Rotary International - District 6930 - 02 Quest Magazine - September 2017

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DISTRICT 6930

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Quest Rotary District 6930

The Official District Magazine

10 tips to attract and retain quality members

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Promote Rotary!

Distribute this magazine to your place of business, family and friends.

Spread the word!

Editor

Dini Heizer

Graphic Designer

Andre Heizer

that increased our member participation

Contributors

Page 10 David Freudenberg

NEW ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT-ELECT 2018-2019

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Deb Avery Donna Moden Gaiser Donna Keys Elizabeth Cayson Marcia Gaedcke Vera Schaffer Jula Babbitt

LET’S GO HELP TEXAS!

Betty Shearer Jerry Leitherer Gabriela Heizer

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GOVERNOR MESSAGE Making a Difference The theme for Rotary 2017-2018 has a special meaning for all Rotarians throughout the world. RI President Ian Riseley has put forth a special challenge to become more involved in not only Rotary, but also your own community. “Through Rotary, we are Making a Difference in the world, and the more involved we become, the more of a difference Rotary makes to each of us. Rotary challenges us to become better people: to become ambitious in the ways that matter, to strive for higher goals, and to incorporate “Service Above Self” into our daily lives.”

District 6930 has special challenges ahead as we incorporate the results of last year’s Council on Legislation that opened the door to new opportunities in making each club more accessible to new and existing members. There are some new requirements for each club, including the fact that the Treasurer MUST be a member of the Board of the club. This is to incorporate the Rotary International Errors & Omissions Policy into each club, for the protection of all of us. With over 35,000 clubs there could be problems somewhere.

Each club is now required to provide access to board meeting minutes to every club member within 60 days of the board meeting. This is the desire to provide transparency and openness.

This year we will be adding the object of attacking the horrible disease of Alzheimer’s to our district objective. Every one of us has or will be subjected to this disease through close family or acquaintances. While other diseases such as cancer and heart disease are seeing a decline, Azheimer’s is growing in impact at an alarming rate. We will be joining with the Rotary Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust (CART) program to help find a cure. You should not be limited by this one program and I encourage each club to participate in the attack on this disease in one form or another.

Josh the Otter was introduced to Rotary by our own member Jim Underwood and has become a major program to protect children from the biggest cause of death to children under the age of 5 years.

We have the tools and materials to allow each club to launch this project in their own community. It is not an easy result to measure, but I believe we will see an impact in Florida in the next few years.

We will end the year for our District with the most exciting District Conference in the history of District 6930. The conference will be aboard the Royal Caribbean Empress of the Seas from June 2-6, 2018. We are joining with District 6950 to do a joint conference that will begin the cruise in Tampa and spending a day in Havana Cuba. We will be the first group of Rotarians to visit Havana in almost 60 years. What an exciting experience this will be.

And finally, next year’s Rotary Convention will be in Toronto, Canada June 23-25, 2018.

Let’s Make a Difference!

Dave Freudenberg

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CALENDAR

September Basic Education and Literacy Month

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DISTRICT LEADERSHIP District Governor

David Freudenberg (Dave & Pat) Office: Club: Boca Raton Downtown DG-Elect

Julia Babbitt (Jula & Clint) Office: Club: Indialantic

DG-Nominee

Donna Marie Gaiser (Donna & Carl) Office: Club: Okeechobee iPDG

Eric Gordon (Eric) Office: 561-308-9305 Club: Royal Palm Beach District Secretary

Deborah Freudenberg (Deborah & Mike) Office: 561-299-1429 Club: Boca Raton Downtown

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District Treasurer

Terri Marie Wescott (Terri) Office: 561-270-8800 Club: Boca Raton Downtown

Assistant District Governor (Area 1)

Stanley M. Fertel (Stan & Charna) Office: Club: Boca Raton Sunrise

Grants Committee Chair

Eugene B. Burkett (Gene & Linda) Office: 321-631-0383 Club: Merritt Island

Vocational Service Chair

Gregory A. Reader (Greg) Office: Club: Vero Beach Sunrise

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PolioPlus Chair

Frances Virgin Owen (Betsy & Mike) Office: Club: Delray Beach

Nominating Committee Chair

Louis Venuti (Louis & Loretta) Office: 321-286-7475 Club: Titusville Rotary Club

Young Professionals

Michael F. Walstrom (Michael) Office: Club: Boca Raton Downtown Literacy TF Chair

