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Holiday Party
Mark your calendars for Wednesday evening, December 12. We will have our annual North Pole Rotary Holiday party. Tammy and Team A are coordinating this event and have requested your input on what YOU’d like to do as members. Catered, progressive dinner, family, adults, games, gift or ornament exchange? Please send Tammy your opinion if you haven’t already. We’ll have a great time! For those of you that haven’t been to Rotary because you are so busy during the day, we hope you’ll mark your calendar for the 12th so you can join us!
Tammy Randolph
tammy.randolph.c4xd@statefarm.com
Tammy Randolph
tammy.randolph.c4xd@statefarm.com
100% Attendance for October
Congratulations to Margarita, Alana, Michelle, Barbara, Terry, Dave, Chuck, Katherine, Kacie, John, Marisa, Donna, Joanne, and Jeri.
100% Attendance for October
Congratulations to Margarita, Alana, Michelle, Barbara, Terry, Dave, Chuck, Katherine, Kacie, John, Marisa, Donna, Joanne, and Jeri.
Spirit of Rotary Award goes to....
Congratulations to Joanne Trefethen as this club’s first ever First Quarter 2008 Spirit of Rotary Award! The first selection team included Tasmine Bennett, Tammy Colledge, Barbara Cotting and Jerry Million. Tammy read and presented the following:
Our Rotary Spirit Award is being presented to honor a fellow Rotarian in our club who not only exemplifies the 4-way test, but one who truly puts service above self.
While each of these might describe any of our members, the member that we are honoring this quarter is very special, and near and dear to my heart.
This member joined our Rotary club on May 1, 1996. Since that time, thismember has served on numerous committees, and taken on many, many projects to include the flower garden, highway clean-up, and our Christmas families. Some larger projects include our annual Halibut Feed, the
NP Health fair, our community skateboard park, as well as serving as President of our club for two consecutive years.
Outside of Rotary is no different. This member has served on the community planning board for the Fairbanks North Star Borough, and is currently deeply involved serving with the Fairbanks Resource Agency. This member also gives generously to other community fundraisers, such
as the annual Go Red event for women, a function of the American Heart Association. In addition to being self-employed with a construction business, this member took on an additional business and hit the ground running with dog mushing supplies. In any spare time left over, this member
also designs quilt patterns with a sibling, and enjoys a glass of good red wine. Congratulations Joanne!
Be thinking about who YOU think is deserving of this award for the current
quarter. We will present the next award in January. If you are interested in
serving on the selection committee, let Jeri know!
Our Rotary Spirit Award is being presented to honor a fellow Rotarian in our club who not only exemplifies the 4-way test, but one who truly puts service above self.
While each of these might describe any of our members, the member that we are honoring this quarter is very special, and near and dear to my heart.
This member joined our Rotary club on May 1, 1996. Since that time, thismember has served on numerous committees, and taken on many, many projects to include the flower garden, highway clean-up, and our Christmas families. Some larger projects include our annual Halibut Feed, the
NP Health fair, our community skateboard park, as well as serving as President of our club for two consecutive years.
Outside of Rotary is no different. This member has served on the community planning board for the Fairbanks North Star Borough, and is currently deeply involved serving with the Fairbanks Resource Agency. This member also gives generously to other community fundraisers, such
as the annual Go Red event for women, a function of the American Heart Association. In addition to being self-employed with a construction business, this member took on an additional business and hit the ground running with dog mushing supplies. In any spare time left over, this member
also designs quilt patterns with a sibling, and enjoys a glass of good red wine. Congratulations Joanne!
Be thinking about who YOU think is deserving of this award for the current
quarter. We will present the next award in January. If you are interested in
serving on the selection committee, let Jeri know!
1st Membership Workshop
We’ll have “a working dinner” share information, inspiration and ideas For all Fairbanks Area Rotary Clubs
Thursday, November 29th – 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Fairbanks Regency Embassy Room
What’s the big deal about Member Retention?
Now that you have a new member, how do you keep them?
Best practices in New Member Orientation & Continuing Education Establishing and updating continuing member education How to be sure we’re recruiting members who will stay
Exploring ways that local clubs can work together to achieve dynamic membership growth and retention Please pre-register so the hotel has a head count…
Marty Brantingham – 907/590-5082 or email: owlfin@mosquitonet.com
Alana Bergh – 907/488-2243 or 907/460-8646 or email: alana.bergh@att.net
For further information and to register
Thursday, November 29th – 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Fairbanks Regency Embassy Room
What’s the big deal about Member Retention?
