A new email purporting to be from Rotary Foundation Trustee Chair Ray Klinginsmith is targeting Rotary members. The email falsely claims that members can become End Polio Now ambassadors if they email club information to a Gmail address within 48 hours.
The fraudulent email has the subject line “BECOME AN END POLIO AMBASSADOR” and is sent from a fake email address.
This is a scam. Rotary staff is working to resolve the issue. Avoid being the victim of scams by deleting any email that appears suspicious.
We're kicking off The Rotary Foundation's centennial celebration at the Korea convention, 28 May-1 June. But you can get started now planning your club's centennial activities with the resources available in our promotion kit:
Ideas and activities for clubs
Doing Good in the World promotional flier
Doing Good in the World bookmark
Sample press release
Centennial letterhead
Centennial PowerPoint template
Centennial postcard
History of The Rotary Foundation PowerPoint
Find more ideas in "Rotary's Foundation Is Turning 100," in the January issue of Rotary Leader
Watch and download A Century of...
Rotary's annual training meeting gives incoming district governors from around the world the chance to share ideas for strengthening clubs and improving communities.
Learn more about the new presidential theme, Rotary Serving Humanity, and find photos, videos, and speeches from the event. Download resources to use with your club and district.
News coverage
Germ reveals 'Rotary Serving Humanity' as 2016-17 presidential theme
Rotary Voices
Read reactions from the assembly
Photos
2016 Rotary International Assembly photo gallery
Videos
2016-17 presidential theme announcement
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Michele Berg has been selected to help lead Rotary’s operations as deputy general secretary. In this role, she will work alongside General Secretary John Hewko to ensure effective internal operating policies and implement strategies and programs.
In her previous role as Rotary’s chief programs and member services officer, Berg led a team of more than 150 staff members who support membership development, learning and development, and programs. She has worked for Rotary since 2001.
“Michele is an outstanding leader who has been instrumental in ensuring that we provide high-quality services to...
Jonathan Robb, Director of Strategic Integration & Stakeholder Relations with NorQuest College, our speaker on February 9th, pictured, spoke to us about NorQuest College and its role to the implementation of International Strategy and Aboriginal Leaner Strategy in particular.
Heather de Kok, Master Florist and Past President of the club, very generously, donated 100 beautiful long stem red roses to the Interactors at J Percy Page High School prior to Valentines day Feb 14th.
This has been an annual occurrence enabling the Interact Club to raise funds for specific projects.
Here is a thank you note from the teacher liaison, Karen Huculak:
"We really appreciate the donation of 100 roses!
After 3 lunch hours, we sold them all and raised $200.00 to go towards a worthy cause....possibly to support the Syrian refugees through Islamic Family and Social Services Association (IFSSA)."
Thank you to all the volunteers, especially spouse/partners and new and near new members. Well done!
Thanks so much to you and your crew for helping out this morning. We were happy to have your help! I managed to take a couple of pictures, which I’ve attached.
Connor Pilz, Manager, Major Giving with CNIB, was smartly introduced at our Feb 2nd meeting by his dad and club member, Hans.
Connor gave an excellent presentation on the subject of a 3-D printer CNIB has been longing for, and with some assistance of this club and one of our members in particular, Fritz Koenig, they now have the major equipment on order.
His talk went into a detailed description of the functionality of a 3-D printer and it is absolutely amazing. Talk about technology on the edge! Read more about 3 D printing.
In the fall of 2015, a Southgate Centre exhibition of original 3-D paintings of dutch master Vincent van Gogh was on display. What was unique about the exhibition was that the public was encouraged to touch and feel the painting, something you could never do on the original canvas. Connor explained that the 3-D reproduction was so precise it actually included the natural cracks in the old paint.
Clients of CNIB were encouraged to 'feel' the 'paintings' and in a relatively short order they were able to comment on the scene and make comparisons with personal encounters of similar scenes.
This is truly an eye opener for the sight challenged members of our society.
Click on image to play a short video aired on Global News in November 2015
INQUIRY FOR INTEREST FOR A TRIP TO GREECE IN SEPTEMBER 2016
If you are interested in participating in a 7 to 8 days bus tour of Greece please send an e-mail to Dimitri Papanicolas at dpapanicolas@outlook.com in order to receive more information. The number of participants should not exceed 20, on first come first saved basis. We will also connect with a few Rotary Clubs during the trip.
The tour will take place in the mainland visiting archeological sites, religious sites, overall site seeing (see map) and of course some beach time and shopping. No island tours, but cruise tours can be organized separately.
We would like to take this opportunity as the new year starts, to remind you about Rotary Global Rewards, our member benefit program featuring special offers that allow you to do a lot more for a lot less—no matter what you’re doing.
Whether you’re working on your club’s community projects, enjoying a night out with friends or sharing your Rotary story with someone new, you can take advantage of discounts and special offers on airfare, hotels, vehicle rentals, and entertainment.
Would you like to offer discounts from your business to other Rotarians? Help build the program by adding special offers from your own company to the growing portfolio of Rotary Global Rewards. To learn more, visit Rotary.org/GlobalRewards.
Please share this exciting news with your members. You’ll find promotional tools on the Rotary Global Rewards website that will help you introduce your Rotarian friends to the program.
We want to thank Ken Germain for his tremendous contribution to keep members posted about news items, opportunities, stories and light entertainment for the last several years.
I am not trying to fill his shoes, I never could, but we can't ignore the power of information sharing and as most of you know, communication is my bag, so I'm plugging along, but I need your help.
Please forward stories, information and news you would like to share. I like to publish Friday morning, so call it Thursday evening as the deadline for submissions.
You can submit material in just about any format, but try and avoid PDF documents as it is very difficult to re-format. Pictures: any format. (Publ.)
Ken:
Having had fun for 4 or 5 years as Editor of the Strathconian Newsletter, I feel it's time for someone else to enjoy the job.
Beginning the New Year, you can be creative and be an active part of the club's information network.
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