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Rotary Club Editor: Sandy Pugliese

Snippets June 2014

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Make Membership Your #1 Priority!

Tell Your Story

Make A Difference

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Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and better

FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Rotary Fellowships

June is Rotary Fellowship Month.

Have you ever wanted to enjoy Rotarians on a different level? Perhaps you share a passion for horses or golfing. There are fellowships world- wide that link Rotarians with each other – those who have common interests, passions, hobbies, etc. And, if there isn’t a fellowship for your particular interest, you can start one!

Check out the flyer below. It defines what Rotary Fellowships are, how they operate and summarizes the benefits of belonging to a Rotary Fellowship.

Related RI Publications • Rotary Fellowships Officer Directory

www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/document/885 • Rotary Fellowships Handbook www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/document/886

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End Polio Now

Visit the Santee-Lakeside Rotary Club at

http://portal.clubrunner.ca/10099

On the Polio Front

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Pledges $100 million to Polio Eradication

At the kick-off of the 2014 Rotary International Convention in Sydney Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced a $1000 million commitment from his government to ending polio. The funds will be spread over five years and will go towards making countries in Africa and the Middle East – where outbreaks have been reported – polio free. It will also help Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria, where the disease is endemic.

About $20 million will be provided over the next year to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative for immunizations to fight the disease’s re-emergence.

The Government of Australia has been supportive of the global effort to eradicate polio, having contributed 73.02 million AUD to date. In 2013, the government committed an additional 80 million to the cause, over the four-year period 2015-2018.

Rotary members in Australia have played a significant part in the history of polio eradication. In 1979, Sir Clem Renouf of Queensland – then president of Rotary International – spearheaded the effort to unite Rotary’s entire global membership behind a single cause for the first time in the organization’s history. Spurred by the 1979 eradication of smallpox – the first and only human disease to be eradicated – Rotary committed to eliminate polio for good.

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Bill’s Travel Journal June 9, 2014

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Bill Stumbaugh is a Santee-Lakeside Rotarian who recently moved to Ecuador for an extended period of time. The Club likes to live vicariously through his travels.

Sydney Australia

I am now in Sydney, Australia, where I came to attend this year's Rotary International Convention. Each year Rotary International holds the convention in a different city of the world. It took me about 48 actual hours of travel time to get here--5 hour bus ride from Bahia de Caraquez to Guayaquil, overnight at the home of friends Marisa and Vladimir, flights the next day to El Salvador and Los Angeles of about 8 hours, an 11 hour stop over in the LAX airport, and then about a 14 hour night flight to Sydney. I went up and over to get to the 'down and under'. It all passed much better than I feared. I stayed with an Aussie Rotarian couple Cheryl and Norm in the mountain suburb Springwood, gateway to the famous and beautiful Blue Mountains. The name comes from the color from the sunlight passing through emissions naturally generated by the Eucalyptus forests. Of course, one sees many of these trees in California, and Ecuador too, but those numbers are miniscule compared to the vast tracks here. It is the dominant species, comparable to a pine forest in the Sierra Nevada, and has huge canopies which shade and support a wide variety of flora and fauna beneath. The mountains have many rock out toppings that remind me of the American Great Basin. Cheryl and Norm took me to see the Three Sisters overlook where one can view their tall spires of layered rock, similar, though smaller, to the pinnacles in Monument Valley. We rode on a cross valley suspended cable car, and descended a steep cable car on tracks whose seats slanted backwards to keep the passengers vertical. A thrill like a roller coaster except the speed was controlled. Cheryl and Norm's home was about 1.5 hours from Sydney by train which I took sometimes, but they and another Rotarian couple Marilyn and Colin drove me to the convention many times. In spite of the distance, I was very fortunate to stay with them because they helped me so much to learn about Australia and were very generous of their time, lodging and friendship. I also attended with them a meeting of the Springwood Rotary Club, met the many members and learned about their community and international projects. The convention was held at the site of the 2000 Olympics where about 20,000 Rotarians from all over the world converged. Like previous conventions, there were many inspirational speakers with stories about incredible projects overcoming immense challenges faced by the poor throughout the world. Continued on page 6

