IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to construction at Canyon Creek Country Club, our Wednesday lunch meetings on June 4 and June 11 will be held at other locations.
On Wed., June 4 we will be meeting at the DoubleTree Hotel (corner of US 75 & Campbell Road.) We will be in the Pecan Room located on the left side of the main lobby adjacent to the bar/lounge area. Buffet should be set and ready to go at 11:30 AM for those who like to arrive early. (someone please make sure our box of badges is there).
The location for our meeting on June 11 is not yet finalized. We hope to have that information at next weeks meeting. We will not have our regularly scheduled Wed. meeting on June 18 as we should all be at our Installation Banquet on the evening of Tue., June 17 at the Richardson Woman's Club. More details on this I'm sure will follow.
See you all at the DoubleTree Hotel next Wednesday.
During Friday's world record-breaking Sydney Harbour bridge climb at the 2014 Rotary International Convention, Rotary members raised enough money to protect 240,000 kids from polio. The massive turnout eclipsed Oprah Winfrey's world-record climb in 2011 when she summited the bridge alongside 315 of her most ardent fans.
More than 18,000 Rotary members from over 150 countries will be in Sydney, Australia, 1-4 June for the 2014 Rotary International Convention. The convention is bringing together some of the world's leading experts on water, polio, and social media. Follow all of the action by signing into My Rotary, and through the following:
How much does it cost to be a member of your club? You can probably answer that question. What do your membership dues cover? The answer to that may not be as clear.
Many Rotarians know that a portion of their dues pays for club and district expenses, as well as Rotary International operations worldwide, but few know exactly how that all breaks down. Dues are extremely important, as they are the single biggest source of revenue providing the services you enjoy as a Rotarian.
Currently, RI dues are $53. Depending on where you are in the world, that equates to about 4 to 14 percent of your total membership dues. The rest primarily covers club and district expenses, meals, and a subscription to The Rotarian or your regional magazine.
Some of Rotary’s best work has been done in India, notably on Ending Polio and Water & Sanitation projects. About eight years ago, our Club worked with a District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to provide improved schoolrooms for the kids there. Our main contact was District Governor (DG) Purushothaman, who goes by Puru. Since that successful collaboration, we’ve been saving some Casino Night money each year in a bucket called Water Project and it has built up to $8,000 with some additional proceeds from this year’s successful evening. Ken Schwartz, our Foundation Treasurer, recently got an email from Puru to help on another project.
This project, glamorously entitled Girls School Toilet Block, would provide water and sanitation for girls schools in Puru’s District. That District has started an application for a Global Grant with Richardson East as its partner. Woody Alexander, as International Services Chair, is working with the Indian team along with Ken and David Loughridge, who has been to Puru’s home in India. We thought we could only do seven girls schools until DG Ean Sullivan and PDG Sandy Forster stepped up the District contribution to fund a total of twelve girls schools.
The Project is moving fast with work scheduled to start and end in 2014. After it is finished, Sandy says she will go inspect and bring some pictures of (vacant) toilets so Casino Night participants can see where there money is going….into toilet blocks!
Below is a picture of urinals built at another school.
