Last week’s program was presented by Rotarian Alan Kicklighter. Alan’s guest speaker was Tommy Pollock with RISE Young Professionals of Plant City. Rise Plant City is a new organization that seeks to enhance lifestyle, leadership, and professional networking opportunities for those between the suggested ages of 21-42 years of age. By creating an environment that is more friendly to this demographic of citizens through economic development, leadership programming, and networking opportunities, Rise Plant City will have a profound impact on our community. RISE will ultimately benefit local business by having a more robust pool of candidates as prospective employee’s. RISE will help reduce the “brain loss” of qualified employee’s and young professionals outside our community. The driving force behind RISE is to improve the community and make it attractive for young people to work, play and live in Plant City instead of moving to the metropolitan areas. Partnering with the EDC and the Plant City Chamber of Commerce is a great way for this to happen. Young people bring innovative and creative ideas to the community. RISE will provide a solid foundation for future leaders. RISE is governed by a Board of 12 Directors, who will each serve a one year term, from a broad range of professional backgrounds. RISE is a self-funding, independent organization that is seeking sponsors and memberships. As a new organization, there has been a great deal of interest from the community and those considering membership. RISE relationships are important for the community to grow. Investing in RISE now, is an investment in young people’s professional career and in our community for the future.-submitted by Mike Arndt
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Happy New Year! Hope you all had a great holiday break. Now it's time to roll up your sleeves and get to work making the rest of this Rotary year an awesome success!
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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...
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...
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...
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....
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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