Gay S. Voss (Gay)

Office: Club: Boynton Beach-Lantana Newsletter Editor

Dini Mancebo Heizer (Dini Heizer) Office: Club: Boca Raton West

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CLUB DIRECTORY

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INTERNATIONAL about your club. List your star members, the advantages of where your club meets, how many members it has, etc. Make sure to tailor the email/ letter to the wants of any potential new member.

5. List potential areas of responsibilities. Potential members will want to know how they can fit in and what opportunities there are for serving.

Edina’s junior police officer, a member of the Rotary club, shares safety information with students.

Since 1 July, 2016, my Rotary club has recruited and brought in 31 new members. Eleven of these new members are women and eight of them are under 40 years of age. The club has gone from being classified as a “medium” sized club of 68 members in our district to being classified as a “large” club of 93 members in just over nine months. How did this happen? Here’s our tips: 1. Know your club’s strengths. If you meet in the morning, you will probably be a good fit for a 9 to 5 employee. But if you meet at noon, you’re more likely to appeal to retirees or parents of school-age children. If someone doesn’t fit your format, recommend them to another club. They won’t forget you and may send you someone another day. Let all the clubs in your area know you are looking for members, and they may send you some that better fit your format than their own.

2. Keep a list of potential recruits. It doesn’t matter if it’s a paper list or if it’s kept on the desktop of your computer – it just makes you think about those people and others that may be a fit for your club.

3. Make recruiting the top priority in your club. You can’t do everything as a club president, and knowing that will give you some freedom to focus on the most important thing. Having new members – with new energy – will help you have more people to raise money for The Rotary Foundation, serve on your committees, and invite additional members/more smiling faces to your meetings and fun event. Let your members know this is the top priority so they can all help.

4. Create a letter that lists all the great things

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6. Be persistent. There will be times that it takes literally a dozen requests to get someone to a meeting. Keep asking. They may come to a meeting, or tell you they can’t join now because they are too busy, or they aren’t interested in joining at the moment. These are all fine answers as long as you keep track of them and keep in touch. How many times did you have to be asked? (It was over a course of two years for me).

7. Talk about Rotary wherever you go. At church, temple, work, neighborhood gatherings, family gatherings, parties, etc. You’ll be amazed how easy it is after you practice for a while. Getting a lot of “no” answers built my confidence because it didn’t hurt as bad as I thought and most people were actually happy I asked, even if they responded negatively. It’s always a good time to recruit.

8. Celebrate when you get a new member.

This gets the club excited about getting more members. Our club makes a poster of the individuals after they’ve been voted in and we put it in the front of the room at our next meeting. We do the same thing when we induct a new member.

9. Realize there is no finish-line. Even if you are at the size that your club wants to be, there are always reasons people leave. And new insights always benefit a club. You’re either growing or you’re dying.

10. Be vibrant. Wear a turkey suit before Thanksgiving (it’s only your dignity you stand to lose), wear a lanyard with lots of “flair”/Rotary pins (it gets people talking to you), make outrageous centerpieces for your meeting tables (it gets people talking to each other), greet people outside the building you are meeting in and hold the door open for them (it lets people know you care).

These really work. Try them out.

By Tom Gump, president of the Rotary Club of Edina Morningside, Minnesota, USA, and a District 5950 trainer

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en community and enrich lives through engagement and learning.

Meetings have generated 1,169 views for three of these meetings!

We also introduced 1905 Meetings on the third Thursday of As one of the largest clubs in the month. These meetings pay our district, we knew we had to homage to Rotary’s beginnings, do something to address our when the first Rotarians gathered declining attendance and meet in small groups at each other’s the needs of our diverse memplaces of work. For the business bership. Beginning in 2015 with portion of the meeting led by our a club visioning exercise, we beclub president, we are all linked gan looking for ways we could be via a live Facebook feed from a flexible and innovative. Here’s central downtown location. Then what’s worked for us. we disconnect and at various reOne of the first things we did was mote locations, a board member revise our attendance guidelines or program committee member to stress that attendance is more leads a small group discussion about participating than attend- around a video presentation foing meetings. We ask members cused on the Rotary theme for to have 50 percent attendance. the month.

