A Message From D.G. Garry HollingsheadAs I prepare this column, I am dog-sitting in North Vancouver for our daughter and family who are enjoying spring-break in the sun at Disneyworld. Marion and I have just come from

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

On the Cover: 1. District First Ladies -- L-R Donna Falkins (Kelowna), Marianne King (Ellensburg), Jacquie Everett (Chase), and Peg Blue (Yakima) at the District PETS Reception.

2. The Brass, Past and Future -- DGN Darrell Blue (Yakima) and PDG Corwin King (Ellensburg) at the 2012 PETS District Reception.

3. Rotaractors at work -- A few of the 27 Rotaract Club members who attended PETS this year.

Page 3 - Future Business Leaders

Page 4 - Million Shoes

Page 6 - Streamlining Grant Operations.

Page 7 - Chelan, Penticton & Okanogan.

Page 7 - The Donut Man

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a great weekend at Pacific Northwest Pets in Seattle where we were honoured to be aides for Past RI President Rick King, keynote speaker for Friday evening. Rick was in great form and was, I am sure, an inspiration for the 550 presidents-elect present. The entire affair was a great success as usual and the envy of Director-Elect Bryn Stiles of District 7010.

Before I get on to new subjects, let me go back to Literacy, the subject of last month’s letter. The link you need for that really great Literacy Project Guide I referred to last month is http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en.pdf/literacy.project.guide.en.pdf I recommend a look at this document if your club has any interest in starting a project in this area.

This month’s R.I. theme is the Rotarian magazine. Since you all receive a copy each month and know what a great publication it is I need not say more. Let me, instead, return to my favourite message for the year – INCREASE MEMBERSHIP and SUPPORT YOUR FOUNDATION.

On the first front – membership- I am pleased to report that we have turned the corner, but we are still some distance from our target of 3000 members for 30 June 2012. Our population of Rotarians is about 2850 and climbing. We all know that one of our responsibilities as Rotarians is to sponsor potential Rotarians into membership, but the sad truth is that only about 10-15% of us ever do this simple thing. The basic key in my experience is to simply ASK. Sometimes you might have to ask four times. Persistence!!

ROUNDUPVolume 70, Issue 9

April 2012ROTARY

More PETS pix on page 3!

Not long ago I attended a meeting of the Lionsgate Rotary Club (Dist. 5040) which is about to launch a membership drive. It has suffered declining membership over the past several years and sits at about 28. During the meeting the club formed two teams and distributed four pages of possible classifications in town (roughly 120 minimum). The combined population of the District and City of North Vancouver is about 135,000 which should yield (at 0.3% of population) about 450 Rotarians. I know the Lionsgate Club is very confident of achieving a membership of 50 over the course of their campaign; a modest and realistic goal. By comparison, a club has recently been chartered on Bowen Island (presumably with 25 members) which has a population of about 3000 (close to 1%).

I now realize that there are some administrative difficulties in registering corporate members with RI for those of us which are not Pilot Clubs. I also know that you have enormous initiative to hurdle high barriers and go where no one has gone before. So I continue to encourage you all to bring on Corporate members, initiate Satellite clubs, and invite young Associate members to join your Rotary family.

Now to my second objective – Donation of $450,000 to the Foundation Annual Programs Fund. I understand we are sitting at about 66% of this target. When you stop and look at the state of the Third World and see all the wonderful projects that Rotary has ongoing; and realize that your club can be instrumental in improving the lives of thousands, you will feel compelled to increase your personal donation very quickly. As we move forward to the Future Vision of the Foundation, this District will have more control over our District Designated Funds and be able to help those we wish to help more easily. But if we do not contribute TODAY, we will have greater control over much lower levels of funding. Please do the right thing and increase your donation NOW.

My thanks and best wishes to Tom Lathen, who has resigned as newsletter editor because of job obligations.

Thanks for all you do for Rotary;

And HAVE FUN!

