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Program for Tuesday, Aug 15, 2017
The scheduled speaker for Tuesday, August 15 2017 PDG Marilyn Sanderson
Meeting Assignments
Date
Who am I
Rotary Minute
Aug 15, 2017
Trudy Armstrong
Scott Bramwell
Aug 22, 2017
Nasrin Barbee
Bob Davie
Aug 29, 2017
Mark Berdan
Jim Dunny
The member assigned to Who Am I is also responsible for providing the positive thought for the day st the beginning of the meeting. During the meeting the Who Am I assignment the task of introducing visiting Rotarians and guests.
The member assigned to provide the Rotary Minute is also to be a Greeter for the day and also sell opportunity drawing tickets.
Did you know that Rotary has a member benefits program? It is called Rotary Global Rewards. It offers discounts on products and services from local and global merchants, along with opportunities to give back to Rotary. Over 33,000 members have signed in to use Rotary Global Rewards.
Here are the ways you can take advantage of this member benefit.
1. Visit www.rotary.org/globalrewards from the browser on your computer
2. Download the Rotary Club Locator App to use the program on mobile devices.
County Supervisor for District, 3 Kristin Gaspar spoke to RB Sunrise Rotary Club on Tuesday, August 8, 2017. After hearing about our plans for fundraising, she related her experience in having to do phone calls to get financial support for her ultimately successful campaign. She acknowledged that having to call to ask for money was not a fun thing to do, but, as an aspiring candidate for political office, fundraising is a full time activity that occupied many hours per day.
Her style in calling was to acknowledge to the potential donor that she, too, doesn't like to get a call from someone asking for money. She said that doing that most often allowed her to get to her message and the request for a donation.
Next she spoke about a volunteer program that her own Rotary Club, the Rotary Club of Encinitas, has initiated. It is called Home Team. Volunteers help people whose health situation makes it impossible for them to do simple tasks such as changing a light bulb, cleaning a kitchen floor or doing gardening. She spoke about how much of an impact doing these minor task make for the recipients. She spoke about the fact that the County of San Diego has a program to help in much the same way as her Rotary Club. Bret Geernaert, our Community Service chair is looking into this as something our club can do as well as something that can be made available through the Ed Brown Center.
Kristin finished her visit to our club by filling out the necessary paperwork to make a donation to Rancho BEERnardo.
All in all, her visit had a very positive impact on all of us who were privileged to hear her on Tuesday. We could see the quality of the leadership she brings to representing Rancho Bernardo at the County of San Diego.
Because of the untimely death of Rotary Internatonal president-elect Sam F. Owori in July just two weeks into has term as president-elect, RI has had to select a replacement for president-elect.
Rotary International announced on Aug 11 that Barry Rassin, of the Rotary Club of East Nassau, New Province, Bahamas is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International for 2018-2019. He will be be declared the president-elect on 1 September is no challenging candidates have been suggested.
To learn more about Mr. Rassin, go to: Barry Rassin
The photo below is a screen capture from the latest video from the Rotary International Foundation. By giving to The Rotary Foundation during our centennial year, you joined more donors than ever in empowering our Foundation to take on larger projects with greater impact. From developing nationwide literacy programs to training tomorrow’s peacemakers to helping push polio to the brink of eradication, your donation is Doing Good in the World.
Click on the photo to see the video about the impact of your donations to the Rotary Foundation.
Background on the photo
On May 30, 2014, new Bridge history was made. More than 300 Rotary members from all over the world took over the arches of the Sydney Harbour Bridge en masse to climb for their cause - End Polio Now. In doing so they smashed two world records on the Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Bridge, famously grey, was a kaleidoscope of colour as every Rotarian proudly waved a flag in recognition of each country or territory where Rotary operates worldwide. Yep, that’s 278 flags on top of the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge. It’s a new Guinness World Record and it was hard to miss the spectacular sight of it.
This climb, which recorded 340 climbers on the Bridge at once, also broke the Bridge record for the number of climbers on the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (previously set by Oprah). On a beautiful Sydney day, people lined the famous arch of the Bridge from the summit, almost all the way down the eastern arch.
Most of the climbers came from more than 18,000 Rotary members from over 150 countries expected to attend Rotary International’s 105th annual convention at Sydney Olympic Park on 1-4 June 2014. To see the video about this even go to: Rotary Bridgeclimb
Personal Note: Irene and I participated in this record smashing event. It was one of the many highlights of our visit to Sydney, Australia and the Rotary International Convention. Jim Dunny