But taking part in any of our Some of our willing Rotarians club’s many service activities host these meetings in their placqualifies, as do our club’s leades of work. These are “brown ership or committee meetings, bag” lunches. We imagine that other Rotary club meetings anyPaul Harris held his meetings in where in the world, or any Romuch the same way, except that tary activity. We know Rotarians we are using different technolwill benefit more from memberogy! ship when they participate more regularly, so we ask our mem- The many benefits include havbers to consider the many ways ing a cost-free meeting for those they can participate. on a budget, providing meeting locations closer to a variety of We also introduced two new people’s workplaces, creating meeting formats beginning in better opportunities for meanJanuary 2017. DuringService ingful dialogue in small groups, First Thursday on the first week and allowing people at home, at of each month, we gather at work, or traveling to take part. the Rochester Public Library to While our weekly attendance is volunteer. The location is easily around 60 members per meetaccessible; parking is free; and ing, our Facebook live and rewe work together to support the corded live videos for our 1905 Library in its efforts to strength-

Finally, we introduced a Speed Networking meeting. Members sit across from other members and have four minutes to visit on a few selected topics. After that, one side of the table moves down one seat to talk with another member. One side stays put to accommodate members who have a harder time with mobility. The room is filled with energy and chatter, and local and visiting Rotarians alike have enjoyed this meeting format, some asking us for materials to take back to their clubs.

We have made the meeting changes in the spirit of innovation and flexibility, but keeping key values of service, being globally focused, community, fun, and friendship in mind. We are highlighting that there are many ways to serve and even more ways to regularly get together to encourage fellowship with other Rotarians.

Throughout Membership and New Club Development month, we will be featuring blog posts that focus on club flexibility. From a hybrid club to dual membership, these posts feature clubs who have benefited greatly from restructuring or implementing new membership options.

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NEW ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT-ELECT 2018-2019

Barry Rassin, of the Rotary Club of East Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International for 2018-19, and will be declared presidentelect on 1 September if no challenging candidates have been suggested.

Rassin’s nomination follows Sam F. Owori’s death in July, just two weeks into his term as Rotary International president-elect.

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LET’S GO HELP TEXAS!

Rotary Governors, as you have heard in the news Hurricane Harvey has dealt a heavy blow to the Southern part of Texas the extent of which we have yet to learn – things like flooded homes, schools like Rockport and Aransas Pass being partially destroyed, businesses wiped out, etc. As your Zone 21b & 27 Disaster Chairman I have gathered from the four main Rotary districts affected by the Hurricane information on where to send any monetary aid you can gather up from your clubs and fellow Rotarians or friends to help those in need. I am also including the four names of the District Governors affected that will be getting requests from their areas’ clubs for help. This way our fellow Rotarians will make sure the money is spent in the best way possible in their area. If you have any questions feel free to contact me or one or more of the four District Governors.

A receipt for the donations over $250.00 should be sent to the donors for tax purposes and if requested for any amount.

Thanks for your help, Hugh A Hugh Summers PDG D 5910, 2003-04 Zone 21b & 27 & D 5910 Disaster Chairman D 5910 Youth Exchange Asst. Treas.

RC of Palestine Recruitment & Orientation Chair & Dir.

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Rotary District 5930 is partnered with McAllen North Rotary Fund a 501 (c) 3 to set up an Emergency Relief Fund. Please make checks to McAllen North Rotary Fund (Fed tax # 27-3855943) and mail to Rotary D 5930, McAllen North Rotary Club, 501 W. Nolana, McAllen, TX 78504.

Questions and requests for help can be sent to DG Betty Ramirez-Lara, cell956-683-5706 , bettylararotary@gmail.com , P O Box 3882, McAllen, TX 78502 Rotary District 5910 has a Rotary District 5910 Charitable Foundation and funds can be sent to: Rotary District 5910 Charitable Foundation, c/o Bobbie Applegate, 985 IH-10N, Suite 111, Beaumont, TX 77706.

