Rotary District 7670 http://www.rotary7670.org Western North Carolina, USA Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:12:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Upcoming Club Fundraisers http://www.rotary7670.org/rc-asheville-south-flapjack-fundraiser/ http://www.rotary7670.org/rc-asheville-south-flapjack-fundraiser/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:10:20 +0000 admin http://www.rotary7670.org/?p=413 Rotary Rock 2010 X-Box Tournament
Hickory, NC – Hickory Sunrise

Rotary Rock Poster (PDF)

The RotaryRock tournament will be held on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at the Multi Purpose Center on the campus of Catawba Valley Community College, off Highway 70 East in Hickory, from 12 Noon until 8 pm.

This year’s RotaryRock Tournament will feature $2,000 in total prize money and include tournaments for the popular Xbox video games, Madden 2011, Guitar Hero III, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.  Last year, the tournament raised $1,000 to benefit the Catawba Valley Community College Scholarship Fund.

The event will also have a number of opportunities for the public to listen to lectures related to technology, Internet safety, e bay and health and wellness.

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8th Annual Denver Days Fall Festival

Please join us to support the Denver Lake Norman Rotary Club during the Denver Days Fall Festival, Wednesday, September 29th through Saturday, October 2nd. Denver, N.C.

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26th Annual Rotary Club of Hendersonville Golf Tournament

Join us in support of Henderson County Educational Programs. Last year you helped our club raise more than $60,000 to fund Teacher Grants and Student scholarships in Henderson County. We look forward to your support again this year via donation, hole sponsorship and/or participation on September 20, 2010.

Where: Etowah Valley Golf Club
When: Monday, September 20, 2010 – Tee Off at 12:00!
Sign-in and Lunch at 11:00 AM; Awards Ceremony and dinner after
Cost: $125 per person or $500 per team – includes range balls, golf cart,
beverages, lunch and dinner

Registration Form and Info

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2010 Fall Classic Golf Tournament @ Grove Park Inn

2010 marks the 25th anniversary of the Rotary Club of Arden’s Fall Classic Golf Tournament. We are proud to count CarePartners Hospice, who is celebrating their 30th anniversary providing compassionate care for people nearing the end of life and support for those grieving, as one of our major sponsors. The event is going to be held at the historic and beautiful Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in Asheville, NC on Thursday September 23rd with a 1:00 PM start time. We will have two hole-in-one sponsors offering the chance to win an automobile (Land Rover) and $1M dollars! Lunch will be served prior to the afternoon flight by The Grove Park Inn, and dinner will be catered by Carrabba’s Italian Grill in the evening at the Grove Park Inn. Both meals are included in the price of the greens fee ($125 per golfer).

Registration Form & Brochure | Challenge Letter to Clubs

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Rotary Club of Rutherford County

2nd Annual Golf Tournament

Friday Sept 10, 2010

2010 Golf Tournament Entry Flyer

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Franklin Daybreak 22nd Annual Charity Golf Tournament

Fri Aug 20th – Sunday 22nd @ Mill Creek Country Club (Franklin, NC)

More Information (PDF)

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If your club has a fundraiser to share please email any information you would like to see on this page to stricklandj @ catawba valley rotary.org

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The LifeStraws and water carriers are being flown out this week and will join the 1,900 ShelterBox tents already deployed in the country and the 624 ShelterBoxes which are on their way to Pakistan.

A family-sized water filtration unit or LifeStraw can filter a minimum of 18,000 litres of water – providing safe and potentially life-saving drinking water for displaced families.

Jessica Stanton, ShelterBox Operations Coordinator, said: ‘Children and the elderly are particularly vulnerable without clean drinking water and there has been a reported significant increase in diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases with a cholera epidemic the worst case scenario. This is an immediate and critical need so we’re sending a consignment of LifeStraws to Pakistan.

‘LifeStraws make dirty water safe to drink. They are an essential bit of kit that we normally put in ShelterBox packs and they will make a huge difference to those affected by the flooding. We plan to send many more as soon as possible as the health risks from drinking dirty water are so huge.’

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]]> http://www.rotary7670.org/shelterbox-in-pakistan/feed/ 0 2010 Foundation Seminar Update http://www.rotary7670.org/2010-foundation-seminar/ http://www.rotary7670.org/2010-foundation-seminar/#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:22:40 +0000 admin http://www.rotary7670.org/?p=1164 Seminar Update

This year’s Foundation Seminar was very informative and a great success.  With a healthy attendance Club and District Leadership were able to learn new and updated information about the Rotary Foundation as well as how to better serve their clubs in the upcoming year.  Some highlights are listed below.

  • Keynote by District Guest; Rocky Jacobs giving an overview of the History of The Rotary Foundation and some information about its future direction
  • Jackie McGuire from RI’s Major Gifts Office gave us information regarding various giving programs including Donor Advised Fund
  • PDG Carol King gave a great review of what to expect in the coming year with regard to the Future Vision of the TRF.
  • A panel discussed common questions with regard to the various Foundation programs.

