tivities, and fellowship events. Invite your Ro-tary family to join you and share the satisfac-tion of participating in community service pro-jects, supporting youth programs, volunteering at homeless shelters, assisting the elderly, and creating awareness to strengthen families and our world. In the spirit of Rotary Family month, I wish you a very happy holiday season. The Future of Rotary is in our hands. Yours in Rotary, Peter

Dear Fellow Rotarians: As we prepare for the hectic holiday season, let us take time to reflect on and thank our fami-lies for the unconditional support they give us in our Rotary endeav-ors. When we talk about our Rotary Family, we are not only taking about spouses, children, rela-tives, and friends. We are also talking about our extended Rotary Family composed of all the people, old and young, whose lives have been touched in some way by Rotary. These include members of In-teract, Rotaract, and Youth Exchange plus Foundation alumni, fel-low Rotarians and their families, and the families of deceased Rotarians. RI President John Kenny states, "Every club should strive to achieve a balanced in-teraction between Ro-tarians and their families and the Family of Ro-tary. Only by working together, as a family, can we ensure that the

Rotary of today grows into an even stronger Rotary of tomorrow." No matter what we cele-brate, be it Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Divali, EID, or any other occasion, this time of the year is very spe-cial. Celebrating it with family gives us an op-portunity to come to-gether in joy, to reflect on who we are, and to give thanks for what we have. The holiday sea-son also provides us with opportunities to give back to the world that has provided us with abundance and to make a difference in the lives of our fellow human be-ings. This year is more chal-lenging than most as many Rotarians, friends, relatives, and neighbors are in transition and fac-ing difficult times. Let us celebrate Rotary's com-mitment to its Rotary Family during this holi-day season by inviting our own Rotary family members to participate with us in projects, ac-

December is designated as Rotary Family Month

December 18, 2009 Volume 1, Issue VI

Rotary District 5470

December

Newsletter

Special points of

interest:

Foundation Dinner

2010 P.E.T.S.

Another Ambassado-

rial Scholar

Literacy

Inside this issue:

Foundation

Dinner

2

Membership 3

New members 4

Literacy 5

New Interact 6

Broadmoor

Rotary gives

Christmas at

Fort Carson

7

Paonia & Polio

Plus & Jr High

Children

7

New Telluride

Interact Club

7

Kathleen Poer

from Durnago

8

La Jara gives

dictionaries

8

2010 P.E.T.S. 9

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The Denver Tech Center Marriot is offering at-

tendees a special room rate of $94.00 per night

Special Room Rates and request the Rotary Din-

ner Rate. Rooms are first come, first served for

the first 26 rooms only.

Call Marriott PASSKEY at 800-266-9432 800-266-9432 or 800-266-9432 800-266-9432 for hotel room reservations.

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THE MEMBERSHIP MARKETPLACE

HOLDING A MEANINGFUL INDUCTION TO MEMBERSHIP

What does your Rotary Club do when it inducts a new member? Does the President simply state that Joe or Jane is a new member and give him or her a Rotary pin? Or does your club do something memorable? Consider the following and adapt to fit your style.

Materials Prepare a packet of information about your club, about Rotary International and about The Rotary Foundation. Include a Rotary pin and a name badge (if only temporary), and some memento, such as a Four Way Test coin.

Ceremony The President asks the new member’s sponsor to bring the member forward.

The President welcomes the new member to the club on behalf of the Board and club members. “We believe you are a worthy representative of your profession and that you will be able to exemplify the true spirit of Rotary.”

(Stating the two major tenets of Rotary)

Service above Self. “As a member you belong to a diverse group of professional leaders working to address various community and international service needs and to promote peace and understanding throughout the world. There are 1.2 million Rotarians in 33,000 clubs, who join you in this endeavor. Another major benefit of Rotary is the fellowship that you will experience that is essential in achieving our service goals.”

The Four Way Test. (Recite it) “The Four Way test is every Rotarian’s guide to making ethical decisions. “

(List the responsibilities of being a Rotarian)

Attending weekly meetings

Participating in service and fellowship activities

Recruiting new members

Paying dues on time

(The sponsor presents the Rotary pin)

“Please wear this pin often and with pride. It identifies you to other Rotarians and gives you the opportunity to talk about Rotary with others.”

(Give the packet of materials and name tag to new member. If your club has a Red Badge program, explain its require-ments.)

