Rotary Club of Clinton Bulletin for May 1, 2017 (Apr 25, 2017)

Club meets Monday's at noon in the Tuscany Room at Rastrelli's Restaurant.

Club website: http://portal.clubrunner.ca/1628

Invocation

June 19 - Robert Holesinger

June 26 - Paul Holmer*

July 3 - No Meeting - 4th of July

July 10 - Keith Hook

July 17 - Dan Housenga

July 24 - Steve Howes

July 31 - Don Jacobs

Student Host

June through August - no students

If you are listed to do invocation or as the student host and are unable to attend that day, please find a replacement. Thank you.

Student host responsibilities: If you are listed to be student host, please plan to arrive by 11:40 a.m. to greet the students as they come in. Assign one student to a Rotarian so they are spread out at different tables. Try to have different Rotarians each week host students, so the students can meet several people.

Greeter

June - Phoebe Soenksen

July - Christie Collins

Greeting is a great way for new members to meet other members.

Fellowship

June - Phil Barger*

July - Dale Dalton*

August - Gary Foster

and Matt Brooke

Fellowship Fines - Scholarship Fundraiser

June 12 - $225.00

YTD: $9,988.25

Attendance - June 12 - 49%

Present - 45

Exempt - 4

Absent - 46

Membership - June

Total membership: 95

New members: 1 (Holly Youngquist)

Members that resigned: 0

Membership goal: 105

President Jim challenges and encourages each one of you to bring a guest/potential member to at least one meeting this month. There is a potential Rotarian in anyone who cares about their community and has a desire to engage in civic responsibility to make the world a better place. Thus, please take the time to bring one or more individuals who subscribe to our Rotary values.

Incoming RI President Ian Riseley said it is imperative that clubs find ways to attract and engage young members. Today about 5 % of reported members are under 40, and a majority of members are over 60. "Consider what Rotary stands to look like 10 or 20 years from now if we don't get very serious, very soon, about bringing in new members."

Member information - please submit any changes to your mailing and/or home addresses and emails to Ida (edal@mchsi.com). Thank you!

Congratulations!

Rotary Birthdays for

June 19- June 24, 2017

Brian Wright - 6/23

No Rotary Anniversaries for

June 19 - June 24, 2017

Sunshine

Best wishes to Dennis Zornig who is receiving treatments at Mayo Clinic. We are all hoping for the best of everything for him.

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Volume 71 Number 38 May 1, 2017

Mary Swanson, Jennifer Graf, Jim Dobbyn, Phil Barger and Bob Holesinger are Paul Harris Foundation Sponsor.

For just $26.50 you too can be a sponsor. Contact Ida if interested.

Announcements

FACTOID: Rotary International Board of Directors amended its policy on fire arms January 2017. The policy states that no fire arms may be sold or raffled off at Rotary events.
Mark your calendar: The final Quarterly Assembly evening dinner meeting will be held Monday, June 5 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. President Jim noted that we need 1/3 of membership for a quorum to elect three new board members. We need two more members to join the nominating committee. Let either Rich Klahn, Jennifer Graf or Shannon Sander-Welzien know if you want to join the committee. Lynn will continue to serve as treasurer and Ida as secretary for the coming year.
Fellowship fines provide scholarships for 9 area High School students in the amount of $1,000 per student. Rob Cassidy is the scholarship chair.
Upcoming Club Programs are being posted once a month in the Clinton Herald.

RYLA

The Rotary Club of Clinton is again offering an opportunity for two local students to attend the nationally-known leadership conference RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards). The six-day over-night Rotary Youth Leadership conference will host students from across Iowa at Grinnell College from Sunday, July 16 through Friday, July 21. The Rotary Club of Clinton will pay all fees, including room and board for the two students who are honored by selection. Attendees must be present for the entire conference.

Application forms may be downloaded and completed via the www.IowaRYLA.org website. The application deadline is April 30, 2017. For more information, please contact a Clinton Rotary member or Clinton Rotary Club RYLA Rep Shannon Sander-Welzien at the YWCA-Clinton at 563-242-2110 x.101/ ed@ywcaclinton.org.

District Conference 2017

Coralville Marriott Hotel & Conference Center

May 4 - May 6, 2017

R.I. Convention 2017 - Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Georgia World Congress Center

June 10 - June 14, 2017

See you at the Western Gala Auction

Friday, April 28, 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm at the Eagle Point Lodge

Program for June 19, 2017

Speaker: Faith Duncan, P.E. and acting project engineer with the Illinois D.O.T.

Topic: information on the progress of the Savanna/Sabula bridge project.

Program for June 26, 2017 - tentative

Speaker: Gary DeLacy, new Clinton Community School Superintendent. Gary is returning to our area from service as the Danville, Iowa, Superintendent.

June Program Chair: Jennifer Graf

July Program Chair/s: Mary Connell

Dale Dalton

Meeting of June 12, 2017

Guests: visiting Rotarians Brenda and Richard Dimond from Seattle and Dave Butcher guest of Lynn Todtz.

Program: Matthew Miller, Clinton Showboat Artistic Director, talked about the 2017 season at the Showboat. This year's theme is "Hooray for Hollywood. The plays are: Newsies, Dial M for Murder, Footloose, Bridges of Madison County and 39 Steps.

Cast members Heather Banks and Emily Brett gave a beautiful rendition of songs from Footloose and Newsies. Beautiful voices!

Cast members Emily Brett, Heather Banks and

Artistic Director Matthew Miller.

Service Projects for 2017

TBA

A Special Year for Our Rotary Foundation

District Rotary Foundation Chair Terry Geiger reminds Rotarians that the Rotary Foundation is celebrating the Centennial year, 100 years since Arch Klumph proposed the idea that Rotary have a foundation "For Doing Good in the World." The mission statement of the Rotary Foundation is:"...to enable Rotary members to advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education and the alleviation of poverty."

Please note: The Foundation Committee will show a 3 minute video monthly and make short comments to educate and motivate club members involvement in contributing to the Rotary Foundation as part of their quarterly dues or otherwise as they desire.

For the second week in a row there have been no reported cases of polio anywhere in the world, according to figures released by the World Health Organization!

The positive news gives strength to the hard work our Rotarians have carried out to make this a reality in polio stricken countries. Areas that have reported that there are no new cases of polio include Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Syria and Iraq.

But the battle is not over. According to official guidelines, an outbreak is considered to be stopped only following a period of 12 months without the detection of any new polioviruses detected from any source. This is assuming that disease surveillance meets certification standards. Once experts are confident that there are no immunity or surveillance gaps that could allow the virus to hide, the World Health Organization removes the country from its list of re-infected or endemic countries.

Only when no case of polio has been detected anywhere in the world for more than three years will the Global Certification Commission for the Eradication of Poliomyelits meet to make a decision on whether the virus is truly gone from the world.

The battle is not over and your generosity and commitment to end polio is needed more than ever. Immunization must still continue, testing of water systems are imperative and necessary. And so is your continued support. Thank you.

Funding Needed: Fistula Corrective Surgery in Kenya, Africa. Contact Lucie Kamiti in District 9212 at nimuwanjohi@gmail.com

In celebration of the Rotary Foundation Centennial year, the Foundation Committee challenges club members to give $26.50 this year towards the eradication of Polio.