Now that you have a new member, how do you keep them?
Best practices in New Member Orientation & Continuing Education Establishing and updating continuing member education How to be sure we’re recruiting members who will stay
Exploring ways that local clubs can work together to achieve dynamic membership growth and retention Please pre-register so the hotel has a head count…
Marty Brantingham – 907/590-5082 or email: owlfin@mosquitonet.com
Alana Bergh – 907/488-2243 or 907/460-8646 or email: alana.bergh@att.net
For further information and to register
Meet at the Food Bank Nov 21st 12-2pm
There will not be a meeting November 21st please volunteer at the Fairbanks Community Food bank. Come wearing your Rotary Shirts and smiles! See ya there!
Winning the War on Polio
How can you help wipe out polio? Rotarian Alana Bergh gave a presentation last week on how the war on polio is going. If you give $100 to the Foundation, District 5010 will match that $100, and the Foundation will match your donation with another $100 for a total donation of $300! Consider upping your Foundation donation before the end of the year! We ARE winning the war on polio. If you are interested in helping with polio immunization, there are six opportunities each year. The next event will take place in India during February 2008.
Decades ago, polio outbreaks were a constant threat around the world. After the introduction of polio vaccines by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin and a steadfast immunization effort, these outbreaks became part of history in most of the world. Yet many still live under the threat of polio, which is why Rotary and its global partners are committed to reaching every child with the vaccine and ending this disease worldwide. Major gains have been made in the global fight against polio: In the 1980s, 1,000 children were infected by the disease every day in 125 countries. Today, polio cases have declined by 99 percent, with fewer than two thousand cases reported in 2006.
Two billion children have been immunized, five million have been spared disability, and over 250,000 deaths from polio have been prevented.
Contribute to stopping polio
The biggest obstacles to eradicating polio are the underfunding of the global initiative and sufficient political commitment from the remaining polio-affected countries. Rotary international believes the primary source for additional funds can and should be governments of polio-free industrialized countries. Your contribution through Rotary will help ensure that we keep doing our part to get the job done.
The biggest obstacles to eradicating polio are the underfunding of the global initiative and sufficient political commitment from the remaining polio-affected countries. Rotary international believes the primary source for additional funds can and should be governments of polio-free industrialized countries. Your contribution through Rotary will help ensure that we keep doing our part to get the job done.
Contribute to PolioPlus Partners
PolioPlus Partners allows individuals, Rotary clubs, and districts to support urgent social mobilization and surveillance projects submitted by Rotarians in polio-endemic, importation, and high-risk countries. In 2006-07, the Trustees of The Rotary Foundation allocated US$1 million to match, on a first-come, first-served basis, cash contributions to PolioPlus Partners at a level of US$0.50 for each $1 contributed. Learn more about PolioPlus Partners.
Contribute to the PolioPlus Fund
The PolioPlus Fund provides global-level funds through Trustee-reviewed grants to the initiative based on strategic priorities. Give now.
The PolioPlus Fund provides global-level funds through Trustee-reviewed grants to the initiative based on strategic priorities. Give now.
What your gift can do
A contribution of US$135 will buy a bicycle to distribute vaccine to villages
A contribution of $250 will buy T-shirts to make health workers highly visible during a National Immunization Day
A contribution of $200 will buy 10,000 pamphlets to inform the public about an upcoming immunization campaign
A contribution of $1,000 will buy 700 vaccine carriers to ensure the oral polio vaccine is maintained at the correct temperature
*All contributions to PolioPlus and PolioPlus Partners are eligible for Paul Harris Fellow Recognition.
Give through Rotary
Friends of Rotary are welcome to add their support to Rotary’s number-one goal. Contribute to the PolioPlus Fund today.
Thank you Alana for sharing your experience!
Enter to Win 5 nights in Maui, Hawaii
Aloha Rotary,
You may have seen an ad like the one below in the November Rotarian. Organizing this Giveaway is the major fundraiser for the Rotary Club of Upcountry Maui for this Rotary Year. The response to the ad has been lower that anticipated. We are hoping that many Rotarians did not see this ad but would be interested in donating to our Rotary projects while getting a pretty good chance at winning an exciting time on Maui.
