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ROTARY: MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Special Observance Month: Rotary Foundation - Alex Hopkins, District Governor
Monthly Newsletter of Rotary District 5030
In this Issue
Pg. 1 Show Your Colors - Nov 16 District Wide Event
Pg. 2 Our Clubs are Busy
Pg. 3 Vote for RFH to Receive a People's Choice Award
Pg. 4 Club & District Pictures
Pg. 5 Polio Update World Polio Livestream
Pg. 6 Announcing Puget Sound Rotary Network
Club Visioning
Pg. 7 A Global Grant A Local Grant
Pg. 8 Disaster Relief & More
Pg. 9 Youth Service Happenings
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November 2017
In this month of Thanksgiving, we as Rotarians are focused on the Rotary Foundation. Our Rotary International Foundation is one of the highest rated in the world. With the support from
individual Rotarians, we are making a difference both locally and internationally. I want to thank each and every member who has supported the Foundation as it does make a big difference to our available district matching grant dollars.
Please join us for a District Social this month which will be themed the “Show Your Colors” event. We will be celebrating the Apple Cup along with everyone coming in their own school colors. The District is providing Rotary Husky and Cougar pins
for all who come to the party. The details are below and we hope to see you there.
The District has launched a new Rotary business network called, www.pugetsoundrotarynetwork.com. It’s free for all District 5030 Rotarians to register and promote their business. My hope is that we will make those Rotary Connections when we are in need of a product or service. It’s time to go back to the Rotary basics and celebrate each other’s vocation.
Have a great Thanksgiving and thank you again for all that you do!
Alex & Julie
District 5030 Website
District Conference Website
D5030 on Facebook
District Conference 2018 on FB
D5030 Private LinkedIn Page
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RI Website
End Polio Website
Rotarian Malaria Partners
StolenYouth
District Governor Message
Deadline Nov 16th
It’s that time of year when we send out the call for nomination for District Governor (this year we are nominating for the 2020-21 Rotary year!) Please do not assume no one in your club would be interested; I’ve found people continually surprise me.
Serving as District Governor is one of the most fulfilling opportunities you will have in Rotary. Contact PDG Bo Darling for more information [email protected]
Nov. 16th The Best Western Executive Inn
200 Taylor Ave N, Seattle, WA
4:30 - 7:30 pm
District Event
(Bring your new members!)
Wear your school colors!
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Shopping Spree 2017 - Every year the Rotary Club of West Seattle raises funds to provide a shopping experience for children identified by their schools as low income. The shopping experience provides the children with a new jacket, clothing & shoes for the winter months to keep them warm & dry.
Woodinville Rotarians and UW Bothell Rotaractors enjoyed our annual Oktoberfest Lunch together at The Maltby Cafe. With hearty portions and a festive spirit, it was a celebration in the true Oktoberfest tradition. See everyone next year!
Kent Rotary - Billy & Julie Shott Handing out candy at Kent Station.
Kent Rotary - Partying while Billy & Julie WORK!
Rotary Club of West Seattle
Painting tiny houses this morning (Oct 28)! Such fun meeting the residents and bringing sunshine into their lives with such vibrant colors.
10 Mercer Island Rotarians "invaded" the Seattle International District club meeting today. This small but mighty Rotary club is very active and is a great club to make-up meetings, especially if you enjoy eating Chinese food! They meet Thursdays at Ocean Star Restaurant in the International District (bell rings at 11:30).
Rotary Club of Sammamish has been scaring the wits out of their friends for the past 14 years with their haunted house at Nightmare at Beaver Lake. WTG!!!
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Ezra Teshome - University District Rotary - Reporting from Ethiopia - Yesterday we visited the home of a saint. Actually the hospital of a saint. Dr. Hamlin came to Ethiopia more than four decades ago to do fistula surgeries and started the Fistula Hospital. Since then she and her staff have preformed more than one hundred thousand surgeries allowing young women to return to a normal life. Some as young as fourteen. She's been nominated for the Nobel peace prize twice. At 93 she still does surgeries once a week.
