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2 • Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE ROTARY CLUB OF LAKE ARROWHEAD Spring is just around the corner and your Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club is actively planning its next great event, the 2013 Art and Wine Festival. Set in the spectacular Tavern Bay TERRY RAYWORTH Beach Club, President 2012-13 overlooking the water just a few feet away, you can take in the fresh air and beauty that is reserved for the mountains. Each visitor will experience the various wares that our vendors carefully craft for the discerning eye. How about the WINE! If you are a consummate connoisseur or someone who just enjoys the great taste of a fine wine, then our wine tasting booth is for you. Bob Gladwell is our chairman for 2013 and you can reach him by visiting the website,www.RotaryArt&WineFestival.com. If you click on this link, you’ll be directed to Bob’s contact page, where you can send a message to Bob’s attention. I will look forward to seeing you there. COMMUNITY SERVICE Rotary, an organization made up of local business people, and retired professionals, 1.2 million world wide, is given to make our local communities and the world a better place to live. Our primary objective is captured in the motto, SERVICE ABOVE SELF. To aid each of us (Rotarians) in focusing our time, skills, energy, and yes, money, towards this goal, Rotary has identified five (5) Avenues of Service. These include CLUB SERVICE, COMMU- NITY SERVICE, INTERNATIONAL SERVICE , VOCATIONAL SERVICE, and the newest one NEW GENERATIONS SERVICE. As in years past, the Rotary Avenue of Service known as Community Service was a busy street during 2012 for the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead. This noon Club continues to reach out to our local communities in providing Service Above Self in form of energy, time, and dollars. Those dollars come into our Club’s Foundation in many ways, including that fun and wet event, the POLAROTARY PLUNGE, recently held at the Lake Arrowhead Resort. Money raised for our Foundation from this exciting jump in the lake is destined for our mountain kids, and includes programs coordinated with the Rim of the World School District. Recipients of many of the other dollars that find their way into our Foundation and distributed by your neighbors, local Rotarians, last year and throughout earlier years, have included the Mountains Community Hospital Foundation, Arrowhead Arts Association, our local Soroptimists for Women’s Health Programs, a Dental Screening Program conducted at our local elementary schools targeting children from low income families, the Lake Arrowhead Classical Ballet Company in support of the children’s Nutcracker performances, and the Mountain Communities Boys and Girls Club. Others joining this list have included the Blue Jay Jazz Festival, Rim of the World Historical Society, the Lake Arrowhead Ranch in support of their educational programs, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s office during their Holiday Food Drive to provide meals for needy families, and Operation Provider. Rotarians in our three mountaintop Rotary Clubs continue to be active and energetic community supporters as evidenced by this partial listing. If interested in learning more, or becoming a part of this contributing group, feel free to join the Rotarians of the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead, your neighbors, for lunch, Tuesdays, 12 noon, at Woody’s Boathouse in the Lake Arrowhead Village. LAKE ARROWHEAD ROTARY CLUB 2012-2013 OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS Terry Rayworth - President (2012-2013) Keith Douglas - Immediate Past President Terry Ebert - President Elect (2013-2014) Bob Gladwell - President Designee (2014-2015) Jamie Zinn - Treasurer, Secretary, President Nominee Angela Yap - Director Aylene Popka - Director Dave Roughton - Director Harry Sherman - Director Jack Winsten - Director Kathy O'Fallon - Director Randy Buecheler - Director Rick Ray - Director Sheila Ben-Hur - Director Bob Gladwell - Art & Wine Chair Pat Rains - PolaRotary Plunge Chair Rick Ray - Membership Chair Jamie Zinn - Service Projects Chair Aylene Popka - Youth & Vocational Chair Terry Ebert - International Service Dave Roughton - Community Service Terry Ebert - Foundation Chair Angela Yap - Public Relations Chair Randy Buecheler - Program Chair Kathy O'Fallon - Club Administration Richard Montez - Fine Master Jack Winsten - Emergency Preparedness Chair Hugh Bialecki - Music Competition Chair Bob Wirtenberger - Blood Drive Chair Lon LeBlanc - Webmaster Sherwin Grossman - Club Roster
