printing and shipping) $2,600
Ankara Turkey disaster response $3,000
Our Community Salutes (recognition of high school military enlistees) Vendor Booth $500
March is WASH Awareness month, so lets take a look at RCCS engagement with the 6th SDG! Two water purification enterprises were just installed at 2 Maasai communities in Kenya. Once certified and launched this Spring, both will be run by Maasai women and will be supplying purified water to over 20,000 per day, and generating an annual revenue stream of over $300,000 combined each year. This was funded 90% by a Program Related Investment from a Minnesota Rotary Club, and 10% by our own CSF and an anonymous club member.
We are developing some exciting projects going forward. These include:
A Refuge de Higene in Guatemala at Escuintla Regional Hospital. For the past 4 years, the H2OpenDoors project has been adding purification equipment made here in Colorado. This last January, an expedition of 34 installed the final system, bringing total capacity to 100,000 liters each day. Next January we return to cut the ribbon on a new 20 toilet and sink building to provide sanitation and hygiene for the family visitors to the hospital. Their pediatrics unit performs 45,000 births annually.
A rural community in Peru will be receiving a large water system from Global Water First, our social impact investment strategy to fund projects. Our Minnesota Rotary partner will be funding their second PRI for $80,000 to establish a water business. An expedition will be promoted to Rotary members in late Spring once political unrest calms down there.
Ethiopia and Somalia are experiencing extreme drought. Global Water First will be working with Alight Foundation to rehabilitate dozens of boreholes and establish water distribution points to serve over one million people.
At EarthX in Dallas on April 19-23, we'll be displaying 6 water tech configurations made in Rocky Ford to an estimated 200,000 attendees and investors. EarthX is the largest environmental and climate conference in the world, and for the first time we will have our own Rotary Pavilion. Opening day of the Expo features a presentation by Jon Kaufman, followed by Past RI President, Mark Maloney.
Update on the Monument Club's Mexican School Bus project from Khurshid Qureshi: The project has been approved by the District Grant Committee. Inside the bus, there will be a engraved plate for your club name. Outside the bus will be Rotary Logo and District 5470 painted on the back. We will have formal ceremony for handing over the bus keys to the school in Purto Vallarta. Your partnership in this project has helped us to get this grant. It is also a model that how a newly formed small Rotary Club can accomplish big things by leveraging a bigger club. - Khurshid Qureshi
Warmly,
Jon Kaufman
P.S. If you are interested in participating in our International Committee, please email Jon Kaufman jk595@aol.com to be added to the notification list!
1. These trips are only for Rotarians, family members and in some cases friends (assuming they are potential rotarians) to participate.
2. Each trip for 10 days. Visit local attractions, rotary clubs through varies social events, attending cultural events, museums, shows, restaurants and more.
During the trip, we will meet with talented young people in the country (often they are interact and rotaract members), will select group to participate in RCF International Cultural Exchange for the trip to USA as Cultural Ambassadors in 2024.
3. RCF responsible: Arrange Airline tickets to travel as group, ground transpiration in the country, hotels and coordination with in country rotary clubs.
RCF representative will travel with the group, coordinate and manage logistics during each trip (teams ~ 15 people)
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Our April Social will be on Tuesday, April 25th at Wackadoo Brewing
PEN (Practical Education Network) in Accra, Ghana (installation of online training facility) $5,000