Help us support Rotary First Harvest - a program of Rotary District 5030 - through BECU's "People Helping People Awards."
BECU received over 230 nominations this year and have selected 18 finalists, Rotary First Harvest being one of those 18!
From November 3-17 vote for your favorite organization to win the ‘People’s Choice Award.’ Please consider voting for Rotary First Harvest! Rotary First Harvest connects farmers, truckers, volunteers and foodbanks to reduce hunger and food waste. More than half those served by hunger relief programs in Washington are either children or seniors.
Check out the video here: http://bit.ly/2issXUq and link to vote here: https://a.pgtb.me/hJ3JmR.
Click Here to Register
Join University District Rotary's Humanitarian Volunteer trip to Fiji
May 1 to 13, 2018 Lead by Basant Singh!
May 1 Depart Los Angeles at 11:30 pm May 3 Arrive Nadi at 5:50 am, transfer to hotel May 3 to 9 Yatule Resort & Spa + Rotary Work! May 9 to 13 Musket Cove Island Resort May 13 Depart Nadi 9:40 pm / arrive LA at 1:25 pm
$4,466 *ppdo
* Price is per person, based on double occupancy. Includes Round trip air from Los Angeles to Nadi, Fiji + transfers from Airport to hotel, hotel to hotel & hotel to airport
To reserve your spot contact: Vicki Robbins (University District Rotarian)
425-775-1595 or 800-622-3342 [email protected]
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Do you know which club this is?
University Sunrise Rotary Club food Drive for Ronald McDonald House
We are SO proud to have Son Michael Pham as a member of University District Rotary. Check out the amazing story of Son Michael and his organization, KIDS WITHOUT BORDERS, in the video linked below!
https://kcts9.org/…/…/voices-vietnam-war-son-michael-s-story
Boy Scout helps out Rotary
Boy Scout, Hunter Tiemersma, shakes hands with PDG John Enger, after delivering a dozen new flag base boxes that he and others from his Troop 725 have built for PNWPETS (Pacific Northwest President-Elect Training Seminars). Hunter and his troop having been helping both Enger and PDG Don Gregory for several years in moving the over 180 international flags and the heavy flag bases to PETS, setting the flags up and then taking them all down again. Hunter had noticed that a lot of the boxes have been falling apart (each box contains 8 bases) as there were plenty of slivers to be shared. To earn his Eagle Scout rank, Hunter coordinated building these boxes. After all of the paperwork is completed and accepted by the Eagle Board of Review, he will be awarded the rank this year at a Court of Honor.
He's going to make an outstanding Rotarian one of these days! Many thanks to Hunter and his fellow scouts!
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Watch Seattle Rotary's President Mark Wright lead a discussion with
global health leaders. To watch the Livestream simply click here: https://www.endpolio.org/node/12/
5030 Newsletter - November 2017
World Polio Day Affirms Commitments to Drive New Polio Cases to Zero
Seattle 4 President and KING 5 Evening News Anchor Mark Wright was the MC for the Fifth Annual World Polio Day live stream broadcast to the Rotary world on October 24, originating this year from the Gates Foundation. Live interviews were also broadcast on KING 5’s morning and evening newscasts. Journalists sent reports throughout the world that Rotary and its partners have protected over 16 million children from being paralyzed by polio over the past 30 years. Rotarian advocacy has spurred sophisticated vaccine delivery and virus monitoring networks that are vital to driving new cases to zero. Everyone involved is committed to sustaining an all-out eradication effort. Mark reported that 2.2 billion doses of polio vaccine are being delivered to 430 million children this year.
Rotary Clubs all over the world joined in the celebration. Niagara Falls was lit up in blue and gold. Meeting presentations, fundraising events and individual giving campaigns raised awareness and resources to help. In District 5030, every contribution to PolioPlus in October is to be matched 100% up to $25,000. The total funds raised will be reported in next month’s update.
There have been no new cases reported in Pakistan since August 20. Two more in Afghanistan in October. None in Nigeria for 14 months. The global total of 13 is down from 28 to date a year ago. The 2016 total was 37.
