Rotary International - District 6930 - 005 Quest Magazine - December 2014

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December 2014

Rotary District 6930

Important Updates To Rotary Grants See Page 5

Be A Part Of Rotaract See Page 12

Are You Ready?

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Tell Your Story

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Governor Dr. Juan F. Ortega • editorial Dear Fellow Rotarians,

December is Family Month, a time when we enjoy spending time with our families more than usual and a time when we recognize Rotary’s large and expanding family. The family of Rotary goes beyond our children and spouses. The family of Rotary is not just 1,220,115 Rotarians in 34,558 clubs. We are also 396,980 Interactors, 169,395 Rotaractors, and 186,093 Rotary Community Corps members.

The family of Rotary represents many aspects of the organization: The district leadership team, the clubs in the district, the youth exchange students, the hundreds of community nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations that Rotary clubs have forged partnerships with.

The family of Rotary is very strong and thanks to our efforts it continues to grow as we keep expanding our network!

Just like we can count on our own families, the world relies on the family of Rotary to make the world a better place or like PRIP Richard King says: to make God’s work on earth. Sometimes with extraordinary efforts like

Rotary’s campaign to eradicate polio, or sometimes with impactful efforts that seem simple like mosquito nets that protect children from being infected with Malaria. Rotary is made up of members that care about each other, their own communities and the world. And caring is what family is all about.

I want to take this opportunity to encourage each one of you to welcome and include nonRotarian family members into the Family of Rotary through service and fellowship activities to promote club wellbeing and better communities. Rotary should make time for families, not take time away from families. A great way to bring the Family of Rotary together is to host Rotary Days. The concept is simple: hold a fun, informal event in your community to introduce the public to your club and Rotary. You’ll not only improve Rotary’s image in your community, you’ll also boost interest in joining your club. Any club, big or small, can host a Rotary Day. Neighboring clubs can pool their resources and co-host an event. Here are some ideas for your Rotary Day:

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• An outdoor picnic or barbecue • A sporting event or concert • An event associated with a public parade or festival • An event at a museum, art gallery, or cultural center • A reception or buffet dinner Share your Rotary Day photos on social media using #RotaryDay, or upload them to your Flickr stream and share it with Rotary on our Family of Rotary Flickr group. Tell us who is in each photo and where it was taken, and you just might see it on Rotary media, including in The Rotarian and regional magazines.

Wishing you the joy of family, the gift of friends, and the best of everything in 2015!

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Important Updates to Rotary Grants Dear Governors, Governors-elect and District Rotary Foundation Committee Chairs: I am writing to share some updates about Rotary grants. The Rotary Foundation Trustees met last month and made the following decisions: • Expanded eligibility for district grants. Effective immediately, district grants can now fund youth programs (including Rotary Youth Exchange, RYLA, Rotaract, or Interact), construction (including low cost shelters), travel for staff of cooperating organizations, scholar orientation seminars, grant management seminars, and activities primarily implemented by an organization other than Rotary.

• Amended area of focus definition. The Trustees updated the wording in the economic and community development area of focus definition to provide clarity. Community infrastructure projects continue to be ineligible, unless they result in a significant increase in the ability of community members to produce and distribute goods and services that create personal resources.

• Phased out packaged grants. Despite a number of successes, an evaluation of the organization’s grants and partnerships models revealed notable changes between the original goals of packaged grants and the actual experience of Rotarians during the course of the pilot period and beyond. Such variation resulted in significant challenges in packaged grant implementation and scalability, as well as barriers to Rotarian participation. Therefore, the Trustees agreed to allow the current agreements for packaged grant options with the Foundation’s strategic partners to expire at the end of their current terms, ending packaged grants when all active grants are closed.

As always, more information about Rotary grants is available online at www.rotary.org/myrotary/grants.

If you have questions, email the Rotary Support Center at contact.center@rotary.org. Thank you for all that you do to support The Rotary Foundation!

Sincerely, Abby McNear Rotary Grants Manager Tel 1.847.425.5656 rotary.org cc: Rotary Foundation Trustees and Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinators

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FIRST ANNUAL WELLINGTON WINE AND FOOD FEST

The Rotary Club of Wellington is sponsoring the first Annual Wellington Wine and Food Fest.

Friday Dec, 5th 6.30pm--10.30pm at the International Polo Club in Wellington.

Food stations by many local restaurants. Wine tasting with selected vineyards. Craft beer and fine spirits. Cigar Bar. Music and live auction, win a weekend getaway on Palm Beach at Eau Resort and Spa. Disney Weekend and much more.

Check the web site below for full details and ticket link.

Would love to have you there.

Best Regards.

