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Posted by Peter Ewing, District Governor
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Read Your Rotarian!
Each month, Rotary Publishes the Rotarian Magazine, which connects the more than 1.2 million Rotarians around the world by showing how we are addressing the issues captured by the six areas of focus; maternal and child health, disease prevention and treatment, literacy and basic education, community and economic development, water, sanitation and hygiene and peace and conflict resolution. But there is so much more to this story. Beginning in 1915, four years after the original magazines launch, the first regional magazine debuted in the British Isles. Now, 30 regional magazines are published in 24 different languages in over 130 countries reaching over 870 thousand Rotarians. The original Rotarian continues strong.
Eighteen Nobel Prize winners and 22 Pulitzer Prize winners have appeared in our pages, including Mahatma Gandhi, Desmond Tutu, Pearl S. Buck, Scott Turow, Carol Guzy, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. In 2012, The Rotarian swept the Media Industry Newsletter awards with 10 editorial and design honors – more than twice the number of any other publication.
Why should all Rotarians spend some time each month reading this magazine? Let’s just take a look at the three feature articles in the April issue; an article on Alzheimer’s disease revealing a Rotary connection to promoting research into the causes and potential treatments for this disease. Another article looking at a radical new approach to fundraising by non-profits. Or a third article about a new concept Rotary club in Crawley Australia with such descriptive words as Unique, Diverse, Innovative, Fresh, Fun, Modern, Young, Breath Taking. Isn’t that what we are striving to achieve in our district with the Satellite movement and our proposals to the Council on Legislation. In the words of Past District Governor Dan, our mantra is “OBSERVE, STEAL, MODIFY and IMPLEMENT”.
There is so much in the Rotarian to which we might apply this mantra! Finally, what better and easier way to promote Rotary than to have your Rotarian displayed in your place of business for anyone to pick up and read and learn a bit about Rotary.
Enjoy your Rotarian Magazine every month and PASS IT ON!!
Peter Ewing
District Governor 2014-2015
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Posted by DG Peter Ewing (Boulder) pmjewing@earthlink.net
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Our District Conference committee has been working for nine months to put together an interesting, informative and above all FUN experience for ALL!
- S’Mores around a camp fire as we all enjoy a sing along!
- Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald will have you laughing in the aisles!
- A special mystery guest will address us on “Change”!
- Hear From Gary Huang’s Representative Young Koh, PDG from California!
- RI Secretary General John Hewko and Marga will be visiting.
- Marvel at the talents of our exchange students!
- Learn about Rotary Community Corps and The Peaceful Schools Program!
- One Year anniversary of the Rotary Peace Corps Collaboration | Carrie Hessler-Radelet, Peace Corps Director, will report on the experience.
- A panel Discussion on “Rotary in an Evolving World” to challenge us!
- Dance to the innovative a cappella band “FACE”
ABOVE ALL: Enjoy fellowship and Fun as we celebrate our accomplishments in beautiful Keystone Colorado May 1-3!
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Posted by Stan Benson, Boulder, sbenson7@msn.com
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 District Conference House of Friendship
One of the district conference favorite events has been the House of Friendship. Last year the District Conference committee changed the name to Showtime. This year's committee has expanded that to GO TIME.
The biggest difference between Go Time in the House of Friendship is GO TIME includes all of your activities, social events and fundraisers in addition to your community service and world community service activities. This year there will also be some District committees that will be participating in GO TIME so it will be a great event to participate in. Walk by and see other clubs and District committee activities and events.
We really want to see those things that you are most proud of particularly those things which are unique and different. We look forward to you participating in GO TIME.
Event space is limited and each space will have 3 feet of table space. There will be some space for floor displays, electricity is at a premium – we encourage displays to be self-explanatory WITHOUT a monitor. The space will not be secure, so plan to pick up computers etc. at the end of each session. The deadline to apply has been extended to April 17th. Click HERE for an application.
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Posted by Emmanuel Serriere (eClub One) eclubemmanuel@gmail.com
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Spend Time with Rotarians from 17 Time Zones!
