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Jan 16, 2017

Colleen Justin and Loretta Burns

East Hillsborough Art Guild

Jan 23, 2017

Angelica Ibarra

Learn Tampa Bay

Jan 30, 2017

Karen Griggsby

Woman’s Club of Plant City

Feb 06, 2017

Rotarian - Randy Larson

Speaker Unknown

Feb 13, 2017

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2017 Rotary Speech Contest

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This Week's Program

Speaker:

Colleen Justin and Loretta Burns

Colleen Justin and Loretta Burns

Colleen Justin and Loretta Burns

Topic: East Hillsborough Art Guild

Rotarian: Tim Kip

Last Meeting- January 8th

Last week’s program was presented by Rotarian Nate Kilton. Mike Herr, Plant City's city manager gave an informative update on the state of the city.

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John Haney is our program chairman. Please notify him regarding upcoming speakers and programs. Call 813-716-5108 or email John at jhaney@acebid.com

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Birthdays This Month

Randy Larson – Jan 2

Tatyana Austin - Jan 10

Jeremy Burris - Jan 16

John Haney - Jan 17

Reggie Holt - Jan 17

Steve Singletary - Jan 19

Bill Butler - Jan 21

Randy Gordon - Jan 24

James Moody - Jan 25

Club Anniversaries This Month

Mike Knight – 2 years

Marty Clay – 4 years

Jodi Stevens – 4 years

Randy Bailey – 6 years

Jim Scott - 11 years (15 in Rotary)

Tom Sparkman – 11 years

Keith Smith – 13 years

Jeremy Burris – 14 years

Tim Kip – 20 years

Ed Bozeman – 23 years

Randy Gordon – 27 years

Bill Wicker - 28 years

Ron Gainey - 30 years

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Convention: Southern hospitality
The Atlanta Host Organization Committee is offering some good old-fashioned Southern hospitality at the Rotary International Convention from 10 to 14 June. It has planned a wide range of activities featuring everything from good food and music to inspiring tours of local landmarks. If it’s your first convention, these events are chances to meet fellow Rotarians from around the world, and if you’re an experienced convention goer, you can catch up with old friends. Hall of Fame baseball player Hank Aaron will host Rotarians for a “Strike Out Polio” night at the new SunTrust Park, where you’ll...

Member spotlight: The power of the press
When Teguest Yilma helped found the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa Entoto in 2002, she thought polio had already been eradicated from most of the world. But while Ethiopia had been free of the disease, Yilma was shocked to learn that new cases had started cropping up in surrounding countries such as Somalia. “I was thinking, it’s not possible, we can’t be free if the countries around us are not free,” she says. Yilma, the managing editor of Capital, Ethiopia’s largest English weekly newspaper, has brought a journalist’s skills to the fight against polio. She became vice chair of the Ethiopia...

Member interview: Writer sheds light on FDR’s right-hand woman
Battling breast cancer in 2000, Kathryn Smith found comfort pursuing her lifelong interest in Franklin D. Roosevelt. The more she read, the more intrigued she became with the 32nd U.S. president’s private secretary, Marguerite Alice “Missy” LeHand. “I thought, what a fascinating life she had because she was by his side through the polio crisis, establishing the polio rehabilitation center in Warm Springs and then after his return to politics,” she says. Smith, a past president of the Rotary Club of Greater Anderson, S.C., and a longtime newspaper journalist, turned that curiosity into a book...

The Rotarian Conversation with Ban Ki-moon
One of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s earliest memories is of fleeing with his family into the mountains during the Korean War, his village burning behind him. His father and grandfather had to forage for food in the woods; his mother gave birth to his siblings away from anything remotely resembling a health facility. “I have known hunger,” he says. “I have known war, and I have known what it means to be forced to flee conflict.” The soldiers who came to their rescue were flying the blue flag of the United Nations. The UN provided them with food and their schools with books....

Culture: Life in the bike lane
Like a lot of us, I spent much of my childhood riding bikes, but fell out of the habit for a while. Forty years. Then my wife and I moved to New York, where cyclists risk their necks in a daily Thunderdome of cabs, police cars, firetrucks, double-decker buses, messengers on motorbikes, and delivery trucks backing around corners at 20 miles an hour. Not for me! At least not until my 50th birthday, when my metabolic furnace flamed out. Calories started going directly from beer bottle to beer belly. It was time to start exercising. Either that or give up Samuel Adams, and I couldn’t do that to...

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