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Tennessee's First Breakfast Club - Charles Crowe - President 2009-10
Rotary Club No. 3878 - Oak Ridge, Tennessee - District 6780
VOTED DISTRICT 6780 BEST ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER - 2007-2008
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Volume 30 - No. 22
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Lydia Birk - Breakfast Bytes Editor
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March 8, 2010
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It is here at last - THE ANNUAL ORBRC AUCTION
Going, going, they'll soon be gone!
Our Auction Fun-Raiser is WEDNESDAY morning.
Just the facts:
Breakfast starts early, at 7.
There are 3 ways to part with your money:
1. The Silent Auction opens at 7;
2. The cash-and-carry Tools and Jewels opens at 7;
3. The Live Auction begins at 7:25.
You may pay with credit card, check or cash.
HERE'S A LINK to the page on our website with lots of pictures: http://www.orbrc.org/2010AUCTION.cfm.
Highlights include a week in a condo in Hawaii and a week in a condo Santa Fe; a handmade queen-sized quilt; wine tasting, a dim sum dinner and other dinner parties; lab testing, handy man, and design services; a sailboat; bridge lessons; great jewelry and home decor pieces; an Edenpure ceramic heater; wines; 'Rotary' vodka; a Robert Tino print; and even a year's immunity from Rooster or other fines.
So join the fun, shop for something special, and help support our club's ongoing community service efforts.
Sent on behalf of Emily Jernigan and the auction committee.
Notes from last week's meeting - March 3, 2010
Contributed by Faye Orick
Guest and Visitors:Introduced by Myron Iwanski
Karen Bridgeman's guest was Stephanie Beane
Mary Lou Auxier's guest was John Auxier
David McCoy's guest was Lisa Lanphear
Courtney Henry's guest was Ray Hubb
Rotary Guest: Assistant District Governor, Logan Hickman from South Campbell Rotary Club
Announcements:
Martha Hobson presented Tom Clary Paul Harris Fellow plus three.
Martha Hobson announced that Dub Shultz was kicking off the 7-11 club where Paul Harris Fellows give $50 and a name will be drawn out. The Paul Harris Fellow who gets their name drawn will get to announce a new Paul Harris Fellow.
Pat Postma announced the Auction will be on Wednesday, March 10 and she needs to know by Sunday the number of guests to ensure enough food.
Kelly Callison reminded the club that the Literacy Luncheon will be on March 18th at the Oak Ridge High School. Tickets are $40/ea.
The Program:
Ken Sommerfeld introduced the speaker; Mike Belbeck, CEO of Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge. Mike's topic was Methodist Medical Center Achievements
The Rooster collected $25.
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My daughter and I have placed a week in her condo in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii in the auction. The week will be of your choosing, subject to availability. The minimum bid is set at $650 which includes all taxes and fees. If you are interested in this opportunity, you may wish to view the website at www.VRBO.com/88698. If you want to discuss things to do on Maui, call me. There are many!
Maui No Ka Oi. (Maui is the best.)
Dub Shults
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Haiti Update
Editor's Note: Jim Palmer copied the editor on an email correspondence with fellow Rotarian Harry Knopke. I have taken editorial liberties and edited Mr. Knopke's email for purposes of including the information in Breakfast Bytes.
I'd like to give you an update on what we've been doing in our Haiti-related work since our phone conversation and subsequent e-mails many weeks ago. We've continued to raise funds and secure medicines and medical supplies through the District 4060 committee where my partner, Charles Adams, has played a lead role. Charles arranged a UN flight to take RI President John Kenny on a quick tour of Port-au-Prince last week. When they got there Kenny was briefed by the management of Rotary's Haiti Disaster Response Team and had meetings with the United Nations Development Program, the Haitian Red Cross, and the Haitian Minister of the Interior. He also toured a field hospital and the devastation in downtown PAP (Port au Prince). He saw first-hand that it really is like a war zone and plans to keep Haiti at the forefront of RI consciousness, something that is terribly important as the attention given Haiti is waning, as happens with all such crises/tragedies.
I hope you and your club, along with others in your orbit, will be interested in partnering with us on the recovery effort we will be mounting. It will be part of the overall disaster campaign that seeks to develop communities in the provinces so that populations have reasons to stay in the provinces instead of going back to Port au Prince. Because of all the out-migration from Port au Prince (shown on the UN map ) it became official government policy this weekend to create a decentralized Haiti as a function of reconstruction, rather that rebuilding PAP as the main population center. As I think I mentioned to you previously, for the past year we had been conceptualizing a micro business- and jobs-based initiative aimed at communities that could run along side the schools-based program (that's on hold at the moment as Pure Water for the World is concentrating on just securing water for PAP and expects to be focusing primarily on PAP for the foreseeable future). The draft document I've attached outlines the elements of the program. (Editor's note: If you are interested in this, please contact me or Jim Palmer and we can email it to you.) Clean water is the central element, but there are many others that constitute basic human needs in these areas. There's a lot of moving parts, as you'll see, and we're in the process of confirming them. However, having one of the best on-site leadership teams, along with a proven track record in both the Pure Water for Haiti project and now in the relief effort, gives us confidence we can get this underway in concert with the overall recovery effort.
If your club is interested in making either an initial or additional donation to the relief/recovery effort we'll obviously be pleased to receive it. At the same time, I'm pretty sure this initiative, which will need a lot of external support, is the kind you've been hoping to engage in.
Looking forward to talking to you soon,
Harry
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ORBRC's UPCOMING EVENTS
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| MARCH Message - Attend the RI Convention |
| Mar. 10 |
Annual Club Auction |
| Mar. 17 |
ROBERT SMITTY from Willow Ridge speaking on "The Big Pond". |
| Mar. 24 |
DAN RYAN speaking on "Social Media - Why all the Fuss?" |
| Mar. 31 |
KEN GREEN: "Defining What Matters"
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| Apr. 7 |
CORINNA LAIN: "How Much Does Law Matter?" |
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