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NEW - Club Runner component to District Website
Save the Date CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE INSTALLATION BRUNCH OF DISTRICT GOVERNOR
ERNIE MONTAGNE SUNDAY, JUNE
27TH, 2010 FROM 11:00 AM TO 2:00 PM FUN……FELLOWSHIP……GREAT FOOD Registration form
needs to printed and sent according to instructions. Group
Study Exchange to D-9100 - West Africa Governor
Elect Ernie Montange has informed our district that we will have a GSE
outbound team to D-9100 Western Africa in the Spring of 2011.
Approximant dates of the exchange will be April 15 – May 15, 2011.
This is a very exciting opportunity for our District.
We will learn a good deal about Western Africa including culture,
language (Portuguese, French and English), and the professional community of
the District. The team will
learn about many of the challenges of District 9100 and learn how Rotary
makes a difference in lives throughout the world.
District 9100 is the largest district in the world from the number of
countries as members of the district. A
total of 14 countries make up this district.
Our team will travel probably to
three (3) of the countries. Randy
Brooks, GSE Subcommittee Chairperson, states we are now looking for leaders
for this group as well as team members.
This is a tremendous opportunity for a leader in Rotary to embrace
the opportunity to guide and lead a team of young professionals to Africa.
This will be a mixed occupational group.
Brooks states, “As a former team leader to South Africa I can tell
you that this will be one of the most significant events in the leader and
team members’ lives.” We are
working very hard to welcome the inbound team from D-9100 with luck they
should be in our district in time to attend our Fall conference in October.
Nancy Cassel is the inbound coordinator and will be in touch with
clubs throughout the district to coordinate activities, meetings and home
hosting for this wonderful team. GSE is an
opportunity to foster world peace, learn about other people, be an
ambassador for our district and country and learn about how individual
occupations another region of the world.
Often we hear GSE participants say that they want to go somewhere to
show the smaller and often poor country how to do things.
Usually they leave with astonishment that they have learned far more
than they have taught. If you are a Rotarian interested in being a team leader or a young professional (25-40 years old) please go to the GSE pages (click here), read the criteria for both the leader and members, download the applications and forward them to randy@jorgensenbrooks.com for review. Randy will be in touch with each person once the applications are received. It is preferable if the applications are sent to Brooks in a word format or PDF file. Turkish GSE Team leaves for home Many Rotarians in District 5500 were priviledged to enjoy the GSE team from District 2440, Turkey. Throughout our district the team was introduced to what we have to offer in hospitality, vocational, cultural experiences in addition to our spectacular scenery and activities. They were greatly impressed with the trip to the Grand Canyon and going down into Kartchner Caverns. There were many hosts who were sad to have to say goodbye, but the experience of the meeting will give good memories forever.
Nominating
Committee Selects Randy Brooks for DGND
Randy was selected from list of outstanding candidates. Randy was nominated by the Marana Rotary club where he served as past president, Assistant Governor, GSE Team Leader to South Africa and a member of the Paul Harris Society and the Bequest Society. Randy is currently serving on the District Finance committee and graduated from the Tri-district Leadership Academy in 2009. Randy is a partner in the firm Jorgensen and Brooks and looks forward to serving our district in 2012-2013. He is currently a Rotary Leadership Institute Faculty Member. Following Rotary International Manual of Procedures and District 5500 Bylaws this announcement serves as the notification to all district clubs. Please join all of us on the nominating committee in congratulating DGND Randy Brooks. DGE Ernie's calendar and visitations As the new Rotary
year is approaching, DGE Ernie Montagne is publishing his proposed 2010-11
calendar and visitation schedule for Rotarians of District 5500 to view. ShelterBox Responds to Chile Earthquake International disaster relief charity ShelterBox is responding to the 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake. An initial ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) is currently preparing to mobilize with two SRT members from the UK and one from the US. The quake struck southern Chile at 0643 GMT on Saturday, February 26, and triggered a tsunami alert in large parts of Latin America and beyond. It caused buildings to collapse in the Chilean capital, Santiago, 200 miles from the epicenter. Hundreds of people are feared dead while thousands of people have been left homeless. "ShelterBox will respond quickly where needed, as the unfolding news becomes clearer and the scale of need is confirmed. A