Meeting Mondays at 12:00 Noon
Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center
W 4th & Commercial Streets
Downtown Waterloo
March 24, 2008
Big changes are in
the wind for My Waterloo Days. And Jay
Stoddard from the Cedar Valley Chamber will be here to explain
them. One is
that all events will be held in the downtown, eliminating the
time-consuming
practice of moving equipment. Another will be indoor concerts at Young
Arena.
Be with us Monday to hear the latest.
Cheers to You
Cedar Valley
It’s been a few years since the club’s
last fund
raiser—The Million Dollar Hole in One—died from low participation. Now
come the
first annual wine tasting event- -Cheers to You Cedar Valley.
President
Last month
President Cox asked for sponsors to step
forward and a number have. District Governor Dick Moeller and wife
Linda are
members of a Waverly band which will play at the event. And two weeks
ago club
members picked three local charities which will split the proceeds from
the
wine tasting. They are the Boy Scouts, the Food Bank and Peoples
Community
Health Clinic.
Soon it will be your turn to
step forward and support the
fund raiser. The committee hopes members will buy tickets to the event
at $35
per person and that they will get groups to attend including non
members.
Buy a
Duck, Help
Rotary’s
Foundation
The Rotary District Duck Dunk is a
tradition which
has raised over $126,000 for the programs of the Rotary Foundation—one
$5 duck
at a time. For the past several years it has been run by members of
Mason City
Daybreak Rotary.
You
buy a duck for $5; all ducks are tossed in the hotel
pool on Saturday, May 3 where youth exchange students pull out one duck
for
each 200 sold. If your duck is picked, you win a Paul Harris Fellowship
worth
$1,000. But even if your duck is not picked, you’ve made a
tax-deductible gift
of $5 (or more) to our foundation. Why not write a check payable to
Rotary
District 5970 for your tax records. And there’s no law against buying
more than
one duck.
Last year our club really stood out at the district conference because we bought one duck for all 200 members.
Steve Carignan will be on hand before the next two meetings to help you buy your duck.
Area
Rotarians Focus
On
Africa’s Needs
Twenty Rotarians
from the upper
Midwest, including two from
The team’s connections with
credible and trustworthy Nigerian Rotarians resulted in a menu of
worthwhile
Rotary Foundation World Community Service Matching Grants projects
which
districts and clubs are encouraged to support – providing toilets for
school
children who have none, digging wells to provide safe water for
settlements of
up to 100,000, equipping hospitals, orphanages, schools, and many more.
The group,
which was led by RI director elect
Most of us
never get the chance to see Rotary at work in
a third-world country. This is your chance.
Your only obligation after you
return is to give
presentations to area groups in an attempt to widen the circle of
support.
Three
Metro Clubs Agree
To
Newspaper Insert
The two
The insert is largely paid for
with a grant from Rotary;
the local clubs will pay $32 per thousand for inserts plus the cost of
inserting it in selected homes of the Courier.
Future
Programs
March 31: Jean Trainor tells
us about “The Inclusion Connection.”