(Identify the new member’s mentor and ask to come forward)

For Red Badge Program – “To help you through this process, _____________ is your mentor. I charge both of you work together to help _______________ earn his blue badge over the next few months. Please be sure the proc-ess is fun, memorable and productive.”

For other clubs –“ _______________ is your mentor. Take the time to become well acquainted over the next few months. Talk about all aspects of Rotary. Seek answers to your questions. (mentor), help (new member) be-come comfortably and productively involved in our club.”

“Fellow Rotarians, please join me in welcoming ________ to the Rotary Club of XXX.”

Other things to consider Invite the new member’s family

Have the sponsor, or club membership chair talk about the new member

Offer the new member the opportunity to address the club.

Whatever you do, make the induction ceremony meaningful!

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District 5470 New Member Page

First Name Last Name Club Date Joined

Congratulations to the following clubs with new members. Listed below is the

number of new members these clubs have initiated since July 1st.

Colorado Springs 7 Telluride 2

Pueblo West 6 Salida 2

Paonia 6 Cedaredge 2

Aspen 5 Lamar 2

Carbondale 3 East Colorado Springs 2

Club Rotario 3 Edwards 1

Garden of the Gods 3 Burlington 1

Alamosa 3 Durango High Noon 1

Pagosa Mountain Morning 3 Broadmoor District 1

Grand Junction Horizon Sunrise 3 La Junta 1

Minnequa 3 Wet Mountain Valley 1

Glenwood Springs 3 North Colorado Springs 1

Trinidad 3 Rampart Range 1

Canon City 2 Rifle 1

Grand Junction 2 Buena Vista 1

Delta 2 Gunnison 1

Colorado Springs Interquest 2 Pueblo 43 1

Burkholder Lee Trinidad 11/19/2009

Jacobson David Paonia 11/19/2009

Bonham Jan S. Colorado Springs 11/20/2009

Bufkin Bradley East Colorado Springs 11/23/2009

Cramer Paul Cedaredge 11/26/2009

Lere Dan Pueblo West 12/2/2009

Marsters Mark Pueblo West 12/2/2009

Stratton Joe Burlington 12/2/2009

Lewark Norman Paonia 12/3/2009

Sanders Curt Aspen 12/3/2009

Hamilton Robert Pueblo 43 12/7/2009

Collazo Juan Garden of the Gods 12/8/2009

Vauthrin James Garden of the Gods 12/8/2009

Landry Nathan Garden of the Gods 12/10/2009

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LITERACY WITHIN ROTARY: WE HAVE GREAT RESOURCES ...

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Thanks to all of our club leaders who are working to ensure that literacy continues to be a top

priority in club activities and projects this year. The good news is that we have excellent literacy

resources available through RI, one of which is the Literacy Resource Group (LRG). The Literacy

Resource Group connects Rotarians with the information and tools they need to actively pro-

mote literacy at home and abroad. The LRG asks Rotary clubs to learn about literacy and educa-

tion issues in their communities and to help increase access to quality learning opportunities for

those in need. Clubs are also encouraged to work with the International Reading Association

(IRA) to conduct literacy projects worldwide. The IRA website: www.reading.org

In this newsletter, I would like to share some ideas that have come from our well-respected RI

Literacy Resource Group's General Coordinator, Dick Hattwick ...

SUPPORTING LITERACY IMPROVEMENT BY HONORING THE RI THEME FOR

DECEMBER - FAMILY OF ROTARY ... One of the Zone Coordinators in RI stated the fol-

lowing which can be shared with our clubs: "Rotarians working in the area of literacy should be inspired by President John Kenny's words to develop projects which take advantage of the family

structure and reinforce the practice of reading ... helping especially illiterate mothers ... to over-

come this inhuman condition which is such a powerful cause of illiteracy."

PREPARING FOR LITERACY MONTH IN MARCH, 2010 ... The Literacy Resource

Group believes that every club should find a way to celebrate Literacy Month in March. Doing so

is a family responsibility (Family of Rotary). The LRG recommends the following actions: (1) Sup-

port literacy in a way that generates local publicity, (2) Conduct a literacy project that benefits the

local or international community, and (3) Plan at least five literacy-related projects that will qualify

your club for the District Literacy Award. For information about the Award Qualifications, access

this website address: l http://www.rotary.org/en/AboutUs/Rotaryleadership/RIpresident/

Pages/Literacy.aspx - If you have difficulty accessing the website address, please e-mail me and let me know. My e-mail address: jdcasey1@mindspring.com

INFORMING YOU ABOUT A LITERACY COMMITMENT THAT I HAVE MADE FOR 2010: During my sixth trip to South Africa (since 2004) to work with illiterate mothers and very young children in rural villages, I am planning to work with the Family Literacy Project in the province of KwaZulu Natal for two weeks. I will be providing training for the facilita-tors who work directly with illiterate mothers and toddlers/preschool children. If you are in-terested in supporting the purchase of Little Books for Little Hands, the resources that I will use with mothers and children, please contact me. A set of Little Books costs $20.00. It would be great to have support from District 5470 Clubs -- thank you for consid-ering this possibility!

