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CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO
THE INSTALLATION BRUNCH OF
DISTRICT GOVERNOR
ERNIE MONTAGNE
AND OTHER DISTRICT OFFICERS
SUNDAY, JUNE
27TH, 2010 FROM 11:00 AM TO 2:00 PM
SKYLINE COUNTRY CLUB, TUCSON, ARIZONA
DETAILS TO FOLLOW
FUN……FELLOWSHIP……GREAT FOOD
Registration form
needs to printed and sent according to instructions.
Please include your check
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.
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Nominating
Committee Selects Randy Brooks for DGND
By District Governor Steven R. DiMuzio
The
district nominating committee representing the 14 regional zones in district
5500 and 5 past district governors, including PDG Tony Brockington, PDG Val
Scanlon, PDG Ron Goodsite, PDG Ann Fisher and PDG Sandy Goodsite, nominated
Randy Brooks of the Marana Rotary Club as Governor for the 2012-2013 Rotary
year.
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.
Calendar
Visitation Schedule
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
by Jay McCall,
Extentsion Chair
Sierra Vista Rotary buy school supplies for children in Afghanistan
Member
of the SV Rotary club donated money to purchase needed school supplies for the
boys and girls attending schools in Afghanistan as part of our support to
childhood literacy. Angeles Emory, our International Service Director,
worked with Mr. Jerry Proctor, also a member of our club, and with Cheryl
Morgan, a contractor in the US Army Intelligence Center of Excellence, who is
deployed in Afghanistan. The supplies will help not only the teachers and
the children but also the local community in building a brighter future for
these children.
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!
You can read the article about the effort in the Fort Huachuca Scout Newspaper
found at http://www.pressdisplay.com/
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.
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:
Contact rotarypeacecenters@rotary.org for further information or click below:
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
RI Director
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:
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A Club Attendance Manager lets all clubs either on Club Runner or not get the attendance to the district secretary
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In a format that can be import into the report and forwarded straight to RI.
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It has a Profile editor where anyone in the district can edit their own profiles and keep their information up to date without having to send it into district or RI.
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Event calendar and any Club Runner club can add an event on their calendar and automatically have it on the district calendar.
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It has a club and district directory.
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It has an email message service.
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.
Link to May 2008 Rotarian article, "A Plan for All
Seasons" pp. 54-57
Clubs
come together to fund educating EMTs in Mexico
Tim Quinn, Community
Services Director, Sierra Vista Rotary Club
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/
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Dear
Fellow Rotarians,
Please accept our deep gratitude for assisting with donations for the Esqueda,
Sonora EMT Training. Your generosity, and the grant from Rotary, made it
possible for the training of some very dedicated folks from Esqueda, Sonora,
Mexico. 26 people made the 1 1/2 hour drive up and 1 1/2 hour drive home every
Saturday for many weeks last fall. There was even one woman who came in from
Hermosillo, a 3 hour drive one way, every week for this training.
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,
Vicky Merritt
Douglas #1235 President
Wilma Mrosek-Moses, Sierra Vista West, Service Above Self
While 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
Submitted by
Doris Helmich
SaddleBrooke Rotary Public Relations Coordinator
The
SaddleBrooke Rotary Club recently completed a two-year project in Ghana,
Africa, that provides filtered water for drinking and cooking to more than
10,000 people. The project began as a cooperative effort with a Rotary Club in
Ghana in the city of Ho. The two clubs began discussing the most urgent needs
of villagers in the Volta region, and members met at the Rotary International
Convention in Salt Lake City in 2007.
Benson Rotary has new meeting place
With the start of
2010, Benson Rotary will hold their meetings
at the Butterfield RV Resort, Benson
located on Ocotillo St. across from the Benson post office
Wednesdays at noon
Gila Bend has new time and meeting place
Mondays at 5:30
pm.
new meeting place is the Gila Bend Community Center.
202 N. Euclid Av.
Bisbee's new meeting place
Their meeting
place is Mornings Cafe at 12:05 p.m., every Thursday
The address is 420 Arizona Street, Bisbee, AZ 85603
phone number is 432-5785
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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Virginia
Diebold
Workplace
Excellence of Greater Tucson
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Contact - 520-352-1224 |
Workplace
Excellence offers a number of awards annually to Tucson's
most progressive employers. This program will share how your
company can be honored for its innovative ideas and
quality human resource practices.
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| Marion
Hook president of NAWBO Greater Tucson (National Association of Women Business Owners) |
innkeeper@aroseinn.com 520-405-3317
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Cross
cultural communication Interacted regularly with high level individuals from all countries with which the U.S. has diplomatic relations. Worked closely with and for the Department of State “Community Connections” (primarily Russians and Ukrainians). |
| Greg
D'Anna Pima County JTED (Joint Tecnhological Education District) |
gdanna@pimajted.org 520.352-5833 ext. 109 |
Of interested to many Rotarians and would tie in with the vocational component of Rotary |
| Margaret Higgins, PhD | MargaretHIggins@thehaventucson.org 520 623 4590 |
Residential
centers for women struggling with substance-abuse disorders. www.thehaventucson.org www.casadepalmas.org |
| Ernie
Montagne Sally Montagne |
ernie.montagne@cox.net sally.montagne@cox.net | Rotary Making a Difference in West Africa. Fifty-seven clubs and nine districts in six countries provide water, sanitation, and alleviation of poverty to thousands of needy villagers in Togo and Niger, West Africa. |
| Ernie Montagne | ernie.montagne@cox.net | The Rotary Foundation Annual Programs Fund Subcommittee Chair. The Rotary Foundation 101. Everything you always wanted to know .... |
| Gary Whiting | gift@giftoflife-az.com | Gift
of Life - contact through their email with a couple of suggested dates. Arrangements will be made for a board member to make presentation. Also visit their website www.giftoflife-az.com |
| Tom Kiley | 928-580-7859 tom@hunteremployment.com |
The Rotary Vocational Fund of Arizona - program regarding this AZ Rotary Fund |
| Jay McCall | 520-887-7847 520-909-9375 Cell jmccall415@msn.com |
Back to Basics: A provocative look at marketing membership in the second century of Rotary. |