Today was a Zoom meeting with 29 people on line. After some conversations President Ralph Witcher opened the meeting at 7:30 A.M.
GUESTS ON LINE:
Solomon and Mrs. Johri, Parents of our Student of the Month: Dr. Mark Covelle, Academic Principal of LCTI: and Capt. Nick Millward, Peace Fellowship winner, calling in from Japan.
STUDENT OF THE MONTH:
ISAIAH JUSTUS JOHRI, a Senior at Lehigh Career and Technical Institute, is the AWRC Student of the month for November. Rev. Jeffrey Kistler conducted the award ceremony that included an Amazon gift certificate.
Isaiah thanked us for the award. Then Dr. Covelle explained that Isaiah was the unanimous choice of his teachers for this recognition. And he thanks AWRC for doing this. See separate article.
Pres. Ralph gave a very nice invocation with special thanks to our Veterans. Then he led us in the Pledge of allegiance to the Flag of the U.S.
THE FOUR-WAY TEST EXAMPLE:
Pres. Ralph played the musical rendition video of the 4 Way Test. Then he showed us a video of a High School student’s speech about the 4 Way Test from our recent district speech contest. Really good.
CELEBRATION DATES:
Pres. Ralph displayed the list of November members and their celebration dates.
PEACE FELLOWSHIP AWARDED:
Herb Klotz announced that our friend Capt. Nick Millward is one of only 50 applicants world-wide to have just been granted a Rotary Peace Fellowship. We all congratulated Nick.
Nick is very pleased and humbled. He will leave the Military next July after 7 years, and in the Fall will attend the University of Queensland, Australia for 1-1/2 or 2 years earning a dual master’s degree.
GARDEN YIELDS DISTRIBUTED:
Gail Micca on Nov. 4th reported that In addition to these heads of lettuce, pad choi and peppers, we also provided kale and collard greens to Jordan Lutheran Food Pantry on Monday morning. More produce will be delivered to LowHill Friday. Garden is wrapping up soon, but if anyone would like to come and visit or help with clean up, please let Gail know.
GARDEN ROCKS:
Jean Machamer delivered beautiful hand painted rocks to decorate our garden too! Thanks Jean. We need more painted rocks and it’s a great project to do at home!
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE HELP:
Gail Micca reports “Dropped off the third load of luggage for Valley Youth House today, Nov. 8th. Thanks go to Bill and Sue Weber, Bev Kistler and my friend Cheryl Barraco for the donations.
HOLIDAY PARTY:
Pres. Ralph said that last week’s survey fell short of the minimum number of members needed for us to contract with Brookside CC next month. There still is time, IF more members are interested.
KINGDOM LIFE FOOD CENTER:
Jean Masiko reports that Kingdom Life Food Bank's monthly food giveaway will be Saturday, November 21 beginning at 8AM. This is the week before Thanksgiving Day and there will be a great need for volunteers.
YOUR SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
Please take a look at this new section on the left side of this bulletin.
STATUS OF MORNING MEETINGS;
The AWRC B.O.D. has suspended all AWRC face-to-face meetings until further notice. Zoom meetings are now scheduled for each Wednesday at 7:30 A.M.
NEXT MORNING MEETING:
Wednesday November 18th starting at 7:30 a.m. We will use Zoom to meet. Our program will be Dr David Ehrenkrantz, Pres Rotary NE Sunrisers PHL to discuss the Vocational Training Team (VTT) Mission Trip to Pignon Haiti
HAVE YOU MISSED A MEETING?:
Missed a club meeting? Lucky for you, we record our Zoom meetings! Click the link and then choose which meeting you’d like to view. Use the slide at the bottom if you want to skip over the socialization part of the meeting. We open the formalities at 7:30 am, and presenters begin at 8 am. So even if you missed the meeting, it’s just like being there!
The AWRC Youtube.com Channel link is:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClHOvGQzfK4z7CUgSQQGqHA
STATUS OF THURSDAY EVENING MEETING:
No Thursday evening meetings are planned for November and December.
