RC Versailles-Woodford County presents A Night for a Better Tomorrow on 2-16-2013

 

The Versailles - Woodford County Rotary Club announces that on February 16, 2013, a charity ball will be held at the prestigious Castle Post in Versailles, KY. The inaugural event, A Night for a Better Tomorrow, is being held in order to benefit two powerful causes which effect children both locally and globally: The Woodford County School Backpack Program and The Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The Versailles - Woodford County Rotary Club Advisory Board has asked prospective attendees to celebrate Valentine’s Day with their spouses a few days late, by supporting these worthy causes.

 
Starting at 7:00 PM, the charity ball will feature a deluxe dinner, drink ticket and live entertainment by the Young at Heart Big Band, providing attendees with an ample opportunity to socialize, celebrate and enjoy the scenery. The cost of tickets is $200.00 per couple or $125.00 per individual.

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Single Ticket: $100

Double Ticket: $150

 
“A Night for a Better Tomorrow is going to be big. We created this event with one purpose—and that is to help children who are in need,” remarked Ed Crowley, Versailles – Woodford County Rotary board member, and founder and CEO of Photizo Group. “Beyond being a great opportunity for a group of motivated, giving individuals to gather, this dinner will touch the lives of hundreds of children—and that is what matters here.”

Proceeds from the event will be donated to Woodford County Backpack Project and The Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

The Woodford County Backpack Programis an initiative driven by the Woodford County Family Life Resource Center, which provides food for children whose nutritional needs are not being met at home. This program is designed for the children that qualify for the Woodford County school system’s free lunch program. These children are nourished by receiving breakfast and lunch at no charge. The Backpack Program ensures each child will have their own backpack to take home with food for the weekend to sustain them with a portion of their nutritional needs, until they return back to school the following Monday.

Polio is a crippling, fatal disease that remains without cure at this time. The disease can affect people at any age, but most commonly infects children under the age of five years old. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative aims to abolish this disease and has been a primary drive for the International Rotary Club’s charitable efforts.

Bringing another unique, charitable aspect to this event, The Young at Heart Big Band provides Central Kentucky children who could not usually afford them with musical instruments.

For more information on A Night for a Better Tomorrow, please contact Amanda Omohundro Adams at aomohundro@photizogroup.com. To purchase tickets online, please visit https://www.regonline.com/anightforabettertomorrow. Sponsorship opportunities are also available for those who wish to participate.

 About Rotary Club International

Rotary’s main objective is service — in the community, in the workplace, and around the globe. The 1.2 million Rotarians who make up more than 34,000 Rotary clubs in nearly every country in the world share a dedication to the ideal of Service Above Self. Rotary clubs are open to people of all cultures and ethnicities and are not affiliated with any political or religious organizations. For more information on Rotary Club please visit: http://www.rotary.org/EN/ABOUTUS/ROTARYINTERNATIONAL/Pages/ridefault.aspx

About the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a public-private partnership led by national governments and spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Its goal is to eradicate polio worldwide. For more information please visit http://www.polioeradication.org/

 About the Woodford County School Backpack Program

The devoted workforce of several churches in Woodford County work tirelessly each week to make sure that no child is disappointed on any Friday afternoon, by knowing that they will return home to limited or no provided meals. The “Spring Break Backpack Program” was undertaken by the Versailles-Woodford County Rotary Club when Linda Tilghman, Coordinator of the Family Resource Center, informed the club these children do not have food during the periods they are not in school, such as spring break. It has been the charge of Woodford County’s club to provide funding to the Backpack Program, particularly for this week of spring break, but to also have funds available for other times of need

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Message from the District Governor

 

Dear Rotarians:

February’s promotion of world understanding is certainly evident in Youth Exchange and Group Study Exchange of District 6740.  Relationships and cultural understanding are the foundation of peace and these Rotary programs bring the word a step closer to this ideal.

This Sunday I had the opportunity to meet again with our Group Study Exchange team as they make their final preparations for their excursion to District 1780 of France.  Rotarian Jon Bennett of the Covington club will lead our team that includes Carrie Strambaugh of Ashland, Brandi Berryman of Lexington, Jessica Tretter of Lexington and Tabitha Baker of London on this cultural and vocational exchange. Our team represents a diversity of occupations and includes an engineer, a journalist, an urban designer, a financial adviser and a social services clinician. They will depart on March 15 for a one month vocational and cultural experience in the Grenoble region.  Just a few weeks after they leave we will be hosting a team from District 1780 district from France. 