 Our own Rotary eClub One – the first in the world – is coming back to Boulder. You can join their annual dinner, they will be at the District Conference AND they have organized three day trips in our beautiful State. Sure you already know your wonderful State of Colorado, but this might be the perfect opportunity to spend time with members of an e-club to learn how they function and hear some great stories some of the members would love to share. And of course you could share your own success stories for them to take home wherever this might be in the 17 time zones they reside in. |
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Posted by Peggy A. Halderman, Chair, D5450 Rotary Awareness Committee
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PR = Awareness!
The District 5450 Public Relations Committee has been transformed into the Rotary Awareness Committee! So what will the Rotary Awareness Committee do? Using the traditional tools of public relations, the District Rotary Awareness Committee will focus its work on:
- Helping increase the capacity of Rotary, Rotaract, and Interact Clubs to effectively tell their Rotary stories,
- Creating a broad understanding about Rotary in general and clubs specifically, and
- Helping clubs build membership.
So, what do we mean by “public relations”? The practice of public relations varies across the United States and throughout the world. Regardless of these differences from one area to another, all Rotary clubs have audiences with whom they should communicate, including the media, local government officials, the business community, civic leaders, and other organizations, as well as qualified prospective members and people directly affected by Rotary service projects. Developing a message for these audiences and finding an appropriate way to deliver it is public relations in action.
Over the ensuring months, we will be sharing a few snippets of information and tools about the practice of public relations. If you have any questions, please send them to the Rotary Awareness Committee: rotarypr5450@gmail.com
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Posted by Karen Loeb (Denver Southeast) kcloeb@gmail.com
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Can Your Club Help?
In the summer of 2013, the Rotary Club of Denver Southeast (DSE) embarked on a Signature Project with Easter Seals Colorado (ESC), which included significant renovations to ESC’s camp kitchen facilities and the launch of a new RYLA program, adapted for teens with physical disabilities. This “RYLA Plus” program has now operated successfully for the last two years at ESC’s camp, Rocky Mountain Village, in Empire, Colorado. This is not the first time that Rotary and Easter Seals have joined together to help disabled children. Check out this short YouTube video to see what it’s all about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7cxP9c3WbY
This is not the first time that Rotary and Easter Seals have joined together to help disabled children. To learn more about these connections, going back to Paul Harris himself, read more...
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Posted by Kim DeCoste (Denver Southeast) kim@decosteassociates.com
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Attention all Veterans! Please join us on April 18th for a free hot breakfast to honor you for your service!
The event will be at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum and it begins at 8:30. The program includes Navy SEAL John Choate & Arlington Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Sentinel, Thomas Tudor. Following the program there will be a success fair to help Veterans plan for their post-military careers. Please register at Success For Veterans. Honorary Chairs include: Senators Hank Brown, Michael Bennet, Cory Gardner and Congressman Mike Coffman. Master of Ceremonies will be Marty Coniglio of 9News. This event is organized by Denver Area Rotary Clubs & Colorado Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve and Co-hosted by Denver Southeast Rotary and CESGR.
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Posted by Kimberly Armitage, Aurora, karmitage@denverymca.org
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 Rotary Youth Exchange is a program that builds cultural understanding:
District 5450's Rotary clubs are the essential ingredient to the Long Term Exchange program and Short Term Exchange youth programs. District clubs that sponsor worthy youth exchange applicants serve the community by providing its young people educational and cultural awareness opportunities at costs as low as can be achieved. The clubs benefit by generating goodwill and greater positive visibility in the community.
LTEP is based on reciprocal youth exchange: for each student from a Colorado community whom we send to live and study abroad (outbounder), we welcome a foreign student to live and study in District 5450 (inbounder). By hosting LTEP inbounders, clubs actually make the outbound exchanges possible. Through hosting, clubs also bring the world to Colorado, exposing local families and students to intercultural experiences.
