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Pby WaynEe HearAn, RI MedCia RelaEtions muIst proStect ou r enPvironmenOtal infra S- peSace studIies inBitiatives:L the RoE tary structure in order to achieve peace Centers for International Studies and The 2007-08 Rotary peace train engi - and justice. The value systems that the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies neered by RI President Wilfrid J. unite humanity are rooted in nature.” program. In a session led by Eddie Wilkinson made its last stop 24-27 But the obstacles to lasting peace are Blender, chair of the Rotary Centers April in the border city of Windsor, many and difficult. “We say that Major Gifts Initiative, four Rotary Ontario, Canada. The Windsor forum peace is possible, but it is also very peace studies alumni described their was special because it was Wilkinson’s daunting,” cautioned Honorary Chair experiences. “There is nothing like the last major meeting in his homeland as Allan Rock, Canada’s former ambassa - Peace Centers program going on in RI president. dor to the United Nations, who led a the world today,” said Lee-Anne panel that included Jordan’s U.S. Mulholland, an attorney from Belfast, Aboard was keynote speaker Robert F. Ambassador Prince Zeid Ra’ad and Northern Ireland, and a 2006 gradu - Kennedy Jr., named one of Time mag - former Canadian Foreign Affairs ate of the Rotary Center program at azine’s “Heroes for the Planet,” who Minster Lloyd Axworthy. The three the University of California-Berkeley. reminded those at the year’s final discussed a list of threats that include Rotary Presidential Peace Forum: “We nuclear proliferation, Middle East As the peace forum concluded with a instability, terrorism, global warming, lively interfaith service of music and uninspired national leadership, and song, followed by Kennedy’s keynote, the myriad social, economic, and polit - Wilkinson waited for the applause to ical problems facing many African settle before offering: “I’ve got an nations. idea -- Let’s just move all of this down to Los Angeles for the Convention Fortunately, Rotary is helping prepare and share the message!” the next generation of leaders to con - front such challenges through its two

2007-2008 Governors Deserve A Standing Ovation

Nothing surprises me less than the criticized from outside for having too worked hard to achieve this, to standing ovations given to this year’s short leadership terms, be it as a ensure that we leave Rotary better Governors 07-08 and Spouses during Club President, a Governor, or offices than we found it. their District Conferences. I have beyond. And yet the secret to it all is And now I anxiously look forward to watched as countless Rotarians have that sudden burst of energy and what heights the next Class 08-09 approached their leaders extending direction that comes from each new will take us, thanks for a job well done. In turn I officer, as they head out, building on as they have seen the Governors tearfully everything that is good in the past, Make struggle to try to thank their team and rising to the task of moving Dreams members and Rotarians in so many, Rotary forward. Real. many ways, for all the support they I hope each of you will take a few have received this year. Thank you If I have sensed anything, it is that Zone 22, 1st Place in for what our Rotary Districts in Zone 22 pos - you have sess the kind of leaders in Clubs and Polio Plus Challenge done for Districts that have shared President Rotary. Wilf’s vision with those they lead. minutes to thank your own District Celebrate They have used their skills to involve Governor for all that they have done and enjoy others by building this year. Membership in our Zone 22 the Los teams and they have is up! Foundation Giving and partici - Angeles lead by example. pation is up! This year, Zone 22 is set - Convention I am awfully proud ting a standard in giving to Rotary’s RID Monty of each one of them. $100 Million Challenge. Clearly this Sometimes we are Class of DGs, and all Rotarians

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build self-confidence. Every Rotary leader During my year as DG, occasionally Rotarians came up to me and said, “that was a wonderful speech”, could benefit from but I never knew if they were just being polite, or if they thought perhaps there was a way I could Toastmasters improve my speaking skills. In Toastmasters, I always “Many of today’s social problems arise because peo - learn what they liked about my speech and how I ple misinterpret each other’s verbal and behavioral could even make it better. I learn a lot from my fel - intentions. We all have to try harder to understand low Toastmasters and I always strive to be better each other in order to promote greater world peace”, next time. says Morley Pinkoski. As a long time Toastmaster, for - I am also very impressed with the Leadership track mer school principal and teacher for close to 40 years they offer. Anyone in a leadership position would in different countries, Morley understands the impor - benefit from this. I would certainly recommend tance of relating properly with col - future Rotary Leaders to explore leagues and children of all ages. He Toastmasters.” believes that just like Rotary, Toast Toast Masters Toastmasters was founded in 1924 Masters International contributes a International by Rotarian Ralph C. Smedley. lot to the promotion of world peace in many indirect and direct ways. “If contributes a lot The TM Mission statement includes: people can verbally express them - “Toastmasters International helps selves with clarity to others then this to the promotion of men and women learn the arts of logically leads to better understand - world peace speaking, listening and thinking - ing, tolerance and acceptance of oth - vital skills that promote self-actual - ers and their ways of operating. ization, enhance leadership potential, foster human Being actively involved in TM will help us improve understanding, and contribute to the betterment of communication skills with each other such as listen - mankind.” ing, speaking evaluating, hospitality, interpersonal communication, social graces etc.” To find out more about Toastmasters or to locate a club in your area, visit: http://www.toastmasters.org/ Fellow Toastmaster, PDG Elly Contreras-Vermeulen agrees: “During the past few years since I have been actively involved in Toastmasters, I have been able to improve both my speaking and leadership skills. How much better my club visits could have been during my year as DG had I joined Toastmasters sooner. The sup - port of fellow Toastmasters is wonderful and helps