Our Youth Exchange program, under the leadership of Chairman Jack Lundy and assisted by Outgoing Chair Bill Perrine and Incoming Chair Dave Wolfer,  continues to provide young people with the opportunity to engage in the life changing experience of youth exchange.  This summer we will have a short term exchange with Brazil and  Heather Greene of the Georgetown club is our chair for STEP (short term exchange program).  We will have some additional positions in our Youth Exchange program opening up in the next few months, so if youth exchange is your passion contact me at once.  Preparations and arrangements are already being made for our incoming and outgoing youth for next year.  Think about ways you can help by hosting, recruiting, or planning a special activity. 

On a very sad note, my close friend and fellow Rotarian Lori Acton, died unexpectedly at age 55  on January 28.  Lori’s Rotary years, as all her years, were full ones.  She was the first female member of our club, a Paul Harris Fellow, an Assistant Governor, my District Conference Chair, a past president, facilitator for PETS, and the chair of the London-Corbin International dinner.  Lori gave as much to Rotary as she did in her other roles of librarian, wife, mother, sister, daughter and friend.  Of late, Lori was the happiest I have seen her in 25 years and I know she is at peace.

Peace Through Service,
Kathryn Hardman
District Governor

Important Training Sessions- Future Vision Grant Management

Beginning July 1, 2013 our Rotary Foundation will implement a new grant model to support club and district humanitarian and educational projects. This model has already been tried by about 100 pilot districts in the Rotary world and was called Future Vision. You may have read about it in our Rotarian magazine or heard about it from your club’s participation in the District 6740 Foundation Seminar last fall.

Briefly, the key elements of the new grant model are:

· Two types of grants will be offered – Global grants and District grants

· District grants will allow clubs and districts to address humanitarian needs in their communities and abroad through a block grant coming from the district’s District Designated Fund (50% of District 6740’s giving to the Rotary Foundation in 2010-2011, given back to the district)

· Global grants developed by club(s) or the district for a humanitarian effort with a host partner in another country, can receive matching funds from the Rotary Foundation for a project budget of from $30,000 to $200,000.

· Projects will support one or more of 6 areas of focus:

Ø  Peace and conflict prevention/resolution,

Ø  Disease prevention and treatment,

Ø  Water and sanitation,

Ø  Maternal and child health,

Ø  Basic education and literacy,

Ø  Economic and community development.

· All projects must reflect sustainability

· Responsibility for planning and execution of a project and complete reporting to ensure  stewardship of the funds involved is required.

Reflecting the new grant program, clubs and districts which will participate in Rotary Foundation grants will be required to be qualified. To ensure that clubs will be able to be qualified, several Grant Management seminars have been scheduled throughout D6740 to accommodate clubs and their representatives who will attend. The President, the President-Elect and the Rotary Foundation Chair from the clubs are invited to attend one of these grant Management Seminars and begin the process of qualifying the club.

Grant Management Seminars have been chosen at locations, hopefully convenient for the clubs. The seminars will be held as follows:

February 15, Lexington – Bingham Davis House, 218 East Maxwell Street - (5:00 – 8:00 PM)

February 16, Erlanger – The Colonial Cottage, 3140 Dixie Highway - (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

March 1, London – Laurel County Adult Education, 90 Bennett Circle - (5:00 – 8:00 PM)

March 9, Flemingsburg – Fleming County Hospital, 55 Foundation Drive - (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

March 16, Paintsville – Ramada Inn, 624 James S. Trimble Blvd. – (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

 

Reminder - Call for District Governor Nominations

Reprint

 

November 1, 2013

The purpose of this correspondence to make the formal invitation to District 6740 Rotary Clubs to suggest one of its Rotary club members for consideration by the District Nominating Committee for Selection of the Nominee-Designate for the office District Governor for Rotary Program Year 2015-16. The deadline for submission of the suggestion by Governor-Nominee Data form (see below) is  March 15, 2013. (updated deadline)

To suggest a member for consideration by the Nominating Committee a club must:

1. Adopt a Resolution of the Rotary Club which suggests one of its eligible members to the District Nominating Committee for consideration to be the committee’s designate nominee. Clubs may nominate only one of its own club members. The Resolution must be made at a regular club meeting and the Club Secretary should witness the adoption of the resolution.

A "suggested” motion by a club member (other than the Rotarian to be suggested): "Madame or Mister President (or other person presiding), I rise at this club meeting to make the motion for a Resolution of the Rotary Club of __name of club___ to suggest the District Nominating Committee to consider our fellow member ____name of member__ for selection as District Governor Nominee Designate for the Rotary Year 2015-16." Then the presiding officer should ask and take a "Second to the Motion” by another club member, and then a vote of the members.

