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November 15, 2011

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Club Coming Events Nov. 15: We currently do not have a program scheduled. Please contact David or Maryann for suggestions. Nov. 22: We currently do not have a program scheduled. Please contact David or Maryann for suggestions. Nov. 29: We currently do not have a program scheduled. Please contact David or Maryann for suggestions. Dec. 6: We currently do not have a program scheduled. Please contact David or Maryann for suggestions. Dec. 10: Club Holiday Party. Details to follow.

If you have any suggestions for programs, please communicate with David or Maryann to schedule them.

District 6890 Governor: Alan Feldman – Brandon, FL Rotary International President: Kalyan Banerjee, India

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What if we could prevent just ONE

child from suffering from POLIO?

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Food for Ronald MacDonald’s Home: For at least 20 persons. It can be bought or home cooked and delivered NLT 6pm. David is your contact. *If you can’t make it, please call him.

Raul V. – Nov. 27

Food for thought

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. - Joseph Addison

A little humor to brighten your day!

Thanksgiving breakup...

A man in Florida, in his 80s, calls his son in New York one

November day.

The father says to the son, “I hate to tell you, but we’ve got some

troubles here in the house. Your mother and I can’t stand each

other anymore, and we’re getting a divorce. I’ve had it! I want to

live out the rest of my years in peace. I’m telling you now, so

you and your sister shouldn’t go into shock later when I move

out.”

He hangs up, and the son immediately calls his sister in the

Hamptons and tells her the news.

The sister says, “I’ll handle this.”

She calls Florida and says to her father, “Don’t do ANYTHING

till we get there! We’ll be there Wednesday night.”

The father agrees, “All right.”

The old man hangs up the phone and hollers to his wife, “Okay, they’re coming for Thanksgiving.

Now, what are we going to tell them for Christmas?”

Birthday/Anniversary

Birthdays Anniversaries

There are no birthdays or anniversaries in November.

REMINDER: Irving is collecting cell phones for the Crisis Center.

Rotary, UN celebrate special relationship By Ryan Hyland

Rotary International News – 9

November 2011

More than 1,000

Rotarians, UN officials,

Rotary youth program

participants, and guests

celebrated the special

relationship between

Rotary and the United

Nations on 5 November.

Rotary-UN Day, held

annually at United

Nations headquarters in

New York City,

included panels on

health, water, and

literacy, highlighting

Rotarian projects that

advance the goals of the

UN and improve lives

around the world.

Kiyo Akasaka, UN

undersecretary-general

for communications and public information, commended Rotary for its ongoing collaboration with the United

Nations to improve the health of children worldwide, and for its contribution to polio eradication.

"Our shared vision for a safer and better world is what brings us together here today," Akasaka said. "It's your

model of Service Above Self and your sterling results in improving health that makes Rotary one of the most

important partners of the UN."

Peace and justice

Both organizations are striving to create a more peaceful and just world, noted RI President-elect Sakuji

Tanaka.

"If you were to seek the one idea, the one goal that is at the core of Rotary, you would find the same goal that

you find in the charter of the UN: to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good

neighbors," Tanaka said.

Timothy E. Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund, stressed the

importance of partnerships.

"Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recognizes that every problem the UN faces cannot be [solved] by the UN

alone," he said, adding that Rotary's "understanding and commitment to partnerships will make so many of

these goals we share possible."

Partnerships

Rotary is committed to partnering with organizations like the UN, said John Hewko, RI general secretary.

"Rotary is learning by experience that it can accomplish more in concert with others than it might on its own.

Working together multiplies our success: one plus one equals three," Hewko said. "This new formula provides

a unique opportunity to enhance humanitarian service, which is what Rotary is all about. It helps build

understanding and peace -- the mission of Rotary and the UN."

Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, head of the Division of Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University, discussed the

strategic partnership between the university and Rotary, and the challenges of promoting maternal and child

health in developing countries in Africa and parts of Asia.

More than 300,000 women die each year from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, Bhutta said.

"Our biggest challenge is reaching these poor women, families, and infants to give them adequate health

care."