You can help by forwarding this email to your members. Or remind them of our Rotarian ad at your meeting, or print this email for distribution at your meeting. Interested members can donate online at http://www.upcountry-rotary.org/, or at the address in the ad.
We believe the winner of this drawing will have a great trip to enjoy or offer to a loved one. The odds of winning the Grand Prize are good: 1 in 1000; of any prize 1 in 334 (or better!). Rules are on the website.
You may have seen an ad like the one below in the November Rotarian. Organizing this Giveaway is the major fundraiser for the Rotary Club of Upcountry Maui for this Rotary Year. The response to the ad has been lower that anticipated. We are hoping that many Rotarians did not see this ad but would be interested in donating to our Rotary projects while getting a pretty good chance at winning an exciting time on Maui.
You can help by forwarding this email to your members. Or remind them of our Rotarian ad at your meeting, or print this email for distribution at your meeting. Interested members can donate online at http://www.upcountry-rotary.org/, or at the address in the ad.
We believe the winner of this drawing will have a great trip to enjoy or offer to a loved one. The odds of winning the Grand Prize are good: 1 in 1000; of any prize 1 in 334 (or better!). Rules are on the website.
Mahalo for your kokua,
(Thanks for you help),
Dick Thompson, president
The Rotary Club of Upcountry Maui
(Thanks for you help),
Dick Thompson, president
The Rotary Club of Upcountry Maui
Disaster Relief for D4200
D4200 is the sister district to D5010 and the Villahermosa Omeca RC is the sister club to the Homer Kachemak Bay RC. I have asked DG Maynard to ask all the clubs in D5010 to help our friends in D4200. I have received permission from President Bryan Zak to set up a relief fund to be sent to D4200 (as soon as we have information from the D4200 Governor).
Could you please pass the word that anyone wishing to contribute to disaster relief for D4200 send a check to the Homer-Kachemak Bay
Rotary Club
PO Box 377
Homer, Alaska 99603-0337.
YEO TALK has proved to be an outstanding tool for communication and notifying of special cases and situations. Here is now information from an old YEP warrior, but it is an emergency:
In these hours, CNN is broadcasting terrifying pictures and videos about the flooding situation in the State of Tabasco, Mexico, with spectacular rescue operations. It is a call for help throughout the world for roughly one million people who lost almost everything by the floods.
Our Rotary E-Club of Latinoamerica, with its legal base just in the Rotary District 4200 which the State of Tabasco is part of, has rallied to contribute its part.
This morning I had a phone talk with PDG Carlos Alvarez of D-4200 (States of Yucatan, Tabasco, Campeche, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Quintana Roo), a former long year served YEO, to be more precise: a talk with his wife Josefina, living at Villahermosa, the State capital. I was told that the situation is a true emergency, and they need help from where they can receive, drinking water, medicines, food, clothes, and so on. - Furthermore, I was told that all exchange students assigned to Villahermosa are well, and they are helping to relief the victims of the flooding, that reached a height in many places up to the third floor.
In these hours, CNN is broadcasting terrifying pictures and videos about the flooding situation in the State of Tabasco, Mexico, with spectacular rescue operations. It is a call for help throughout the world for roughly one million people who lost almost everything by the floods.
Our Rotary E-Club of Latinoamerica, with its legal base just in the Rotary District 4200 which the State of Tabasco is part of, has rallied to contribute its part.
This morning I had a phone talk with PDG Carlos Alvarez of D-4200 (States of Yucatan, Tabasco, Campeche, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Quintana Roo), a former long year served YEO, to be more precise: a talk with his wife Josefina, living at Villahermosa, the State capital. I was told that the situation is a true emergency, and they need help from where they can receive, drinking water, medicines, food, clothes, and so on. - Furthermore, I was told that all exchange students assigned to Villahermosa are well, and they are helping to relief the victims of the flooding, that reached a height in many places up to the third floor.
Let me point out : this is not an official press release but a first hand information. The local rotarians are caring; additionally: they will ensure that even today every student in the flooded area will contact his home country and natural family to give them the good news that nothing dangerous has happened with them.
Our District YEP has approximately 75 exchange students from around 20 countries. Not only YEOTALK is a wonderful tool, also the exchange students are constituting an effective network for helping in this kind of natural disasters. Hence I appeal to pass the word for a help operation.
