ERC is certainly in full swing here in the midst of "Make a Difference Month". I know we are throwing a lot at you, but we are knocking it out of the park with Community Service. After all this is WHY we are Rotarians isn't it? We signed up to make a difference in the community, right? We don't like to sit on bench and watch! I see the work our super active members are putting in! It does not go unnoticed, and I THANK YOU for showing up and making ERC shine!
Earlier this month we assisted the Wildlands Conservancy in planted 60 trees at Emmaus Community Park to help the riparian buffer area. Shout out to Mike Waddell, Gary Gutherie, Karen Hobson (and my husband Len) for rolling up their sleeves to dig in.
This past weekend Karen Hobson, Diane Graham, Joe Pugliese and Don Blose were angels in the outfield at the Mircale League Baseball Game. They helped the players round the bases, hit, pitch and cheer! A day well spent and a day each of those kids will remember!
Now who else is up to bat? We have a lot more in the lineup and it your chance be team players. Maybe you're reading this and haven't made it to a meeting in a while and want to get back in the swing of things. This is your chance to include your family or a good friend and make some meaningful memories together in service above self! OK that's your pep talk for the day! SO what are you waiting for?! Sign up with Karen and Nicole to help with the following we want to count YOU in!
THIS WEEK: Saturday, October 15th - EMMAUS HALLOWEEN PARADE MARSHALS NEEDED. Meet at 5:45pm to at Keystone Avenue and Ridge Street to help line the floats up for the parade. 7:00pm Parade kicks off. Walk the parade route as Parade Marshals. (Ater the parade be rewarded with some festive liquid refreshments at Better Homes and Gardens Valley Partners building on Main Street.) Contact Nicole Streirer, areo831@yahoo.com / 484-695-1802
Sunday October 16th - CLEAN-UP CREW DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN PARADE - CAPTAIN AND CREW NEEDED! Meet at 8:30am at the Weiss Parking Lot, Emmaus. Safety vests, and trash bags will be provided, bring work gloves. Contact Nicole Steirer, areo831@yahoo.com / 484-695-1802
MIRACLE LEAGUE HALLOWEEN CANDY COLLECTION! Bring a bag of candy to the next two meetings OR drop off with Meghan at Eric J. Loch Diamond Jewelers and Meghan will get the candy to Karen and Nicole. (I promise not to eat any of it before trick or treat)
ANGEL NETWORK RICE COLLECTION! Bring boxed rice to any meeting now through November 17th.
UP NEXT: Wednesday, October 26th - MIRACLE LEAGUE HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT- NEED 8-10 PEOPLE MAX - 4:30pm - 8:00 pm at Miracle League Park 5858 Sell Rd. Schnecksville. We will be working alongside the EHS Interact Kids in this service project! Help hand out candy and run the interactive children's games and wear a group theme costume!!
Sunday, October 23 - FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY PUPMKIN PAINTING - Emmaus Community Park. More details to come! SAVE THE DATE. Family Friendly!
Shine Bright and GOOOOO Phillies!!!!!!! Meghan Reed President, Emmaus Rotary Club 2022/23
For the past five years Rotarians have had a bunch of fun helping with the famous Emmaus Halloween parade. We need helpers for Saturday night this weekend! Please reach out to Karen Hobson. Afterwards Steve Gould has always been kind to let us crash his party on Main St. at his office. It's good times and good food.
All well. Computer lab is set up . Did training for science teachers yesterday. More today. Visited 4 clinics the other day. And meeting with health Minister today. And about 5 leopard sightings. Extreme hot over=100. They are calling me for breakfast. Hope all well.
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!
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?
• District 9100 which comprises 14 West African Countries is recognized as the largest geographical District in the Rotary world. It was created in 1985 and uses three official languages - English, French, and Portuguese.
• The Rotary Club of Papeete, Tahiti, which is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is the club that is most remote from any other.
• The southernmost Rotary meeting is that of the Rotary Club of Base Marambio Antartida in Antarctica. If in the area you can also visit the Rotary Club of Base Antarctica Esperanza. Both are Spanish speaking clubs that meet Wednesday evenings
• To visit the northernmost club you must travel above the Arctic Circle to the Rotary Club of Barrow, Alaska, U.S.A.
• If you attend the El Aguilar club in Argentina, you are meeting with the highest club in the world at 16,000 feet (4,880 meters) above sea level.
• The lowest club meets at 40 feet (12.2 meters) below sea level at El Centro, California, USA.
• There are 69 Rotary clubs with the word “Tokyo” in their club names.
• It is said that there is a Rotary meeting being held someplace in the world every hour of every day. If you attended one meeting per day, it would take nearly 80 years to visit all of the more than 34,500 Rotary clubs in the world, and by that time, no doubt, there would be thousands more new clubs to attend
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.