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District Council/Governor’s Dinner

June 26

Installation Dinner - Viejas

July 26

Concert at the Lakes

October 24-25

District Conference

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Canine Champions

June 12

Don’t Wait - Vaccinate

June 19

Youth Safety Training

June 26

Club Dark at Noon

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June 1

Doug and Pam Wilson

June 2

Jim and Linda Peasley

June 21

Vic and Nancy Bermudes

June 30

Tom Miles and Julie Rich

The Santee-Lakeside Rotary Club meets every Thursday at noon at Jimmy’s Restaurant on Mission

Gorge Road in Santee.

Photo Clips Rotarians at Work Day

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President’s Message

Of course our Club and its members have done much more than this short list and we all greatly appreciated their efforts in our Club ongoing and continuing functions. I hope that I did not miss something and there is no intent to take credit for efforts from previous Presidents’ reigns. Some things just take more than a year and/or overlap the year of one President to another.

- The Club members donated over $1,000 for the relief efforts to the typhoon struck Philippine City.

- Augie Caires was awarded the Torch Bearer Award by the District Governor, Carl Kruse.

- Jim Peasley was awarded by the District Governor the 2013-2014 Rotary Club Presidents Energizer Award.

- Our Club participated in the annual La Mesa Noon Club hosting at the Saint Madeleine Sophie’s Center the Rotary International Assembly of Governors.

- Two of our Club members, Augie Caries and Bill Stumbaugh, received recognition for their donations to Rotary International as Paul Harris Society Members.

- Our Club participation in the annual Rotarians at Work Day event at West Hills High School in cooperation with other groups and received recognition from the Santee School District Board.

- Presented the Gordon-Zucker Scholarship Awards at Santana High School event.

- The Club and its members donated $700 to the East County Equestrian Foundation.

- To foster Club community presences and lure potential new Club membership we participated in the 1st Annual Lakeside Community “Beans, Beers & Business Fair” event held at the Lakeside Rodeo Grounds.

- Reduced reoccurring Club and Club Foundation expenses. - Participated in the annual RYLA event. - Obtained a $2,000 matching grant for a total of $4,000 for the

Santee Food Bank donation. - For our upcoming Concert at the Lakes event we have increased

our financial sponsorship level by over 100% approaching the $10,000 level.

Continued on page 8

Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and

Professions As a Rotarian engaged in a business or profession, I will: 1. Exemplify the core value of

integrity in all behaviors and activities.

2. Use my vocational experience and talents to serve Rotary.

3. Conduct all of my personal, business, and professional affairs ethically, encouraging and fostering high ethical standards as an example to others.

4. Be fair in all dealings with others and treat them with the respect due to them as fellow human beings.

5. Promote recognition and respect for all occupations which are useful to society.

6. Offer my vocational talents: to provide opportunities for young people, to work for the relief of the special needs of others, and to improve the quality of life in my community.

7. Honor the trust that Rotary and fellow Rotarians provide and not do anything that will bring disfavor or reflect adversely on Rotary or fellow Rotarians.

8. Not seek from a fellow Rotarian a privilege or advantage not normally accorded others in a business or professional relationship.

POLIO NEAR EXTINCTION

This Close

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Well nearly one year has passed since I became President of the great Santee-Lakeside Rotary Club. Of course I will be soon presenting or turning over the gavel to Tom Miles as our new Club president for 2014-2015. I believe it is traditional and appropriate to highlight our Clubs’ accomplishments during the year. So I will simply list the ones that come to mind and not in any particular order.

Why Join Rotary

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Rotary creates the perfect venue to give back to your community and

to the world at large.

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business relationships.

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It is the largest service organization in the world and

provides countless opportunities to bridge continents and end divides.

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A great tool Rotary has is its educational programs. It also can

give you exposure to many different areas and help you find what your interests really are.