Be sure to join your fellow Rotarians in November for the Foundation Banquet in Hickory, NC.

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Download Tentative Agenda (PDF)
[as of 7/27]

You are invited to attend our district’s Rotary Foundation seminar scheduled on August 14, 2010. It will be held at the Bailey Auditorium on the campus of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (AB Tech) in Asheville. Registration will begin at 9:00 a.m. with Danish and coffee provided. The opening session will start at 9:30 a.m. The seminar will end at 12:30 p.m. with lunch.

The seminar is designed to provide support and encouragement early in the Rotary year in one of the most important areas of responsibility we have as club and district leaders, promoting and building better understanding of The Rotary Foundation. We are very excited to have Jay D. (Rocky) Jacobs as our keynote speaker for this event. Rocky is our Rotary Zone’s Coord-inator of the Polio Plus Challenge. He has spoken at training assemblies in previous years in our district and has always been well received. In addition, Jackie McGuire, who is the Major Gifts Officer for The Rotary Foundation will be with us. She brings skills in helping with giving to the Foundation through tax-advantaged estate planning.

The registration fee for the seminar is $20 per conferee and registration will be online. You can access the registration form through the following link Details for registering are outlined on the form which also includes directions to AB Tech. If you have any questions or experience difficulty in registering, please contact either of us or Margaret Gormley Chapman at the District Office.

The seminar is structured to help you gain a better understanding of how to participate in the programs of the Foundation and how to best stimulate support for it in your clubs and is open to all Rotarians. However, club Presidents and Presidents-elect, club Foundation chairs and champions, International Service chairs, club Secretaries and Treasurers, Assistant Governors, and District leadership are particularly encouraged to attend. Please make every effort to ensure your club is represented at this very important district meeting.

We are sincerely looking forward to working with each of you and your club Foundation leaders. The Rotary Foundation is “Our Charity” which with our support can truly help us in our work of “Building Communities and Bridging Continents”. See you on August 14th.

Ed                                                                       Chuck

Ed Walcoff                                                                              PDG Chuck Reiley

District Governor                                                                 District Foundation Chair

]]> http://www.rotary7670.org/2010-foundation-seminar/feed/ 0 2010-11 RLI Schedule Released http://www.rotary7670.org/2010-11-rli-schedule-released/ http://www.rotary7670.org/2010-11-rli-schedule-released/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:17:16 +0000 admin http://www.rotary7670.org/?p=1175 The 2010-11 Rotary Leadership Institute schedule has been released.  It can be found on the RLI section of our website by clicking the link below:

http://www.rotary7670.org/committees-and-programs/rotary-leadership-institute-rli/

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Information About the Council on Legislation

REPORT OF ACTION OF THE 2010 COUNCIL ON LEGISLATION
OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

To all Rotary clubs:

The Council on Legislation of Rotary International met 25-30 April 2010 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. In accordance with section 8.140.2. of the bylaws of RI, I am issuing this report on the actions taken by the Council, including the text of the 66 pieces of adopted legislation.

The Council considered 220 pieces of proposed legislation. These included 128 enactments (proposals to amend the constitutional documents of RI) and 92 resolutions (proposals which do not seek to amend the constitutional documents of RI). Of these, the Council adopted 47 enactments and 19 resolutions. The Council referred 3 pieces to the RI Board for further study. The Council rejected 101 proposals, and 50 proposals were withdrawn or considered withdrawn. Of the 66 adopted proposals, the Council adopted 51 exactly as they were proposed, while 15 were adopted with amendments. Those adopted with amendments are noted in the report by an asterisk (*) after the number of the proposal. You will note that, where necessitated by amendments, the titles of the proposals have been changed to accurately reflect the final intent of the legislation.

The legislation contained in this report is presented in the format used by the Council. It illustrates changes to the current constitutional documents of RI by underlining new text and lining through deleted text.

As you study these items of legislation, please bear in mind that each piece of legislation must stand alone as it was adopted. Each adopted enactment was drafted to achieve its individual purpose by amending the constitutional documents as they currently exist. Where two or more pieces seek to change the same section of a document, all overlapping and correlative changes will be made in the production of the 2010 Manual of Procedure.

At the end of this report is an “Opposition to Legislation Report Form.” In accordance with section 8.140.3. of the RI Bylaws, any club may use this form to record its opposition to any adopted enactment or resolution. Completed forms must reach RI Headquarters in Evanston by 30 August 2010. If, by that time, the required number of votes in opposition have been filed regarding any item of legislation adopted by the Council, that item will be considered suspended. A ballot will then be prepared and distributed to each club within one month of the suspension. The ballot will submit the question of whether the action of the Council should be sustained in regard to the suspended item of legislation. The ballot will be conducted according to the provisions of sections 8.140.5., 8.140.6. and 8.140.7. of the RI Bylaws. Based on the results of the ballot, the suspended item will either be nullified or reinstated.