Polio Update by Steve Crane
Country 2017 2016 2015
Thru Nov 1 Year End Year End
Afghanistan 8 13 20
Pakistan 5 20 54
Nigeria 0 4 0
Global Totals 13 37 74
As a polio survivor, this campaign is personal. When I joined Rotary almost 30 years ago, I was asked to contribute to Rotary's Polio Plus Campaign. At that time there were 350,000 cases of polio in 125 countries
EVERY YEAR. Rotary had the vision of a polio free world and was determined to immunize all the children of the world for as long as it took to eradicate this crippling disease.
In 2013, I went to Ethiopia along with other Rotarians from the US and Canada to immunize children. What an amazing feeling it was to give two drops of a precious liquid and know that a child would not get polio.
From Ethiopia: Front/Left - Ezra Teshome, PDG and University District Rotarian celebrating the total eradication of Polio in Ethiopia.
Pat Turner, Mercer Island Rotary
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Mercer Island Rotary - Our fearless leader (Claudina Campbell) making fuel efficient stoves in Guatemala with StoveTeam International - one of the projects our club supports.
Rotary Means Business
Announcing the Puget Sound Rotary Network A Business Network for Rotarians
FREE
Join the Network Today WWW.PUGETSOUNDROTARYNETWORK.ORG
IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING
First of all we are here to help you. Our email is [email protected]
Once you hit the save button, your account is on hold pending verification that you are a Rotarian so keep it simple at the beginning (as little information as possible). Once verified and approved you will receive a welcome email and you can log back on and make as many changes as you want to your page.
When you sign up if you cannot find the proper category for your company select Rotarian as a category and email us and we will create one for you.
Pictures are a little tricky. Pay attention to the sizes that the program is recommending for pictures. If you have problems, email us the picture(s) and tell us the dimension you need.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE & REGISTER
A club visioning session provides a vision for the future and the beginnings of a written plan that promotes consensus, consistency, and continuity. This statement of goals and initiatives provides a road map that’s easy for leaders and club members to understand. It serves as a foundational piece for any club that wants to grow and become more effective.
Club visioning defines and celebrates the unique culture of each club through a 4 hour facilitated delivery of 8 sequenced exercises supporting our motto of “Service Above Self”. Visioning allows the club members to dream about what their club could become. From this dream comes a new sense of identity and a renewed commitment to make a club better than it is today.
WHY Club Visioning? There are at least three measures of success for club’s that complete a Vision Facilitation:
An immediate measure of progress will be the members’ pledge and willingness to move the planning processes from a nice-to-do concept to meaningful growth programs for the club, its members, and its community.
The second is that the output from this session is woven into the annual plans of the incoming and succeeding Presidents. It will be reflected in the continuity and consistency of programming and leadership in your Club.
Finally, the long-term mark of accomplishment will be at the end of 3, 4 or 5 years when your club advances from where it is to where it wants to be.
For more information contact Kathy Johnson, PDG at [email protected].
CLUB VISI NING
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On November 1, the Seattle Rotary Service Foundation made a lasting impact on the lives of men and women recovering from homelessness by awarding a $10,000 grant to Plymouth Housing Group. This grant will fully furnish the community rooms in their new building, Plymouth on First Hill. Plymouth’s mission is to eliminate homelessness and address its causes by preserving, developing, and operating safe, quality, supportive housing and by providing homeless adults with opportunities to stabilize and improve their lives. Over half of Plymouth’s 1,000 residents are seniors. Over 150 are US veterans. Most struggle with disabilities, behavioral health challenges, or chemical dependency.
Plymouth’s housing is an immediate response to an urgent need. Plymouth on First Hill provides apartments, case management, and on-site medical care for 77 people experiencing long-term homelessness plus critical health needs. That’s 77 more people off the streets and into safe, warm homes for the winter months and beyond. Many of Plymouth’s residents require a supportive community to overcome the traumas of homelessness and avoid a return to life on the streets. Latricia, who struggles with mental illness, said of her Plymouth community, “We have social activities: potlucks, bingo, movie night, barbeques… The social activities are my favorite. That support helped me get stable. [My] psychiatrist says those who have a good support system do better at staying out of the hospital than those who don’t, and I’ve been out of the hospital five years now. I’m proud of that.”
