November 4, 2009
Rotary opened with a prayer from John Adair. Although spiritual in nature, I could have sworn he was praying for the return of the GOP in New Jersey and Virginia! Or, was that just my imagination.
Our illustrous fundraiser, "par excellance", Jay Seward discussed our first Earth Day Bike Race next April. Plans are well underway and we need to give Jay all the support we can. A sign up sheet was passed around with many volunteer committee's for this race and we need to all sign up! 100% participation for this event, Ride or Work, which is it? Hopefully, this will be our biggest fundraiser yet.
Lyman Whitehead, subbing in with health and happiness, rambled on about something funny, but I must have dozed off. Thanks Lyman.
President Ginny acknowledged the fine work by Chip Lyerly for shadow day last week. We had a great turn out with 26 high school kids! Great job Chip!
A reminder, next week, November 11th is Vocational week. We will not be meeting at our usual spot but, instead, at the Fire Department behind Bi-Lo on St. Andrews Rd near Seven Oaks. Please park in the Bi - Lo parking lot and walk over. We will be provided a great tour of the Trauma Helicopter, which, hopefully, none of us or our loved ones will ever need as well as a presentation by the trauma specialists. This should be a very informative session so please try to make it. Yes, breakfast will be served!
Member updates included a web page for Bill Kopelman, www.caringbridge.org, for up to date info on his battle with cancer. Also, unfortunately, we learned of the death of Patty Cavanaugh's mother. Please remember Patty and her family in your prayers.
Our classification talk was delivered by Mai Li Munoz Adams, who is a fairly new member and is chasing her three children around when not raising money for the USC Foundation, which, by the way is her full time job. You gotta love a lady who was born in Queens (thats New York City folks) and raised in Tampa, Fl. and ended up in Columbia, SC!
Rod Funderburk introduced our speaker, Courtney Gibson for her report on Quito, Ecuador. You may remember Courtney was an Ambassadorial Scholarship winner and has spent the last 90 days there studying and serving others. Courtney discussed her two main service organizations while there, "Salesian Foundation for the Children of the Street" and "The Foundation for Education and International Volunteerism" which, you may remember is building a library. Courtney presented a check, on behalf of our club, to that organization. She also described how wonderful the people were and what a great host family she had. Rotary work at its finest.
Bill Danielson
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