Please join me on April 23rd at 6pm at the
Daniels Fund
101 Monroe St.
Denver, CO 80206
This is an opportunity to learn more about the youth programs that are serving our District. We will discuss, host families sending students out bound and club responsibilities. If your club has been hosting for a long time this is a good opportunity to get some new information on our procedures and if you have never hosted please join us and learn more so you can host in 2016.
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Posted by Debi Bush, D5450 Membership Chair and Denver Cherry Rotary, membership@rotary5450.org
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.jpg) Small College In Iowa Knows How To Make You Feel Welcome And Wanted
In February, my husband and I accompanied our 18 year old son, Daniel, to visit a small college in Indianola, Iowa – Simpson College (www.simpson.edu). We were down to two colleges in this very difficult life cycle decision – selection of a college. I grew up less than a three hour drive from Simpson and yet I had never heard of it until last Fall when the football recruiting coach contacted Daniel.
Simpson is a small, liberal arts college located 12 miles due south of Des Moines and has about 1500 students. The attention and responsiveness from the football coach as well as the Admissions office made a big impression upon us. I loved how they were phenomenal at following up with us and following through with their promises over the many months of this process.
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Posted by Charlie Hunt, Denver LoDO, masilae@gmail.com
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Rotary Aid For Island Nation
The Denver LoDo Rotary club has deep connections with Vanuatu and ShelterBox. LoDo’s International Service Chair Charlie Hunt, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Vanuatu from 2006 to 2008. His club is just finishing a smokeless cookstove study at two locations in Vanuatu working with PCV’s. The cyclone hit the week that Charlie received the first executive report draft for the project.
Traci Oliver, PEN for Denver LoDo is a trained ShelterBox volunteer and has been deployed around the world to implement setup of ShelterBoxes at disaster sites. Traci just returned from Mali on a ShelterBox mission.
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Posted by Trevor Clifford, trevorclifford85@gmail.com
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Awardee to Study in Thailand
Rotary District 5450 has selected Trevor Clifford to receive the highly competitive Temple Hoyle Buell Endowed Ambassadorial Scholarship. Established by world-renowned architect, humanitarian and local legend, Temple S. Buell, this scholarship provides $30,000 for graduate studies outside of the US in a subject area related to architecture. The scholarship extends Mr. Buell’s legacy as a philanthropist, and is maintained through a partnership between the Temple Buell Foundation and Rotary District 5450.
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Posted by Emily Joy, Peace Corps Volunteer
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Want to do a project in Paraguay?
from Peace Corps Volunteer, Emily Joy, currently serving in Paraguay
Greetings from Paraguay! I am working in the sector of Community Economic Development and have several projects that scale to a national level that may be of interest for a Rotary Club in the states:
First, I am now the coordinator of a national Peace Corps initiative called Paraguay Emprende. It is a professional business development program for young people that hosts regional events, offers a small-business planning curriculum and then hosts a national competition where seed funding is awarded to the best business plans. We are emphasizing the importance of Paraguayan involvement. The idea is to hand the program over as a Paraguayan NGO in the future, and we have started a training program for Paraguayan facilitators of the course. We are expanding this program nationally and are looking for partnership collaboration and financial support.
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Posted by PDG Norris Hermsmeyer, Boulder, norrisboco@aol.com
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Rotary Clubs Help Sponsor Annual Event
Boulder, Erie and Broomfield Rotary Clubs were joint sponsors along with Barnes and Noble, the English Dept. at C.U., and the Boulder Valley School (BVSD) of the Boulder Spelling Bee held February 7, 2015.
Participants in the Boulder Spelling Bee come from around 45 Middle Schools in Boulder and Broomfield counties. The participants have won the spelling bee championship in their own school and come to this competition hoping to win a chance to compete at the national level later in the spring in Washington D.C. The Boulder competition is one of only two competitions in the state. By virtue of having a Boulder competition, local students do not face the challenge of competing in the other “state-wide” competition in Denver.
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 The attached report shows year-to-date giving to The Rotary Foundation and End Polio by club, and per member. The District 5450 goal is for Every Rotarian to give something Every Year (EREY).
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