GAME ON! It is officially "Make a Difference Month! The Community Service Committee has some really great service opportunities on deck for you this Month. Stay tuned and mark your calendars for everything from tree planting to meal preparation. There will be something for everyone and ways for the whole family to volunteer. Let’s come together and make a big difference locally. The list of service days will be posted to our Rotary events calendar throughout the month so that you can easily sign up right from our website and your ClubRunner App.
THIS WEEK:
SIGN UP NOW FOR THE MIRACLE LEAUGE BASEBALL GAME THIS SATURDAY OCTOBER 8TH Emmaus Rotary Club is looking for volunteers to help the Miracle League kids during their three games. We need Catchers, Pitchers and Angels to help the kids get around the bases - in need of approximately 5-8 Volunteers to help each session. 10.00 am, 11.30 am and 1 pm games. great opportunity for you to bring your teenagers to help and experience. Take a look their website https://mllv.org/ Contact Karen for more details 484-560-1711.
Save the date: More Dates and Details to Come: 10/15/22 - Help Marshall the Emmaus Halloween Parade 10/16/22 - Day after Emmaus Halloween Parade Clean Up 10/26/22 - Miracle League Trick or Treat
MORE FUN THIS WEEKEND: WHO'S IN WITH ME??? Local running group Trip Tees has generously named ERC as the recipient of all proceeds raised at their upcoming Scavenger Hunt!
The 2nd Annual Scavenger Hunt will start at Yergey Brewing Sunday October 9th. Registration from12:00pm - 12:30pm. The ONE HOUR WALK OR RUN hunt gives clues to local businesses and random items throughout the Borough. Teams can be 1 - 4 members. Only $5.00 per person to participate. Each participant fee is donated to Emmaus Rotary Club. I will be helping participants register and thanking everyone for their donations to ERC. I hope to see some ERC members and their families and friends there to enjoy this fun day in downtown Emmaus.
THIS week is our food collection week. Joanne and Ashley are the new leaders of this great cause.
As you're doing your grocery shopping or cleaning out your pantry this weekend, please keep in mind the following items that the Emmaus Food Pantry needs to support our community.
Let's see what we can do to help. Rice has been hard to get lately for our school program also.
Rotary is working with the Angel Network to collect food items for their semi annual food drive. We have been asked to contribute Rice for this collection. Please bring Rice to any meeting for this drive. We will be collecting until the week before Thanksgiving. We need to collect 150 boxes of rice. You have been most generous in the past for this Food Drive and I thank you in advance for your support.
Alicia Ruiz-Orbin Receiving The Rotary Foundation Major Donor Award. Congratulations Alica and Thank You for generosity!
Photos Below. Cindy Hornaman and Mike Mihalik share their experiences in Mfuwe, Zambi while completing a HUGE Global Grant Project. The project built a new science wing, provided computers and lab equipment, and provided vocational training to the teacher at the local school. Congratulations Cindy and Mike on the coordination and completion of this incredibly life changing project for the students of Mfuwe.
1) Worldwide polio cases have decreased an astounding 99% since 1988 due to Rotary’s PolioPlus participation in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Rotarians have vowed not to stop until polio is wiped from the earth to prevent this deadly disease from ever making a comeback.
2) $1.5 billion could be saved annually around the world if polio were eradicated. This money could be applied to other public health priorities, and the savings in human suffering is immeasurable.
3) More than $650 million have been contributed by Rotary members to PolioPlus.
4) The Gates & Buffett Foundation offered to donate $355 million to PolioPlus for polio immunization campaigns in developing countries if Rotarians contributed an additional $200 million by June 2012. Success is imminent as $160 million had already been raised by December 2010.
5) 9,000 secondary-school students annually experience life in another country through the Rotary Youth Exchange.
6) How big is Rotary International? 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world initiate service projects to address today’s challenges, including literacy, disease, hunger, poverty, lack of clean water, and environmental concerns. The clubs get to work immediately whenever a crisis strikes; at this very moment Rotarians are busy in the earthquake regions of New Zealand and Japan.
7) 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders make up the Rotary global network of community volunteers who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards, and help build goodwill and peace in the world numbers.
8) The organization that holds the highest consultative status given by the United Nations to nongovernmental organizations is Rotary International.
9) The first Rotary club meeting was held in Chicago on February 23, 1905. Five years later in 1910 Canada welcomed its first Rotary club to Winnipeg.
10) The furthest a Rotary Club banner has ever traveled: In 1968 astronaut Frank Borman, member of the Houston Space Center Rotary club, carried a banner on the Apollo 8 flight to the moon!
For more information about Rotary International please visit the website http://www.rotary.org/
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What: District 7430 event to support Rotary’s goal to eradicate polio
When:Saturday, October 15, 2022 – SAVE THE DATE!
Where: Berks Nature/The Nature Place, 575 St Bernardine St, Reading, PA 19607
Multiple activities 9am-noon Guided site tours • Fun 5K untimed walk and run • Bike rides along Schuylkill River Trail • Service projects around grounds • Dog parade
SEE FULL SCHEDULE WHEN YOU REGISTER
[THIS IS NOT A RACE!]