Garry

Message from D.G. Garry (continued)

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DG Garry Hollingshead

invites you to theRotary District 5060 Conference

in Penticton.May 31 to June 3, 2012

At the Penticton Lakeside Resort. The easiest way to register for the District Conference is on line:

www.rotary5060conference2012.com/

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Top left: Chris Walder, Merritt Sunrise, Sherry Maligaspe, Kamloops Aurora, and RI Director Ken Boyd. Center: Jim Anderson, Kamloops Daybreak, Cathy Cwirko, Ashcroft/Cache Creek, Becky Clements, Kamloops North, and Michael Parker, Kamloops West. Far right: AG1 Andrea Inwards and DG Elect Doug Everett. Far right: JC Baldwin, Cashmere.

PETS - Presidents Elect Training!SEATTLE, MARCH 9-11What do you get when you put 550 Rotary Club presidents-elect from nineRotary Districts in four states and one Canadian province in a Seattle hotel

for four days? The Pacific Northwest President Elect’s Training Seminar, one of the largest in the Rotary world.

Along with a hundred or so District Governors, Assistant Governors, PETS instructors, and other Rotary officials, the presidents-elect attended optional and required training sessions on everything from fundraising to membership development. They heard from outstanding speakers. They visited exhibits on Rotary projects. They collected materials from Rotary resource people. They talked to vendors of Rotary products and services.

Most of all, they had a chance to share ideas with their fellow presidents-elect as they planned their Rotary year. The goal was to prepare them to hit the ground running when they take over the leadership of their clubs on July 1. As the pictures on this page and page one show, it wasn’t all work, however! There was plenty of time for socializing.

 

Get Caught Doing GoodRotarian at Work Day is April 28. Whatever your club has planned, be sure to include taking photos to document your good deeds. These photos can be sent to this newspaper, and also used to promote your club with your local media.

Rotary’s Four-Way Test forms the ethical core of what Juniors from Omak and Okanogan High Schools learn during Business Week. More than 150 students participated in the intensive five-day business course held at the Okanogan County Agriplex, March 5-9, where they learned how to manage a public corporation manufacturing digital media players in today’s global economy. A computer simulation - BizSim - responded to the students’ deci-sions each quarter: How much to produce; what price to charge; how much to invest in advertising, sales force and product development; and, whether to go international. Each of the thirteen teams of ten to twelve students de-signed a new product and issued stock to continue their companies’ success.

“There is absolutely nothing comparable to the intensive educational and team-building experience enjoyed by the participating students,” said (Rotar-ian) Charlie Arvidson, who along with (Rotarian) Greg Hamilton, has been organizing Business Week for the last twelve years. “After all, these are our future business leaders’” he added.

Rotarians working with future business leaders in Okano-gan and Omak High Schools last month.

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by Jim Belshaw

The Kelowna Sunrise Rotary Club’s Million Shoe Mission is about to take flight again for the third year. In the first two years we collected over 110,000 pairs of shoes. Approximately 10% of that total was donated back to the local communities with the help of the social agencies up and down the Okanagan Valley. The rest were sent to Soles

4 Souls in Nevada, one of three clearing/sorting houses where the shoes are sorted and prioritized to go to one of 127 different countries. Last year many of what were shipped down ended up in Japan and Haiti. This year we have a goal of 500,000 pairs! Most of the province of BC is involved as well as Ottawa, Montreal and Edmonton. Other cities are coming on board daily. Our goal when we started 2 years ago was to collect 1 million pairs of shoes. With the expansion throughout Canada this year our goal has changed to 1 million pairs in each of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada.Soles4Souls has a simple concept: “we procure shoes and get them to those in need.”In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami that hit Southeast Asia, Wayne Elsey, an executive in the footwear industry and now the Founder and CEO of Soles4Souls Inc. felt compelled to do something. Like many of us, he did not know what to do. He was at home one night, watching TV and he saw a picture of a single shoe washing up on the beach. That triggered a few calls to some other executives in the footwear industry and the subsequent donation of a quarter of a million shoes to victims in the devastated countries.A few months later when Katrina hit, Wayne called the same group of friends, and through their continued support, he sent over a million pairs of shoes down to the gulf coast communities affected by the hurricane. In all honesty, he admits that he did not expect such an immediate and successful turnout. This left him wondering, why not start a non-profit and do this all the time?

