Humanity Accomplished the Monthly Newsletter for District 5330 Volume 2, Issue 7, Feb 2015 Rotary Is Humanity in Motion
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The Monthly Newsletter for the Home of “1,000,000 Acts of Service Humanity Accomplished The Monthly Newsletter for District 5330 Volume 2, Issue 7, Feb 2015 Rotary is Humanity in Motion... HumanityHumanity AccomplishedAccomplished Volume 2 // Issue 7 // Feb 2015 District Governor Chehab El Awar 2014-2015 My Fellow Rotarians: I realized how responsive you all are for the challenges to become 100% EREY DISTRICT. Two clubs become 100% The month of February is very special in the Paul Harris Fellows. And on, and on and on…. Rotary year since it is designated as World Understanding Month. The month also in- Then I realize how honored and privileged my wife and I are cludes the anniversary of the first meeting of to be a part of a beautiful, caring district. Rotary held on February 23, 1905, now desig- nated World Understanding and Peace Day. Our commitment to world understanding is still in the making. We have reached out and put together over nine Global World Understanding Month is a chance for every club to grants so you all will have the pride in investing your DDF in pause, plan and promote the Fourth Avenue of Service- humanity, and we are about to implement them with your Rotary’s continued quest for goodwill, peace and understand- help. ing among people of the world. We also have three application for Naomi Mitchell Fund in As we reflect on this special month and the birth of our most which we are about to make two commitments of 30k each. honorable organization, we should be asking ourselves, “what is our club doing to promote understanding and peace in our Yes peace and understanding is a long commitment for us communities and the world?” Rotarians, and by us committing one act of kindness no mat- ter what the size is, will assure that peace is possible through We will never have any shortage in our business as peace helping others. makers and service ambassadors in the world, as conflicts and wars wage on in many parts of the Middle East, Africa, Paki- There is no end for our service, there is only a new beginning stan, Afghanistan and others. The need for our kindness and which will start with our leader Rudy. We all should be en- service will become more in demand. couraging our team to attend the District Assembly. Conflicts had even affected our own communities in the ab- sence of the young men and women serving and some times Let us all renew our commitment to achieve our goals for the paying the ultimate price. year and to finish our year with a great Conference where we all can have fun and celebrate our effort with our members. So what are we doing to establish understanding and fighting Our trip to Brazil will be an adventure, since our Rotarians will poverty? Well, I will share with you my observation as I watch be participating in a global grant with three other districts. Our and work with all of you great Rotarians of District 5330. I real- District 5330 Rotarians will be there to do hands on work with ize your kindness to each other and that is why we have over other Rotarians from the three other districts. 65 net new members. I realize your caring about others in the world through your generosity to our foundation, 170k to the The best way to light up Rotary is through service. annual fund. I realize your loyalty to your communities with 30 different projects. I realize your passion to our youth over eight Your proud Governor Shab and Bricia, new Interact Clubs, one Rotaract Club, one Early Act Club and 16 Youth Exchange students. Do an act of kindness every day, kindness becomes a life- style and not an act I realize your commitment to polio eradication, over 28k. I real- Yours In Rotary service, ize how our presidents and leaders are so involved as we Shab Elawar DG 2014-2015 shared at the president’s advance and the district leadership Great Rotary District 5330 meetings. ServiceService withwithCell 951-PassionPassion295-7358 1 Humanity Accomplished The Monthly Newsletter for District 5330 Volume 2, Issue 7, Feb 2015 InIn ThisThis IssueIssue Page 1: Governors Message Page 2: District Leadership Page 3: What is Happening in the District Page 5: District Conference Page 6: Cross Egypt Challenge Page 7: Presidents Advance District Governor: Chehab El Awar Page 8: Interact Assembly District Governor Elect: Rudy Westervelt Page 9: Interact and PRYDE Page10:George Eninger Past District Governor: Joe Ramos Page11:Riverside East Service Project District Secretary: Carolyn Hayes Page11:Paul Harris Society Member Page12:Palm Springs HS Job Shadowing District Treasurer: Jamie Zinn Page13:Roasting Time Club Administration Services Page14:RI Convention in São Paulo Page15:March to End Polio Darlene Casella Page16:Anza Hamilton HS Interact Community Services: Page17:EarlyAct Grandview Elementary Page18:Morongo Basin Food Drive Anette Guldhammer-Beals