Questions and requests for help can be sent to DG Rhonda Herrington, cell903-724-8515 , rhonda.herrington@yahoo.com, 616 S Sycamore, Palestine, TX 75801.

Rotary District 5890 has a District 5890 Charities, Inc. and funds can be sent to: District 5890 Charities, Inc, c/o Jackie Barmore, 3525 Preston Ave., Pasadena, TX 77505

Rotary District 5840 has a District 5840 Foundation (a Disaster Fund) and funds can be sent to: District 5840 Foundation, Attn: Bobbe Barnes, Treasurer, P O Box 13, Boerne, TX 78006.

Questions and requests for help can be sent to DG Bill Palko, cell 713-582-7235, home 713-450-2623, william.palko@amegybank.com, 202 Blue Castle Lane, Houston, TX 77015.

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VERO BEACH SUNRISE

ROTARY CLUBS

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OKEECHOBEE At the regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Okeechobee on August 22nd, Gary Smith the Assistant Governor for Area 6, District 6930, had his first official visitation for the new Rotary year. Pictured with him is Past President Denise Whitehead Hardacre, presenting him with a book in his honor to be given to a local school library.

Rotary meets every Tuesday at Golden Corral. — with Gary Smith and Denise Whitehead Hardacre.

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SEBASTIAN

ShrimpFest & Craft Brew Hullabaloo March 16, 17 and 18, 2018 Riverview Park, Sebastian, Fl Three days of Shrimp, Craft Brews, Live Music, Vendors and Kids Events! The ShrimpFest & Craft Brew Hullabaloo has a new venue this year at Riverview Park, US Hwy 1 & CR 512, Sebastian, Florida. Our three day Shrimp Cook-off competition will include local restaurants and food trucks competing for the 3rd Annual Golden Shrimp Award. We start off on Friday with our pre-St. Patty's Day party at 3:00 pm with food, music, and brew until 9:00 pm. On Saturday the vendors open early at 9:00 am, beer sales start at 10:00 and food sales at 11:00. On Saturday from 1:00 to 4:00 we have a special Craft Beer Tasting sponsored by 15 Florida brewers and 5 home brewers. Entry to the tasting is $35 at the door and pre-sales are $30 at www.eventbrit.com We will have a Motorcycle Show and Ride-in on Saturday from 12:00 to 5:00. Live music, beer and food will flow until 9:00pm. Kids events will be happening all day long, sponsored by Home Depot. On Sunday the vendors open again at 9:00, beer sales at 10:00 and Food at 11:00, music and kids events all day to 5:00 pm. Enjoy a special Car Show on Sunday from 10:00 to 2:00. The ShrimpFest & Craft Brew Hullabaloo is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sebastian and the Exchange Club of Fellsmere. Funds raised help support local youth sports activities and the prevention of child abuse. For more details: www.ShrimpFestFL.com or email us at info@shrimpfestfl.com March 16th 3:00 - 9:00 Pre-St. Patty's Day Party with vendors, food, music and kids activities March 17th 9:00 - 9:00 10:00 - 9:00 11:00 - 9:00 1:00 - 4:00 and

12:00 - 5:00

Vendors Open Beer Sales- 4 craft brews on tap, 6 in bottles Food Sales Craft Brew Event: Over 15 Florida brewers 5 home brewers. Tickets $35 at the door, presales $30 at eventbrit.com Motorcycle Show and Ride In

March 18th 9:00 - 5:00 Vendors Open 10:00 - 5:00 Beer Sales- 4 craft brews on tap, 6 in bottles 11:00 - 5:00 Food Sales 10:00 - 2:00 Car Show

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Pahokee

Words of wisdom from Rotarian Donia ... "if more people would follow our FOUR Way Test, our world might be a better place."

We AGREE! Share if you agree.... at First United Methodist Church of Pahokee.

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Titusville

Titusville Rotary Club delivered 50 backpacks and 48 personal care kits to our local high schools.