Judith Casey

District 5470 Literacy Chair

Interact: Make a Difference

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We are looking for stories, happenings, successful adventures or not successful adventures! Let other Rotarians know. Failures can sometimes be changed into successes. Give us your ideas and com-ments. Pictures are great, add names to the pictures. Email to: Charles Bawden Fax: 970 945-2530 Newsletter Editor Phone: 970 319-7188 cabawden@gmail.com

A message from J.R. Thompson:

In case you have not already gotten the word, there is a new DVD with bonus CD-ROM called “Interact: Make a Difference”. You can see a preview of it by going to this web site address: http://www.youtube.com/interactofficial While you are at Interact’s page on YouTube, you can also see the award winning videos pro-duced by Interacts clubs around the world. I helped judge the winners from over 50 entries. For those of you who don't know, I am on my second term as a member of the RI advisory committee for Interact. If you want to purchase of copy of the DVD, you can go to the specific page on RI’s Shopping site at this address: http://shop.rotary.org/catalog/product_info.php?Path=&products_id=215 Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year. J.R. Thompson

RI Advisor for Interact

We’re on the web Rotary International

Www.Rotary.org

We’re on the web

District 5470

Www.Rotary5470.org

On Saturday, December 12, members of the Broadmoor Rotary Club

helped ensure a merrier Christmas for families of some of Fort Carson’s

Wounded Warriors.

Broadmoor Rotary started this project that warms the heart of its mem-

bers several years ago and, each year, it gets a little bigger. Here’s how

the program works:

Event organizers Jim Anders and Brad Brackel contacted the Fort Car-

son Wounded Warriors program asking to help soldiers wounded in

combat who might need a little extra assist from Santa this year. The

program delivered 20 soldiers with 40 children who showed up early

Saturday morning at Wal-Mart to meet one of the 22 Rotary “hosts”.

The hosts then escorted the soldiers around the store allowing them to

buy whatever they wanted for their kids up to $50 per child.

Even with the help of the Rotarians this event couldn’t have happened

without the help of the great employees of Wal-Mart who provided cof-

fee and doughnuts and designated a “Wounded Warrior Only” check

out lane so all the transactions could be handled with one cash register

receipt. In fact, two Wal-Mart project leaders even came in on their day

off to make things go smoothly. And, Wal-Mart got so into the spirit of

Christmas, they contributed an additional $250 to the project.

The event was covered both in the Woodmen Valley Edition and on

KKTV 11 news at 5:30 and 10pm the day of the event.

Broadmoor Rotary Gives Christmas a Helping Hand at Fort Carson

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Paonia at it again

Pinkies for Polio. The 7th and 8th grade classes at Paonia JHS competed to see who could collect the most pen-

nies during November. The 7th grade won the pizza party. $ 110 total was raised. There will be a story in the

school newspaper so parents and as well as school kids learn of Polio-Plus. Next spring the effort goes to Hotch-

kiss JHS. The next Polio-Plus fund raiser will begin January 16th with Mike Gwinn and the North Fork Flyers.

Thanks to the efforts of the Telluride Rotary Club; president Jerry Grandey, the Rebounder Daniel Yo-

hey; and Rotarian advisor to the new club Lauren Bloemsma, a new Interact club has been formed in

Telluride. The primary mover was Daniel Yohey, last year’s RYE student to Hyderabad, India, where he

participated in a National Immunization day. The new club has already 18 members. They are mostly

seniors and are aware that they need to get more underclassmen involved, but are confident that this

will happen once they have more visibility through good projects and some advertising. The charter

documents have already been issued by Rotary International and a formal charter party will be held in

January. One of the first club projects is a continuing Purple Pinkie fundraiser for Polio. Sandy

McLaughlin, a faculty member from Telluride High School is the faculty advisor. Let’s wish this new In-

teract club all the best.