We have aS nepw hrobeby:a It’sd calilend Ggeoc acthihng. eIt t akwes uos tro dS ot whhart'so thue bigg dheal ?Geocaching places we would otherwise never see, and we learn about You gave me the coordinates so I know where it is. Seems things we may have never learned about otherwise pretty easy. It is deceptively easy. It's one thing to see where an item is, it's a totally different story to actually get there. What is Geocaching? Caches come in all sizes, from a tiny half inch nanocache, Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for GPS with only a small strip of paper to write your initials, to a users. The basic idea is to have individuals and organiza - large storage container filled with goodies. Some are simple tions set up caches all over the world and share the loca - drive by caches while others may be complicated puzzles. tions of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then It’s also a great sport for kids, it gets them outdoors and use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, allow them to see places. a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of Wherever we go, we bring our handheld GPS, and go on rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get some - line to find out where there may be a hidden cache. thing they should try to leave something for the cache. Continued on Page 5...... www.rotaryzone22.org Page 3 Northern Lights News May/June 2008

Each section of the course has a cussion forum about Brand and set of slides and accompanying Rotary. There is a link at the end audio files. This course is well of the brand page. worth your time - you will find it nndd rewarding and of a major benefit Since the launch of the Zone 22 rraa for Rotary. website a few months ago the BB response has been remarkable. d This course was developed by Your comments and suggestions nnd PDG Nancy Gilbert. Nancy has have been appreciated and very aa extensive experience in market - encouraging. rryy ing communications and brand. ttaa Watch for the July issue of Rotary Roo Rotary's brand resides within the World magazine for an article on by ChrRis Offer, PDG hearts and minds of Rotary mem - the use of new communications bers and in the members of the technology in Rotary A new course has been posted on community. It is the sum total of featuring the Zone22 OnLine site. the Zone 22 OnLine Training their experiences and perceptions website. of Rotary, some of which you can Brand and Rotary is a course influence, and some you cannot. about brand. Rather than focus on academic theory, the course You will find the new Brand and takes a wide viewpoint. The Rotary course at course first gives an overview of www.RotaryZone22OnLine.org on the current theory and ideas the Communicate page or directly related to brand and brand build - at: ing strategies. In the second part www.rotaryzone22online.org/bra of the course a draft brand strat - nding_page.html. egy for Rotary is put forward. You may also participate in a dis -

French Presidential Membership Conference a Success From the Presidential Website That evening the Rotarians from Quebec City turned out In the morning of 4 in large numbers for a wonderful dinner that both Joan April, Joan and Wilf and I and all of the guests really enjoyed. flew to Quebec City The next day we we drove to Sherbrooke, Quebec, where for a membership District 7850 Governor John Morgan greeted us. Next, we conference that was celebrated the creation of a new club - the Rotary Club of held almost exclu - Sherbrooke Métropolitain. This event featured a brunch, sively in French. The the introduction of new members, and the recognition of event was chaired Paul Harris Fellows. It was attended by both the mayor by PDG Paul and the archbishop of Sherbrooke. Beaulieu, who was As president, I was extremely grateful to witness the assisted by Regional camaraderie that exists RI Membership Coordinator Louise de Pokomandy and between the Quebec Rotarians Past District Governor Elaine Toussaint. President Wilf and those of New Hampshire recalls, “We were extremely fortunate to have the follow - and Vermont. In the last two ing RI leaders, who participated in French, at the event: years, Quebec clubs in this dis - Zone 22 Director Monty Audenart, RI Director Bernard trict have grown from three to Rosen, and RI Director-elect Catherine Noyer-Riveau. I felt five. And, according to PDG that the conference was extremely successful and that the René Laporte, there will be six French Canadian Rotarians went away with the strong French-speaking clubs before 30 desire to spread Rotary throughout the whole province. June!” At least 30 towns and cities were identified that could support a Rotary club.