"I believe we are at the beginning of the journey with Rotary International to improve child and maternal

health in the hardest-to-reach places in Central and South Asia and Africa," he added.

Other panelists during Rotary-UN Day included Jacob Kumaresan, executive director of the World Health

Organization, New York; Paul Edwards, senior adviser for UNICEF on water, sanitation, and hygiene; Ginny

Wolfe, senior director of U.S. communications for the ONE Campaign; Philippe Kridelka, director of

UNESCO, New York; and Ron Denham, chair of the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group.

Rotary, which has a 66-year history with the UN, holds the highest consultative status offered to any

nongovernmental organization by the Economic and Social Council, which oversees many UN agencies.

Five reasons to support The Rotary Foundation By Antoinette Tuscano

Rotary International News -- 8 November 2011

There are as many reasons to support The Rotary Foundation as there are ways to do good in the world.

By donating to the Foundation, you support Rotary's six areas of focus, which help advance world understanding, goodwill,

and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty. Contributions to

the Every Rotarian, Every Year (EREY) initiative, are the primary source of funding for Foundation programs. By giving

US$100 a year through EREY, you become a Rotary Foundation Sustaining Member.

Here are a few ways your contributions are changing lives around the world.

5. Fighting hunger

In Romania, children have eggs, milk, and meat because of a Foundation grant that enables local farmers to buy animal feed,

packaging materials, and other supplies. The farmers agree to donate a portion of their products to children's hospitals,

schools, and orphanages.

In Alaska, USA, the Rotary Club of Anchorage East is also fighting hunger by distributing food to low-income families

through a mobile food pantry.

Projects such as these address two areas of focus: maternal and child health and economic and community development.

4. Reducing child mortality

The Rotary clubs of Jaela-Kandana, Western Province, Sri Lanka, and Madras Northwest, Tamil Nadu, India, are helping to

reduce child mortality by providing improved sanitation facilities for 15 families in a small community in Sri Lanka. With a

Rotary Foundation Matching Grant, the clubs have built 14 toilets, helping to prevent the spread of diarrhea-causing diseases

related to poor sanitation.

According to the World Health Organization, 1.8 million children die of diarrhea every year, making it the second leading

cause of death among children under five. Proper sanitation can reduce the child mortality rate in many communities by more

than 30 percent. Water and sanitation is one of the areas of focus.

3. Promoting peace and conflict resolution

Watching civil war tear apart his homeland of Côte d'Ivoire instilled in Rotary Peace Fellow Kouame Remi Oussou a passion

to resolve conflict.

He is now working for the United Nations Development Programme in the Central African Republic, a country that

weathered periodic internal fighting before a comprehensive peace accord went into effect in 2007. Read more about Oussou.

Rotary Peace Fellows are leaders in promoting national and international cooperation, peace, and conflict resolution. Help

support the Rotary Peace Centers and read a discussion of what the program has meant to a group of peace fellows. The

efforts of Oussou and Rotary Peace Fellows advance the peace and conflict prevention/resolution area of focus.

2. Basic education and literacy

A literacy project sponsored by Rotarians in South Africa and Rhode Island,

USA, in conjunction with the International Reading Association and

Operation Upgrade, is teaching adults in the rural community of KwaNibela,

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to read and write. These skills will help them

fight poverty in their community.

Through the effort, nearly 600 adults are attending literacy classes taught by

instructors trained with help from Operation Upgrade, which specializes in

adult basic education. Funding from The Rotary Foundation provided

classroom books. Read more about the project, which supports the basic

education and literacy area of focus.

1. Eradicating polio

Around the world, Rotarians are going the distrance -- participating in

walkathons, climbing mountains, cycling, even circumnavigating a continent in

rubber dinghies, among other fundraisers -- to help Rotary rid the world of

polio.

Since Rotary launched its PolioPlus program in 1985, eradicating the

disease has become the organization's top priority. End Polio Now and help

fulfill Rotary's promise to the world.

The Indian Rocks Beach Rotary Club in partnership with the Tampa West Latin Rotary Club

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