Page19:California Military Institute Vocational Service: Melanie Rice Interact -Perris Page20: VTT Team To Brazil Youth Service: Neal Dewing Page21: Marketing Rotary InternationalInternational Service:Service: Al Randall Page22:Power of One Page23:Coming Events Public Relations: Joe Ramos Rotary Foundation: Dan Goodrich For a full list of District Staff and contact information visit: www.Rotary5330.net ServiceService withwith PassionPassion 2 Humanity Accomplished The Monthly Newsletter for District 5330 Volume 2, Issue 7, Feb 2015 What happened in our District and what is your Governor and First Lady doing? It all started with the meeting with our RI President Gary and his family at the Rose Parade Club President Jennifer Smith and PD governor Joe were walkers in the parade. We had a rotary family day at our home where we had Rotarians join us with their families on New Year's Day. We accompanied Rotarians from our district and two Rotaract to visit Kumiai Indian village and share a belated Christmas, and discussed our district project to build a water distribution system. We had our president’s advance where our presidents and district leadership meet to share the success and to work on our challenges. The best thing came out of that is that our stronger clubs will MENTOR the clubs with challenges to in- crease their membership. We received a guest from district 2980 which we declared as a sister district. Vasu is the first governor of the newest district in the world. We also declared him as an honorary member of our club and they spent nine days with us. My wife and I hosted a dinner for the Past District Governors and the Governors in line to meet with our guest and dis- cuss possible humanitarian projects Met with other governors at a dinner hosted by Damo and his wife at their home, These governors come every year to get trained in San Diego. We discussed the details of two GLOBAL GRANTS. We changed the destination of our team from Bangladesh because of unrest ,and directed them to Brazil. We had an orientation for Brazil trip to the Rotary convention, hosted by the Loretta's in Palm Desert where 34 Rotar- ians attended ,the significant of this trip is that Rotarians from D5330, D2980, and D4110 will be traveling to perform service at a Global Grant project in Brazil We will be hosted by the local Brazilians and we will travel to the convention in São Paulo to meet with our VTT team who will be attending the convention and heading to project. We attended a meeting for the preparation for the most exciting district conference, where we will be joined by 200 interactors and also joined by Rotaract from our District. We met with the committee for the “March to end Polio” where we will have the kick off on the 7th of March which will end at our conference in May. We assigned the Secretary to Lynn a Rotaract from Redlands University. We met with the grant committee and established a plan to invest your DDF in humanity with about 9 different Grants Our chair Carrie Allan finalized the Paul Harris dinner on February 24th at the Castaway in San Bernardino where our guest speaker Steven Solomon will share with us the importance of our Rotary Foundation. Any one WHO is interested in becoming a PHS is welcomed to the dinner . THE SCHOLARSHIP committee interviewed and approved one scholar, and discussed other possible scholars. Travelled to the International assembly in San Diego where 534 governors from the world get trained every year includ- ing our own DGE Rudy, great time to meet Rotary leaders from all over the world . We met a few of our Brazilian hosts and joined DGE Rudy and Karyn for their governor's ball. Continued page 4 ServiceService withwith PassionPassion 3 Humanity Accomplished The Monthly Newsletter for District 5330 Volume 2, Issue 7, Feb 2015 We met all the Rotaract Presidents at the home of chair Susan Kean's and discussed the ways we could integrate them into Rotary world and to include them with our functions especially being involved with interactors at PRYDE and RYLA.. We also discussed a retreat to all Rotaract and possibly a conference that will include other districts. Well, these are our stories in Rotary service. We challenge you to tell you stories and have few to share at the confer- ence on Friday and through out the year. Your proud Governor Shab and Bricia ServiceService withwith PassionPassion 4 Humanity Accomplished The Monthly Newsletter for District 5330 Volume 2, Issue 7, Feb 2015 Save the Dates Come Join in the Spirit, Commitment and Enthusiasm!! ServiceService withwith PassionPassion 5 Humanity Accomplished The Monthly Newsletter for District 5330 Volume 2, Issue 7, Feb 2015 "Cross Egypt Challenge" Dear Rotarian friends around the world, The Rotary Club of Alexandria Cosmopolitan - District 2451 – Egypt is happy to invite you and your prestigious and respectful club to learn more about and share our Rotary organized initiative, "Cross Egypt Challenge" that aims to promote tourism to Egypt and world understanding.