Social luncheon noon-2pm included in registration
Opportunities to contribute, participate and serve
• Hands-on service projects like tree planting and trail maintenance • Support local needs at the event – more to come • Club Financial Donations supporting Rotary’s Goal to End Polio Now • Individual Financial Donations & Sponsorships
Organizers: Lehigh Valley Passport Club in Collaboration with the Pottstown Club and others TBA
Here is a link to info from RI about the recent Polio outbreaks.
Two found memories of past Rotarians. Bob Halsey and Carl Frantz working the table at Miracle League. The Rotary sign is at the veterinary clinic in Emmaus, set up by Rocky Rockwell many years ago.
Emmaus Rotary will be participating in this membership event is for Area 1 and Area 2 Rotary Clubs to share about our wonderful clubs in a brand new and exciting venue - Stone Farm Cellars. Teaming up with the Western Lehigh Chamber, each participating club (Allentown West, Slatington, Whitehall, Emmaus, Bethlehem and Bethlehem Morning Star) will have the opportunity to showcase their clubs and activities, meeting times and members. Please join us for this fun night of cornhole with food offered by "Feast in the Valley", wine and spirits, by Stone Farm Cellars, as well as desserts from The Buttered Crumb. Winners and losers will have fun all night playing cornhole for some very corny prizes. Don't miss this opportunity to mix and mingle with area Rotarians and fellow professionals. Bring your friends and coworkers!
Advanced registration is encouraged so we can plan for you. There is no charge for this event, and discounted food and beverages will be available.
Every once in awhile we will do a virtual meeting with our Live meeting. This week is one of those times.
The virtual meeting should be started by 7:15a.m. Feel free to chat with your virtual friends and the members in attendance. Please mute yourself when the President starts the meeting. Use the Chat feature to chat with the Zoom Master and others on the virtual meeting. We'll do our best to give you the same feel of the meeting as if you were able to attend in person.
Please Note that if you are attending virtually please use the following ZOOM link!
Emmaus Rotarians truly do live a lifestyle of Service Above Self!
Many of us help with other organizations to raise funds for great causes. If you wish to mention your outside fund-raising event at
Rotary, just put up four Happy Dollars and let us know about what is going on. If I have a website link to your cause I will post it here.!!
For this year's PCFLV fundraiser Ai Orthodontics have partnered with our local dentists and businesses to help us “Reach for the Stars” in providing a donation to help all families who are affected by pediatric cancer.
The Pediatric Cancer Foundation of the Lehigh Valley, Inc. is a wonderful organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of children diagnosed with cancer and providing support for the needs of their families.
If you would like to support PCFLV we are selling shirts through the end of March 2023 to raise money for this fantastic foundation! Any donation of $25 or more receives a shirt. Follow the link in our bio to place your order.
Click the link below to make a donation commitment and order your shirt
Can Tabs For The Miracle League LV / Submitted By Bob Halsey
In 2018 We started collecting the Tabs from all types of cans Soda, Beer, Seltzer, Tuna Fish, Sardines, Soup Cans, Etc. In 2018 we were able to deliver Five Full One Gallon Jugs of Tabs…Last year, 2019 we were able to deliver Three Full One Gallon Jugs of Tabs. So far this year 2020 we now have One Full One Gallon Jugs. I would hope we can again this year, 2020, can fill at least another Five Full One Gallon Jug OR MORE. I turn these into the Miracle League in the Middle of October, right before Halloween. They turn them into the Dupont Children’s Hospital in Wilmington Delaware. Other organizations also collect these Tabs, in total the Hospital has been able sell these for enough Money to pay 75% of the Utilities Cost in their Ronald House, where Families to stay at a very Nominal Cost when their Handicapped Children need to go for Treatment. You can bring Tabs every Thursday to our regular Breakfast Meetings.
Meghan's tab collection pictured. How is yours looking?
Credit cards will now be accepted for breakfast as long as Eric is there. If you wish to use your credit card for breakfast, just sign in at the sign-in table and then go to Eric Loch so he can process your card for you.
Rotary International Theme for 2022-2023 Have you heard? Rotary International President-elect Jennifer Jones (who is also our first female president) has announced the 2022-23 theme Imagine Rotary. “Imagine, a world that deserves our best, where we get up each day knowing that we can make a difference.” The theme is a special one: the theme graphic was designed by an Australian Indigenous artist to link with the Melbourne Convention in 2023. Some of the symbolism includes: Circle connections to one another Dots around it - our people There are 7 Dots for Rotary's 7 areas of focus Circle + dots around it - a navigation star, our guiding light Green solid line - digging stick (used when doing hard work); for us it's People of Action, represents the tools for getting things done The colors purple, green & white - celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion Freedom to express ourselves differently but still with a special connection Purple is also the color of Rotary's Polio campaign Green represents the Environment White stands for peace; it also represents Empowerment and Newness and also the colors were utilized for the women's movement, highlighting the opportunity to grow our female membership.
The Emmaus Rotary Club embraces, practices and promotes the Rotary International Core Values of Service, Fellowship, Diversity, Integrity and Leadership.