One year later, Soles4Souls was formally created. We are looking for Rotary Clubs in the district that want to be involved please contact me to find out what they can do. Please contact us on line, or email, if your club would like to help. roysshoes@shaw.ca It has been that simple: changing the world one pair at a timewww.soles4souls.org <http://www.soles4souls.org/>

www.soles4soulscanada.com <http://www.soles4soulscanada.com/>

Check out some great videos on our You Tube Channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/S4SCanada?feature=mhee

Kelowna Sunrise Soles 4 Souls

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Yakima Sunrise Planning Park Building

Buoyed by the success of their sunshelter constructed in 2010 (pictured below), the Yakima Sunrise Rotary is planning to build a 30’X40’ stage/pavillion in another Yakima Park.

The club has raised $10,000 in seed money and commenced planning and fundraising for an estimated $230,000 project. The club is in the second year of a three year timeline to complete the project. The club has a contract with the City of Yakima to build at Franklin Park in west Yakima.

Club member Howard Moore said they chose to put their next project on the west side of the city because other projects (pictured right) have been on the east side. They had meetings with neighbors near the park and all are supportive.

The club is working on a strategic fund raising plan this year, and would love to start construction sometime in 2012. The goal is to be done sometime in 2013.

Emblin Appointed Roundup Editor

Bobi Emblin, Osoyoos Rotary, has been appointed interim editor of this publication due to the resignation of Tom Lathen. Lathen cited job obligations in his retirement, effective with the publication of this issue. Tom and his wife are planning on moving out of District 5060 shortly.

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by Roger Perry, PDG

The Rotary Foundation identified a growing need to streamline its operation for improved efficiency and focus its efforts to achieve greater impact and public recognition.

On July 1, 2013, all Rotary Districts will adopt the new model. Under the new funding model, we will have only two (2) types of grants available: District Grants and Global Grants. We have reduced the grants structure from 12 Foundation programs to “2” with more emphasis being placed on the Districts and their Clubs for accountability, sustainability and more funds being made available to the district for distribution to clubs.

Clubs must complete an annual qualification process to be eligible for District and Global Grants. To qualify, clubs must send two (2) or more members to the district Rotary Foundation grants management seminar, sign and adhere to the club memorandum of understanding, and fulfill any additional qualification requirements set by the district. Clubs are also expected to comply with the stewardship requirements outlined by the district.

This may come as surprise to some of you but we had three (3) pre- Grants management Seminars last fall to start the initiation of the new programs to club members. The Grant funding model requires the district to submit an application for grant funds from Rotary International prior to the program year, no later than April 1, which means that we have to have the clubs qualified, the memorandum of understanding signed by the clubs and the clubs to have their proposed projects for 2013-14 to the district by March 1, 2013!

To do this we have established a set of Grant Management Seminars for this spring and fall as follows: April 21-Vernon, BC April 28-Ellensburg, WA Oct 6-District Assembly (North-TBA) Oct 13-Ellensburg, WAThe earlier a club has qualified for these grants, the better position it will be in to take advantage of the grants. As you can see, it will be incumbent on your club to be prepared for the 2013-14 Rotary year well in advance.

Club members can register for the spring seminars on the district website and I strongly urge you to do so asap.

I look forward to meeting you at one of the upcoming seminar dates and I am really looking forward to the “new” Future Vision of The Rotary Foundation. Please understand clearly that your club may not participate in ANY Distrct or Global Grant unless your Club has TWO CERTIFIED members and you have a signed MOU with RI well before 3 June 2013.