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started to watch them on the web to see where they would end up. Now, eight months later, they have been picked up Continued from Page 3...... OGneceo wce ahacveh loicnatged the cache, we sign a logbook, take by individual Geocachers who have taken them from out one of the trading items and replace it with one of our Halifax to Alberta, British Columbia, and the US. One of own. Sometimes there are Travel Bugs, these are numbered, them made it all the way to Hong Kong. trackable (dog) tags. These often have a little item attached to them, such as a keychain, or souvenir item. We hope that while the tags travel from one cache to the next, the holder takes a moment to read about Rotary. What does it have to do with Rotary? It’s just one other way of creating Well, that’s the neat thing. While in Halifax last year for awareness and spreading the the Zone Institute, we located a number of waypoints for word of Rotary. caches in the area on the website and decided to prepare some Travel Bugs ourselves. If you would like to learn more, We laminated five “What is Rotary” foldover cards, visit www.geocaching, com punched a hole in them and attached a Numbered tag to Elly and Ramiro Contreras each of the cards. Next we entered our tags on the website. AKA los patos Once we discovered our first cache in Halifax, we placed one of the Rotary Travel Bugs in the container and logged them. When all five Rotary Travel Bugs were places, we World Water Summit, June 12, 2008 The Cover of the Book Elly Contreras-Vermeulen, PDG If you have enrolled for the Rotary Water Summit on Thursday June 12th, at the LA Convention Centre, THANK Recently I was elected as President of YOU, we look forward to seeing you there! another organization I belong to. After the election, one of our newer members came up to me If you haven't enrolled, it's not too late to sign up. If you and said. “Isn’t that a difficult and time-consuming job - have doubts about its value, look at the program by follow - to be President?” Another friend said: “You know what ing this link to the WASRAG website: you got yourself into don’t you”? After giving these http://wasrag.org/events.php?event=22 questions some more thought, I realized that although I consider being elected as President an honour, there are The World Water Summit is designed for participation. many responsibilities attached. But it’s the members of Keynote speakers will set the stage. After that we want to the team that we count on to make our year successful. learn of Rotarians’ experiences in bringing safe water and Being the President does not mean anything unless you sanitation to millions in Africa, Asia and Latin America. have a strong team behind you. Let’s compare our organization with a book, and the But there’s more: As we search for ways to have a bigger impact on the world water scene funding becomes increas - Governors and Presidents as its cover. A strong cover is ingly important. To help us understand what we must do, important - it holds all the pages together. The more speakers from the Conrad Hilton Foundation, the US Agency pages, the stronger the cover needs to be. The cover also for International Development (US AID) and the Pepsico needs to represent the content of the book; the mem - Foundation will show the way. bers of the team. You should be able to see what to expect by just looking at the cover. Finally, you and all the other participants will join in prepar - When a book is being advertised, all you usually see is ing strategies to ensure effective support for our friends in the cover with it’s title. This cover needs to look profes - the developing world. sional, with a concise description of the book. It should be designed in such way that once you see the cover and Please join your fellow Rotarians on the 12th. To sign up, fol - its title, you will be interested in the content. But what is low the link: inside counts the most. Without the inner pages, the http://www.sporg.com/pom/registration?cmd=event_info&event_id=1021 book is worthless. We as Rotarians are the inner pages of 80 the book called Rotary, and the Governors and Presidents are the cover. They will do their part by keeping the We look forward to seeing you in L.A. on June 12th. organization together and representing us. It’s up to all of us to make this book worth reading. Ron Denham, Chair, WASRAG www.rotaryzone22.org Page 5 Northern Lights News May/June 2008

been in Yangon since 8 May distrib - Neal, a Cornish firefighter, said that Rotarians uting the initial shipment of 644 over the last week his team worked boxes containing tents, mosquito closely with local authorities in nets, tools, water-purifying tablets, Yangon to get the supplies into the at work and other essential aid items. The affected area. The ShelterBox crew Almost two weeks after Cyclone Americans are Patrick Olson, a col - also held "train the trainer" sessions Nargis devastated the delta region lege textbook publisher and member to teach Burmese fire and emer - of Myanmar, an aid flight carrying of the Rotary Club of Plymouth, gency officers how to use the 1,050 containers of relief supplies Michigan, and David Eby, a property ShelterBox contents and set up the arrived from the UK on 16 May at appraiser from Brentwood, tents. the Yangon airport. The plane was Tennessee. chartered by Cornwall-based charity Working with local authorities, the ShelterBox, a grassroots disaster team unloaded the containers onto relief organization supported by trucks for transport to the outlying Rotary clubs around the world. Irrawaddy Delta region, where the ShelterBox was one of the first out - need is the greatest. side relief organizations to be "Five hundred boxes, plus 50 blue allowed into the country, where the (water purification kit) boxes are powerful 3 May cyclone left more planned to be distributed to than 134,000 people dead or miss - Ngaputaw, Haigyi Island, in the ing. On board the DC-10 were two southwest delta region, 250 boxes to Response team members stack ShelterBox con - American volunteers to support the Labutta Delta, and 250 to Bogale," tainers at the Yangon airport. four ShelterBox response team team leader Ian Neal said from members from the UK who have Yangon.

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