ShelterBox team is preparing to mobilize at the earliest opportunity. Our thoughts go out to the people who have been affected by this disaster," said Lasse Petersen, ShelterBox General Manager. Chile's second-largest city, Concepcion, just 75 miles from the epicenter, is likely to be the worst affected, with more than 200,000 people living along the Bio Bio river. The initial earthquake was followed by two aftershocks measuring 6.9 and 5.5 in magnitude. A tsunami warning has been extended across the Pacific rim, including most of Central and South America and as far as Australia and Antarctica. The quake is Chile's largest in 25 years and Chile's president Michelle Bachelet has declared a 'state of catastrophe' in the country. "ShelterBox has a critical and focused role in reacting quickly when disaster strikes, and to get the highest quality aid package to those who need it," said Veronica Brandon Miller, Executive Director of ShelterBox USA. NOTES TO EDITORS About ShelterBoxUSA ShelterBoxUSA is the US affiliate of an international disaster relief charity specializing in emergency shelter provision. Humanitarian aid is delivered in iconic green ShelterBoxes. Each one contains a disaster relief tent for up to 10 people, a stove, blankets and other items essential for survival. ShelterBox responds to disaster as quickly as possible with the aim of helping the people who are most in need. Every box is individually numbered and can be tracked by donors. Each box costs $1000, including the cost of all materials, packing, storage, transport worldwide and distribution to the needy. All aid delivery is undertaken by international volunteer ShelterBox Response Team members who have carried out extensive training with ShelterBox. We are often able to get aid where it is needed faster than any other organization. An initiative of Rotarian Tom Henderson (Order of the British Empire), a former Royal Navy search and rescue diver, ShelterBox started in 2000 as a project of the Rotary Club of Helston-Lizard, Cornwall. ShelterBox, now the largest Rotary Club project in the world, has responded to disasters including the Haiti Earthquake, Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma). In 2010, ShelterBox is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Public donations are vital to ShelterBox USA's continuing work. To make a donation, please call 941.907.6036, or visit www.shelterboxusa.org to donate online and get the latest updates on our response to disasters around the world. FYI- District 5500 does not have any YE students in Chile this year.
El Tour de Tucson for Polio
The
UMC El Tour De Tucson is the largest bicycling event in the Rotarians
can choose rides ranging from 35, 66, 80 or 109 miles around the perimeter
of
This
is a District 5500 effort that was initiated by the Casas Adobes Rotary
(Tucson) late last year and resulted in 27 bike riders and raising nearly
$3,000 for Polio Plus. Rotary
International has assigned a booth to the District at the Convention in Volunteer
Rotarians going to If
you would like to volunteer to spend 2 hours on 1 or more days of the
Convention please email Mike Harris at mharris@longrealty.com.
He will work with you for a day and time.
Rotary Volunteers: Extending Community Impact
Using a Rotary Volunteers
program enriches a local club in two major ways.
The program offers a way for
individuals to participate that may not have the time or money to be a
Rotary member but believe in what Rotary stands for and accomplishes.
The program also offers a
graceful way to keep individuals connected who for whatever reason can not
continue as members.
The Rotary Volunteers handbook
states: "Rotarians and volunteer minded friends friends of
Rotary are encouraged to participate in club, district and
international service activities."
The program allows a Rotary Club
to offer a third choice to prospects.
(1) They
join the Club at which they are invited.
(2) If
the time or day is not convenient, they are referred to another club.
(3)
They can be offered the opportunity to be a Rotary Volunteer and kept
connected as potential future members.
The club benefits from being
able to address membership challenges of the current economy, have a new
recruitment tool for 20-30-40 age prospects, more hands for projects,
increased community exposure and potential for keeping individuals connected
to club activities and future transition to membership.
Learn the details of the
exciting potential and details of Rotary Volunteers as part of your Club.
A PowerPoint or traditional
presentation is available for club meetings. Following a recent
presentation, a long-time member commented, "Jay, you express quite
a passion for Rotary!"
Contact Jay McCall, Extension
Chair, 520-909-9375, jmccall415@msn.com
or jmccall@longrealty.com
Sierra Vista Rotary buy school supplies for children in Afghanistan
Glenn McDanies
donated 100 solar calculators, Les Orchekowsky donated 8,000 pencils, John Black
donated an assortment of notebooks and pens, and many members donated cash.
Without our members generosity, our international projects would not be
possible. We should be so grateful!