2. The Suggested Member must then complete Pages 1-3 the "Governor-Nominee Data Form” including the photo request and spouse/partner information request. (Note: The form is available digitally and can be completed via word processing which is highly recommended. If you are reading the invitation via e-mail it should be attached. If you are reading hardcopy or if the form is not attached then please e-mail me at mkhardman@aol.com)

3. The Suggested Member must then read and faithfully execute "the Candidate’s Statement” on the top of page 4 of the Governor Nominee Data Form.

4. The Club Secretary then faithfully executes the "Club’s Statement of Candidate’s Qualifications” middle of page 4 of the of the Governor Nominee Data Form. In doing so the club’s secretary certifies the following: 1. The suggested member is a club member in good standing, 2. That the suggested member has been suggested by resolution of the club, 3. That the suggested member meets the Qualification of Membership and the membership information is accurate. (Note: the club secretary does not have to send a copy of a written resolution with the Governor-Nominee Data Form - the execution of the "Club Statement of Candidates Qualification is sufficient.)

5. Send the form to DG Kathryn Hardman via e-mail: mkhardman@aol.com (please call me at (606) 309-4761 to confirm receipt) or USPS: Kathryn Hardman, 90 Bennett Circle, London, KY 40741 (again, please call confirm receipt.)

The forgoing steps are a summary of Rotary International Bylaw 13.020.4.

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Eligibility Requirements for District Governor

To be eligible for the position of District Governor, a Rotarian must:

(1) Be a member in good standing of a functioning Rotary Club in the District;

(2) Have served as President of a Club for a full term, or as President of a charter club from the date of the charter until June 30^th, for a period of at least six months;

(3) Demonstrate the knowledge of and the ability to fulfill the duties outlined in the RI Bylaws, Section 15.090 (a summary is found below); and

(4) Have completed seven years of membership at the time of taking office.

Summary of the District Governor’s Duties

A summary of Governor’s duties includes strengthening existing Rotary Clubs, organizing new Clubs and promoting membership growth, issuing a monthly letter to each Club President and Secretary in the District, supporting the Rotary Foundation in service as a District and RI spokesperson, when appropriate, hold the District Conference and other District meetings, and insure the District nominations and elections are conducted according to the RI Constitution and Bylaws.The Governor is also responsible for visiting all the clubs in the District.

Before taking office on July 1, 2015, the candidate must be willing to participate in the District’s activities, plan for his or her year of service, select a site for the District Conference, set District goals, and conduct District training meetings (including District Training Team Seminar, PETS and the District Assembly). The District Governor Elect must attend Zone GETS training (fall) and the International Assembly (mid January).

Summary of the District 6740 Governor Nomination

Process and "No Campaigning” Guidelines

District 6740 follows RI's "Nomination Committee" format or plan for selecting its District Governor. The clubs "suggest" candidates to the Nomination Committee and the suggestion is accomplished by a completed Governor-Nominee Data Form. All Governor Nominee Data forms are due to the District Governor Kathryn Hardman on  March 15, 2013 (updated deadline) .Those persons selected by the clubs shall be interviewed by the Nominating Committee in Lexington, Kentucky and on that date the Nominating Committee will select a single Nominee Designate. The Nominee Designate will then be announced and published by email to all clubs. Those suggested by a club, but not selected by the committee may submit their names within 14 days of the publish date as a "Challenge Candidate” If there are no challenge candidates, the committee’s nominee-designate is presumed to be the district’s selected Nominee for District Governor 2015-16. The formal nomination by election of the District Governor 2014-15 shall be at the District Conference May 17-19, 2013.The District Governor Nominee is then formally elected at the 2014 International Convention and then assumes the role and title of District Governor-Elect taking office as District Governor on July 1, 2015.

Please be aware that Rotary International and the District have guidelines against "lobbying” "canvassing” and "campaigning” for Rotary Offices. Before taking any action beyond suggesting a candidate or completing the Governor-Nominee Data Form, please review the guidelines.

Closing

If you need additional information, do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you for your time and attention to this invitation. Strong leadership of our District is vital to our success in serving others.

Yours in Rotary Service,

Kathryn Hardman
District Governor
Email: mkhardman@aol.com
HPhone: 606-878-2263
OPhone: 606-878-9134

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Polio Update

END POLIO NOW

2013

AS OF THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 6, 2013 THERE HAS BEEN (1) CASE OF POLIO REPORTED WORLDWIDE.