Larry.

The Rotary Club of Wellington is sponsoring the first Annual Wellington Wine and Food Fes

FIRST ANNUAL WELLINGTON WINE AND FOOD FEST

Friday Dec, 5th 6.30pm--10.30pm at the International Polo Club in Wellington.

Checkstations out our fund raisinglocal web restaurants. site...www.wellingtonwineandfoodfest.com Food by many Wine tasting with selected vineyards. Craft beer an fine spirits. Cigar Bar. Music and live auction, win a weekend getaway on Palm Beach at Eau Resort and Spa. Disne Weekend and much more.

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Paul Harris Fellow awarded to Two Leaders On the Fort Pierce Rotary Park Playground Rebuild

On November 20th, the Rotary Club of Fort Pierce celebrated the one year anniversary of the playground rebuild at Rotary Park and awarding two Paul Harris Fellows.

Over two years ago the Rotary Club of Fort Pierce contacted by the St. Lucie County Parks and Recreation Department. They stated the nineteen year

old playground at Rotary Park had become a hazard and could no longer be repair. They wanted it torn down! For a group of Rotarians, that only meant we had to build again.

Dedicated Rotarians, including Joey Trefelner, Bruce Abernethy, Stephen Neill, Joe Lott, Doug Davis, Earl Gordon, Dan Noelke, and Linda Sampson signed

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up and committed their selves to the rebuild the playground.

We all contributed what we could; be it a few hours, a few days and even a few months; but Joey Trefelner, General Coordinator, and Bruce Abernethy, Fundraising Coordinator stepped up to contribute over a year, which is what it took to run the show and raise the

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money. What they envisioned and subsequently accomplished was amazing. In recognition of their dedication to the rebuilding of the playground at Rotary Park, the Board and members of the Rotary Club of Fort Pierce, awarded Joey Trefelner and Bruce Abernethy each a Paul Harris Fellow.

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ROTARY CLUB OF COCOA REVERSE RAFFLE On October 27th Cocoa Rotary held a Reverse Raffle to benefit our many service projects. We made $5,000.

Pictures Left to right: Phil Gilley, Joe DeLeo, Lowell Loadholtz, Paul Chinaris, Jason Manning, Jerry Quesada, All Cocoa Rotarians and Max Gross Merritt Island Rotary Evening Club Brevard County Sherriff and a Member of our Club Wayne Ivey pulled the winning tickets.

Left to right: Melanie Miller, Left Back-President Bill McCarthy Center Ed Lanni, Mike Coppage and Sherri Coppage

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ROTARY CLUB BOCA RATON WEST THE DICTIONARY AND ESSAY PROJECT The delivery of dictionaries was a success! Students and teachers of the schools were excited about the delivery and presentation of the essay.

The Dictionary and Essay Project took place in three different elementary schools, which are Coral Sunset, Water Edge and Del Prado.

The dentists Jamily and Peter Casey from Aqua Dental Loft sponsored the project.

Club Meeting Information Weekly: Every Thursday, at 7:00 PM Shrimp House, Town Center Mall 6000 Glades Rd. Boca Raton – FL - 33431

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Rotary Club of Titusville Titusville, Florida District 6930 For Immediate Release – October 15, 2014 Community/Life Section Contact: Troy Post 321-960-1458 troyvictorpost@gmail.com

Titusville Rotary Club Awards Paul Harris Fellow Local Rotarian Sunny Aggarwal Given Honor Titusville, Florida – The

Rotary Club of Titusville has awarded Rotarian member Nitin “Sunny” Aggarwal with the designation of a Paul Harris Fellow, acknowledging his work in community service endeavors with the club. Mr. Aggarwal joined the club as a Rotarian this year, and is the owner of Hopkins Pharmacy in Titusville. The presentation was made on September 26, 2014 by Stan Retz, chairman of the club’s Rotary Foundation committee.

According to Club President Bill Van Engelenberg, the recipient represents the highest ideals of Rotary, which emphasizes “service above self.”

The Paul Harris Fellow recognition was established by Rotary International in 1957 to show appreciation for contributions to the world-wide community service organization. Many notable figures have been named Paul Harris Fellows in recent decades, including U.S. President Jimmy Carter, U.S. Astronaut and Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell, and the discoverer of the Polio vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk.

For more information on Rotary International, visit www.rotary.org.

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ROTARY CLUB BOCA RATON WEST WORLD POLIO DAY FUNDRAISER Boca Raton’s Mayor Susan Haynie, officially instituted October 24 as World Polio day for the eradication of polio. The Rotary Clubs of Boca Raton joined forces to put together a Fundraiser for Polio for Rotary International, held at the Shrimp House at Town Center Mall. Juan Ortega, Governor of district 6930 attended the event, which showed a video about what is being done to eradicate Poliomielite in the world as wells as what is happening in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria and why it is so urgent.