With the $10,000 SRSF grant plus $5,000 in private matching funds, Plymouth will finish furnishing Plymouth on First Hill’s two spacious community rooms. When complete, these rooms will form the heart of the community, enabling residents to meet their new neighbors, feel welcome and at home, and recover from the trauma of homelessness in a safe space.
Photo by Margaret Nicholson
Photo by Elizabeth Vasquez Hein
Seattle #4 - Doing Good Locally Global Grant 1748221 – Technology for Teachers in Rural Guatemala
In early October, three schools and their communities in the Retalhuleu district of Guatemala celebrated the delivery of new computer equipment and the beginning of two years of training to bring the wealth of information and educational resources available on the internet to their classrooms. Teachers in each of these schools, Escuela Recuerdo de Perez, Escuela San Jose and Escuela Sector Aguilar, will learn to use the equipment and to access the internet to harness the resources there (“Think of being able to access the information in all the libraries of the world”) to dramatically enrich classroom instruction in each of their schools.
This enhancement, beyond the limits of teacher lectures, whiteboard exercises and well-worn textbooks, will enable teachers and their school communities to improve students’ motivation to learn and will support greater student achievement. Internet sourced materials on a wide range of subjects, math, social studies, language, music, to name a few, have been implemented in the curriculum at prior schools participating in the “Technology and Information for All” (TINFA) program and we expect much success for the three new schools as well.
The training program, equipment and internet access are being delivered by Seattle-based non-profit, TINFA (see http://www.tinfa.org/) and are made possible by a global grant from participating Rotary clubs, University Sunrise Rotary, Mill Creek Rotary, University District Rotary and UW Rotaract (Seattle). The clubs’ contributions were multiplied by matching funds from Rotary District 5030 and The Rotary
Foundation, bringing the total to $53,000. This global grant was made possible through the efforts of the host club in Guatemala, Club Rotario Guatemala del Este.
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Disaster Relief Funds Set Up by Rotary International
If you want to support victims of Hurricane Maria, including our friends in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, please check out the link here from Rotary International. They are going to be cleaning up for months, if not years, so please keep them in mind when you are doing your year-end charitable giving. Rotary members, ShelterBox and Habitat for Humanity are working together in the Dominican Republic to support recovery efforts from Hurricane Maria.
Click Here for Details http://on.rotary.org/2zl9EmR
2017-2020 COUNCIL CYCLE
The 2017 Council on Resolutions voting period is now open!
My vote, as your Council Representative, must be submitted by 15 November 2017 midnight central standard time. Once my vote is submitted, it is final and cannot be changed. Any votes that are not submitted will not be counted.
Take a look at the 38 proposed resolutions. If you have any input or questions let me know. I plan on casting my vote on November 14, 2017 after the Council Representatives Session in Reno at the Zone 25/26 Institute. The following materials are available to help you navigate the COR:
• Council on Resolutions FAQs • Council on Resolutions Rules of Procedure • How to Read Resolutions
If you have any questions, please email or call me.
