Monday Morning - November 27 at Rotary District 7730

Monday Morning - November 27

November 26th, 2006 in Monday Morning

Riegelwood tornado fund!

Thank you, Rotarians, for your generous support!

Swansboro — Just sent in a check for $3,300.00 in addition to $1,000.00 of baby food and Wal-Mart Gift Cards for medication and clothing.
South Brunswick Islands — $2,000.00
Fayetteville — $750.00 President Stephen Pederson writes: “Involvement like this makes me proud to be a Rotarian.”
Fayetteville Lafayette — $500.00 (+ $500 for the Full Belly Project.)
Cape Fear Rotary — $500.00 + a request to do a “hands-on project”
Red Springs — $250.00

Total contributions from individual Rotarians — $1,325.00

Including:

Press Millen (Wilmington Rotary) — $500.00
John Dailey (Southport) — $500.00

Assistant Governors Brian Garrett and Nancy Barbee are applying for a Rotary Foundation District Simplified Grant.
Riegelwood Update
The Riegelwood community at this time is overflowing with clothing. There has been an outpouring of clothing and food. The greatest need at present is for financial aid, housing, transportation, and counseling.

Jesse Jacobs (8 years old) has been released from Pitt Memorial and transported back to New Hanover. Cayenne Brown (3 years old) is in Chapel Hill Children’s hospital and has been upgraded to serious. Her father and grandparents were killed. Christopher Freeman (8 years old) remains in critical condition at Duke. Christina (18 years old — last name not known) is in New Hanover Memorial in stable condition. There’s one more child at Chapel Hill — name and condition unknown at this time.
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.

Reports are Needed

Rotary International Semi-Annual Reports past due:

Beaufort Ole Towne
Cape Fear
Clinton Sampson County
Fair Bluff, Fayetteville Lafayette
Jacksonville Breakfast
Morehead City Navigators
Morehead City Noon
Red Springs
Shallotte
Wilmington
Wilmington Central
Wilmington East

The following Attendance Reports are past due:

Morehead City Navigators
Pollocksville
Richlands
Burgaw
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 becoming a Paul Harris Fellow.

When you complete your first US$ 1,000 gift to The Rotary Foundation you can be named a Paul Harris Fellow — or choose to name someone else. Your first US$1,000 is a very important benchmark because it gets you started on the lifelong journey of supporting our Rotary Foundation. Each time you reach another US$1,000 level, a new recognition pin is awarded. While some donors are capable of giving US$1,000 at once, many Rotarians make smaller gifts regularly to reach higher PHF levels. Every Rotarian, Every Year is a reminder to all of us to donate generously to the Foundation and to do so annually.

For more information on giving or program participation, contact PDG Bevin Wall District 7730 Rotary Foundation Chair at Bevin@RLI33.org.

Make your Rotary Foundation Contributions in 2006

Now is the time to make your Rotary Foundation contributions in this calendar year! Rotary presidents, please encourage your club treasurer send the funds into The Rotary Foundation before the end of December 2006.

Invitation to Participate in National Immunization Day against Polio INDIA – February 2007

http://www.kerala-tours.net/India%20NID%20and%20Water%20Project.htm

Rotary North American Disaster Relief Workshop

The workshop will be held Jan. 11-13, 2007, at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel in New Orleans French Quarter. Sessions will be on Rotary’s role in disaster response and rebuilding. RI President Bill Boyd, RI President-elect Wilf Wilkinson, Rotary Foundation Chair Luis Vicente Giay, and RI Director Barry Rassin will be there. Included are tours of the disaster area and project sites. If interested, contact PDG Frank Bradshaw pacboss@bellsouth.net or visit http://www.rotaryzones29-30helps.org.

Rotary District 7730