Call
for Rotary Peace Fellow Applications
The
Rotary Foundation invites all districts to submit applications for the 2011-12
Rotary Peace Fellowships. complete applications must be sent to
the rotary foundation by
1 July 2010. Dear Alumni, In these uncertain times, there is a growing demand for well trained international leaders to promote national and international cooperation and peace throughout their lives, in their careers and through service activities. The challenges of the 21st century require people skilled in the art of diplomacy, mediation and conflict resolution. The Rotary Peace Fellowship program was developed to meet this very need. Rotary is seeking non-Rotarian professionals interested in expanding their knowledge in international relations, public administration, sustainable development, peace studies and conflict resolution or a related field. Each year, up to 100 Rotary Peace Fellowships (50 master's degree fellowships and 50 professional development certificate fellowships) are offered on a competitive basis at six prestigious Rotary Centers around the world. Participants in the master's degree program gain access to: · Two years of Rotary-funded graduate study toward a master's degree at one of our six Rotary Centers · Training in the root causes of conflict, theories of international relations, and effective models of cooperation, conflict resolution, and negotiation. · A growing network of committed alumni employed around the world in diplomacy, government, non-governmental organizations and private corporations. Candidates already working in the field of peace and conflict studies may opt for the three-month professional development certificate program at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Both programs require, at minimum, a bachelor's degree in a related field; 3 years of relevant work experience for the MA program and 5 years for the professional development certificate.
You could be among the next Rotary
Peace Fellows. Alumni from the Ambassadorial Scholarship,
Group Study Exchange, and University Teachers programs make excellent
candidates for the Rotary Peace Fellowship. Thirty-one
Ambassadorial Scholars and GSE team members have gone on to become Rotary
Peace Fellows.
If the fellowship is not for you, you may know someone who would be an excellent candidate. Please share this information with alumni, as well as business associates, local universities, service organizations, religious institutions, and community groups that may know of individuals interested in conflict resolution and diplomacy. For eligibility and application information, please direct candidates to:
Candidates for the
2011-2012 academic term should send their applications to Rotary clubs now.
Contact rotarypeacecenters@rotary.org for further information or click below:
www.rotary.org/rotarycenters
Thank you.
Rotary Peace Centers Department The Rotary Foundation rotarypeacecenters@rotary.org Message from RI Director Phil Silvers regarding Haiti Many of you are already responding to the crisis in Haiti, and thank you! This disaster illustrates why all of our districts need to have a Disaster Response organization in place and this is what our REDI Conference in Houston, 5-6 February, will deal with. I have sent you info on this conference recently. Current Rotary Response 1. District 7020 has Rotarians on the ground, including the DGN and AGs, providing water, food, and rescue operations. Check the D-7020 website if you want to respond through the district Rotarians. We are in communication with them via satellite phones-purchased for this very reason. 2. RIDE John Smarge has just set up a Donor Advised Fund for Haiti in our Rotary Foundation, which you can access later tonight with online contributions. These funds will be used for medium and long-term aid-administered by local Rotarians. Check the RI website by 9 p.m. EST to see what you can do. 3. Shelter Box and Aqua Box both have their kits en route to Haiti-about 400-500 units each-way under what is needed. Check out their websites if you want to contribute online. (For a year and just within the past 24 hours I have been working with Shelter Box CEO Tom Henderson trying to get the U.S. Government to donate two C-130s to support his operation). 4. Rotary has a Rotarian Action Group for Disaster Response (DRRAG). You might want to join this RAG and/or check its website.to keep up to date. Check the www.drrag.org website. Again, we know that in the face of a disaster, Rotarians won't do nothing. we are going to do something. Hopefully, this email will give your clubs some options. Thanks for your humanitarian kindness for a people who have been beaten up every which way. Phil Silvers NEW - Club Runner component to District Website Starting July 1, 2009 with the start of the 2009-10 Rotary year, the district website will include a link to Club Runner, which has:
Club Visioning in District 5500 Before a club or an organization begins a strategic planning process it needs to have a clear VISION of where they want to be and who they want to be in the future. More than 60 Rotary Districts internationally, including District 5500, now have trained facilitators to lead a group of Rotarians from individual clubs in a vision facilitation process resulting in operational continuity, consistency, and consensus. Bob Shogren is our District Club Visioning Chair-- Work: (602) 364-2248, Cell: (520) 603-6126, email bobshogren@cox.net and welcomes conversations about Club Visioning and will schedule clubs interesting in completing the process.Learn
more about how it will benefit your club. Clubs
come together to fund educating EMTs in Mexico In November,
our club was asked to help fund EMT training in Esqueda, Mexico. By passing the
hat the members of the club generously donated over $2000! The graduation
ceremony was on Nov 11, 2009, in AP at the police HQ. Rotary clubs from Sierra
Vista, Nogales, Benson, Douglas, and Casa Grande supported this project.
