Monday Morning - January 1
January 1st, 2007 in Monday MorningHAPPY NEW YEAR!
Thank you, Rotary clubs, for your service to our community!
Thank you to the Wilmington East Rotary Club for your contribution of $1,236.00 to the Riegelwood tornado victims from the Wilmington East Rotary Endowment Fund.
Thank you to the Richlands Rotary Club for your contribution of $250.00 to the Riegelwood tornado victims.
Wilmington East Rotary and Richlands Rotary join Bladenboro, Cape Fear, Duplin, Fayetteville, Fayetteville LaFayette, Jacksonville, Red Springs, Shallotte, Sneads Ferry, South Brunswick Island, Southport, Swansboro, Wallace, Wilmington and Wilmington West. Thank you all for your support!
Checks can be mailed to me or directly to “Wesley UMC Tornado Fund”, PO Box 116, Riegelwood, NC 28456. If mailed directly, please inform me of your contributions.
Riegelwood Update
From Ruth Altman of the Wesley UMC Tornado Fund:
All families are now in temporary homes. Thanks to Rotary, two families, the Carachure family and the Martinez family, were taken to a furniture outlet in Whiteville. The Martinez family of 8 (the grandmother lost her daughter and 2 grandsons in the tornado) are now in a farm house fully furnished.
Clean up was finished on Wed. Dec. 13th. We had an average of 70 volunteers daily. The rebuilding begins around January 15th.
Cheyenne Brown, the 3 year old whose father and grandparents were killed, is in a cast on both legs and one arm and is back in the community with one of our church families. Hopefully they will be able to adopt her. 8 years old Christopher Freeman has been moved from Duke Children’s hospital to Pitt Memorial. He spoke his first word this past Monday. They said he would never walk or talk again. As of Monday, we learned that he said a few words and now a therapist is coming in to see if they can help teach him to walk again. This is a miracle. He has a long way to go - but our hope is alive. His parents were killed also.
Lori Goodell Harris is new Youth Exchange Chair
Lori Goodell Harris of the Wilmington Rotary Club who has been serving the district as Health and Hunger Resource Group Chair has accepted the position of District Youth Exchange Chair as of January 1, 2007. Lori is replacing Mike Reid who, sadly, is leaving our district for a job in Charleston SC. Even though Mike will not physically be in our district, he has agreed to stay on the youth exchange committee and help Lori. Lori will be a great resource to us in this critical time to help DGE Wilson Ray bring our district in compliance with the necessary RI Certification. Thank you, Lori and Mike for your dedicated service to Rotary!
District Calendar
- Outbound Ambassadorial Scholar Orientation, 1/5 & 1/6, starting 11am, Radisson Hotel, High Point, NC
- Assistant Governor Meeting, Monday, 1/8/07, 6pm, Holiday Inn Express, Wallace, NC
- RYLA, 1/26 – 1/28, starts 2pm, Trinity Center, Pine Knoll Shores, NC
- Council of Governors Meeting, Sunday, 2/4, 2:30 pm, Holiday Inn Express, Wallace, NC
- Rotary Day at Boys & Girls Home, rededication of Rotary Cottage, Sunday, 2/11, 10:45 am
- Benefit for Boys & Girls Home, Ocean Ridge Singers, Saturday, 2/24, 7:30pm, Odell Williamson Auditorium, Brunswick Community College, Supply, NC
Boys & Girls Home Benefit Performance
Please come out and support The Ocean Ridge Singers & Friends performance to benefit The Boys & Girls Homes of NC, Saturday, February 24, 2007, 7:30pm, at the Odell Williamson Auditorium, Brunswick Community College, Hwy 17, Supply, NC.
Tickets: Adults $20.00 Children (2-11) $10.00
Credit Card Orders - Call 910-755-7416
Payment by Check - Call 910-575-3575
This concert is produced by Marjorie Edwards, a member of the South Brunswick Islands Rotary Club and The Ocean Ridge Singers.
The following Attendance Reports are past due
Morehead City Navigators
Elizabethtown
Rotary Foundation Thought of the Week
Brought to you each week by PDG Bevin Wall, District Rotary Foundation Chair; and reproduced courtesy of www.rotary.org
This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is about what OUR Rotary Foundation does with the money we contribute.
Last Rotary year, The Rotary Foundation spent over US$110 million on program awards and expenses. $27.8 million was spent on educational programs, including Ambassadorial
Scholarships and Group Study Exchange; $46.1 million was spent on humanitarian projects, such as Matching Grants and District Simplified Grants; and $36.1 million was spent on polio eradication efforts. Our annual contributions are what make these programs possible. TRF carefully invests our gifts for three years with the investment earnings going to pay administrative expenses and the full amount of our contributions going to fund the projects.
This is OUR Rotary Foundation; let’s be a part of it!
For more information on giving or program participation, contact PDG Bevin Wall District 7730 Rotary Foundation Chair at Bevin@RLI33.org.
Rotary Foundation Giving is Up!
As of October 31, 2006, District 7730 is 107.4% ahead of last year at $47,151.84 in Annual Fund Giving! Thank you, Rotary! Let’s keep it up!
Lead the Way!