Please note that a club should complete and return the form at the end of this report only if it wishes to oppose some action by the Council. If a club does not wish to oppose an action of the 2010 Council on Legislation, no action is required.

Ed Futa
General Secretary
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]]> http://www.rotary7670.org/ambassadorial-scholar-applications/feed/ 0 RYLA Video http://www.rotary7670.org/ryla-video/ http://www.rotary7670.org/ryla-video/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:04:43 +0000 admin http://www.rotary7670.org/?p=1068 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards – Camp held in June

The Rotary Club of Brevard, NC

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Ed Walcoff will serve as Governor of District 7670 from July 1st, 2010 to June 30, 2011.

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]]> http://www.rotary7670.org/dg-ed-walcoff-installed/feed/ 0 June, NC Rotary CART Month http://www.rotary7670.org/june-nc-rotary-cart-month/ http://www.rotary7670.org/june-nc-rotary-cart-month/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:48 +0000 admin http://www.rotary7670.org/?p=1029 Recently NC Governor Beverly Perdue signed a Proclamation making June 2010 “ROTARY CART FUND MONTH”.  This came in response for the great work CART is doing in the area of Fundraising for Alzheimer’s Disease Research.

Through the blue coin buckets on our weekly meeting tables CART has raised and distributed over $3 Million Dollars in Research Grants.

View the Proclamation Document

Other Information

Visit the CART Website

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]]> http://www.rotary7670.org/june-nc-rotary-cart-month/feed/ 0 Update from Senegal http://www.rotary7670.org/update-from-senegal/ http://www.rotary7670.org/update-from-senegal/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:12:20 +0000 admin http://www.rotary7670.org/?p=1021 Dear Rotarians,

Everything has continued to go very well here in Dakar. I am finishing up my thesis about speech, language and voice disorders in Senegal.  I will defend it before an academic jury before I leave in July.  My time in Senegal as an ambassadorial scholar has been incredibly enriching.  Not only is this a period of cultural and academic exchange, but a period of deep personal growth.  My eyes have been opened in new directions that I never even knew existed before.

Senegal AmbasadorLast week I joined my Rotary host counsellor in going to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso for the 36th annual district conference for district 9100. The district is comprised of 14 countries in West Africa.  The diversity at the conference was astounding. There were Rotarians of all different ethnicities and cultures.  Some Rotarians wore formal black suits, some wore colorful bubus with Rotary emblems on the fabric, and some from Mali were wear traditional Tuareg robes and turbans. There were head-sets available for instantaneous French to English translation. In spite of any superficial differences though, everyone was united under the Rotarian ideologies of advancing goodwill, understanding and peace through service and community support.

During the conference, we frequently discussed The New Vision Plan, which will be the focus for the new Rotary year, starting in July.  The New Vision plan focuses on peace and conflict resolution, disease prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, basic education and literacy and economic and community development.  My favorite part of the conference was a small discussion group that focused on water and sanitation.  We discussed how all six topics of the New Vision Plan are profoundly influenced by water, and how water is a particularly important issue in West Africa.  Rotary is involved with over 6000 projects worldwide involving water.  The goal is to have a 50% reduction in people with no access to clean drinking water by 2015.  Just a few weeks ago one of the Rotary clubs I am involved with in Dakar installed wells in a village so there will be better access to clean drinking water.

Sengal ConferenceIn Dakar I am finding great satisfaction in my service activities.  I am co-leading a speech therapy group for autistic children in the pediatric psychiatry unit of a local hospital. I co-lead the group with a Senegalese speech pathologist.  She corresponds with the children in Wolof, whereas I focus on teaching the children linguistic skills in French, and also basic Wolof.  I have supplied almost all of the materials that we use for speech and language therapy in the group.  After six months, the results are amazing.  I will share with you the story of Medune, a five-year-old boy in the speech therapy group.  Medune was placed in the clinic because he was thought to be autistic, but I only recently found out the real story of his past.  When we started the group in November, Medune was totally non-verbal.  He did not know how to speak.  Months later, I learned that Medune had been abandoned as a very young child when his parents left Senegal to move to Mauritania, leaving him in the street.  Medune was homeless, living in the streets with no one to care for him.  Years later, Medune was recently found by a social services organization and placed in his grandparent’s home.  It is natural that Medune never learned to speak as a young child if he had no linguistic stimulation or loved one to take care of him.  Very quickly after we started doing speech and language exercises in the group, Medune started imitating sounds, then talking, and then singing! Now Medune is a model for all the other children, singing, paying attention, and talking regularly.  He will most likely start going to school with normally developing children of his age in less than a year.  It is an amazing success story!!

Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to learn and grow in West Africa.  I have had some of the most rewarding experiences of my life!  Would you mind forwarding this on to other Rotarians in the district I don’t have the email addresses for?

Sincerely,

Stephanie Jozefowicz

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