RF Streamlines Grant Operation, Clubs Must Attend a Seminar

GSE Inbound (from Brazil) bound for District Starting April 29

Left to right: Rafael Fagundes Rocha works in Business Administration for a steel company. Fernanda Ribeiro da Salva is a Project Manager. Flávia Santos, has a Business Administration degree and is working in Human Resources. Renata Frazão is an English teacher. Team Leader, Regina Vilhena, is an architect.

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Lake Chelan Rotary Takes a Step into the FutureRecently the City of Chelan purchased the Masonic Temple in downtown Chelan for a new Library. In order to convert the building into its new uses, the Friends of the Library have commenced a community fundraising project to raise $160,000 in order to make a match to a state community development block grant of $490,000.

To kick off this effort Chelan Rotary pledged $25,000 in the form of $10,000 from cash reserves,

$3,000 from a District Simplified Grant (hopefully!), and $12,000 in personal pledges from Lake Chelan Rotarians and Rotarian friends. For those contributing $250 or more a tile will be placed in the fireplace area of the room that the club has adopted. This will be designated as the “Rotary Fireside Room”.

In his letter to the members Lake Chelan Rotary President Les Cooper stated “The goals and objectives of Rotary have stood the test of time. We are asked to think about what we do in terms of ‘will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships, and will it be beneficial to all concerned’? We are asked to focus on projects that will better our Community, Education, Literacy, Health, and Youth Enrichment. A public library in any community addresses all of these things. Conclusion, the Chelan Public Library is a good Rotary project.”

GSE Outbound Team Headed to Brazil April 22Left to right: Ed Kolybaba, retired educator, is the team leader from Kelowna, BC. Augustin Benegas-Garcia from Chelan is a hospital quality control specialist. Jennifer Girard, from Salmon Arm is a youth worker. Ross Courtney is a reporter for the Yakima Herald Repubic. Mike O’Reilly is an economic development specialist from Kamloops.

Penticton Okanagan Book SaleThe Penticton Okanagan Rotary Club has started working toward their annual used book sale and fundraiser. The club is currently collecting gently used book from the community. Residents are asked to drop their books off at one of twelve collection bins that are spread conveniently throughout the city. Rotarians collect the books from the bins and bring them to a sorting center. Thousands of books will be sorted into categories and prepared for their April 30th transportation to the Penticton Curling Rink.

The sale takes place in the curling rink from Monday, April 31st to Saturday, May 5th.

 

Last year the Penticton Okanagan Rotarians, and friends, moved 33,000 pounds of books, sold 10,500 pounds, donated 16,500 to the Reading Tree Society and local literacy projects, stored 6,000 pounds for this year’s sale, and made a $16,000 profit. The profit is used to fund many worthwhile service projects.

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by Ron Hood

The Rotary Club of Ashcroft/Cache Creek annually organizes an event to honor a Citizen of the Year from each of our two communities. The awards are sponsored by the Royal Bank of Canada in Cache Creek, and by Interior Savings Credit Union in Ashcroft.

On March 15th a full house celebrated the Rotary Club 2011 Citizens of the Year. These awards are annually presented to a Cache Creek and an Ashcroft citizen nominated by his or her peers for outstanding community service.

Top photo: Rotary President Elect, Cathy Cwirko (center), presents Dave Gory and Susan McLean with the Ashcroft Citizen of the Year Award. This is the first time a father and daughter have received this award in the same year.

Bottom photo: Rotarian Fay Haller (right) presents Mike and Susan Hong with the Cache Creek Citizen of the Year Award. This is the first time a husband and wife team have received this award.

Our club is proud to take part in this annual effort to honor citizenship and support for our communities.

Ashcroft/Cache Creek Honors Citizens of the Year

Russell Shortt, the Donut Man, delivers donuts and polio immunizationby Otto Rieve

Russell Shortt of the Rotary Club of Vernon has been delivering donuts to the members of the club and as a consequence has helped Rotary deliver polio vaccines to children of the world.

Since 2010, through the efforts of Russell the Donut Man, club members have enabled the club to donate $600 over the years. At a cost of US$0.10 for the cost of the polio vaccine and US$0.50 for delivery, the cost of 60 cents per immunization has been provided to 1,000 children who will no longer be lamed or worse by polio.