Steve Lingenbrink, PDG Council on Legislation Rep 2013-20 [email protected] 206-276-5553
Woodinville Rotary BlingoFest 10.7.17
The Rotary Club of Woodinville's BlingoFest fun(d)raiser was an extravaganza of Bingo and Bling. Fun prizes, raffles and an ice breaker bingo game kicked off the evening. Creative self-expression in attire was encouraged and many did not disappoint! Hosted by Woodinville Rotarian Gayle and Peter Hickey at Lucky Spud Ranch, dinner featured appetizers, a delicious pasta & salad buffet, desserts and drinks options. Then came the main event: BINGO! Emcee Peter made the calls, as winners, and almost winners played for prizes or paid fines for false wins. The Best Bling Award went to new member Marshall Moon. Congratulations to all the winners! John, Erv and Elaine presented the Rotary Peace Pole Project and there was a rare visit by a special surprise guest. It was another successful event with a heavy dose of our motto: "Having Fun is Serious Business" ~
Checkout the mad bingo card management skills of DRR Sora and Julie, as DG Alex looks on and DRR Sora with our UW Bothell Rotaract BlingoFest Team:
UW Bothell Rotaract Fall Kick off
Fantastic turnout at our 1st General Membership Meeting on Thursday, October 12th! The Rose Room on the UW Bothell campus was filled with UW Bothell Rotaract board members, new interested students and Woodinville Rotarians. President Ariana presented "What is Rotaract?" and District Governor Alex Hopkins talked about the latest district happenings. Then came announcements of upcoming events and projects and all shared their service passions. The UW Bothell Rotaract Club is thankful for everyone's support and very excited for the year ahead!
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A note from Susan Beals, District Youth Service Chair
This Rotary year we are featuring individuals who were introduced to Rotary through participation in one of our Youth Service programs, and then have continued
their involvement with Rotary as they learn more about the amazing opportunities. We welcome our new generations to the Family of Rotary!
RYLA, YOUTH EXCHANGE & INTERACT ROTARACT ROTARY
RYLA | RYLA NW, March 15-18, 2018
Information packets will be distributed soon for RYLA NW @ PLU March 15-18, 2018. Information can also be found at www.rylanw.org. For the last few months, we've discussed how to plan for RYLA, connect with your high schools, implement a recruitment and selection process,
and prepare your RYLA participant so they can get the most of out of the experience.
This month we also want to share a highlight of where RYLA can lead. Julianna Lively attended RYLA her junior year in 2015. She was already involved
with Kentlake High School Interact Club and had some exposure to Rotary through the Covington Club. At RYLA, she began to comprehend how broad and deep Rotary connections can be as she connected with dozens of other participants and Interact Leaders. She returned to Kentlake inspired and led her Interact Club as it got involved in international projects in Guatemala and local service projects such as Rotary First Harvest. After graduation, she continued her studies at Green River College with plans to be a pharmacist. At Green River, she earned a scholarship from Covington Rotary and is one of the founding members of the Green River Rotaract Club. What was RYLA's role in this? Through RYLA Julianna began a path of discovery of her own leadership strengths, set goals, and gained inspiration from her peers.
Look for budding leaders like Julianna in your schools and communities. RYLA can be the spring that will feed their growth and desire to become involved and engaged.
Rotary Youth Exchange & Rotaract Elly Larson first encountered Rotary when she was selected as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student. She joined Rotary because of the people she met and the leadership opportunities she was offered. There were caring and
compassionate people who helped her develop her skills as a leader and showed her that it was possible to effect change in the world. Elly joined UW Rotaract (Seattle), sponsored by the University Sunrise Club, and led the club as president. Elly left UW Rotaract when she graduated and began applying to medical school. Her quest led her to the East Coast, where she has joined the Rotterdam Sunrise Rotary Club of Rotterdam, New York. Rotterdam Sunrise was welcoming, with several members under age 30. They involved her quickly, as a board member of the Gift of Life Foundation, which funds pediatric surgery in other countries, which fits nicely with Elly’s focus on medicine. She will undoubtedly do well at Rotterdam Sunrise, and they are lucky to have her!
Interact World Interact Week is from October 30 – November 5. During this week, Interactors around the world are taking action in their communities. Here’s how our Interact clubs can get involved:
SHARE THE CELEBRATION Connect with clubs around the world so they can share their club’s celebration by using #WorldInteractWeek on Rotary International’s Interact Facebook page.
RECORD A VIDEO Tell your club’s story for the 9th annual Interact Video Awards! Submit a video before November 30 for a chance to earn US $1,000 toward their next service project.
EARN RECOGNITION As a sponsor club, complete a certificate of recognition to highlight the positive impact your Interact club has made.
Thanks for your Interact leadership–and Happy World Interact Week!