WHAT IS NEW IN ROTARY Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club, 2013 • 3 DISTRICT 5330 FOR 2013-14 By Joseph Ramos III, Governor 2013-14, Rotary District 5330 This is an exciting time to be a Rotarian in our District. Our District 5330 includes not only the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead and the other three Rotary clubs from Crestline to Big Bear, but also the 59 total clubs with over 2100 members in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Each club can be described as consisting of ethical business leaders doing community service on a global scale. Our new Rotary International theme for 2013-14 is “Engage Rotary, Change Lives.” Members join Rotary to do meaningful service in their community and to make an impact to the world. So it also goes that the job is not done when we bring in a new member but when that new member is engaged in Rotary, inspired by Rotary and uses the power of Rotary service to change lives. ERADICATING POLIO IN 2014 Next year Rotary International (RI) will be writing its last pages in eradicating polio from the face of the earth, and beginning a new chapter as we roll out our Future Vision Plan. Yes, RI President Elect Ron Burton predicted at his International Assembly of District Governor Elects in San Diego on January 15 that after 26 years of Rotary commitment to eradicating Polio he stated that “I stand in front of the class of District Governors that will finish the job.” There are only three countries left with the endemic strain of Polio - Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. And the number of cases in the world has dropped from 1300 in 2010, to 650 in 2011, to 222 in 2012 and so far only one in 2013. MARCH TO END POLIO In July, when the new Rotary year begins you will be hearing more of our District 5330 partnering with adjacent District 5300 in a campaign called “March to End Polio.” This fundraiser will be asking our local Rotary Clubs and communities in and around the Inland Empire to participate in a walk-a-thon to raise awareness and funds for our final push to end polio and prevent its reoccurrence. This will be held October 19-27 during Polio Awareness month throughout our local communities and schools and will include not only our Rotary Clubs but also Rotary‘s school-wide service clubs Earlyact (ages 5- 13), Interact (ages 12-18), and Rotaract (ages 18-30) to walk in their school and communities. The Little League Baseball Western Regional Headquarters in San Bernardino donated their baseball stadium to be the site of a final walk and Olympic torch type ceremony on October 26-27. The Regional Director Jim Gerstenslager has a family member who is a polio survivor and wanted to do his part by donating the baseball field to Rotary for the entire weekend. FUTURE VISION PLAN The Future Vision Plan is a new grant system where the Rotary Foundation takes everything wonderful about Rotary and makes it bigger and more sustainable in addressing the needs of the community being served. All the various types of grants, scholarship programs, youth and group study exchanges are now simplified to two types of grants - larger ($30,000 minimum) Global Grants and smaller (under $30,000) District Grants. The Future Vision Plan will be responding to six areas of focus as organizational priorities to include A.) Peace and conflict prevention/resolution, B.) Disease prevention and treatment, C.) Water and sanitation, D.) Maternal and child health, E.) Basic education and literacy, and F.) Economic and community development. The Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club is involved in programs affecting all these areas of focus in both international and community programs GLOBAL GRANTS Global grants enable matching RI World Funds for District and Club projects. We can essentially double the amount of money our district and clubs donate to projects. Now all the various types of grant categories are combined, this includes scholarships, Vocational Training Team exchanges, and of course projects. There will be more flexibility for Rotarians to participate with non-Rotarians in Vocational Training Team grants designed to provide services to other countries having a need in one of the six areas of focus. Scholarships are essentially doubled in value when it fits in an area of focus. Also a new category of country exchanges called “New Generation Service Exchange” for those 21-30 young adults begins July 1. They will participate in a service project, an internship or vocational training. Rotary’s projects will be bigger and designed so that the benefiting country can operate and maintain the project well after the Rotarians leave. Under the “Disease prevention and treatment” area of focus, for example, our Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club recently contributed to a District developed program to combat Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) for 2012-13 and again for 2013- 14. SAM is inadequate intake of food, leading to critical illness and death, most What is New in Rotary Continued on Page 14
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