The Rotarian magazine of March, 2012, ran a series of pictures of a pizza or a candy bar crossed out with a red bar and explanation that if the reader cut out one HALF of a candy bar, the cost of that could save one child from polio. The same message attached to a crossed out pizza pie is that the cost of a WHOLE pie can deliver polio vaccine to 33 children.

Of course, the message to Rotarians (and indeed the world) is that this money needs to be directed to the Polio Eradication initiative which for Rotarians is through the The Rotary Foundation.

Since 1986, Rotarians have contributed US$ one billion as a partner of UNICEF, WHO, CDC and world governments to Polio Plus, a program to eliminate the scourge of polio from the world. The only other communicable disease eradicated worldwide has been smallpox.

Russell pays for the donuts himself, and every second week brings a dozen donuts to the meeting of the Rotary Club of Vernon. Members who take a treat contribute a loonie or toonie for a weekly take around $15 or provide immunity for 25 children.

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On March 24, 2012, the Rotary Club of Kamloops Daybreak held their annual Crabfest fundraiser event at the Thompson Rivers University’s Grand Hall, seating 340 enthusiastic crab lovers. Typically, this fundraiser nets over $20,000 for club activities and programs.

Vernon’s 50st Annual Spring Breakout

for SeniorsThe Club’s members wined, dined, and entertained almost 500 local area seniors for a free evening of dinner and live entertainment. Most seniors danced part of the night away to music by the Backyard Band.

The Club sponsors this event which for 50 years has been free to Vernon Area seniors, the proceeds for which come from the Club’s funds and contributions from the Christmas Carol Festival.

The highly anticipated event is a free dinner and dance with live entertainment for local seniors. Attendees enjoy a delicious complimentary meal with wine, served by Rotarians themselves. Door prizes are provided by local businesses, dance performances and live music for dancing round out the fun evening.

The Spring Break-out allows seniors to get out and have a social evening at no charge while welcoming the return of spring although this year there was a skiff of snow and cold so that the doors were opened early to allow seniors to come out of the cold.

The event is an opportunity for seniors who are valuable members of the Vernon community to mingle and meet people of the same age group and share common interests. The Rotary Club of Vernon also provides free drives for those who do not have transportation of their own. As seniors gradually left to go home as the band played on, Rotarians received many thanks and smiles including a $5 tip for good service.

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by Jim Adamson, PDG

Wenatchee Sunrise members enjoyed serving homemade pie and ice cream to nursing home residents. Entertainment was provided in the form of a young girls’ Irish dance group, and a piano and drum duo. Pictured left to right in top photo: Tom & Sharon Utigard, Jill Courtney, Rani Sampson, Len Noss, Ted Fukuzawa

On April 28 (Rotary work day) we will be volunteering to work Wenatchee’s Apple Blossom Youth Parade, and internationally we’re joining forces with the Guatemala Literacy Project. Wenatchee Sunrise is sending one of our past challenge scholars to RYLA, and has selected a great high school senior, Crash Ketchum, right, as our outbound youth exchange student. We are looking forward to hosting a young man from Germany in August.

Members also are gearing up for our 25th Century Bike Ride coming June 2. They participated at the Seattle Bike Expo where they handed out Wenatchee apples and information about the 50 and 100-mile ride. Right: Alan Walker, Ted Fukuzawa, Joan Wright staffed a booth at the Expo.

We are in the process of collecting kids art for our first gala kids art auction which will be held in October. This will be a new fundraiser for our club, and funds will go to support our challenge scholarship program for at-risk high school students.

Wenatchee Sunrise Stays Busy

On Thursday March 8th the Rotary Club of Salmon Arm Daybreak presented 11 members with Paul Harris Fellow awards . Twenty members out of 50 are Paul Harris Fellows in varying de-grees from first time recipients to a “plus four”. This put their club at a total of $41,000 dollars in Paul Harris Fellows.