THIS CASE WAS REPORTED IN PAKISTAN

AT THIS SAME TIME LAST YEAR THERE HAD BEEN 12 CASES REPORTED AND IN 2012 WE ENDED THE YEAR WITH 223 TOTAL CASES.

KEEP ADVOCATING FOR OUR EFFORT AND CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE POLIO PLUS PROGRAM FINANCIALLY.

WE ARE VERY CLOSE!!!!

RC Lexington receives the Unity Award

The Rotary Club of Lexington received The Unity Award from the University of Kentucky Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at Monday’s Unity Breakfast, honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Mr. Kevin Weaver, Club President, received the award on behalf of the Rotary Club.  The plaque reads “In Recognition of Your Efforts in Promoting Dr. King’s Dream of Unity Within the Lexington Community.”  Fellow Rotarians, Mr. Bill Wilson and Dr. Virginia Carter, also participated in the breakfast, which was attended by more than 1,000 people.  Mr. Wilson brought the Welcome and Greetings to attendees and introduced the Guest Emcee, Ms. Kristen Pflum, LEX 18 News 4 PM Anchor.  He was also one of the principal organizers of the event.  Dr. Carter discussed the impact of Dr. King on Humanitarianism and the fact that “Words Do Matter.”  More than two dozen Rotarians attended the breakfast.

 

In the picture: Kevin Weaver showing the award to RC Lexington's Board of Directors

 

RC Berea awards Scholarships, participates in food drive

Rotary Club of Berea, Kentucky                                            January 14, 2013

Scholarship Program

The Rotary Club of Berea has made tremendous strides in increasing educational scholarships to graduating seniors in the Berea area.  In 2011, we were privileged to provide one student at each of our local high schools, Berea Community Independent High School and Madison Southern High School, with a $500 scholarship toward direct higher education costs at the higher education institution of their choice.

Thanks to increased fund raising and a deep commitment to this project, we were able to provide thirteen (13) scholarships in 2012, six (6) to students at Berea Community and seven (7) at Madison Southern.

The scholarship committee encouraged applications from college-ready students who were well rounded, having engaged in activities, work, and service both within their school and in the larger community. 

All of the 2012 award recipients are now enrolled in college.  Last year’s winners were:

Berea Community Independent High School                   Madison Southern High School

 1.       Mr. Jordan Roberts                                                         1.   Leanna Marie Rowlett

2.       Mr. Benjamin Miller                                                        2.   Nicholas Rogers

3.       Ms. Sibyl Galloway                                                          3.   Lauren Alyssa Dolen

4.       Mr. Braden Mills                                                               4.   Brandon Vincent McGuire

5.       Ms. Jessica Paige Harris                                                 5.   Larry Matthew Lake

6.       Ms. Mary Jefferson                                                        6.   Rhiannon Christine Rutherford

7.       Cody Brandon Baker

 It is our goal to continue and expand our commitment to assist in the educational pursuits of our local students.

 Dennis Jacobs, Scholarship Committee

 

 

Rotarian George Rassenfoss celebrates 96th birthday!

George Rassenfoss celebrated his 96^th Birthday recently at the Paris Rotary Club meeting. George was honored with a special “Rotary Cake” to celebrate his 96^th birthday on Wednesday January 8, 2013. A long time Rotarian, George had over 60 years of perfect attendance at Rotary’s weekly meetings. When asked what keeps him active in Rotary, George always responds that he enjoys the programs (each week the Club has a featured speaker) and the fellowship. George is the Club’s Sergeant at Arms Emeritus and regularly invokes the meeting’s opening prayer. The Club’s annual Attendance Award is named in George’s honor. George’s daughters, Bridget and Marthy, attended the meeting and shared in the surprise birthday celebration. Happy Birthday George!!!!!

Upcoming Events

March

21 - 24 Presidents Elect Training (PETS) in Nashville, Tennessee


April

4 - RC Florence Foundation dinner, Turfway Park
12 - Future Vision Grant Management Seminar, Lexington
19- RC Whitesburg Golf Scramble, Raven Rock Golf Course, Jenkins

May
2 RC Paris Run for the Roses
13 RC Florence Spring benefit concert, Florence Baptist Church, for Polio Plus
17 - 20, District Conference, London


June

8 - Zone Success Seminar, Florence
23 -26 International Convention, Lisbon, Portugal