The training was the next week Nov 18, 2009 in Esqueda. Because of the
dedication of these EMT's, Group Mexico has also provided 2 doctors to staff the
local Cruz Roja in Esqueda, which otherwise relied on medical support from an
hour away. Please check out the video at www.youtube.com/user/
Dear
Fellow Rotarians, Rotary made this all possible. We want to thank everyone in your club that made this happen. Because of the dedication of these EMT's, Group Mexico has also provided 2 doctors to staff the local Cruz Roja in Esqueda. Esqueda is a small community at least an hour from the nearest medical facility, the number of lives that have already been saved is many! The skills learned last fall have already been put to excellent use. The local TV station had sent a reporter to the graduation. He made a very lovely video of the graduation and posted it on UTube.. A lot of it is in Spanish, but there's enough English for you to understand how important this project was to this small community. Please follow the link below to view it, and most of all, please tell your club membership how wonderful this project was and is, and what a difference their contribution made to the lives of many, many people, and isn't that what Rotary is all about? Just a side note, several folks from the Sierra Vista and Agua Prieta clubs attended the ceremony, but arrived after that part of the graduation had been taped. I'm attaching a few photos as a "recuerdo" or a rememberance. Photos are courtesy of Mrs. Lavinia Spivey, wife of our club member Dr. Gary Spivey. She's an excellent photographer! Gary and Lavinia, along with the Shaw's of the Sierra Vista club also attended the graduation ceremony in Esqueda a week or two later. A car wreck had been staged as the graduation exercise. Lavinia took a few shots of that too. I hope you enjoy, Happy New
Year and best regards, Wilma Mrosek-Moses, Sierra Vista West, Service Above SelfWhile this is not a Rotary sponsored project, it has all the earmarks of one. The Butterfly Club of Sierra Vista was started by Rotarian Wilma Mrosek-Moses in 2005. The program is called the Butterfly Club, symbolizing the metamorphosis a butterfly goes through as its beautiful wings first emerge and it flutters into the world, facing new-found freedoms by providing wigs for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Funding is provided by Wilma and her mother who provide 10 course meals monthly who support the project by attending.. Dana Cole, writer for the Sierra Vista Herald and wife of Rotarian Rick Shelley, has written an interesting and informative article that is well worth reading. A segment of the KVOA program at 4 pm on Tuesday, August 18, highlighted the Butterfly Club. http://www.svherald.com/articles/2008/05/18/lifestyle/doc482fc9f11f96a707619638.txt Thanks to Rotary, villages have clean water
The Rotary Clubs joined in
applying for a matching grant from The Rotary Foundation and succeeded in
raising more than $40,000 to build the horizontal-flow sand filter the
community so urgently needed.
The SaddleBrooke club received
donations from the Marana, Dove Mountain, Oro Valley and Pantano Rotary clubs
to meet the application requirements. This project required a substantial
design effort, and that was accomplished by the University of Arizona chapter
of Engineers Without Borders.
It was a large project for the
students, but with some advice from professional mentors, they produced an
excellent design. Nearly all materials had to be purchased locally, and the
students traveled to Ghana to manage the construction at certain critical
points. Filtered water began flowing in May.
The enthusiasm of the villagers
around this project is remarkable. Only a few items of machinery were
rented.Other labor — including stone chipping of the aggregate for the
cement, carrying materials on head pans, digging, bending rebar, and other
difficult tasks — was done manually.
The villagers have a simple
delivery system of pipes to distribute water to 30 villages. The unfiltered
water was not only murky and unpleasant, it was unhealthy, and waterborne
diseases were common. The system also relieves mothers and children from
water-fetching chores. That allows them more time for agricultural work,
childcare and attending school.
Benson Rotary has new meeting place With the start of
2010, Benson Rotary will hold their meetings Gila Bend has new time and meeting place Mondays at 5:30
pm. Bisbee's new meeting place Their meeting
place is Mornings Cafe at 12:05 p.m., every Thursday Willcox Rotary has new meeting Day Willcox is now meeting on Thursday noon, at the Elks Club.
Interesting Speakers for Club Meetings
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