If you care about poor people, you need to care about agriculture.
The stakes could not be higher. The world’s ability to help small farmers be more sustainably productive will determine whether or not they remain in poverty or whether the hard work results in self-sufficiency for hundreds of millions of people.
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We had the best time at the Roxy Cinema in Leeton yesterday afternoon. Great film great location and excellent fellowship. We also raised around $700 for Polio Plus.
If you did not go you missed a special day in our Rotary calender. Thanks Leeton and Narrandera Rotary Clubs for all the work.
2012 RI Convention, VDO Promotion from Rotary Thailand on Vimeo.
Click on the convention logo!
The House of Friendship for this coming 2012 Rotary International Convention will be an utmost impressive atmosphere you ever experienced. You will be in the midst of blossom flower garden where we neatly decorate in exquisite style. A wide variety of well-known restaurants in Bangkok have been carefully selected to serve you with a mouth-watering food.
Dazzling to your eyes with Thai cultural performances throughout the day. Additionally, we also open for our fellow Rotarians to fully enjoy. Never missed your communication because we will prepare a hundred computers for you at the Internet Café, or you can bring your own communication device for a free WiFi here.
Enjoy your time with friends, exchange and share the experience of your social contribution in Project Exhibition booth.
Last but not least, don’t forget to enjoy shopping around House of Friendship where we gather the signature products from all around Thailand here.
Where is the House of Friendship?
The House of Friendship will be located at IMPACT Challenger Hall 3. It is interconnected hall with the main IMPACT Exhibition Centre.
Would you all have a vote for this competition for a Rotary Club in the USA please? Go to the following web site and follow the instructions below. You can vote every hour, however one vote cast right now will help them over the line. The competition closes on the 9th March. Let us show them the power of Rotary on the Internet! You do not have to be in Rotary to vote.
Vote for the “1st ADA Accessible Swing Set in County” which is 2nd row, far right. After you click on green “Vote” button, a CAPTCHA screen comes up and you enter a code, then “Vote” again, then a little window pops up saying “you only get one vote, you’re sure this is correct?” Click “Yes” or whatever and you’re done.
You can vote once per hour – per machine and per browser. I’ve taken to voting from I.E., Firefox, and Chrome, then my Droid phone – as often as I can remember. So, I get 4 votes in 2-3 minutes.
Thanks
Todd
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Todd Lindley DDS FAGD
Rotary Foundation Alumni Coordinator, Zone 31
Past District Governor, District 6060, 2010-2011
9553 Lackland Road, Suite 4
Overland MO 63114-3640
“Hopefully this contest can help us finish raising the funds needed to build the 1st Handicap Accessible Swing Set in St. Francois County. The footage of the mouse race came from last years race.” St Francois County Rotary Club.
In what has become a Rotary anniversary tradition, Rotary clubs around the world are illuminating iconic structures with the End Polio Now message.
On 23 February 1905, Paul P. Harris, Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, and Hiram E. Shorey gathered in Loehr’s office for what would become known as the first Rotary club meeting.
Harris’s desire for camaraderie among business associates brought together these four men and eventually led to an international organization of service and fellowship.
23 February 1905: Rotary Club of Chicago the First of the Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the National Association of Rotary Clubs. First gathering, on Thursday evening, 23 February 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. by attorney Paul P. Harris. Young Harris, fresh from a wild five years as a reporter, actor, cowboy, seaman, granite salesman, fruit picker and hotel clerk, five years building a successful law practice, then had an idea. It was regarding observations of success and respect which could come from organizing professional acquaintances. More years past. He had given this much thought by the time he and Silvester Schiele walked over to Gus Loehr’s office, in Room 711 that cold winter night in 1905, almost 9 years from his arrival in Chicago. Several weeks later, Schiele was elected the first president of Rotary when the meeting was held in his office. Harris suggested several names, one of them being “Rotary.”
Thanks to Ron Nethercutt from the Rotary Club of Mabalacat D 3790
Angeles City, Philippines, for the story above. Ron is also a member of ROTI or Rotarians On The Internet. Ron also plays the trombone and is known as the Jazz Professor.
Thursday night 16th February Wagga Wagga Rotary Club held a Mountains of the Moon evening with PDG Fred Loneragan and John Glassford as guest speakers for the night. It was a most enjoyable evening of fellowship and fun. Coolamon Rotary was well received along side our projects for RFFA in Africa.
Their Sargent at Arms was in fine form and we laughed a lot and he raised a bit of cash at the same time.
The presentation went very well and Fred and John gave a good account of the adventure in Uganda. The Nonceba Project was the emphasis so that the members of Wagga Wagga would consider supporting Hout Bay Rotary and this amazing project on a long term basis. The evening ended with a rousing Advance Australia Fair the Wagga Wagga Rotarians have some fine voices.
Peace through Service is our Rotary theme for 2012-2013 this track says it all enjoy:
