Members and Friends of the Award Winning San Clemente Sunrise Rotary Club:
I want to thank Jim and Michele for putting on a fun filled event. I really thought all the dancers were exceptional, even the Rotarians. I do think Patrick had the best moves out there . . .
Kristi appeared to truly enjoy her last official appearance as our President.
July 1st Meeting
For our July 1st meeting, Jim Evert is going to be pinch hitting for me . . .
. . . as I will be thinking of all of you, with Nicki, Kyle and me on vacation with this as our view of St Thomas that very morning:
The meeting I know will be great with Paul Henry speaking for “Relay For Life®”. “Relay For Life®” is an American Cancer Society program with the slogan; “One day, One night, One community”.
Relay For Life®, the American Cancer Society's signature event, is a fun-filled overnight experience designed to bring together those who have been touched by cancer. At Relay, people from within the community gather to celebrate survivors, remember those lost to cancer, and to fight back against this disease. Relay participants help raise money and awareness to support the American Cancer Society in its lifesaving mission to eliminate cancer as a major health issue. During Relay For Life® events, teams of people gather at schools, fairgrounds, or parks and take turns walking or running laps. The events are held overnight to represent the fact that cancer never sleeps. Through the survivors' lap and the luminaria ceremony, we honor the people who have faced cancer first hand, and we remember those who have been lost to this disease.
But, Relay isn't about taking laps -- it's about coming together in the fight against cancer. It’s a time to remember those lost to this disease and celebrate those who have survived. It’s a place where people connect with others, share the cancer experience, and find comfort and solace. And it's an opportunity to build hope for a future where cancer no longer threatens the lives of the people we love.
As volunteers and donors, your efforts support research, education, advocacy, and services that allow the American Cancer Society to offer help and hope to people across the country when they need it most. By joining together at Relay, we celebrate life, friendship, and an opportunity to work to defeat cancer for future generations.
Remember . . . . . . The July 8th meeting will be at Pacific Golf and Country Club. Designed by golf legend Gary Player, Pacific Golf and Country Club brings the feel of the great seaside links to the Southern California coast. The three courses, Carnoustie, Muirfield, and Royal Lytham blend into the natural coastal setting of San Clemente and commemorate Gary Player's British Open Championships offering a unique golf experience.
We will be able to test the food and see where our 2008 golf tournament will be held. Our tournament chair, Tom McGilligan, will be running the show with information to be handed out to all members. We will need all the help we can get this year for this event that funds the majority of all of our projects. The economy has really wiped out our usual sponsors so we need some creative ideas for where to go.
July 15th will be back at The Heritage Grill for a club assembly. We will have a report from each service director and committee chair. It will be exciting to learn the planning for the Polio Walk this fall. We will also take a look at the wine tasting mixer on the horizon that will be for fellowship and membership recruitment.
Speaking of fellowship . . . Lynn Lester has agreed to work on Family Fellowship. We are looking to come up with a get together that the whole extended club family can enjoy. Anyone having ideas or wanting to help out, please drop him a note.
Rotary News . . . . . .
Funds established for residents affected by Iowa floods - Rotary International News - 25 June 2008.
Iowa RI districts 5970 and 6000 established funds to help relief and recovery efforts for thousands of flood victims. Funds have been established to assist Iowa residents who have been battered by this month’s record-setting floods, which have caused billions of dollars in damage and forced the evacuation of nearly 40,000 Iowans from their homes.
Iowa RI districts 5970 and 6000, as well as the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation have established funds to help with relief and recovery efforts. Contact information is listed below.
“The flooding, it’s been devastating,” said Dan Baldwin, president-elect of the Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids and president of the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation. “This has actually gone outside the 500-year flood plain. A hospital 10 blocks from the river had to be evacuated. The entire downtown was underwater, some areas with 9 [to] 10 feet of water right in our central business district. Our community has never faced anything of this magnitude in terms of an emergency and rebuilding effort.”
Floods have also ravaged other parts of the Midwest, including Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. The disaster has disrupted rail service in the Midwest and forced portions of interstate highways in several states to close, according to news reports. The floods in Iowa coincided with a tornado that killed four Boy Scouts at an Iowa camp and just weeks after another tornado killed six people and nearly leveled much of the community of Parkersburg.
“Rotarians in Iowa responded in a magnificent way to the E5 tornado in Parkersburg, where 288 homes were destroyed,” said Ken Kolek, a past governor of District 5970 and its current Rotary Foundation committee chair. “Now we turn around and are faced with 1,300 city blocks flooded, between 3,000 and 4,000 residences either partially or totally destroyed, close to 1,000 businesses destroyed.”
The donor advised fund being set up by District 5970, covers the northern part of Iowa, including Cedar Rapids, Kolek said. He said he’s been inundated with “incredible offers of help from all over the world.”
District 6000, which serves southern Iowa including Iowa City and Des Moines, is earmarking an account for flood relief within its Humanitarian and Educational Foundation Inc., established after devastating floods hit the region in 1993. District Governor Diana Reed is encouraging Rotarians who want to volunteer to help out with immediate relief efforts to go through channels in their communities, such as the Red Cross and Salvation Army. She asks that those who want to help with future Rotary projects in the recovery process contact the district office, where they will be put in touch with the appropriate point person.
District 5790 Fund
Make checks payable to “Rotary 2008 Flood Relief”. Mail to:
Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation,
200 First St. SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
District 6000 Fund
Make checks payable to “HEF Inc.” and note “Iowa disaster relief” on the memo line. Mail to:
Dick Kennedy
1811 N. Dubuque Rd
Iowa City, IA 52245
Greater Cedar Rapids Community Fund
Make checks payable to “Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation” and note “flood fund” on the memo line. Mail to:
Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation
200 First St. SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Sorry about the lengthy letter, with my being gone next week, I was trying to get as many bases covered as possible. See you all in a couple of weeks.
Steve
Steven Swartz
President
San Clemente Sunrise Rotary Club
949-361-1692 fax: 949-361-9926
steves@southcoastsurety.com