These supplies are targeted for students who are categorized as homeless by the school district.

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BOCA RATON WEST

Our festive gathering at the Di Pizza Restaurant & Bar on the evening of August 17 did not have a formal agenda as it always does at our weekly meetings. It was only a good reason to review members, friends and their guests during which we spoke casually about what Rotary stands for us and the community. In the end, we were amazed at the benefits of this meeting because everyone present was very comfortable in submitting ideas and suggestions for projects and speeches whose importance was vital for planning our future activities. We appreciate everybody’s presence and hope that these festive gatherings will be repeated more often in places as pleasant as this one was.

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Indialantic Rotary Club of Indialantic for their Merry Monday social on August 7th at Pizza Uno in Melbourne.

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Titusville Sunrise

Our Exchange Students have been arriving all week!

Meet Lou from Taiwan!

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Port St Lucie Former Group Study Exchange delegate class of 2000 from Brazil returned to visit her host family in PSL recently. Andrelina Zouein (front row 3d from left) was accompanied by her husband Georges, son Arthur (9) and daughter Amanda (13), Betty Thorne-Shearer was her host family 17 years ago (along with husband Bill now deceased) and is Amanda's Godmother. Andrelina represented the teaching profession on the GSE team. Members of RC of Port St Lucie pictured here welcomed them at lunch at the 19th Hole at the Saints.

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BOCA RATON SUNSET

PAL HALF MARATHON AND 5K RUN NOV 5, 2017

Club Secretary Jerry Leitherer kicked off our Boca Raton Police Athletic League (PAL) project for 2017: the 17th annual half marathon and 5K Run/Walk will take place at the Spanish River Park, Boca Raton, November 5, 2017 at 6:30 am. Our club is seeking sponsors for the event and Jerry passed out brochures and sponsor contracts expecting sponsors to be identified within the next couple of weeks to get their logos in the racer application forms.

The race usually has about 800- 1,000 participants.

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ROTARACT

FAU

Rotaract Club Rotaract is the future of Rotary.

We all know that one of the major concerns of Rotary is the retention of younger members. In order to get these younger members, Rotarians must engage with them. The best way to do that is through Rotaract clubs. These are all college students who are interested in truly making a difference. They are people willing and able to serve. Unfortunately, not all of them truly know what Rotary International is. They may know about it vaguely, but in my club I’ve learned that majority do not know what Rotary International is or what it does. This is terrible, not on the Rotaract members but on our Rotary members. If these students graduate college simply thinking Rotaract was just another college organization, then Rotary has failed in its mission.

Rotarians must connect with their local Rotaract club and must work to build that relationship. As a college student, we look up to professionals and aim to build our network as much as possible. So our local Rotary Clubs should take advantage of that!

As the current president of the FAU Rotaract Club, I am doing as much as I can to build that relationship between our club and the 6 local Rotary Clubs. I am having our members attend Rotary meetings and I am connecting with each Rotary president so they know when my club meets and so they know they are welcomed there! I’m even trying to get guest speakers to come and make an impact on the lives of our members. However, I will soon graduate and no longer be president. What happens then? That’s where this relationship becomes so important. If the new members of my club have created a relationship with the Rotary members, then this connection will continue. If no relationship is created, then I will have just been another crazy president doing random things.

The responsibility is not on me! It’s on Rotarians! You all must make this connection, that’s how Rotary will attract younger members and continue growing. It starts with your local Rotaract Club. So I urge you to reach out and make an effort. I urge you to create a relationship with those students that will be able to benefit the community as a whole.

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ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE

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LOCAL TOURISM

City of Merritt Island

History

City of the district 6930

Merritt Island owes its name to the king of Spain. The entire island was part of a land grant given by the king to a nobleman named Merritt.

In 1605, Spanish explorer Alvaro Mexia visited while on a diplomatic mission to the local tribes living in the Indian Riverarea. He called the local tribe the Ulumay. Merritt Island is the prominent island on a color map he drew of the area, a copy of which is in the archives at the Library of Congress and the archives in Seville, Spain.