Sacred Rocks

Various breakout sessions provided examples of how individual Rotarians are collaborating with various groups to achieve grand goals involving water and sanitation, disease prevention and treatment, basic literacy, economic development and peace and conflict reduction. The convention also included endless opportunities to make make new friends and recruit partners for projects I am helping in Ecuador. I also reunited with many friends attending from San Diego. After the convention ended, I said good bye to Cheryl and Norm and moved into a hostal in downtown Sydney so I could explore the city sights for a few days. I must be the oldest person here--surrounded by twenty something's from France, Japan, Malaysia, England, the US, etc. Of particular note is that an employee is from Ecuador! Her and her husband have lived here for twelve years, and remarkably they lived in San Vicente, the town I look at everyday across the bay from my apartment in Bahia. We plan to get together back in Ecuador when the will visit family in August. The past two days I walked extensively around Sydney's downtown and adjacent neighborhoods. It is a beautiful, dynamic city that reminds me of San Francisco with its bay and numerous waterfronts, diverse population, fantastic eateries, pubs with great beer and beautiful architecture. It is now on my list of favorite cities to return to someday. Tomorrow, I fly out to Alice Springs in the center of Australia to spend a couple of nights hiking and camping in the outback. I will visit Uluru and it's great rock, a kind of pilgrimage for tourists as well as Aussies. I learned a national chant here. One yells out, "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie", and the response yelled by others is, "Oi, Oi, Oi. The exchange is repeated a few times as a rallying cry of Australian pride. It's very invigorating when it occurs in a stadium of people.

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We are a Grassroots

Organization

Rotary is a GRASSROOTS organization. We carry out our most meaningful service work through our Rotary Clubs. Each club elects its own officers and enjoys considerable autonomy within the framework of Rotary’s Constitution and Bylaws. Rotary districts (groups of clubs) support these efforts and are led by district governors. Rotary clubs belong to the global association Rotary International (RI), led by the RI president and RI board of directors.

We direct our service in six AREAS OF FOCUS: Peace and conflict resolution; disease prevention and treatment; water and sanitation; maternal and child health; basic literacy; and economic and community development.

Need to Know

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Sponsored by:

President’s Message Continued from page 5

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- Revised the Club Foundation account authorized members. - Obtained a $5,000 grant from the Weyerhaeuser Giving

Grant. - Finalized the contract requirements of the Kenya Water

Project. - Marilyn Sanderson recognized our Club for establishing our

goals and incorporating them into the District 5340 website database.

- A successful rummage sale held at Union Bank to raise funds for the Club treasury.

- Potentially three new Club members. As you may recall at our last installation dinner a few goals were outlined in the looking ahead address to the Club them being build on the successes of past Concert at the Lakes event, increase Club presence and recognition in the community, and increase membership. I think that these goals have been accomplished to a certain extent and continued progress and efforts will bear fruit for the Club going forward. I wish to thank each and every Club member for their support during my year as President. THANK YOU ALL! James Peasley Santee-Lakeside Rotary Club President 2013-2014

Rotary Quotes “It is easier to interest men in war than peace; it therefore requires more moral courage to talk peace than war.” Rotary Just at the Threshold, The Rotarian, February 1917 “Friendship was the foundation rock on which Rotary was built and tolerance is the element which holds it together.” My Road to Rotary “There is nothing intangible about Rotary: It is reality itself. To give is to receive: to lose oneself; to be happy is to serve. These are old truths…for the individual…and the mass, whether application be in the exchange of goods, toil, knowledge, or love.” The Meaning of Rotary, The Rotarian, November 1921 “Primarily Rotary seeks to apply the theory of service to business and community life…This is expressed in the first part of our code of ethics: To consider my vocation worthy and as affording me a distinct opportunity to serve society. He Profits Most Who Serves the Best is a less ideal expression, but the suggestion of egoism is removed by the added words, Service Above Self.” Address to 1926 Rotary Convention, Denver Colorado, USA “What is the value of the life of one child saved? No one will ever know, but if the child were our own, the price tag would be marked: Not for sale – this life is invaluable.” When Life is Gone, That’s All There Is, The Rotarian, January 1980 “We cannot talk about the future without talking about children. They are our future. A Dream for Our Children’s Future, The Rotarian, September 1998.

Introducing the 2014-2015 Rotary International Theme from RI President Gary C.K. Huang – Light up Rotary