HAPPY DOLLARS and MEMBER NEWS:
Many years ago Gail Micca was a RC Student of the Month in Fargo, N.D.
We discussed final Jeopardy questions for a bit. It was noted that after 36 years as the Jeopardy host, Alex Trebek just passed away last week at age 80.
Ihor Fedoriw asks us all to remember and thank our Veterans on this Veterans Day.
Jeff Kistler is happy that Barbara and he are spending more time together.
Katrina Sundstrom noted that with a recent birthday they now have two teenagers at home. Also she is happy that in this time of need to feed the hungry, so many people are contributing.
Bill Palmer is happy that we are really close to having a vaccine for covid19.
Marlene Heller is happy that she just did 30 miles on her bike ---- an e-bike.
Ron Coleman said that it is amazing that so many stories are about families re-connecting.
Ihor Fedoriw is happy that none of us is ill with the virus.
Marlene Heller is happy that there no longer are Political ads on TV.
PROGRAM:
Pres. Ralph Witcher introduced PDG Herb Klotz to discuss the Rotary Foundation. Herb is now retired after 34 years with Air Products.
Herb first reminded us that November is Foundation Month in the Rotary world.
The Rotary Foundation is a non-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.
The Foundation was created in 1917 by Rotary International's sixth president, Arch C. Klumph, as an endowment fund for Rotary "to do good in the world." It has grown from an initial contribution of US$26.50 to more than $1billion. It has one of the largest and most prestigious international fellowship programs in the world.
The Rotary Foundation (TRF) has maintained a four star rating – the highest – by Charity Navigator for the last 13 years. We are at the top or the top 1% in the world. Over 90% of all monies donated end up as projects.
TRF has three main sections to which we donate:
1. The Annual Fund. This is where RCs receive monies for District and Global Grants each year.
2. PolioPlus which supports the efforts to eradicate polio from the world. The recent AW operated virtual 5K race brought in over $42,000.
3. The Endowment Fund. These monies are invested and their earnings help finance TRF and some come back to the districts each year. This provides permanence to TRF.
Last year TRF provided over $300 million to projects.
Every grant application must fall into one or more of the Seven Areas of Focus:
•Promoting peace. ...
•Fighting disease. ...
•Providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene. ...
•Saving mothers and children. ...
•Supporting education. ...
•Growing local economies.
*Supporting the environment
Herb said AWRC is lucky because we have had many grants approved. He reviewed those of the last 7 ears.
We received $20,000 for local projects “District Grants” to which we added $15,000 of club funds.
We received over $9,000 for District Grants outside the U.S.
We received $80,000 for 2 Global Grants.
Herb thanked Diana Dunn for all of her hard work in preparing applications and keeping score.
Herb noted that over those years AW Rotarians managed $110,000 of projects, and we donated $61,000 to TRF. This year’s goal for our club is $10,000.
There are several ways for people to give money to TRF. All members are urged to go to rotary.org and set up an account in “My Rotary.” Then the easy way to give is to set up a schedule of dollars and timing for automatic deductions.
Or you can go on line and click on “Donate” and do it. If you have an account, then you and the club will receive credit.
Or you can write a check to TRF and get it to Herb or Chris Blechschmidt.
And there are ways to do bank transfers.
TRF provides various methods of recognizing donations. The Paul Harris Fellow (PHF) award allows you to donate cash and/or use donated “Recognition Points” over time and get a PHF pin for each $1,000 level reached.
There also is the Paul Harris Society (PHS) in which donors commit to giving $1,000 or more every year as long as they are financially able.
Right now AWRC has 36 members holding various PHFs. And 8 of our members are PHS members. Last year our District added 26 new members to the PHS.
BTW, every dollar donated earns a recognition point that you can use in the future. And last year our RC added a feature that awards 10 recognition points to each member donating 10 hours of volunteer time. These points can count toward your next PHF.
CLOSING:
Pres Ralph led us in the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
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