Thank you!
With the resignation of our former Vice President, the board voted today to accept Dave Gardner as our Vice President. Dave is our President Elect for 2009-2010, so it seemed like a natural fit.Join me in congratulating Dave in taking on this new role.
Additionally, our membership chair position was vacated, and without hesitation, Tammy Randolph volunteered to take on this seat.
Thank you Tammy and Dave! You are wonderful examples of what Rotary is about!
Aurora Borealis Rotaract Meeting Canceled
Aurora Borealis Rotaract has canceled our Wednesday meetings for Nov 21st, Dec 19th, and Jan 2nd.And a little refresher on our meetings ;)First 3 Wednesdays of every month5:45-7:00pm Kayak Room located off the hallway between the Great Hall and the Rasmussen library on the UAF campus.Cheers,-Patrick
Educational Minute 11/07/07
From 1905 until the 1980s, women were not allowed membership in Rotary clubs, although Rotarian spouses, including Paul Harris's wife, were often members of the similar "Inner Wheel" club. Women did play some roles and Paul Harris' wife made numerous speeches. In 1963, it was noted that the Rotary practice of involving wives in club activities had helped to break down female seclusion in some countries[16]. Clubs such as Rotary had long been predated by women's voluntary organizations, which started in the United States as early as 1790[17].
Interestingly, the Irish clubs had discussed admitting women in 1912 but the proposal floundered over class issues.
Gender equity in Rotary International was first publicly raised by the Duarte Rotary Club affair. In 1976, the Duarte California club allowed three women to join. Rotary International expressed alarm but requests to terminate the women's memberships were rejected by the club. As a result, Rotary International revoked the club's charter in 1978. The Duarte club filed suit in the California courts, claiming that Rotary Clubs are business establishments subject to regulation under California's Unruh Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination based on race, gender, religion or ethnic origin. Rotary International then appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. The RI attorney argued that "... [the decision] threatens to force us to take in everyone, like a motel". The Duarte Club was not alone in opposing RI leadership; the Seattle-International District club unanimously voted to admit women in 1986.[18] The United States Supreme Court, on May 4, 1987, confirmed the Californian decision and, since that time, women have been allowed to join Rotary.[19] The Elks, the final holdout among service clubs in prohibiting female membership, voted in 1995 to allow women[20]. By 2007, there was a female trustee of Rotary's charitable wing The Rotary Foundation while female district governors and club presidents were common. Women accounted for 15% of international membership (22% in North America).
The change of the second Rotarian motto in 2004, from "He profits most who serves best" to "They profit most who serve best", 99 years after its foundation, illustrates the move to general acceptance of women members in Rotary
No Fine Badge
This Month it is Katherine Hood Agent/Owner of the Allstate Office in North Pole that gets the pleasure of talking openly about her business. She is going to give out UV markers at the November 7th Meeting. Here is the information about the UV markers and their uses.
What happens with stolen property when burglars are caught after multiple break-ins? Most people do not realize all recovered stolen property ends up in the police lock-up. Without proof of ownership, the police are unable to release the property. The property is either destroyed or auctioned off later. What do we suggest? Complete a thorough inventory of your belongings, document them on video tape, take digital photographs and write down the serial numbers. Then store this inventory outside of the residence. We also recommend writing your (Alaska Drivers License Number) ADL on all valued belongings with a our new UV markers. (EXAMPLE: ADL123456) The invisible ink though undetected by the natural eye is clearly visible under a black-light. Local law enforcement are being equipped with black-lights to better identify stolen property and victims. They will be able to get the items back to their rightful owners faster! We can make a difference and help Law Enforcement! Call or stop by for your free marker! If you are burglarized or have a theft make sure to notify the investigating officer your belongings are marked with a UV identification.
Here are some of our suggested items to mark:
Laptop Computer
Software
Credit Cards
Guns
Binoculars
Tools
Construction equipment
Ladders
ATV's
GPS
Camping equipment
Fishing equipment
Instruments
Presentation Equipment
Tupperware
Cameras
Ipod's
MP3's
Gameboy's
DVD collections
CD collections
Portable Stereos
Art work
Cell phones
Legal documents
Authenticate wills or contracts
Verify replacement of Car or electronic parts during repairs
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