In April 1788, French botanist AndrĂŠ Michaux traveled in Merritt Island, near Cape Canaveral. He spent five days looking for plants. He wrote a letter on April 24, 1788 from St Augustine. He reported discovering the flag or bigflower paw-paw, Asimina obovata (Annona grandiflora (Bartr.).

In 1837, Fort Ann was constructed on the east coast of Merritt Island, to protect the area against the Seminoles.

Merritt Island's recent history dates back to the mid-19th century and centers on the growth of citrus, stressing the cultivation of pineapples and oranges. The Indian River oranges and grapefruit come from this sandy area.

The island's population grew in the 1950s and 1960s as the Space Race began and nearby NASA expanded. Construction of a barge canal to the Intracoastal Waterway from the Atlantic Ocean (for power plant oil shipments) cut off the northern half of the island for many years. To this day, the northern portion of the island remains slightly less developed, with a few areas remaining as cattle pasture or citrus land.

The small towns on the island vanished with the coming of the Space Age, and now only live on in the names of streets and historic churches.

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Merritt Island Dragon

of the Eau Gallie Causeway.

The Merritt Island Dragon or Merrit Island River Dragon was a dragon-shaped green concrete structure that stood at the southern tip of Merritt Island, known as Dragon Point, where the Indian River Lagoon splits to form the Banana River Lagoon. The dragon was built in 1971 by Florida artist Louis VanDercar and property owner Aynn Christal. In 1981, the statue was expanded for new property owner Warren McFadden, with the addition of a tail, an extended neck, two cavepeople a caveman named Fred and a cavewoman named Wilma and four hatchling dragons named Joy, Sunshine, Charity, and Freedom. The statues were located in the city of Melbourne, Florida, north

The dragon was created from 20 short tons (18 t) of concrete and steel, and stood 35 feet (11 m) high and 65 feet (20 m) long. Known as "Annie", the dragon served as a landmark for both locals and boaters, and also as a playhouse for children. On special occasions, the dragon would breathe fire.

In August 2002, the sculpture was badly damaged, and partially collapsed into the water during a storm; vandalism was blamed for contributing to the statue's destruction. The owner and the Brevard County Commissioners were unable to agree on a rehabilitation effort; there was a plan in 2004 to reconstruct the sculpture, while in 2008, a developer planned a luxury hotel and spa on the Dragon Point site with a reconstructed dragon statue as its centerpiece, but both plans fell through.

A children's book about the dragon, River Dragon: A Real Florida Fairy Tale, was published in 2003.

People from Merritt Island

Save Dragon Point, an organization dedicated to rebuilding the dragon statue, was founded in May 2012. In August, the mansion on the property where the dragon had stood was scheduled to be demolished and the property sold. Save Dragon Point changed its name to Annie and Kids Arts and Education Foundation.

In January 2015, Don Facciobene, local builder and developer, bought the property. He announced that a new dragon named "Rojak" will be built. According to the story of Dragon Point Rojak is Annie's fifth hatchling who was kept hidden. In April Rojak was revealed to be built by 2017

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EDITOR MESSAGE Hello my fellow Rotarians!

It is with great honor that I am here this new year continuing to provide for you The Quest Magazine.

This is a project I think is so important because it shares the wonderful things that our district is doing. The Quest is made to promote you and your club.

As such, I need your help! You know what is happening on your club, so I ask you to send me articles and photos. Anything that tells the district the great work that your club is doing. The Quest is only successful because of you.

I want to encourage you all. The 2017 and 2018 Rotary International theme is “Making a Difference”. Interesting how he chose the verb “mak-ing”. He did not use a past tense, not future, not passive. He used the active form of the word make. This means that we, as Rotarians must actively work to make a difference. We must actively do service projects around our community. The Rotary Clubs must actively work with the youth clubs. We may not be able to change the whole world, and maybe we will not be able to end world hunger this year, but together we can really make this community better and that’s what I want the mission to be. We must act locally, and eventually that will ripple globally.

I am very excited for this new Rotary Year.

Thank you.

Dini Heizer District 6930 Newsletter Editor 2014-2018 rotaryquestmagazine@gmail.com RotaryDistrict6930

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