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Another Way Rotary Caresby Ed BarochLeavenworth Rotary Club

The following story is about a girl, now a young woman, we have come to know over the last 8 years through our Rotary trips to Guatemala. She was born with Spina Bifida and is wheel chair bound. She recently graduated with a degree in accounting and is taking another step forward in her life. Her name is Blanky.

While our Rotary clubs have not contributed to a program that directly involved her, several of us have become familiar with Blanky and followed her progress through the school she attended. Many of us, in Rotary, such as Tony and Marcia Banks have supported her in addition to a great support from staff members at Santa Maria School, Gutamela, specifically Judy Kerschner and Amy de Young.

Blanky had to overcome many obstacles…as a minority, a female in a wheel chair and unable to get around without some form of assistance. She is vivacious, hard working and very determined to succeed. She is firmly entrenched in her faith which has also been a great help in her continued progress. Because of her strong determination to go forward she is and will continue to be a beacon to those who may think the odds are against them and they not allowed to have a better life. She is doing it, yes with help and support, but she is doing it!

Many think of Rotary in dollar terms. Others think of doing “hands on work“ like building houses after a flood or earthquake, or surgical and other medical help, clean water, supporting schools and other projects. These missions are vital and at the heart of Rotary: “Service above Self“. For those of us who have the opportunity to travel, it is gratifying to see wonderful positive results of our efforts. To see Blanky today is an example that even if people receive no financial support from Rotary, just our caring and support go a long way…it’s not always the dollars that we give. It is what we give of ourselves. Blanky and the many like her warm our hearts and realize what Rotary is really all about.

As a long time Rotarian I am pleased to see the efforts of Rotary go beyond the balance sheet or a list of hours worked.

Amy de Young, Blanky, and Judy Kershner.

Blanky’s letter to her Rotary friends.

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PR TIP For Your Club - by Corwin King, PDGBUILDING A GOOD CLUB WEBSITE

Nearly three-fourth of the clubs in our district have websites. If yourclub’s among them, have you visited the website lately? Is it up-to-date?Can you actually find the club by googling it? A website serves club members and potential members alike. It’s the “face” of your club, so you want to make is as effective as possible. Here are some ideas from the recent Rotary PETS in Seattle : 1. Make it visually attractive. Use varied colors and images. It shouldn’t be too busy or hard to read.

2. Be sure it includes basic club information: meeting time and place, club officers and committee chairs, club goals and objectives. Don’t forget club contact information -- phone numbers, email addresses, etc.

3. Have it include club events: At least the next three club programs, upcoming social activities, fundraisers, or work projects. Add photos or videos to personalize events.

4. Include a list of businesses or professions represented by the club. You might also have a roster of club members (with permission), past club officers, and open member classifications. 5. Provide links to critical Rotary sites (RI, The District, TRF), and to leadership development opportunities in Rotary (RLI, Club Visioning). Add links to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, linkedIn, or You Tube where club information may be found.

Other things your website might include are a club history, copies of old newsletters or bulletins, a list of organizations receiving club funds or support, and the ability to sign up or pay for events online (secure site). Regardless, the goal should be to make the site both easy to use, and worth using. For more information, see Rotary’s “Best Webb Design Practices at:

http://www.rotary.org/en/mediaandnews/multimedia/graphics/pages/web_design aspx

Rotary Roundup is a publication of Rotary District 5060. District Governor Garry Hollingshead. Past District Governor David Stambaugh. P.R. Committee members provide review and consultation: Corwin King PDG, Jennifer McKinney, Leah Bousfield, Al Strachan, Wayne Rimple, PDG, Rob Phillips, Shayne Lawrence (website), Bobi Emblin of the Osoyoos acting newsletter editor. Email distribution coordinated by Dennis Jacobsen. Email stories and photos to: your ADG or to b.emblin@eastlink.ca. All Rotarian submissions are welcomed. Contents are subject to editing for space constraints, and content appropriate to the four way test.