Welcome to our newest Interact Club in Telluride

Kathleen Poer, a for-

mer Ambassadorial Scholar from Durango

is now working in Ethiopia in the fight

against HIV/AIDS. She has worked in Ethiopia

since 2007 for Abt Associates, one of the world's largest govern-

ment and business re-search and consulting

firms. She manages USAID's five-year Pri-

vate Sector Program for HIV and Tubercu-

losis, which aims to increase the capacity

of private health care providers to deliver

services through a public-private sector

partnership.

When she originally

arrived in Ethiopia, she worked to strengthen an existing program

for the prevention and treatment of TB and

HIV in the workplace

and to expand a pilot program to integrate

TB and HIV services into private-sector

clinics. After Abt Asso-ciates completed a

successful pilot that introduced TB treat-ment to 20 private

clinics, she oversaw the expansion of care

to 100 more clinics.

Before moving to

Ethiopia, Kathleen spent 18 years work-

ing for Abt Associates to improve health care

systems in Albania, Egypt, Jordan, Kazakh-

stan, Kyrgyzstan, Rus-sia, and Uzbekistan.

"It's difficult as a for-eigner to just go and

visit poor rural vil-lages," Kathleen says. "You wouldn't do it

unless you happened to be involved with the

Rotarians. They had

this active network of projects, and I tried to

go with them as fre-quently as possible. It

was my experience in India that made me

want to work in devel-

opment."

Kathleen Poer studied

as a 1985-86 Ambassa-dorial Scholar at Jawa-

harlal Nehru Univer-sity in New Delhi,

sponsored by the Ro-tary Club of Durango,

Colorado, USA. While there, she volunteered

with a number of clubs on service projects,

including installing en-ergy-efficient cooking

stoves and developing avenues of rural in-

come generation. She also participated in polio immunization

campaigns.

Inside Story Headline

La Jara (Conejos County) distributes dictionaries

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How an Ambassadorial Scholar from Durango is helping healthcare in Ethiopa

Dictionary distribution was accomplished last week with 136 copies given out at the four elementary schools in the

county.

The new Conejos County Chamber of Commerce held its kickoff meeting recently at the Opera House in Manassa

with a turnout of about 40 people. This will be a plus for business development in our county and this Rotary Club

has opted to become a member and will share representation in the county.

Leroy Salazar stopped by last week on his way to catch a private plane down to Colon, Mexico to visit the orphan-

age. He reported that the orphanage is doing well but voluntary donations have fallen off recently so new avenues

of support are being sought. Room and board costs $5.00 per day per student. Some options being considered are

growing spices, fish farming, and vegetable growing. The dormitories, library, water supply and waste disposal sys-

tems built by Rotary Clubs over the past 20 years are serving well and no similar needs are currently unfilled.

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P.E.T.S. 2010

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BECOMING A SUPER PRESIDENT

PRESIDENTS-ELECT TRAINING SEMINAR FEBRUARY 26-28, 2010

DENVER MARRIOTT TECH CENTER I-25 at Belleview Ave., Exit 199,

east to Syracuse St., north to the Marriott

HIGH-COUNTRY P.E.T.S. is a program to prepare you for a confident leadership role…to help you build your team…to help provide insight into recognizing and meeting the needs of your community...to bring you current with the recognized programs of ROTARY IN-TERNTIONAL…and to provide you with resources and materials that will help guide you through the year while serving as Club President. This is a Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Ne-

braska, and Wyoming workshop for Rotary Club Presidents-Elect, Presidents Elect

Nominee and Assistant Governors in Districts 5390-5440-5450-5470-5630.

….begins at the

TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL

PLEASE REVIEW ALL THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FLYER.

IF YOU HAVE FURTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE FIRST CONTACT THE

FOLLOWING REGISTRAR FOR YOUR DISTRICT.

P.E.T.S. Registrar for: District 5470: District 5470 Governors-Elect:

Mary O’Connor - oconnorm@aol.com Steve Berg 719-469-8062 scb624@hotmail.com

IMPORTANT: The 2007 Council on Legislation requires that only Presidents Elect who have been to President Elect Training Seminar (PETS) are able to serve as Club Presi-dent, so this training is mandatory for those who will serve as Club President in 2010-2011. If, for some reason, you will not be serving as Club President in 2010-2011, PLEASE pass this along to the person who will be the President. And please let your DGE know the name, address, phone number and email of the person who will be serving. Thank you!