Club Meeting Information Weekly: Every Thursday, at 7:00 PM Shrimp House, Town Center Mall 6000 Glades Rd. Boca Raton – FL - 33431

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COCOA BEACH DAYBREAK ROTARY CLUB IS 2014 BUSINESS CHAMPION OF THE YEAR Cocoa Beach, Florida, November 8, 2014– Our President, Richard White, was presented with the Cocoa Beach Regional Chamber Business Resource Council’s 2014 Business Champion of the Year award for medium-sized non-profits and with a proclamation concerning it from Congressman Bill Posey (FL8-R).

President White said that the award was welcome recognition for the efforts the club has made in the community during this year.

The award was originally presented to the club at the Cocoa Beach Regional Chamber’s monthly New Partner Orientation on October 31st.

Cocoa Beach Daybreak Rotary Club supports programs in schools in Cocoa Beach and in Cocoa, participates in beach cleanups, raises funds for the Public Library, and supports a very successful water, sanitation, and hygiene program in Honduras.

We meet every Tuesday at 7:00 a.m. at Roberto’s Restaurant, 26 N. Orlando Avenue, Cocoa Beach, Florida.

If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Fred Martin at (321) 453-5635 or email at frederick.martin@mindspring.com.

Secretary Fred Martin and President Richard White

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Tell Your Story

My name is Angelica Blakely and I will be at your service as Public Image Chair in our District.

As part of Rotary’s new strategy we are trying to strengthen our image so that everyone will understand what Rotary stands for, how we’re different, and why it matters.

I encourage all Public Image Chairs for each club to download from Rotary Brand Center the Messaging Guidelines Brochure, subtitled The Voice, and Visual Rotary Guidelines, to share with club members. In this brochure you will find powerful tools to do “What we need to do”, which is to tell our great story in a way that ensures our actions and supports our words. And if your club doesn’t have Public Image Chairs please ask your president to appoint someone.

One of the best ways to bring our story to life is to simply tell about it. With this in mind we will have a space in the District newsletter called “Telling You Story”. It will be a forum for individuals to tell about the day they became a true Rotarian. Submissions will need to be no more than 400 words and, if possible, should include the author’s picture. Stories like these can inspire others and help to connect people to one another.

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TellYourStory JON A. KAYE

President Elect Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton Chief Operating Officer Kaye Communications, Inc. 2255 Glades Road, Suite 324A Boca Raton, FL 33431 I first joined the Rotary Club of Boca Raton in 2004. I have served as a board member most of my active years. It was and still is very rewarding to work side by side with other Rotarians whom you really get to know well as “good deed doers”.

Whether it’s working on a committee for a fund-raising event like OPAL AWARDS, developing a major event to honor the Greatest Generation, “Honor Your Doctor”, a Golf Tournament, sponsoring a Downtown Boca Auto show, delivering meals at Christmas to those who are shut in, collecting clothes and food items to pack up and send to New Jersey after the Hurricane, or serving as a Rotary Board Member, the experience is unlike any other.

Rotary provides the opportunity to make great relationships and provide an organized method for one to be philanthropic and make a significant impact when as an individual one may not have the resources or the opportunities to help on their own.

A defining moment for me was when I became part of the founding board member of the Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton in 2011 with our mission of Health & Wellness in the community; we have been able to make a significant impact in the Boca community with our Golf Tournament and annual “Honor Your Doctor” luncheons. We were able to donate monies to FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Palm Beach State College and Lynn University.

Like any organization, you get out of it, what you put into it. It is not just about going to a weekly lunch.

Yes, we do have great guest speakers at our luncheons; wonderfully entertaining socials where we all get to enjoy a relaxed environment reinforcing our relationships, and participate in Rotary International educational seminars where we can meet with Rotarians from all over our district 6930. All these various events provide opportunities to build friendships with like-minded people that last a lifetime.

The Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton is dedicated to impacting the Boca Raton Community through the efforts of “Service Above Self.”

Its main mission is Health And Wellness.

For more information about the Club, including how to become a member, visit www.rotarydowntownbocaraton.org

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Dear Rotary President and Rotarians,

My name is Dini Heizer from Rotary Club

Boca Raton West, and I am the person in charge of the District Newsletter 2014-2015!

I would like to give you space for your club to send photos, or talk about events, services, or anything you want as long as you can send it to us!

Please, send to: diniheizer@gmail.com I’ll be waiting for you!

Thank you!

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