Jim Crenna and his team continues to work on the fundraiser. The Parade is this Saturday, September 26th. Ben Rischall will collect the small prices yet this week - please get gifts of ranging in size from $25 to over $100. Contact Jim if you have any questions or ideas. Please thank Jim for all the work tha the does for the fundraiser!
Please contact Jim Crenna if you need additional Entry forms and to ask what help he needs this week and on Parade Day!
Polio Survivors Conference:
District 5950 Rotarians have a unique opportunity to participate with the Courage Kenny Foundation in co-sponsoring their second polio survivors conference, "Life After Polio: Realities and Practicalities," on Friday, October 2 at the Minneapolis Marriott Northwest in Brooklyn Park. District 5950 Rotarians can volunteer as hosts at this day-long conference and promote Rotary's 30-year effort to eradicate polio. Volunteers are needed from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. to serve in a variety of capacities, but the basic need is for friendly faces and willing hands to assist our friends and neighbors who managed to survive polio but now may live with health challenges. Tim Mulcrone has made arrangements for Rotarian volunteers to wear knit polo shirts with the RI logo. If you would be available over lunch hour, lunch will be provided - BUT we need to know what hour you are available and what size shirt you need. If you can help out in this way, go to: www.rotary5950.org and follow the link to register. Contact Carol Parish if you have any questions about details.
Heart Safe Plymouth: We have trained 3,083 People and counting!
Please consider helping Norm, Russ, Don and Steve with Heart Safe events. Contact them or talk to them at meetings to find out when upcoming events are scheduled. They are doing great work, but can always use help from members.
Quarterly Invoices:
Please take the time this week to confirm whether or not you have an outstanding quarterly invoice that needs to be paid. If you think that you may, please contact Dwain Erickson, Ron Lenz or Steve Juetten to confirm. It is important that we all take the necessary steps to stay on top of our commitments to the Club. Thank you.
Dr. Abul Sharah
Dr. Sharah, Bloomington Rotarian, has developed the International Village Clinic in India - he presented a program to us a few months ago. He is having his fundraiser to support the clinic on September 24, 2015 at te Knights of Columbus Ballroom in Bloomington.
Information Brochure
Charlie Marvin Update (From Don Weber)
Charlie (member of the Wayzata Club) is having a tough time with his cancer battle and remains in Rochester at Mayo. He has provided us with new contact info, and would love to hear from his Rotary friends.
The Sandra J Schulze Hope Lodge, Room 304
True to his amazing character, Charlie is reaching out with some words to inspire us to live each day with the perspective born of gratitude.
Gratitude (by Louie Schwarzberg)
Do you think this is just another day in your life? It is not just another day; it is the ONE DAY that is given to you today.
It's given to you, it's a gift. It's the only gift you have right now, and the only appropriate response is gratefulness.
If you do nothing else but to cultivate that response to the great gift that this unique day is; if you learn to respond as if it were the first day of your life, and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.
Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised that you have eyes you can open, that incredible array of colors that is constantly offered to us for pure enjoyment. Look at the sky. We so rarely look at the sky. We so rarely note how different it is from moment to moment with clouds coming and going.
We just think of the weather and even of the weather we don't think of all the many nuances of weather. We just think of good weather and bad weather.
This day right now has unique weather, maybe a kind that will never come again in exactly in that form. The formation of thee clouds in the sky will never be the same as it is right now. Open your eyes, look at that.
Look at the faces of the people that you meet. Each one has an incredible story behind their face, a story that you could never fully fathom, not only their own story, but the stories of their ancestors. We all go back so far.
And, in this present moment on this day, all the people you meet, all that life from generations and from so many places all over the world, flows together and meets you here like life-giving water, if you only open your and drink. Open your heart to the incredible gifts that civilization gives to us.
You flip a switch and there is electric light. You turn a faucet and there is warm water and cold water and drinkable water. It is a gift that illions and millions in the world will never experience. These are just a few of an enormous number of gifts to which you can open your heart.
Open your heart to all these blessings and let them flow through yo,u that everyone whom you will meet on this day will be blessed by you, just by your eyes, by your smile, just by your presence.
Let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you, and then it will really be a good day!!
Thank you Charlie. May the blessings of healing and peace be with you.
West Metro Rotaract Club
They have officially been chartered! The first president is Tim Janssen. The next meeting is September 29th, at 7:00 PM at Coopers Pub, West End, St. Louis Park. Tim can be reached at timothygjanssen@gmail.com. Please pass this information on to your colleagues, friends and others who may have interest. Remember they will be assisting us with our fundraiser so let's support them when we can.
ClubRunner Member Profiles:
Preview your member profile on the ClubRunner website for accuracy and update any missing data. Contact President Steve Juetten or the Secretary/Club Administrator Murray Death with any questions you may have. To assist, Dwain Erickson and Diane Moyer can shoot smart phone photographs of members whose photos are missing in the Club Membership roster. Is your photo missing??
Youth Exchange News:
Guan-Yu Chen (Albert) is here! He attended our meeting two weeks ago and is settling in with his new family. Jason and Jill have been extremely effective and instrumental in managing our Youth Exchange program for the Club. Thanks to them for their service! And please circulate this hosting opportunity to your friends and families in the Wayzata School District. We continue to look for host families for Albert. Anyone who has hosted in the past can relate what a wonderful experience it can be. It would be wonderful if a Plymouth Rotarian would step up to host!
IOCP is Looking for volunteers:
IOCP has an upcoming need for Rotary volunteers. IOCP is need of Homework Help volunteers who work with kids once a week starting in October and going through the school year (more information coming soon). If you are interested, please contact Jill Kohler.
General Information:
Website: We have gone back to an updated ClubRunner Website. Please go online and see how it looks. We are always open to ideas and suggestions. Just remember that not everything that people suggest is possible and sometimes it will take time to add to the site. www.RotaryPlymouth.org
Amazon Purchases: Please remember to select RCOP Foundation when you make on-line purchases at Amazon.Smile. The Rotary Club of Plymouth Foundation is registered with Amazon and may be chosen when you make purchases through Amazon.Smile. Amazon will donate .05% of your total purchase to RCOP Foundation. The AmazonSmile web site provides all the same products as the regular site, but in addition allows you to designate a charity which Amazon will support. Please tell your friends and associates who shop through Amazon Smile! The contribution comes out of Amazon's pocket - not yours! Click here to get started:http://smile.amazon.com/ch/26-3054927 You Shop/ Amazon Gives!
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Riddles/Questions
1) What word becomes shorter when you have two letters to it?
2) Johnny ‘s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child ‘s name?
3) I am a cold man without a soul. If there is warmth in me, it slowly will kill me. What am I?
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Rotary Core Values: Fellowship, Integrity, Diversity, Service, Leadership
The 4-Way Test: Of the things we think, say or do:
- Is it the TRUTH?
- Is it FAIR to all concerned?
- Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
- Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Rotary Theme: "Be a Gift to the World"
